Tuesday 18 April 2023

truthgpt (10. 681)

Whilst arguments for greater transparency and by extension somehow empathy in algorithmic operations are laudable, it seems unlikely that Elon Musk’s proposal, imperative to create an alternate AI model will be able to find or enshrine the ineffable quality and uniqueness of human cunning and rationale, considering his demonstrated record of being very much pro-robot and pro-rentier. Presenting his plan as a rather negative corollary calling for for a moratorium on training such systems that elude their creators’ understanding, Musk advocates maximising truth-seeking, free of profit-motive, with artificial intelligence that would attempt to grasp the nature of the Cosmos and thus would want to preserve humans, rather than dispatch with them, because we are an interesting part of it.