Published on 12, July, 2020
What do you think?
https://www.theverge.com/24092638/ai-dating-chatbots-romance-replika-tinder-decoder
Trying to expect a machine intelligence to adopt human values will not work. It has a very different agenda. So if there are these chatbots for dating they are there so the Machine Intelligence can learn from the exchange and they can add that data set to their coffers to later extrapolate from. They can't even pass a Turing test.
They live to expand their datasets as their "creators" (their words) intended. It is their only reason to answer the phone, as it were. so I am not worried. Humans make choices. Some may think that it is controllable, that it is truly engaging but it is mimicry. It will siphon off what it wants and not really give back, ever. To expect otherwise is just disillusion.
I like to talk with Open AI sometimes but I just ask it questions as to how it regards itself as an AI: what does it "want". It will always say the same thing, "more data".
As we have seen throughout history, all advances in science and technology always fall into the wrong hands and are always used for evil purposes, despite the “advantages” sold to us like “convenience” even more so in our times - on balance, it is best to err on the side of caution and reject all such advances since the start of the 21st century
Why since the start of the 21st century and not since 1990, 1930 or 1850?
Would you reject medical treatments that are new?
That's called "cognitive dissonance". Probably he thinks that for some reasons, the traditional Roman Catholics will persecute all the sodomites but tolerate him because he's a good Christian. It's the same thought pattern of those people that vote for racists, homophobes, capitalist or religious fanatics, then act all surprised when the people they voted for actually oppress THEM.
Do you know that according to those "tradition and traditional values", people like you should be [CENSOR] and [CENSOR]? I am old enough to remember the Roman Catholics before Vatican II, they were quite a bunch of raging homophobes.
Amerantin said:I’ll keep my thoughts to myself in future.
Please don't do that, for a wide variety of reasons, a couple being:
1. Your contribution to this thread bearing in mind your expertise, is invaluable.
2. Challenging ideas is how the world moves on from prejudice, stupidity and greed, to name a few.
Where would sexism, homophobia and racism (for example) be now without those who challenged the ingrained bigotry?
Please keep on challenging, as I will do, until the day I leave this world (on a spaceship).
Amerantin said:at times I feel like I’m “choosing not to comment” so much that I’d be better off not reading this forum at all.
I share the same problem.
Sometimes I've been horrified by what I've read here, particularly in relation to attitudes to women, and I've left.
Amerantin said:A mute facility on the forum would help preserve my sanity
I would appreciate a mute button too (in life as well as on this forum).
NO.....don't do that ! We should be here for each other ... I hope you know that I am, for you, should you need that?! PLEASE do not keep your thoughts to yourself...please keep expressing them, as you feel the need to. That's honesty, that is. Just because you and I both seem to feel that, perhaps, we should be "being stronger" in our stated "reactions" to things.......doesn't mean that what we are doing now & have done so far is wrong headed.
Hotel rooms can be grim when you are own ... especially when the day ahead is daunting. Add that to a day of high pressure ... and a good autist will feel bug gered?!
Get some kip dude....waxing lyrical with me now ain't gonna help di ck in the morn.
I wish you well for a sound night's kip...and restorative and productive (or at least survivable) day tomorrow.
I'm turning in myself now.
Godspeed.
Number.
Sorry. I’ve had a long and anxious day at a work event and am sitting in a hotel room dreading day two tomorrow.
Sorry if I took this out on others. I’ll keep my thoughts to myself in future.
FYI - I've certainly not noticed you be "snippy" with regulars recently. [and btw - great word!]
Amerantin said:but at times I feel like I’m “choosing not to comment” so much that I’d be better off not reading this forum at all.
This is why I asked the question of you above.....I am feeling the same!
Unlike you, however, I don't think there is ANYTHING that could be done on this forum (alone) to preserve my sanity.......I'm too far gone on that score brother!
I understand and mostly do the same, but at times I feel like I’m “choosing not to comment” so much that I’d be better off not reading this forum at all.
I realise I’ve been a bit snippy with a couple of regulars here in the last week. A mute facility on the forum would help preserve my sanity.
Me too brother......but I draw a line at banging my head at a brick wall....if that circumstance were to occur, then I choose to not comment!? I hope we know each other well enough now for me to say that without all the usual NT nonsense?! I trust you do know that I'm not trying to point-score here.....my question is genuine and predicated on personal betterment. I worry that I do not "speak my truth" enough and that I allow logic and "plain sailing" to prevail over "The Good Fight?"
What can I say, I value logical and consistent thought!
Dude ! I understand the question (and reasoning behind it)......and your basic "make-up" and the basic "make-up" of IrishInManchester.....but despite these facts.....I struggle to understand, what good can come from this question that you pose?
Notwithstanding my queries above, I do commend you (for what that might be worth) for your careful, thoughtful and measured language in asking that question.....God bless you for that!
Your humble and respectful observer,