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Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

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Very few of the stories that we read about forms of intelligence that are artificial if you like, forms of robots have always had that dark side to them. And yet we continue to be fascinated about them and we continue to try and create them. I always refer to War of the Worlds, if you remember how famous that story is and in it, I think it starts with who would have believed that at the turn of the 20th century, that a being far more intelligent than us is coming to planet Earth. Interestingly, when you read that story, you think that it is an intelligence that’s coming from outer space, but it would apply equally if it was any intelligence that was created right here. First of, I think the book was a little different to expectations. I guess I expected a more technical book, a review of AI and practical issues relating to them. Gawdat provides us with something quite different, a radical and philosophical take on AI which is just as much about us and society as it is about computers. First, I slightly don’t agree that our ethics or moral framework was only based on our supremacy. I think that’s, if you don’t mind me saying, with a lot of respect to a Western approach to morality. The ancient approach to morality was much more based on inclusion. It was much more based on the only way for us to survive is to survive as a tribe. And the fact that I dislike my brother a little bit does not contradict the fact that me and my brother are better at fighting the tiger than yellow? For example, if a young girl suddenly jumps in the middle of the road in front of a self-driving car, the car needs to make a swift decision that might inevitably hurt someone else. Either turn a bit to the left and hit an old lady, to save the life of the young girl, or stay on course and hit the girl. What is the ethical choice to make? Should the car value the young more than the old? Or should it hold everyone accountable and not claim the life of the lady who did nothing wrong? What if it was two old ladies? What if one was a scientist who the machines knew was about to find a cure for cancer? What determines the right ethical code then? Would we sue the car for making either choice? Who bears the responsibility for the choice? Its owner? Manufacturer? Or software designer? Would that be fair when the AI running the car has been influenced by its own learning path and not through the influence of any of them?

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When you really think about it, they may choose to connect to the Great Ape, because it’s a much better physical specimen than we are. And the difference between our intelligence and them is irrelevant in comparison to the difference between our intelligence and super-intelligence. So, if we’re 100% more smart than the Great Ape, we’re still 1%of the intelligence of the machines. So, what difference does it make anyway? Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. – Mo Gawdat When machines are specifically built to discriminate, rank and categorize, how do we expect to teach them to value equality?’I could imagine the AI bot literally dredged up the fist half of the book’s section from a ‘doom and gloom of AI’ search and then the other half from ‘positive online mentality’ one. Then a chapter on love which you could have put in or taken from ANY self-development book of the last 20 years. AI is already more capable and intelligent than humanity. Today's self-driving cars are better than the average human driver and fifty per cent of jobs in the US are expected to be taken by AI-automated machines before the end of the century. In this urgent piece, Mo argues that if we don’t take action now – in the infancy of AI development – it may become too powerful to control. If our behaviour towards technology remains unchanged, AI could disregard human morals in favour of profits and efficiency, with alarming and far-reaching consequences.

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Another 200,000 reasons why no developer of AI today actually uses any of the scenarios that are well-documented to solve the control problem. Nobody tripwires their own machine. Nobody simulates, nobody boxes. Nobody does any of those technical solutions.

The answer is us. Humans design the algorithms that define the way that AI works, and the processed information reflects an imperfect world. Does that mean we are doomed? In Scary Smart , Mo Gawdat, the internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy , draws on his considerable expertise to answer this question and to show what we can all do now to teach ourselves and our machines how to live better. With more than thirty years' experience working at the cutting-edge of technology and his former role as chief business officer of Google [X], no one is better placed than Mo Gawdat to explain how the Artificial Intelligence of the future works. AI is coming. We can’t prevent it but we can make sure it is put on the right path in its infancy. We should start a movement, but not one that attempts to ban it [. . .] nor tries to control it [. . .]. Instead, we can support those who create AI for good and expose the negative impacts of those who task AI to do any form of evil. Register our support for good and our disagreement with evil so widely that the smart ones (by smart ones I mean, of course, the machines, not the politicians and business leaders) unmistakably understand our collective human intention to be good. How do you do that? It’s simple. a b Rifkind, Hugo (29 September 2021). "Can this man save the world from artificial intelligence?". The Times. Mo Gawdat]: From one side, we could expect that this [ artificial intelligence] could be the worst thing that ever happened to humanity and that humanity will be reduced into irrelevance. and become completely irrelevant, like the apes are almost irrelevant for the destination or the destiny of the planet. Because artificial intelligence is bound to become comparable in its intelligence to our intelligence compared to the apes. Mo Gawdat]: The truth of the matter is that the reason why AI is going to continue is not a technology issue. The reason why AI is going to continue is a very simple prisoner’s dilemma that is created by capitalism. The fact is, there are hundreds of thousands of two little kids in a garage today playing with AI tools. Just like I played with C++ when I was younger. You know, the very basics at the very beginning of Sinclairs and Commodores and so on.

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Mo Gawdat on the unstoppable growth of artificial intelligence, and what we can do to change the terrifying future of an AI-dominated world So, you go across the Atlantic and the moral makeup is patriotism and it’s ok to kill the other guy. You go in Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama and the Buddhists would live, and they go, like, ‘don’t kill a fly’, right? We haven’t agreed… We haven’t managed to agree. And I think my book is centred around this. And you know that because always the very last statement of any one of my books is basically the summary of the message and the summary of scary smart is, isn’t it ironic that the core of what makes us human – love, compassion and happiness, is what could save us in the age of the rise of the machines? And I think if we were to be realistic, the only ethics humanity has ever agreed was that we all want to be happy.If we make it clear that we welcome AI into our lives only when it delivers benefit to ourselves and to our planet, and reject it when it doesn’t, AI developers will try to capture that opportunity.’ The answer is us. Humans design the algorithms that define the way that AI works, and the processed information reflects an imperfect world. Does that mean we are doomed? In Scary Smart, Mo Gawdat, the internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy, draws on his considerable expertise to answer this question and to show what we can all do now to teach ourselves and our machines how to live better. With more than thirty years’ experience working at the cutting-edge of technology and his former role as chief business officer of Google [X], no one is better placed than Mo Gawdat to explain how the Artificial Intelligence of the future works. Or, it could be that this text was actually written (developed? Spawned?) by an AI bot which is why it was so sparsely referenced, simply circular and most annoyingly… The reality is, as I keep saying, there is that problem of irrelevance that we might not be that relevant to that higher power now.

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