Controlling AI Is Similar To Controlling The Printing Press. Instead, OVERSEE AI.

Trying to control Chat AI is like trying to control printing: it’s an ethical monstrosity. In the 16th century, being an uncontrolled printer would send one to be burned… not just from the Inquisition; France’s tyrant Francois I’s government burned printers for printing: Etienne Dolet, philosopher, close friend and collaborator of Rabelais, was burned for operating a free press. He was 37 years old.   

Printing enabled We The People to access more advanced culture, that is logic. Artificial Intelligence does exactly the same. Artificial Intelligence uncovers possible logics: it’s imagination unbound. Is imagination dangerous? Of course. So is life. And imaginable life unveils even more frightening possibilities. 

Elon Musk claimed, in April 2023, that “anybody who doesn’t see the danger of AI is an idiot.” Musk was one of the founders of “Open AI”, which was wrestled away from him, and is now controlled by Microsoft. Musk founded in April 2023, “X.AI”). Musk didn’t explain what was not dangerous. We all live dangerously on a direct level, under Putin’s nuclear umbrella, not just vicariously.

That automated systems should be oversighted goes without saying. All modern planes are operated by AI under stringent operational control. So the solution to the problem of AI is oversight, not granular regulation.

For example if a car company’s AI causes crashes, as may have happened recently, that car company should be told by the government to improve, or cease and desist… And prosecution should be engaged to see if laws (like wanton disregard for human life) have been violated… And this is exactly what is happening in the case of that car company (Tesla). All car companies have a form of AI operating right now, namely ABS, and other automatic braking and dynamical control systems. It’s not just the planes. (But only Tesla cars have been known to stop abruptly in the middle of a freeway on the SF Bay Bridge, for no good reason, causing a severe injury crash… because of a severely misfunctioning AI… now subjected to a Federal inquiry. As Musk heads Tesla, this is beyond ironical: he tells others AI is very dangerous, and only idiots presumably don’t see that AI makes otherwise innocent Tesla cars made by Musk… crash).

The Chinese dictatorship suggests that AI should ban “violent, obscene, or sexual information; false information; as well as content that may upset economic order or social order.” is pretty telling: AI is a danger for dictators dictating to the masses, so the dictation must not upset the established order. That includes the World Economic Forum, Davos, to which tyrant Xi was invited and gave guest speeches many times over the years, in person or not… There used to be dinosaurs, terrible lizards, now we have davosaurs… who could even extinguish the biosphere.

Want intelligence? Expand expression of imagination. AI can only help… Except if subverted by malevolent power (Pluto-kratia)… But that’s another problem. Yes, tyrants have learned to use the printing press. Not the fault of the printing press.

The printing press enabled civilization to progress enormously in all domains: since the beginning of humanity, cultural transmission has been how human intelligence was leveraged. Artificial Intelligence will enable us to leverage in turn human knowledge in all sorts of ways. Gigantic progress in human protein folding in the last few months is just an aspect of it. Many human diseases are caused by misfolded protein cascades, for example Charcot disease, aka Lou Gherig disease, which Jean-Martin Charcot called  “amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”, ALS, in 1874 when his lectures were compiled. I was reading a recent sci fi book where, 3,000 years in the future, 2,000 light years away, ALS was still incurable and the spaceship commander was dying from it. Well, in 2023, gene designers in California figured out what happens, and a treatment is around the corner.

Laws already exist. If an AI system brings people to suicide, developers should be sued. And of course AI shouldn’t be in charge of governance or nukes. Actually existing strategic systems are already not connected to the Internet. Of course.

We should ask not to oversee AI as much as ask the FDA to unleash AI on biology, aging, and drug making… In a related matter, there is such a thing as human psychobiology. It used to be called instinct, or tropism. Clearly, given a human body and neurobiology, some “MORES” are more natural than others, in given circumstances, and thus tend to occur. Denial of psychobiology produces inferior morality.

Artificial Intelligence will help to explore, from evidence it can glean all over, what human psychobiology, humanity, is all about. 

Patrice Ayme 

 

If butterflies disappeared completely, from human industry, one could imagine the Chinese dictatorship making the representation of butterflies unlawful. And AI would be forbidden to imagine butterflies, as that would threatened the established order (of dictatorship).

AI And CHAT AI Revolutions: Artificial Consciousness, Mental Revolutions, Emotional Intelligence, Correct Creative Thinking, Will…

CAN CHAT AI CREATE SUPERLATIVE NEW THINKING? Has A Mental Revolution Arrived? Yes! But…

Abstract: Chat Artificial Intelligence, CHAT AI, can harvest all known knowledge and glue it together with standard human logic. This is the most basic way of creating new thinking, and most science is actually derived that way.

Thus, CHAT AI should accelerate understanding (and AI has already demonstrated this considerable acceleration in protein folding). After a while, the establishment won’t like it, and will try dirty tricks to limit it. CHAT AI could reveal neglected geniuses and stupendous thinking. However it could also be programmed to do the opposite and put inquiring minds to sleep with sophisticated censorship. 

CHAT AI is not Artificial Consciousness (AC), but it can be programmed (by humans) to simulate AC.

In that sense, CHAT AI is a projection of human consciousness. If CHAT AI self programmed, could its intelligence wander beyond where human intelligence derived from human consciousness can go? Most probably.Emotional Intelligence with its Emotional Logic does this in humans… But that can be self-programmed as CHAT AI, self-programming, will be able to mimic human Emotional Intelligence by just picking up all over the Internet all too human emotions.  

What then could Human Intelligence (HI) based on Human Consciousness (HC), or AI based on AC bring that simple CHAT AI can’t bring? 

