A lot of us here hate AI because of how it was built: training data gathered without the creators’ explicit, opt-in consent, data centers that negatively affect communities’ access to clean water and energy, a technology design that is inherently prone to hallucinations, etc. At least, those are the main reasons why I hate it.
I think I might actually want to support an AI project if I thought it was being done right. Maybe we could get more people away from exploitative models if there was a non-exploitative alternative.
So what would it take to build AI ethically, in your opinion? And do you know of anyone trying to build AI without these issues?
I don’t think we can or should. Its promise is only dwarfed by its danger. We’re building our successor species.
No we are not. LLMs are nowhere near being on the path to an actual artificial intelligence. Nor is any other “AI” technology.
Step one was missed, see: define what “intelligence” actually means.
Not yet. Perhaps sooner than we want.
It won’t be techbrodudes who figure it out, however.
I rather suspect it won’t be in the lifetime of anybody currently alive, including the people born as I typed in this message.