Totally agree, you can see the censorship of what gets published to whom in all of the social media platforms. Take it to the next level and let the AI figure out an optimize the revenue and/or political agenda and you have total control over each person‘s view of reality. This is one of the reasons why I use multiple browsers and multiple social media accounts when I want to see different things based on what the AI systems know or don’t know about me. I think this is a more likely scenario than a full-blown existential threat like war between AI and humans. The ability to persuade people and get them to do what you want without them knowing that you were doing it is the likely scenario. Analogously just like the brain (AI) using the nervous system (the network) controlling an arm (the group of people to be influenced) to pick up an apple (the task that needs to be persuaded). Let’s face it. Honestly we are literally just cogs in the wheel or cells of an appendage.
“Eventually all our interactions with the digital world will be mediated by AI assistants,” says Yann Lecun. “This will be extremely dangerous for diversity of thought, for democracy, for just about everything.” Most people would agree that having our interactions mediated by AI assistants is potentially demonstrated and thus we need to be convinced that AI works extremely well, with an emphasis on extremely. Our calculators, excel spreadsheets, and much of our software give us correct answers 100% of the time, so for AI, we should expect 6 nines, 99.9999% correct. The article notes: “There have been examples galore of things going wrong and biases taking the center stage when only a few companies have the power and control to manufacture the ‘cultural understanding’ for the entire world. They either tend to ignore different cultures or end up overcompensating in ticking off the ‘diversity’ check box.” “Case in point: Google’s extra-‘woke’ chatbot Gemini that tried to forcefully inject diversity into pictures with a disregard for historical context. “It’s DEI gone mad,” exclaimed the notably agitated users.” Second case in point: “Air Canada’s chatbot goof-up serves as a warning sign.” Air Canada’s chatbot told the passenger he could apply for a refund “within 90 days of the date your ticket was issued,” but later refused until a court intervened. LeCun says we Need Open-Source Base Models. “So what we need is not one AI assistant, we need base models like Llama 2, Mistral, and Gemma that can be fine-tuned by anybody so that, for example, it speaks Arabic and understands the culture of Morocco and knows everything about Marrakech,” said LeCun. I’m glad LeCun sets high standards, and has “emphasized that those platforms must be open because we need a high diversity of AI assistants the same way we need a high diversity of the press so that we have no echo chambers and have multiple sources of information.” The article thinks we are getting close. “Currently, we are seeing a multitude of AI models flourish. From farming and healthcare, to education and entertainment, AI is conquering every field. And it doesn’t stop at chat-based solutions. Now, with advancements like voice-first in empathetic voice interface models like Hume AI, our interactions with these assistants are only getting better.” And LeCun also thinks so. Soon, this will give birth to a time when “we’re not going to be using search engines. Instead, when it comes to interacting with digital content, we’re basically going to be using our AI assistants. We’ll ask them questions, and they’ll provide the answers. They’ll assist us in our everyday lives”. I’m glad that LeCun sets high expectations, but it might take longer for AI to meet those expectations than he thinks. #technology #innovation #startups #artificialintelligence #hype https://lnkd.in/gFTw8JiG