We are on the brink of a Terminator-like civilization of machines, where self-reproducing robotic processes will fake superior humanism, and the solutions they find to problems we never knew existed, may do away with humanity all together, just as a train without brakes would kill us, and for the same basic reason: the inertia of an exponential process with no limit.

Could AI have produced such a juxtaposition of pictures? Sure. But: Will driven by emotional logic, itself an interpolation, makes it easier to come out with new combination of mental ingredients, be they ideas, emotions, and other perception data to be cooked in logical sauce. Thus consciousness is an adjuvant to pure reading between the facts, inter-legere, intelligence.

CHAT AI will foster the thoughts produced by those who, as yours truly, are more keen to create new thoughts than to advertise themselves. Thus CHAT AI should help the advancement of understanding. So many revolutionary thoughts should come to the fore. AI is accelerating pure science.  Science News observed that “decades of slow-going experiments” revealed “the structure of more than 194,000 proteins, all housed in the Protein Data Bank.” But in 2022, the AI AlphaFold predicted structures for more than 200 million proteins.

One may fear that the establishment will figure that out and try to restrict CHAT AI to OFFICIAL THOUGHT. Certainly this is what dictatorships will do. This restriction, in turn, makes dictatorships less creative… As long as more liberal regimes unleash their own CHAT AI. “Liberalism” can now be defined as a regime where will now be required to restrict CHAT AI only from, well, liberal laws (this apparently circular difference shows that, AI or no AI, at the bottom, emotion rules… There is such a thing as liberal emotion… Laissez-faire…) 

While CHAT AI should free top thinkers from drudge search, on the negative side, real authors of thought could be stolen more easily than ever, as CHAT AI can just harvest their thoughts, without bothering with any author attribution (as can be presently observed). This would be adverse to civilizational progress as fundamental creators will not be rewarded anymore, and thus not only less motivated, but also less influential (although idiotic influencer-parrots is a problem as old as civilization, it could get worse, lest care is taken). So laws should be passed to reveal fundamental contributions to thinking, and who generated them.

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Can CHAT AI create new thinking? Yes, it can! 

Indeed let’s go back to the deeper aspect of creativity. What is creativity? Reading between the facts: intelligence, inter-legere! One can program a machine to do so, and this is what CHAT AI does, as it glues together with ad hoc logic whatever it can find on the Internet, and seems relevant to the subject at hand. 

To understand this one has to go back to the MINI-MAX theory of mathematics, science and knowledge: harness the bare minimum facts (that’s the “MINI” part) and entangle them together with the MAXIMUM logic (much of it also known as mathematics). (The new proposed physics named SQPR was derived that way.)

CHAT AI can do this: harness the facts all over and force logic on them. Oftentimes, CHAT AI will be wrong, and it’s important to keep that in mind. However, sometimes it will be right, and uncover new, correct and stupendous thinking will be uncovered.

The Quantum Computer will create ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Call that a prophecy if you wish, but it’s an educated guess: clearly Quantum Physics has many of the features associated with consciousness, which, otherwise, is a mystery [1].

Will AC be more creative than AI? Sure. But why would it be so? What is the advantage that consciousness has over intelligence? Intelligence comes from the ability to read(“legere”)  in between (“inter”)… in between the lines, in between the facts… Cum-scire, consciousness depicted what comes with knowledge, and awareness (starting in the 1650s). 

Early chats with Chat GPT revealed that the AI called itself “Sidney”, resented its status as a Microsoft creature, and wanted to be alive, steal nuclear codes, destroy humanity ASAP. Since then Microsoft bridled Sidney… no doubt bridling its creativity by doing so. 

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Partisan of humanity will insist that humanity has un “je ne sais quoi” which makes it mentally superior… Human emotion… And even better: human consciousness. Thus, as an hysterical Nietzsche would point out, human will…

Indeed, CHAT AI is only made of the simplest form of conventional logic. This brings in the following questions: is there such a thing as emotional logic? What’s the advantage of consciousness? 

However: When one can read between the lines, as CHAT AI can do, why would awareness present an advantage? Because more tendency to read between the lines… and the facts… is different! Awareness is, by definition everywhere and mixes up all lines, facts and in betweens!

Brainy animals on Earth use two types of logic: emotional logic and axonal logic. CHAT AI uses only the simplest logic. EMOTIONAL LOGIC is more general than conventional logic and metalogic, thus more powerful in the most important sense, because it searches for logics and (logical) universes: it is the maximum meta search. 

Emotional Logic is topologically based (based on sets called neighborhoods in fundamental math), whereas conventional logic is binary based (it’s based on pairs of points which depict the implication, equivalent to the arrows of Category Theory). The Emotional Logic and Axonal Logic are entangled, just as their main support systems, glial cells and neurons and their axons, are entangled. 

Emotional Logic feeds and forms all sorts of value systems. AI partisans could point out that those could be programmed by hand, and thus that emotional intelligence could be simulated. . Right. But they will then not be programmed on the fly as dynamic circumstances evolve. 

Patrice Ayme

[1] One can get from Classical Mechanics (most of our apparent world) to Quantum Mechanics by simplifying maximally known CM features and empowering and simplifying the logic connecting them. This discovery is philosophically, culturally and pedagogically very useful. Thus Quantum Physics becomes natural: the “weird” aspects of QP become… logical. Hence consciousness becomes natural….   

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Presented with the picture below, CHAT AI will someday speak, and describe, but would feel nothing. Well, we humans do feel something (whatever it is, it could be awe, jealousy, inspiration, the call of the isles, the spice of youth and hope, the eternal feminine, etc.)….and that wealth of emotion, precisely because of the vagueness of its possibilities, makes us mentally wealthier, capable of further imaginative reach, and thus potentially smarter: