It’s been one of those weeks where the threads just tie themselves. With ChatGPT4’s astonishingly precocious intelligence, a lot of computer scientists are getting twitchy about AI. According to septuagenarian ‘AI Godfather’, Geoffrey Hinton, who has just quit Google after decades of AI research and development, this advanced level of computational learning wasn’t supposed to come into operation for another couple of decades; and it is giving him sleepless nights. But he did expect it to happen. This moment is, presumably, what he has been looking forward to his entire working life, which makes it difficult to sympathise with his late-onset insomnia.
An excellent summary of what we are having to contend with - the genie is well and truly out if the bottle - is there any hope left in it?
I remember reading a science fiction (prediction) story in the 1960s about a computerised library system - the library card was the only way of accessing the materialand taking out loans - the protagonist borrowed a copy of Macbeth and when he tried to return it - he inserted his card - which had become slightly bent in his pocket and damaged - the computer system flagged up "murder" in bright colours - the robicops were there in moments - arrested him - charged him with a capital offence - found him guilty as charged - took him away - and executed him. Whether his corpse was used as food for others is a tale from another author.
If anyone recognises this story and can give me a link - I'd be very grateful - for I am old and before long this story will no longer exist.
An excellent summary of what we are having to contend with - the genie is well and truly out if the bottle - is there any hope left in it?
I remember reading a science fiction (prediction) story in the 1960s about a computerised library system - the library card was the only way of accessing the materialand taking out loans - the protagonist borrowed a copy of Macbeth and when he tried to return it - he inserted his card - which had become slightly bent in his pocket and damaged - the computer system flagged up "murder" in bright colours - the robicops were there in moments - arrested him - charged him with a capital offence - found him guilty as charged - took him away - and executed him. Whether his corpse was used as food for others is a tale from another author.
If anyone recognises this story and can give me a link - I'd be very grateful - for I am old and before long this story will no longer exist.