tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post111845329601115920..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: GIGOODale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-1118844127599040702005-06-15T07:02:00.000-07:002005-06-15T07:02:00.000-07:00This second comment about priorities is fair enoug...This second comment about priorities is fair enough... <BR/><BR/>But as you can see in the supplemental GIGOO post from the next day, I am not just frustrated about the misplaced urgency of those preoccupied with "AI" -- whether Friendly or not -- and hence the misspent effort they inspire. <BR/><BR/>My deeper perplexity and worry is with the figures through which they communicate their quandaries, the way they frame their case, the unrealistic general assumptions about technological development they mobilize. These problems drift into technoprogressive discourse more generally. <BR/><BR/>I personally think that some of the more curiously reductive and apolitical assumptions that get vented among a non-marginal number of advocates for the strong program of AI are troubling in ways that help account for the reluctance of many of the "greater-than-50%" to embrace a more technoprogressive stance.<BR/><BR/>I think roboethics -- the branch of technoethics focused on foresight and deliberation about the impact of automation and computation -- should certainly devote considerable energies to thinking through potential threats and promises in replicative software. I still don't understand why after half a century of failed predictions and deranging projections the default figure though which we try to take these complexities on is: "intelligence."<BR/><BR/>GIGOO is obviously a silly term -- but its heart is in the right place. What is wanted is an alternative figure that captures the complexity, but without the monster-movie entailments. (Well, come to think of it, I guess there <I>was</I> the Blob...)Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.com