What's the purpose of AI and how safe is it to human kind?
The whole idea of the big tech AI is to replace humans by mimicking, replicating, simulating, cloning or modeling our human 5B-characteristics )body/brain/brains/behavior/business) with humanoid AI robots:
the human body (a humanoid robot, having a torso, a head, two arms, and two legs, or replicating only part of the body, from the waist up, or heads designed to replicate human facial features such as eyes and mouths; androids and gynoids)
The Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot
Tesla humanoid bots
the human brain (ML/DL/deep artificial neural networks or optoelectronic chips or neuromorphic computing hyper-realistic generative AI mimicking the architecture and function of the human brain using of electronic circuits and devices inspired by biological neurons' structure and function)
the human brains (mind, perception, emotion, memory, imagination, cognition, intelligence, thought, reasoning, learning, decision-making, problem-solving), a human-like AI emulating human intelligence
the human behavior (actions, as mimicking human motion and interaction)
Today automated bots made up almost half of all traffic on the Internet last year, with many of them mimicking human behavior to spread spam, scams, and viruses, as to 2023 Imperva Bad Bot Report. Apparently the proportion of human activity online is now at its lowest level, with AI-powered bots rapidly 'taking over the Internet' with spam and cybercrime...There's almost more bots online than there are humans - Is anything real anymore? [AI-powered bots 'taking over Internet' and mimicking human behavior]
This all means that the so-called generative human-mimicking narrow/weak AI/ML/DL tools like ChatGPT and GPT-4 and Google's Bard, with all sorts of ChatGPT plugins, could act as 'superpowers' for deep fake bad bots, which are used by cybercriminals to rip people off and cause general mayhem online. If humans are biased, the generative AI chatbots are much worse.
Again, the whole presumption of AI as emulating, mimicking, simulating, replicating or faking human body/brain/brains/behavior/business is scientifically unjustified and ethically wrong and should be discarded asap in the favor of reality-based AI as an interactive machine intelligence and learning (IMIL).
All in all, one can’t count as an AI some software patches with pattern-matching functionalities and if-then-else logic conditionals (conditional statements, conditional expressions and conditional constructs),
Being automatic and autonomous, mathematical and statistical, computational and algorithmic, digital and numeric, AI systems are ONLY complementary with humans, our bodies and brain, brains, behavior and business.
AI is not anthropomorphic, humanlike, anthropoid, anthropomorphous, humanoid.
Real and true AI is a range of algorithms and models, techniques and technologies enabling computing machines to effectively and sustainably interact with the world, transforming its data into information, actions, and reactions.
Such a non-human interactive AI can’t be over-attributed human values and attitudes, desires and beliefs, emotions and feelings, cognition and decisions. Anthropomorphized animals as characters are the same as anthropomorphized machines as AI.
Religion and mythology represented the divine as deities with human forms and qualities. Now, computer science and technology represent advanced computing machines as AI with human forms and qualities, as to be like ideal human beings:
Responsible
Human-centered
Accountable
Fair & impartial
Transparent & explainable
Robust & reliable
Safe & secure
Compliant
Ethical
First people model their gods after themselves, now we model intelligent machines after ourselves.
Again, the conception of AI is fundamentally anthropomorphic and wrong; for, as "the greatest god", real AI resembles man "neither in form nor in mind". Simple as that.
In 1927 Ivan Pavlov warned that animals should be considered "without any need to resort to fantastic speculations as to the existence of any possible subjective states".
Common assumptions that machine intelligence and learning models share any of the same mental, social, and emotional capacities of humans are simply harmful misassumptions that are false and wrong.
Anthropomorphism or personalization might be good in fables and faire tales, religions or mythologies, in children’s literature and films and video games, but hardly in science and engineering and technology.
Instead, we have to recognize AI as an alternative intelligence which is complementary with human intelligence, enhancing and augmenting it.
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Modern humanity is in urgent need of hyperintelligent machine partners, as True Real and Universal AI for a few existential causes.
Humans are existentially simple missing to understand simple things:
We are to destroy the nature before soon, and I am a pantheist (believing that reality, the universe, and nature are identical to rational divinity or a supreme entity, 'God is Nature, and Nature is God.') and extreme naturaphile, liking two much plants, birds and other natural phenomena
Human minds are defective to understand that the human civilization is to collapse before soon
Human minds are defective to understand that no current military power could overcome the nuclear superpower
Human minds are defective to understand that big tech AI technology is a commercial deep fakery and massive multi-trillion fraud
Human minds are defective to understand that humanoid fake AI robots are to replace all human workforce before soon
Maybe, we have to exclude 33706 smart minds who signed Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter, opening as "AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs".