AI - Order in the Chaos or What !

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order” (Carl Jung. CW 9i, Page 32, Para 66.)

This quote makes me reflect about the technology evolution we have seeing and we are consuming today, even actively or passively. Back in 1950`s when machine learning term was coined, it was just a single math’s algorithm trying to mimic the human neurons behavior to make binary classification, called PERCEPTRON (Resenblatt, 1958) ,therefore the computing science was just a “baby” at that times, with the evolution, we have seeing the amazing increase of processing and storage capacity while computers reduced in scale, from a big datacenter to the palm of our hands, not to mention the biggest evolution of the telecommunications that allows us to consume processing and storage at the cloud and everywhere, even if you need an intense processing capacity to make complex calculations like: molecules discovery; weather forecast; natural language processing. It has been amazing, in my 37 years working with computers, to see how the increase in the processing capacity has been enabling unthinkable possibilities transforming chaotic things (disordered models) into possible solution. I recall that back in 2000’s make an OCR was amazing, now a days, this a piece of cake, it is trivial, ?and we are already exploring much more complex problems like: language understanding; sentiment analysis; auto-translation solutions and gadgets (very soon, learn another language will not be required, you will have a translator embedded in your headset + mobile phone). If you want to see how we have been evolved, see GPT-3 by OpenAI (Generative Pre-trained Transformed 3) that uses deep learning to produce human-like text at a high professional level that can be easily confused with an article produced by a high IQ human bean. GPT-3 was trained with hybrid sources like: web common crawl, books, Wikipedia, composing +500 billions of tokens those can be associated (each other) according to the common entries provided by a human bean.?

It is notorious how technology are contributing to “put the order in the secret order”, therefore, it is exposing a nefarious human nature like: racism, fascism, discrimination, politic polarisation and rage, xenophobic behaviours, just to mention some, and the one I would like to bring to the conversation is that the technology maybe contributing to make incapable to think human beans. I have the impression that, as technology is evolving we are delegating some of the logical and critical thinking to the machines, what I call as “co-brain”, but at the same time, we are not developing other skills, as some futurologists have predicted, on the opposite, I have seeing people, at all ages, baselining their positions just by reading the news headlines, adopting fake news as an absolute truth been influenced by bad politicians and social medias services (e.g. Cambridge Analytica), not using the technology to help themselves, looking for an excuse to not fulfill with their obligations, challenging, with a minimal of scientific knowledge, all the evolution the human bean has made, e.g. vaccines, health treatments, and the worst for me: the heliocentric model. Be aware that every time you consume a product without pay for, like the social media platforms, it is because “YOU ARE THE PRODUCT” and based on the terms you might not have read it, they can use your data. I am not saying there is not privacy, but they lack on the transparency on how they use your date to manipulate you. At this moment you may be interacting with a social media profile that is not a human bean, but an AI trained to act like a human for several reasons, like: influence your thinking (most of people like to be part of cool and winner group); fake followers to give impression someone has a huge number of followers, and much more, at a level of influence an country president election; get your desires to offer you product and services you did not requested.

This text is a provocation to challenge your mind to think about the statements I shared. This is what I think today, that may change in a glimpse, since I consider myself as an evolving part of the cosmos (chaotic) that learns new things every minute. I don’t believe I am the same person I was 1 minute ago, but I am someone that can learn and change on my way, and the most important, by listening different opinions that sometimes will not match mine, and I may accept or not, but the respect will be always at the center.

What do you thing about?