SUMMARY BY GOOGLE GEMINI WITH EDITS BY GRAMMARLY ========== The emergence of AI art has revolutionized my creative process and challenged my notions of ownership and originality. I've come to some key conclusions: Collaborative Creation: AI art is a collaborative effort, and I am just one participant among many, including the AI developers, other users, and the vast pool of human-created data that train the AI models. This blurs the lines of individual authorship and emphasizes the collective nature of creativity. Ownership vs. Inspiration: While I might feel a sense of ownership over the AI-generated art I create, I recognize that it's ultimately an outdated notion. AI art is a product of collective human expression and inspiration, making it challenging to attribute ownership to any single individual, including myself. Rejecting Claims of Ownership: I refuse to honour individual claims on AI-generated ideas, styles, or expressions, emphasizing the open and collaborative na...

A kinetic library with holographic books that animate and interact with readers Debra Brooks Images mean a lot. To many (most of us?), "thought" is a series of mental pictures and analogies. Images (including mine) that visualize AI as some kind of "mind" can be misleading. As they say, a picture is worth 1,000 words. So I will keep this short. Debora's image invokes the vast library of information that the super-librarian of AI consults to answer any question. It seems magical but not alive. It seems useful but not scary.

The Social Mind Self Portrait - DALL-E Several years ago, I sat down and tried to list all the people who had influenced me somehow. When I gave up, there were 200 names on the list. After all, there are 1,000 books in my library, all with indexes listing influences on the author. But that was "old tech." In 1969, I imagined a computer system that would hold all the world's knowledge. It would have a natural language interface, and you could talk to it like a person. But it would be nothing like CHAT-GPT. Until recently, I have taken pride in my "visionary" imaginings of something vaguely like the World Wide Web. Really, my idea was a talking Wikipedia, not much more. But as time passed, we started to worry about "information overload." Having all human knowledge at our fingertips was a mixed blessing ... But that's now "old tech." The picture above was created by DALL-E, the sister application of CHAT-GPT.  Both of these applications ref...

This is based on the Great Simplification presentation on the subject with  Daniel Schmachtenberger 00:00 - Conversations and origin of friendship 02:47 - Recap on superorganism and metacrisis 07:21 - Why is AI relevant to the metacrisis 09:30 - History of Intelligence 12:25 - Techno-optimism vs Techno-pessimism 17:55 - Narrow Boundary Focus vs Wide Boundary Focus & Competition 33:39 - Progress realists? 39:02 - Jevons Paradox 40:52 - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Nth Order Effects 46:01 - Human Intelligence and AI 52:16 - Intelligence and Modeling 1:04:02 - The Difference Between Wisdom and Intelligence 1:12:41 - Chesterton’s fence 1:13:03 - Progressive and Traditionalist as Dialectics 1:18:07 - Genetics and Intelligence vs Wisdom 1:28:55 - Can we have wisdom with 8 billion humans? 1:30:59 - Plasticity of Humans and Innovation 1:38:29 - Capitalism, an early form of computing 1:42:45 - Did Anyone Invent Capitalism? 1:48:38 - General vs Narrow Artificial Intelligence ...

 My answer is, obviously not. Virtually everything from screwdrivers to aircraft transport is "dual use." How will AI be differen t?  Our efforts to keep 12-year-olds "safe" from seeing naked boobies will not prevent anyone from developing autonomous weapons. I will get back to the boobies later. The following answer from Perplexity ignores the use of AI by the military or countries (most of them) beyond the reach of well-meaning chat groups. PERPLEXITY ANSWERS: * Yes, We Can Train AI to Be Safe Technical Research is Growing : The field of AI safety technical research is expanding, with initiatives like the Harvard AI Safety Team aiming to build communities around AI safety research. This indicates a growing interest and investment in understanding and mitigating AI risks 1 . Implementation Frameworks Exist : Google's Secure AI Framework (SAIF) demonstrates that standardized approaches to integrating security and privacy measures into AI development are being de...