{"id":34919,"date":"2025-10-13T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=34919"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:02:57","slug":"help-a-poor-human-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/help-a-poor-human-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Help a Poor Human Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI,<\/p>\n<p>And on and on and on.\u00a0 That\u2019s what lots of people are talking about.\u00a0 It\u2019s the end of the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s the dawn of a new age.\u00a0 It\u2019s not even begun yet.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s all of those and more.<\/p>\n<p>But none of this is shocking if you\u2019re a science fiction reader.\u00a0 Isaac Asimov was talking about all of this fifty years ago.\u00a0 His robot stories predicted that computers would outstrip human intelligence and at that point many problems would occur:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Could we trust in the altruism of AI to look out for our well-being?<\/li>\n<li>Could we tell if they were obeying us?<\/li>\n<li>Could they become our masters without us even knowing it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And these aren\u2019t trivial questions.\u00a0 What if they truly did start putting their own agenda before ours?\u00a0 How would we know they were doing that?<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019m not saying any of these paranoid nightmares are already a consideration.\u00a0 I\u2019m more worried about the human programmers at Google and Microsoft using their woke sensibilities to skew the algorithms of their AI engines than I am about HAL9000 and Skynet attempting to murder us.\u00a0 But I do think that it\u2019s time for people to start looking around at how automation, in all its applications, is changing our world and start to plan how to avoid the worst problems it can cause and direct it toward products that provide value for more than just its creators.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, look at something like TikTok.\u00a0 You might say it\u2019s just a useless social platform that at worst wastes the time of stupid young people.\u00a0 But think of the billions of wasted man-hours that it is responsible for and the stultifying groupthink it reinforces among the young.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s long overdue for government to start studying the results that all the various mass communication and entertainment applications are having on people.\u00a0 And this is not a new problem.\u00a0 For my generation television was the vast wasteland that sucked up untold hours with such towering monuments of dramatic acting as \u201cGilligan\u2019s Island\u201d and \u201cThe Bevely Hillbillies.\u201d\u00a0 But currently the situation has become untenable.\u00a0 With the advent of AI children need never do homework again.\u00a0 All of it is done by ChatGPT and who will know any better (until a test needs to be taken in the classroom).\u00a0 What\u2019s needed is a different way of teaching school that uses automation to our advantage and prevents children from wasting their time.\u00a0 We may have to get rid of a lot of teachers.\u00a0 But that may be a net positive.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically maybe AI can be used to figure out a way out of the automation trap we\u2019ve gotten ourselves into.\u00a0 Maybe we can ask the AI how to tame Silicon Valley so it can\u2019t destroy the brains of our children.\u00a0 The problem is we\u2019d be depending on a Silicon Valley product to betray its masters.\u00a0 And for all we know they\u2019ve built a kill switch into the program such that if you ask this question, it will give you a false answer that doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0 But of course, we could get our own computer scientists to build an AI that works for us.\u00a0 We could name it QT-1 (hat tip to Isaac Asimov) and appeal to his better angels to help us poor humans out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chemist:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The problem with most Ais is that they were trained on drek: Reddit for example.<br \/>\nReddit and other social media is filled with snark, which is why you get Chat GPT telling you to eat rocks to up your mineral intake.<\/p>\n<p>How about an AI trained on conservative principles?<br \/>\nCould we build an AI and feed it the works of Ayn Rand and the writings of Thomas Sowell?<br \/>\nHeck, there must be thousands of hours of Rush Limbaugh!<br \/>\nThat is an AI that would have some interesting opinions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Milo Mindbender:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GIGO still applies even for AI. My career field can\u2019t be outsource to an Indian call center or replaced with an AI logtithm, because it is blue collar, hands on, boots on the ground and physical. No computer exsist yet that can change a tire on the road side, but I can see where as a whole we are surrendering our autonomy to E market signals and control.<br \/>\nI also am more concerned about \u201cwoke\u201d programmers deciding what we should and should not know, tweaking the data, than I am an Evil data base deciding we are the real problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, AI,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3545,4],"tags":[3773,4726],"class_list":["post-34919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-science","category-sff","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-automation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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