"A certain danger lurks there": how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

[usonian]

1. All technology has the potential for good and bad. It really is a choice.

I harken back to the famous Hammerbacher quote:

In 2011, Jeff Hammerbacher, a former Facebook data team leader, riffing on Ginsberg, bemoaned, “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” Of all the things to optimize, a generation had chosen manipulating attention.

In the 1980's AI was a toy. Somehow, it returned with a vengeance in recent times as Machine Learning, but it had enormous data sets to work on.

The uses and abuses are hot topic items today.

As for climate change. "Two Words"



Reposting this:

Even if someone convinced the cult that antifa, George Soros, Barbie and Satan himself were stoking the fires, nothing changes until the money that binds politicians and boys in black nightgowns is excised from politics and the courts.

Big oil owns damn near everything and everyone who could possibly contain Big oil. Until government is eliminated, which seems to be one of their strategies, they own it.

America's moral compass largely points to money. Or is that MoreOil compass.

Putin and MBS, who are paupers without oil bought an entire government.

Citizens United against civilization.



It's a choice: greed or sharing with others and caring for others.
Most choose poorly.