What all this talk about "AI Ethics" is missing: Under the current capitalist system there is only room for two kinds of "ethics": $$$$$$$$$$$ and $$$$$$$$$$$.
Theory: When you have extremely intelligent people that experienced an extrem lack of love (in early childhood), you end up with a world of trouble.
Or simply put: Intelligence - Love = Disaster.
Behind every predatory tech empire, imperial military or weapon of mass destruction - you'll find a group of people that are deeply suffering - mostly from a lack of love.
#Automation is going to take all our jobs, 1964 edition. (2/9/1964 Press Democrat, p. 4)
"Oral History of Steve Mann": 1h interview with the #Augmentation pioneer.
The generative logo creation site "Logojoy" has rebranded as "Looka" and is now generating logos, business cards & website designs: https://looka.com/ their unique selling proposition is still "cheaper than a human designer" #ML #Generative #Design #Automation
Design Methods to Investigate User Experiences of Artificial Intelligence:
https://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1193842/FULLTEXT01.pdf #HCI #ML #Design
"China's Selling Genetically-Modified Mice for $17,000 a Pair": #ALife #Biology
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-01/china-s-demand-for-17-000-gene-altered-lab-mice-is-skyrocketing "Mouse-model market predicted to top $1.59 billion by 2022"
As @Meseberg explored on his recent trips to china and explained to me, with the "Internet+" and "Internet of Life" strategies, the Chinese are aiming to build new hybrid markets that deeply integrate digital (networks etc.) and analog (bio-tech etc.) at large scale.
Potent strategies against increasingly sophisticated automated "Denial-Of-Service" (DDOS) & "Social Engineering" Attacks against human attention & judgment (Fakenews, DeepFakes, Botnets, etc.) are Meditation (Attention Management) and Education (Digital Literacy) - not more tech
"Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - coordinated inauthentic behaviour":
The #Evolution of ideas is a wonderfully strange process
The Chinese are silently developing a new type of operating system for a new type of operating environment: An A.I enabled IOT OS for integrated civilisation-scale infrastructure:
Huawei introduces autonomous driving core network: #IOT #OS
https://www.telecomasia.net/content/huawei-introduces-autonomous-driving-core-network
"The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, and they are in a death struggle with each other. It is a huge gang battle, using well-meaning lawyers and policemen and clergymen as their front, controlling papers, means of communication, and enrolling everybody in their armies." - Thomas Merton
Augmentation Technology can not only be used for human performance enhancement - but the very same tech can be used for targeted performance degradation at scale. As the cost of war is dramatically dropping, we must resist mindless hype & contemplate such questions earnestly.
Given that the entire A.I industry is controlled by the high priests of capitalism (billionaires & organisation they own) - we must seriously contemplate if all these new intelligent machines won't mainly be used to amplify the worst of humanity: greed, inequality, crime, war, etc.
If our advanced intelligent machines are mainly used to sell & kill stuff, the outcomes are inevitably highly stupid.
"You know enough to know what's not true, but you can't necessarily connect all of the dots to know what is true" - Richard Thieme at DEF CON 22 recalling a conversation with a friend from NSA
"Fancy computer models and convoluted technical language about War: Organisations like Google, Amazon, Facebook or Microsoft - their technical language is an obfuscation. As what they create is woven into everyday life - the devices & systems shed their tool-like qualities & become part of our very humanity" - Richard Thieme
"With the explosion of discoveries in the area of neurosciences will come individuals, political entities and countries that will exploit those findings for nefarious purposes. In the health sciences the enchantment market is growing offshore and is often hidden. Customers do not posses a diagnosable neurological disorder but they are seeking some cognitive performance advantages or want to prevent a probable decline. And in the performance degradation arena, advantages that intersect our core values as scientists and physicians are joined and challenged in new ways." - Christopher Green - Chief of biomedical & Life science division of CIA.