AI Will Never Be Good. Here's Why.
AI Will Never Be Good. Here's Why.
This is a video opinion essay about AI - Artificial Intelligence. Right now, we are seeing a massive marketing campaign from the largest technology companies in the world. There’s just one problem:...
Highlights
- Computers cannot be intelligent without subjectivity, and without subjectivity they cannot determine what is good
- All AI-generated content could theoretically be produced by a human following exact machine instructions, just much slower
- No AI program has ever actually passed the Turing Test; humans remain excellent at detecting non-humans
- The primary purpose of AI tools is deception, designed to mimic human work and present it as authentic
- Microsoft's Three Mile Island nuclear reactor deal redirects clean energy from 2 million homes to power AI data centers instead
- Deep Blue's 1997 chess victory was achieved through a team of humans and expensive hardware, not machine intelligence
- IBM's Watson cheated at Jeopardy by receiving direct electrical signals about when to buzz while humans had to anticipate timing
- Artificial neural networks are not biologically similar to human brains despite the name suggesting otherwise
Notable quotes
“AI is run on computers and computers aren't intelligent without intelligence you can't have subjectivity and without subjectivity well computers won't be able to tell what is good”
“Every single piece of AI generated content could be produced by a human following the exact same machine instructions now it would take an incredibly long time but it could be done”
“These companies are spending billions of dollars on advertising and marketing campaigns trying to convince us that this technology is the future”
“What does AI actually do it deceives people these tools are designed to mimic the work people can do and presented as work people did do”
“Gary Kasparov did not lose to a supercomputer in 1997 he lost to Fang Shang suu Murray Campbell Thomas anantharaman and Arthur Joseph hone”
“The consensus of human observation that forms the basis for all of this stuff which makes human intelligence a critical necessary and irreplaceable piece of artificial intelligence”
“Do not be afraid that it's not worth it because AI is going to do it someday because no matter what at least you'll have tried you'll experience pain Pride Joy frustration”
Entities
- IBM· company
- Microsoft· company
- Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station· event
- Turing Test· event
- Alan Turing· person
- Gary Kasparov· person
- John Searle· person
- Tim Sexton· person
- Deep Blue· product
- Watson· product
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