Philosophy and the Future

People will ‘not be able to know what is true anymore.’

Technology Philosophy and the Future

“His immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos and text, and the average person will ‘not be able to know what is true anymore.’

Down the road, he is worried that future versions of the technology pose a threat to humanity because they often learn unexpected behavior from the vast amounts of data they analyze. This becomes an issue, he said, as individuals and companies allow A.I. systems not only to generate their own computer code but actually run that code on their own. And he fears a day when truly autonomous weapons — those killer robots — become reality.

“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” he said. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”

The best hope is for the world’s leading scientists to collaborate on ways of controlling the technology. “I don’t think they should scale this up more until they have understood whether they can control it,” he said.

Where are we going?

Philosophy and the Future

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Heavy thoughts the past days. ISIS in the PH, lingering terror from violence in many parts, malnutrition, poverty of matter and spirit, climate change. Where are we, really? What’s the way forward for all of us?

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What’s brewing? Who’s brewing? How much of what goes on in the world do we really know? Is it better not to know?

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I saw back-to-back documentaries on #Scientology and #Anonymous. Manifestations of strong gestures in the world: asleep/awake, individual/collective, self-interest/common good. I choose to believe that despite the felt direction of things heading south today, there is an equal and growing force that pushes upwards-sideways-all-around to offset it.

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When I was younger I romanticized the idea of #battle: when is it my turn to fight? What monsters and dragons am I going to fight? I wanted to ride on a wild horse and brandish my sword, scare off invaders and fight for what’s precious to me. I look at the world today and realize we’ve never left the #battlefield. And the biggest fight of our generation is how to hold it all together inside, to remain #true and valiant to ourselves, amidst racism, political abuse, violence, helplessness, threat of extinction, indifference, despair.

#stateoftheworld #collective #lifetask #wherearewe #wherearewegoing #thatotherworld #modernlife #modernslaves #darkness #raincloud #gloomy  #balance #areyouawake