I find something hilarious about this too. To date, AI is dumb. It can’t “think.” it can take the thoughts of others and weight them on things like how common or popular a thought is. AI have NO actual concept of the world. If you give an AI a problem to build a more efficient park, it doesn’t know what a park is, what grass is. It doesn’t know the park needs bathrooms or what a bathroom is used for. If you want bathrooms you need to assign a value to them and the AI will try to get the best score, but it doesn’t know what it is doing or why. It doesn’t understand anything. It is a simple intelligence, like a fungus that can create highly efficient path ways. AI has proven pretty poorly at emulating or fitting in with humans, it can be amusing or vaguely human seeming. It can be well suited to following instructions to complete a task or performing many repetitive procedures quickly- AI is less like a brilliant scientist and more like an army of interns in that way.
So what is super funny in context of this meme… is that the types of people who feed the most blatant examples of data to AI that tend to lead AI into such biases are largely… like the AI. Simple minded, incapable of independent or critical thought, and- like the AI their ignorance isn’t entirely their fault and can be corrected to some degree- the AI much like a human bigot simply has a limited data pool to draw from and lacks the intelligence and world knowledge and humanity to know better.
For the AI, this is most likely something technological limits will make true for some time. For human bigots, luckily most posses humanity and have the potential to expand their data set and think in less simplistic terms. So it’s funny because AI are dumb, bigots are dumb, AI can seem intelligent and so can bigots- but in the end their bigotry is the result of some combination of caped mental performance, reptilian thinking, lack of experience, and limited knowledge. So
AI, at least in it's current form, is not a creative being so much as a mirror we put up to ourselves. It doesn't create new things, it looks to what we have done and what we do, seeks patterns and mimic us. Much like a cold, if it is a terrible person it is because we are, sometimes, terrible people. I'd like us to be better parents.
Pretty much, and much more succinct and a less aggressive way to say it! Lol.
Most things humans make are a mirror of course. This is one of the (many) reasons communism fails or capitalism is exploitive. Such traits aren’t inherent to the systems, we introduce them. Our flaws and biases and vices are reflected back at us.
AI does so directly in that it tends to emulate a person in our eyes, we relate to it in ways that aren’t accurate but that illusion of humanity makes us consider it at least in some ways as a person. Not that there is inequality in non personhood, but humans think a certain way and have certain instincts and customs which non humans generally do not even if at times there are similarities or what we might see as such. So we do tend to try to draw insights about ourselves from AI or treat it as though it weren’t a different type of intelligence when really, if you look in your news paper that is a mirror to humanity right there.
It will be interesting to see where AI might go, if it might one day somehow transcend our biases and such, but until then- AI is ignorant and bigots probably shouldn’t take too much pride or be eager associate too strongly with a box full of sand that can’t tell fact from fiction.
For the AI, this is most likely something technological limits will make true for some time. For human bigots, luckily most posses humanity and have the potential to expand their data set and think in less simplistic terms. So it’s funny because AI are dumb, bigots are dumb, AI can seem intelligent and so can bigots- but in the end their bigotry is the result of some combination of caped mental performance, reptilian thinking, lack of experience, and limited knowledge. So
Most things humans make are a mirror of course. This is one of the (many) reasons communism fails or capitalism is exploitive. Such traits aren’t inherent to the systems, we introduce them. Our flaws and biases and vices are reflected back at us.
AI does so directly in that it tends to emulate a person in our eyes, we relate to it in ways that aren’t accurate but that illusion of humanity makes us consider it at least in some ways as a person. Not that there is inequality in non personhood, but humans think a certain way and have certain instincts and customs which non humans generally do not even if at times there are similarities or what we might see as such. So we do tend to try to draw insights about ourselves from AI or treat it as though it weren’t a different type of intelligence when really, if you look in your news paper that is a mirror to humanity right there.