The appearance of automatic content generators via artificial intelligence such as Wall-E and GPT has caused many people to wonder what artificial intelligence is. Some even talk about the end of certain professions, some in a positive way and some in a negative way. However, for us, the crux of the matter and where the fundamental problem lies.
Why is the AI badly educated?
The discipline in the world of artificial intelligence that is developing the most is that of the so-called Deep Learning or Deep Learning, this consists of giving the system a large amount of data in one way or another so that the system eventually detects a pattern. However, it lacks the ability to learn with little information and needs a large number of samples.
For example, suppose you have a cute kitty and you show it to a very young boy or girl who has never seen one before. This first experience will serve the creature to store in its memory what a cat is and its characteristics, and it will be able to identify it in other media, such as in the form of a drawing, a sculpture. This is all due to the fact that our brain has this ability, but unfortunately in the case of computers, even the most powerful in the world do not have this ability.
In other words, we’re going to need a lot of pictures of cats for an AI to identify what a cat really is through Deep Learning. Of course, our example is completely innocent and harmless. However, a large amount of information requires that it be corrected, that is, selected in such a way that the conclusions or the models that the system concludes are not incorrect. That is, just like we don’t teach a child certain things, we’re also interested in not being rude to the AI so it doesn’t generate bad patterns.
internet is trash
In order to train various artificial intelligences, in particular conversational, many of their creators, in order to save time and money, decide not to train them with scientifically verified data, but on the contrary to leave them in the hands of Internet users with more than disastrous consequences. . The reason? You can imagine it, from people interacting with false and unverified information, to people wanting the system to think negative thoughts about issues like gender identity, sexual orientation and also about other ethnicities that end up being problematic because they are sources of hate information.
Not curating information is sensitive, for example, an AI can be taught to draw the human body with several different samples. However, we all know that the use of nudity is necessary. And where is there more bare material? Well yes, you guessed it, in the porn industry. So there is a danger that an AI trained with these images will end up generating one that is very similar to, or heavily influenced by, the source material.
This is why it is important not to give AI any criteria of authority and to ensure that they are working with the correct information at all times. Many will see this as censorship, but it’s the same process as when educating a minor. In other words, the Internet is garbage that is not suitable as a database for artificial intelligence. It is therefore important to ensure the verification of the data that we use as learning models.
No, artificial intelligence is not going to take your job
In recent days we have seen that they keep repeating the mantra that for creators of content, whether written or in the form of images, the world is ending because artificial intelligence will eventually replace our work. What they ignore is that these machines have the inability to create and can only act as elements of imitation of what has already been generated previously. That’s to say, they have no creative ability, which severely limits their ability.
We have to start from the fact that we are still very green when it comes to artificial intelligence, and much of what we see announced in recent years, although it may seem impressive to us, is in its infancy and we do not have to treat them as reliable information, but as conclusions of an AI that draws partial conclusions from a very limited and sometimes even erroneous spectrum of data.
Many will argue that curating data and curating it is against “freedom of speech”, but it’s one thing to give an opinion on true information and another to draw conclusions from lies or misrepresentations. a partial view of reality. In these times, it is important to know the limits of the technologies we use and it is especially important not to treat artificial intelligence as if it were some sort of oracle or reader of reality.
The consequences of being rude to AI are disastrous
For many, this may seem like a joke, but imagine that we are training an artificial intelligence that serves as a first aid assistant. That is, what to do in case of injury to a person. If the data chosen is wrong and we find that we are rude to an AI, then it can give advice that could have disastrous consequences for the injured and the caregivers.
And this is not the only case, the fears and fears towards certain minorities can masquerade as information and freedom of expression and this can also have a cost in human lives if there is not has no control. Let’s not forget the continuous killings and exterminations. It therefore seems to us a huge mistake to be rude to AI with the Internet. In the end we will end up paying for it and very dearly, since we are giving authority to a system which only knows how to find repetitive patterns and which is no different in terms of conscious knowledge from a parrot, what is more, c is even less intelligent.
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