Artificial intelligence algorithms are only designed to accomplish the goal. No another aspects are important: neither moral, nor ethical, nor human. – says prof. Grzegorz Osiński, Head of the Institute of Computer discipline of the Academy of Social and Media Culture in Toruń, in an interview with Marcin Austyn
The conversation comes from the 90th issue of the magazine “Polonia Christiana” and is 1 of the last media statements of the Professor, who died on 19 December 2022.
We hear more and more about artificial intelligence and its capabilities. What is she?
The usage of the word "artificial intelligence" is not always appropriate due to the fact that it may give the impression that we are dealing with any independent entity that is capable of independently carrying out intelligent activities that are the domain of man. This name was first utilized in 1956 by American computer scientist John McCarthy to find the investigation scope of a fresh field of discipline to build technological devices to mimic the work of the human brain.
Currently, this task is called General Artificial Intelligence (OSI), which is truly meant to think like a human being and to have self-consciousness. This ambitious task has not yet been accomplished, but for almost seventy years scientists have developed many algorithms of artificial intelligence that mimic certain intellectual processes of man.
Therefore, it is better to usage the word present artificial intelligence algorithms with mention to circumstantial actions: analysis and explanation of large Big-Data data sets, discipline based on the results of the analysis and performance of circumstantial targeted actions established in designing these algorithms. A large number of artificial intelligence algorithms have been operating in our environment for many years and we are frequently not even aware of their active impact.
The velocity of data analysis and decision-making by artificial intelligence is already stunning and seems to give it an advantage over man. Does this mean we're doomed to be computer-controlled? Even under the appearance of comfort, modernity or security?
The concept of “computer-controlled” is rather blurred. After all, we can clearly state that our mobile phone, which in reality is simply a very powerful computer, has been controlling our lives for many years. I think we're besides addicted to him, and we don't even see how strong he is utilizing artificial intelligence algorithms to virtually control our lives.
The strongest algorithms work in streaming services, controlling the personalized transmission of videos and they are the most dangerous, due to the fact that visual transmission works very powerfully on our intellectual processes.
Artificial intelligence algorithms are indeed able to analyse as much data as we, users, would not even be able to review throughout our lives, not to mention "read" them. We must realise this and limit the impact of their action.
In a simple way, it is crucial to specify the quality and reliability of the information that the social networks and network applications owned by the large Techs “put together” us. In order not to succumb to their tremendous manipulation capabilities, they request to be simply reduced, and preferably completely abandoned. advanced quality information can be found in good books, press releases, which are liable for the dissemination of information, and in our trusted friends, whom we know from the real world.
The question here is whether the algorithms and databases that artificial intelligence uses can replace real intelligence? In another words, can the device be “human”? But is this a sphere that cannot be copied?
– That's a very crucial question. We must remember that the dominant paradigm in discipline present with very strong left-wing inclinations reduces man usually only to its function. And in specified paradigm, of course, the device can be not only human, but even "better than man."
Like in promoted concepts of environmentalism, man is pest and environmental destroyerit should so be reduced and preferably replaced first by transmanand yet by a fresh man.
The negation and rejection of all transcendental and metaphysical references is 1 of the main objectives, akin to that of classical Marxism. With the only difference that present people are depriving themselves of their natural qualities, getting deeper and deeper into the digital planet and having greater assurance Jutuba videos than the voice of authority. This road was set long ago – present it only gained fresh and more effective tools.
There are theories that artificial intelligence will take control of the world, and from its calculations it will consequence that in order to save this world, 1 must get free of man. What do you think?
Artificial intelligence algorithms are only designed to accomplish the goal – it is pure makiawelism. There are no another aspects: neither moral nor ethical. It is not hard to imagine an algorithm that sets the mark of, for example, reducing carbon dioxide by 60 percent, while enabling it to manage the global energy, legal and financial system. specified an algorithm would easy deal with the problem, excluding power plants and industrial plants, destroying the economical strategy by eliminating private property and money and introducing as the most effective political strategy – a brutal dictatorship of left-wing environmentalism.
What would be the number of victims? What would civilization look like after 20 years of specified a system? These are not studies in fantastic literature, but the real consequences of the geopolitical projects presently being implemented. Let us not forget that we have already left immense amounts of data about ourselves on large Tech servers without coercion. And these data can be utilized against us by decently designed algorithms.
Speaking of artificial intelligence, it's impossible not to mention transhumanism. Do you think that ideas for transferring all human consciousness and its functioning to the digital planet are realistic from a technical, social and moral point of view? Will mankind want to make specified a leap? And who or what will man then be? Is it even going to be human?
The main nonsubjective of transhumanism is to make conditions convenient for the implementation of the task a fresh man. The transitional form is to be transmanwhich will inactive have a biological but degenerate and reduced form, with a strong technological component.
The technology of intellectual transfer is to let the simulation of specified transman in topological supercomputer spaces. erstwhile possible on a global scale – whether in 10 years or 15 years – depends on the opinion of experts working on this issue in large Tech laboratories.
However, we must realise that this technology will only be available to a fewer – it is estimated that for two, possibly 3 percent of the population. Others are to be sentenced to a technology-dependent life whose owners will decision into safe digital spaces. They are to live in a non-destructive environment, limiting their needs to a minimum and, of course, following orders from the ruling class, being watched and controlled around the clock. specified a society will be completely involuntary, and the only hope of a bright future will be the anticipation of joining the elite, or carrying out the transfer of mind.
I am afraid that, like today, very fewer net users are asking questions about the details of the work of artificial intelligence algorithms, so in a fewer years no 1 will be asking about applicable implementation of intellectual transfer. Everyone will be happy to leave the next crises, wars, hunger and epidemics of the real world, where in addition it is simply a pest, and will gladly decision to safe digital spaces.
He will no longer be a man, but he will receive the promise of a transformation into a superhuman, and that is adequate for him.
Thank you for talking to me.
Speech by Prof. Osiński during Conservative legislature – October 2022: