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Apple AI Expert Says Computers Should Augment Human Capabilities
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Let's start with little steps first....like getting out new iMacs, Mac Minis, and Mac Pros. Thank you in advance for your attention to these lagging products.
He believes computers should log every aspect of our lives,...
No. Just no.
No. Just no.
Perhaps the first step towards the human mind eventually losing complete control and independence, and ceding to AI? Future generations may have to come to grips with that, but since it will be a gradual process, they won't know any better and accept it, much like we now accept many things the digital revolution has thrust upon us, which previous gens would have resisted.
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Apple will never get the message that we decide what computers are for. Just give us the best model possible, like you used to, and let us com up with the results.
Will you say the same when your mother doesn't remember you?
Why is everyone treating new technology like it's going to be a new facebook? This technology will save countless people with disabilities and most definitely help aging people.
Just so the augmentation of my failings doesn't contribute to the diminishing of my accomplishments ...
Not even close to the first step. The first step occurred hundreds of thousands of years ago.
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You're right about that. Ever since the Apple I.
While it would be cool... its not going to be done on the device only... it just isn' going to be part of a phone. so when it goes across the internet to Apple privacy comes to mind....
The only AI i would ever invite is something u teach it, and its smart enough to construct sentences itself (this is a must)
If it *has* go online in order to be "intelligence" as the only way, there is no way to protect your privacy on a public network... (unless all AI is first run through a encryption)
The only AI i would ever invite is something u teach it, and its smart enough to construct sentences itself (this is a must)
If it *has* go online in order to be "intelligence" as the only way, there is no way to protect your privacy on a public network... (unless all AI is first run through a encryption)
do you believe a total stranger on the street 100%? also why would you believe a company 100%, do you know for a fact 100% that they are not using the data for other purposes? also, everyone says they're the most secure, until they get...hacked
Since this person wants to augment human failings with the help of an AI, I assume he is an undercover agent, an android perhaps, working to overthrow humans.
Apple needs to get onboard with computers for producing VR content. Vuze Camera has a great site using pictures of iMacs to promote their product. After gleefully buying a camera they tell me that there is no Mac available to run their rendering software. Biggest sin that has ever been, stealing with a fountain pen (Picture). Perhaps someone should tell Apple that their AI claims will only run on Windows gaming machines.
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Great. So now when I have some embarrassing memory from 10+ years ago, I can no longer tell myself "Stop worrying about it, you are probably the only one that remembers that." Instead I'll tell myself, "Oh yeah, that was awful and it's also well documented by ______ and they have 24/7 access to that memory that they probably pull up every now and then to get a laugh."
I feel sorry for the kids in middle school and high school today. It's bad enough they are given access to YouTube and Facebook to document a few of their regrettable moments. In a decade every single regret will be documented and categorized, haunting them until the day they die.
I feel sorry for the kids in middle school and high school today. It's bad enough they are given access to YouTube and Facebook to document a few of their regrettable moments. In a decade every single regret will be documented and categorized, haunting them until the day they die.
Amen! Or mitigate.
I couldn't get past the headline I was laughing my butt off so hard. English fail. I mangle the language all the time, so I'm not pointing fingers, but this one was too funny because it sounded like we want to use technology to magnify our flaws. Okay....
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Or worse, they grow up too thick skinned and not caring about the consequences of their actions because they know there's no living down something they did ten years ago, so what the hell, be a jerk for all it's worth. I'm seeing it happen.
Agreed. I don't need access to every person I've ever met. Talk about pointless info.
Two things:
1. Tom Gruber did not use the term human failings. If I am mistaken, and he did, then that would be a very important quote and the article should quote him. A little too much editorializing for my taste.
2. This is, as Gruber was quoted, "the difference between a life of isolation and one of dignity and connection..." This approach could be very helpful for those with progressive or significant memory loss diseases.
Well some of us write letters or thank you notes to people who empowered or inspired us. When you actually take time to thank someone who has helped you, it fixes the event and person in your memory. Some of us end each day in prayer or meditation or reflection to give thanks for the good things in our lives and reflect on what went wrong and how we can do better tomorrow.
These are mental exercises that keep our healthy and help stave off depression (along with whatever professional treatment one is receiving for clinical depression). And they help us celebrate our humanity.
If we rely on machines for such things, we are letting an essential part of our humanity slip away. I can't elaborate more on this without slipping into PRSI territory. But I will end by saying as much as I enjoy technology, or I would not be on this forum, the transhumanist movement alarms me. I hope our society will always make room for those of us who would prefer to abstain from that level of merging our lives with technology.
But I have my concerns that there will be strong bias and possibly even persecution of us "Luddites" who will seem too slow and a drag on society compared to augmented humans. I think our technology may be moving too fast for us to fully contemplate and prepare for all of the consequences to our species, and certain freedoms of the mind and concepts of privacy of the mindspace that already I see young kids incapable of conceiving.
Also, I want to point out that it is through our flaws and mistakes that we learn, we grow, and advance. In suffering we learn empathy, in making mistakes we learn humility, in forgiving others their flaws we learn grace and generosity. What is to become of our life lessons if we augment all the rough patches out? Already we are seeing problems with people who were raised to have all the rough patches and hard lessons of life smoothed away.
The term "Millennials" has become for some a perjorative to dismiss an entire generation that can't cope with hardships or offense because they were never taught how to. I refuse to dismiss an entire generation when these problems exist in every generation among individuals who were coddled and pandered to.
Edit to add: I don't see a particular problem with Gruber's proposal to help people with dementia or schizophrenia keep track of their lives.
As soon as I stop having to augment Siri's failings, I will believe in an Apple AI "expert".
I would love for Apple to lead by example and not just talk about what would be cool in the future to boost stock prices on pure speculation. No doubt Apple has billions to invest in future tech, but they just keep talking about AR and AI and Self-driving but have nothing to show for all this talk. Talk is cheap, period. Apple needs to be an innovation leader and not follow up with something incrementally better then what pioneers have already offered.
In the meantime, if I ask Siri what time it is first thing in the morning, EVERY DAY I get "It is 7:xx am, you woke me up" and then I say "Siri, go back to sleep", and I'm promptly told "Siri never sleeps".
WTF! Apple can't string together two Siri responses with any intelligence, I don't think they are going to set the market on fire with any AI anytime in the near future and this is just vapid rhetoric.
Also machine learning REQUIRES collecting user data, definitely not personal data, but at least learning from failed requests and responses and obtaining feedback and adapting dynamically. If for one year Siri keeps telling me I woke her up and Apple hasn't figured out how stupid this statement is then Apple will not be a leader in AI, period, unless AI stands for artificial ignorance.
I would love for Apple to lead by example and not just talk about what would be cool in the future to boost stock prices on pure speculation. No doubt Apple has billions to invest in future tech, but they just keep talking about AR and AI and Self-driving but have nothing to show for all this talk. Talk is cheap, period. Apple needs to be an innovation leader and not follow up with something incrementally better then what pioneers have already offered.
In the meantime, if I ask Siri what time it is first thing in the morning, EVERY DAY I get "It is 7:xx am, you woke me up" and then I say "Siri, go back to sleep", and I'm promptly told "Siri never sleeps".
WTF! Apple can't string together two Siri responses with any intelligence, I don't think they are going to set the market on fire with any AI anytime in the near future and this is just vapid rhetoric.
Also machine learning REQUIRES collecting user data, definitely not personal data, but at least learning from failed requests and responses and obtaining feedback and adapting dynamically. If for one year Siri keeps telling me I woke her up and Apple hasn't figured out how stupid this statement is then Apple will not be a leader in AI, period, unless AI stands for artificial ignorance.
Apple AI Expert Says Computers Should Augment Human Failings
Such as falling for buzzwords like artificial intelligence which doesn't actually exists.
Such as falling for buzzwords like artificial intelligence which doesn't actually exists.