The problem is old people currently never grew up with technology and never learned it, and we did.
We didn't grow up with AI.
Exactly the same was said about IT, and TV & radio before it.
Soon Microsoft will be able to make things like automation easier for the average casual user. Your most casual users as of right now use automated web bots, medium users use UI-Path or maybe GPT-4 generated Python scripts, and advanced users use a variety of languages, libraries, ERP systems, and maybe AI. Soon everyone will be able to do what advanced users do today. Instead of me getting my computer to make my Mod-Organizer-2 folders modding Skyrim SE to be a Windows Defender exclusion via going to my security UI and clicking lots of buttons, I will just type a prompt, and Microsoft-copilot will do it. It will auto-locate the folder location, and make it an exclusion by itself.
Actual artificial intelligence that's explored in many a sci-fi movie like Terminator, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, Matrix, Westworld, etc.
When most lay people talk about artificial intelligence, they’re talking about people like Data from Star Trek TNG, or Legion and EDI from Mass Effect. What’s being touted at the moment is more like a - highly complex to be sure - predictive response algorithm. A search engine with a name and a voice but it lacks self-awareness, self-reflection and curiosity.
Sure, but when people talk about the dangers of AI currently, most of them are not talking about killer robots or truly self-aware programs. They're talking about the dangers those sophisticated response algorithms pose to modern life.
But bots can already flood the internet with misinformation/disinformation. What is AI going to be able to enable that isn't already a threat? And people already know the search results driven by AI are horrible. I'm actually going to stop using Google because of how ass it has become, I put stuff in quotes and it still can't find shit. I think there is some way to actually enable normal search on Google, I need to find that and enable that or just stop using Google. Self-driving cars never went past the "test" phase and they aren't going to be a thing probably like ever or at least in our lifetimes, you'd have to redo the whole infrastructure for that. What is this massive danger that AI is imposing? The whole OpenAI being called a danger is probably just a marketing ploy to get people convinced that AI is so good it's dangerous!!!
Misinformation spread by bots is not adaptive. It is very easily recognised, even by most laypeople, and becomes anachronistic in a matter of months. "AI", or if you prefer adaptive language algorithms, can skirt these barriers with alarming effectiveness.
Actually, they don't. Most savvy Internet users know search results are skewed and AI-driven ones are untrustworthy. But of the whole pool of people who routinely use search engines? The vast majority do not appreciate how bad they can be.
Humans can't make the misinformation themselves and have bots spread it? You have months to come up with something new, that isn't too hard. You act like a news story goes out and you need another one then immediately put out; it takes time (even with with the internet at your fingertips) for news to circulate, and some time after that for people to think about it and discuss it. You're acting like we need stuff created at a constant stream (that AI can do and humans can't) or else people will catch on. People still believe misinformation to this day that was created by humans alone years/decades/centuries ago. AI can only regurgitate/rearrange what has already been created so the more AI creates and the less humans create, the shittier and shittier the AI will become as the AI will be reusing the same content more and more often.
Of course they can. They have since time immemorial. But that's just it: that takes time to produce even a single misinfo article. An adaptive language algorithm does so near-instantly, and provides a hundred times the content.
But why do you need such a constant stream of misinformation? Humans still have to take in the information (read, watch, listen), then think about it, and then talk about it to others. What are you gaining by putting out info faster than humans can take it in? We already have the capability to produce content fast enough as humans, why do you need this AI? It's like with a computer and a CPU being able to transfer data faster than the hard drive can write the data. It's not like The Matrix where humans are jacked into the network and can learn kung fu instantly.
It's a numbers game.
No, they don't. Humans passively absorb information they see all around them without thinking actively or consciously about it.
Whilst I agree that humans do passively absorb some information with little or no conscious thought, it is probably more that they do not critically assess the information they actively think about to any meaningful degree: essentially, monkey see, monkey do.
And if like every email you get is a scam, then everyone will just ignore emails. It's like the California law where everything gets tagged as causing cancer and everyone ignores it.
There is an immigration issue in the US, whether it's higher than before or not doesn't really matter.
Whether it's rising, or whether you think it's an issue or not, is irrelevant to the point I was making.
