2019 Facebook sharing. Scott Santens writes that "Deep
Learning Is Going To Teach Us All The Lesson Of Our Lives: Jobs Are For Machines"
(17 July 2017, Futurism, futurism.com);
"We're leaving ourselves vulnerable if we insist on employment as our
primary source of income."
Artificial intelligence, AI, teaching The Lesson Of
Our Lives?
No, Sir, this is not a job for Supermind!
No, Sir, this is not a job for Supermind!
Is Mr Santens an AI expert? He says of himself:
I’m a writer at heart,
but my educational background happens to be in psychology and physics. … my
undergraduate focus ended up being in the physics of the human brain, otherwise
known as cognitive neuroscience. I
think once you start to look into how the human brain works, how our mass of
interconnected neurons somehow results in what we describe as the mind,
everything changes.
And so Mr Santens' mass of interconnected neurons, his mind,
has been captivated, nay completely captured, by "Google's DeepMind
AI" AlphaGo victories in playing
the Board game Go over European Go
champion Fan Hui (score, 5-0) and Lee Se-dol "(whom) many consider to be
one of the world's best living Go players, if not the best" (4-1).
That's going gaga over Go and AlphaGo.
On 31 August 2016, I wrote about that game between Lee and
AlphaGo ("Artificial Intelligence? AI is A1 (Ewan). I Go For Human Genius,"
Creative Thinkering, blogspot.com),
the game which Mr Santens does not
report completely and which Cade Metz did, saying that Lee "made a move
that no machine would ever expect" and that "it was beautiful
too." Mr Metz went on to say: "It showed that although machines are
now capable of moments of genius, humans have hardly lost the ability to
generate their own transcendent moments."
This time, Mr Santens goes whole hog for AI and says:
AlphaGo’s historic
victory is a clear signal that we’ve gone from linear to parabolic. Advances in
technology are now so visibly exponential in nature… most notably in forms of
artificial intelligence limited to specific tasks, we are entirely unprepared
for as long as we continue to insist upon employment as our primary source of
income.
A good equivalent of parabolic
is curvilinear – curving and
linear. So what if AlphaGo has gone up from lines to curves? What AlphaGo is
good at is only critical or logical thinking: serial, chronological, sequential, hierarchical, numerical, mathematical
whatever. Not creative thinking, not what I call Creative Thinkering. Metal, not
Mental.
I now quote myself from 2 years ago in that essay:
The computer mind
AlphaGo is just calculating moves with the speed of nanoseconds using built-in
logic by programmers thinking logic. AlphaGo cannot by itself create a move
that defies its own programming, unlike a human, which can make an illogical,
seemingly crazy insight – and that would be brilliant as it would be genius.
And outside of logic.
The Lesson of Our Lives is this:
Repetitive jobs are for machines.
Repetitive jobs are for machines.
The Future of Metal Thinking will always belong to
Machine.
The Future of Mental Thinkering will always belong to Man!517
The Future of Mental Thinkering will always belong to Man!517
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