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You're oh so right, Chip. I'm amazed that people today, have no problem chatting up a non existent cgi/AI character on the internet, just because
they have lost the ability to interact with a genuine flesh and blood person. I have no problem with modern technology. Technology isn't the issue, the fear is how the person uses it. Technology has not morality, good or bad. Humanity is the "cancer" or element that can't be relied on, one way or another, in the "equation".
Your reply made me think of the original film Koyannisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio. It begins a series of films which absolutely nails it to what you just wrote!
I think the most prophetic film ever made was "Network", 1976, which was about a network that knowingly keeps an insane tv reporter on as he gets great ratings. It's the speeches throughout this film that are so eerily true! For whoever have not seen this feature, I give it the highest recommendation. You won't be the same after watching it, honestly. You might even consider tossing your TV in the bin!
The funny thing is that there’s no real AI yet that is self-aware, creative, … .
All that we have currently got are „artificial parrots“ that can repeat/summarize/recombine human works. But they cannot check whether the results make sense, whether their sources make sense etc..
That’s why so many humans like to chat with these parrots: They have no opinion, no personality, no own topics, no nothing. They cannot contradict etc.. Hence it’s like talking to yourself in the mirror - with the mirror simply reflecting your words with some additional information from the internet.
It is not the technology that is a problem. It is the greedy managers of the technology. The following story sums it up pretty well:
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Prada suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a Ralph Lauren tie, leans out the window and asks the shepherd: “If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?”
The shepherd looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers: “Sure. Why not?”
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany where he usually gets the images for his trade show exhibits. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the shepherd and says: “You have exactly 1,586 sheep”.
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep,” says the shepherd.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the shepherd says to the young man: “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my sheep?”
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says: “Okay, why not?”
“You’re a consultant,” says the shepherd.
“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie. “But how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required,” answers the shepherd. “You showed up here even though nobody called you, you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked, and you know nothing about my business. ”
...and then there is the Infamous virtual assistant.
Conversation this morning.
MB: Thank you for calling Metro Bank.Your speaking to Ada the virtual assistant. How can I help you?
ME: I need a tax certificate for a term account that is now closed.
MB: You want to open a new account. What type of account are you looking to open?
ME: I don't want to open a new account, I just want to speak to a f¤¤¤ing HUMAN.
MB: Just a moment I will put you through to someone who can help you.
SIGH....and twenty minutes later, having been told twenty times, on hold, all the things I can do online...a REAL person answers, who informed me she would organise it as I couldn't request it online as the account is closed. BIGGER SIGH. I KNOW!!!!!
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