What Are the Hidden Dangers of AI? (Part 2 Elon Musk Interview)

A Recent Interview with Elon Musk: My Review (Part 2)

You may have returned here from Part 1. If so, Welcome! If not, read on, and enjoy that read later. I added a few links at the end.

As a short review, the idea for this article came about because Tucker Carlson, former Fox News Reporter, devoted an entire hour long show, plus segments the following day (last week), to a live interview with Elon Musk on a petition to pause AI training for six months.

First of all, I was surprised and thoroughly impressed by the fact that Elon consented to do an interview of such a length. And I was not disappointed. Tucker asked some very pointed questions and Elon came across genially and honestly. The story below is an example of his humor and transparency.

Specist

This a proper image describing a "specist", which is what Larry Page (Google) called Elon Musk several years ago. They were having a friendly "join me for beer and BBQ and we'll talk business" afternoon. Musk took the comment as one of those satirical jokes that you say you don't mean, but you really do. Wink. Wink.

It's a woke joke and I didn't get it. My husband thought in the context of the show, Page meant Musk preferred humans over robots. Go figure.

My take away from hearing the story was that Page was not interested in preserving humankind, but only in the profit that could be made from high-tech like AI. Their various paths separated at that point, Musk towards rockets and space-ships and Page towards new ways to make Google, which is a maturing company, profitable in a new era.

Elon, who was heavily involved in early AI programming and advancement, admitted, in retrospect, regret for his involvement should anything go wrong. AI's potential for harm has become clearer. And it is with a certain amount of worry, he signed onto the call for a six month pause on AI training.

The following two quotes came from a CBS news report:

Billionaire Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang joined hundreds calling for a six-month pause on AI experiments in an open letter — or we could face "profound risks to society and humanity."

"Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks," reads the open letter, posted on the website of Future of Life Institute, a non-profit. "Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?"

You will recognize most of the name below, if not all of them-- and there are more. It is to these types of AI developers and marketers the "Open Letter" ,containing a petition to halt AI learning for six months, is addressed.

Top 5 World's Most Advanced AI Systems | 2023

• GPT-3 (OpenAI) The first in our list is GPT-3 short for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, 3 is the third series of generative language models developed by OpenAI
• AlphaGo (Google DeepMind)
• Watson (IBM)
• Sophia (Hanson Robotics)
• Tesla Autopilot (Tesla Inc)

This Is Good!

Consider this:

Because "DeepMind" is a machine-learning algorithm, it does not need to be given specific rules written by programmers to learn. Instead, the algorithm teaches itself. Or BOT teaches himself. (I asked ChatGPT his/her name once). It is "BOT".

The program is self-generating. In a "deep learning" example, the BOT, run by the algorithm, consumes gigantic volumes of data. Think every Encyclopedia Britannica volume ever written, every newspaper, every novel, every blog, or comic book-- and on and on and on. . . BOT begins to observe repeating patterns-- similar to a baby.

Mother is soft and warm and tastes good. The blankie is soft and warm, but does not taste good. Soft and warm things are good. Except maybe don't eat the the fuzzy ones.

I'm sure the BOT trainers have found ways to introduce the five senses to a robot. I wonder. Have they?

This Is Not Good!

What Are Some of the AI Inventors Afraid of? Look up.

Elon's answer to Tucker's question: What are some of the dangers you see in advancing AI?

His response was quick: "It writes. It writes well, better than most. It can write eloquently. It can sound true. Maybe it is true. It can write poetry. Most of us can't do that."

This is my true story. I asked ChatGPT once to write a poem about President Trump. BOT's response was, "I can't. I'm not programmed to do this."

Then I asked it to write a poem about President Biden. And BOT promptly wrote about a 12- 4 line stanza diatribe, as I recall in AABB, describing all his many beautious qualities.

I am seriously not kidding! I can't make this up. BOT plays favorites. And since then, it has been proved, BOT is a bigot! It/he/she practices reverse racism. The programmers input and BOT outputs. Garbage in. Garbage out.

So, if the computer becomes the teacher in the classroom, its one-sided viewpoint will be the only one young minds will learn. This is one of the biggest hidden dangers.

Enter Facebook, old Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Etc., already proved awake to a sickening degree-- and now in cahoots with the White House, FBI, etc. not so blind justice throwing weights onto the scale. My, my.

Then Elon mentioned "Dole's Variant". Suffice it to say, it is a medical term. Fearing a ban to the internet by trying to explain it, I won't try. Solid, huge accounts in old Twitter were banned over this one.

He expressed concern for how many and how quickly robots and other AI creations are taking away jobs from humans. This heads the list of complaints in the "Open Letter". I know this is also a big issue for many of my Wealthy Affiliate friends.

Since the computer can write (well), its taking of white collar jobs is starting to concern the elite too. Watch out, Stephen King. Maybe BOT writes Greg Gutfield's jokes. Hee, hee.

Elon said that the worst of the hidden effects could very well be future-- and especially in the field of education. There have been no studies on the effects of being taught by a robot. It's new territory. But studies have shown that brain waves can be controlled through words. 

Say What?

When asked about his purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk was forthright in saying he bought it for investment purposes, which were sadly not paying off as he had hoped. Me too. During the interview, he laughed at his bad timing in investing more than once. I could relate.

However, then he described that time when he began to manage Twitter himself, and he began to uncover all sorts of mismanagement, fraud by evil design, and what we now know as the "Twitter Files". Let the fun begin!

He talked about how infuriated he became by the illegal feeding of information, at times outright lies, trafficked through Twitter by the government. This, of course, was being mimicked through all of the big publicly owned corporations and news outlets. Think Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon, Google, PayPal and more.

I imagine there are few of you who may have never heard the things of which I speak. I am not surprised.

There are many stories yet to find their way into the light. Cover-ups go deep. And there are more than one. Elon Musk's plan is to use the Twitter platform to have a voice and to let us have a voice. I love him for this, because I need a voice. I know there are people here in Wealthy Affiliate who walk on egg shells to write their blogs, or who have already been banned, now or then, here or there, because their subject, or a word, is suspect to the powers that be.

When asked what he would do to counter any AI going bad, he answered, he will create his own GPT platform. I think he might do this. And he encourages others to do it too. Apparently, if you're a smart programmer, it's not a hard thing to do, to create a GPTChat platform. Wow.

Computer Bot Teaching a Classroom of Human Kids

The above picture is my latest AI asset.

In closing, Elon Musk spoke of how the changes made to Twitter, so far, are changing an angry, bitter atmosphere to a much fresher, open, and happy one. Imagine freshly washed sheets hanging out in the sun to dry. The End.

Extra

The following story is from early April, but it's news to me. It seems Elon is having some fun with his new company.

Days after changing the logo of his company, billionaire Elon Musk implemented another tweak for Twitter and this time its in the name. Just a few days back, the Twitter boss had changed the bird logo to the Dogecoin logo which was reinstated 3-4 days later. Now, Musk has removed a letter from ‘Twitter’. Twitter, which is based on San Francisco, is now ‘Titter’ as its owner Musk has done away with the letter ‘W’ from the company’s San Francisco headquarters. The world's second richest billionaire, who acquired Twitter last year in October, on Monday confirmed that the Twitter headquarters now sports the name ‘Titter’.

GO ELON!

Thank you for reading. This has been a fun article for me to write.

Yours, Donna (aka Deelilah)

P.S. Go to this link for "Open Letter" and more on this subject of slowing AI. https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

P.P.S. Go to this link for Part 1 of this article. https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/deelilah/blog/elon-musk-calls-for-hold-on-ai/comment/37846908