Thomas Friedman is utterly losing his mind, not really surprising over AI, with a side plate of TDS
A.I.: Let’s Not Have Another Failure of Imagination
“Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”
That’s what President Trump said about the Covid-19 outbreak on Feb. 10, 2020, about a month before it forced our country and the world into a lengthy lockdown.
Tommy does understand that lockdowns were primarily driven by Democrats, including his own paper, right?
Why do I recall that today? Because when I think back on the biggest disaster stories I have covered — including 9/11 and Covid-19 — I am struck that they have one big thing in common: a failure of imagination. Sure, government experts prepared for these events in theory, but in practice how many of them imagined that suicidal terrorists would fly commercial airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? And how many imagined that a respiratory virus that emerged in Wuhan, China, would kill millions of people and drag down the world economy for years? So today, when it comes to the possibility that artificial intelligence, which is falling into the hands of rogue actors and is beginning to manifest a will of its own, could become incredibly destabilizing, my imagination is fully engaged.
He’s seriously using an important phrase used by the 9/11 Commission to push AI doom conspiracy? And thinking millions will die like COVID? Well, hey, maybe if governments around the world had acted correctly, realizing that those in danger were the older and with conditions, rather than freaking everyone, that a lot of lives could have been saved and the economies wouldn’t have been in trouble and still having trouble. Do we really want government running all the AI companies when government failed so badly on COVID? And, to a degree, 9/11? That it was government which enabled the creation of COVID by giving money to China to do research.
Here is what my imagination is telling me. It is telling me that the big A.I. companies in America and China are not being candid with us about how little even they understand the power and reach of the models they have developed, like sorcerers, in their labs. It is telling me that the Trump administration, headed by a man who so often governs by social media post, is uniquely unsuited to the kind of comprehensive, sustained, coordinated governance that keeping A.I. safe demands. And it is telling me that there is so much at stake — economically, militarily and technologically — and so little trust between Washington and Beijing that it would take a miracle for the United States and China to agree on the kind of deep collaboration needed to defuse the most nightmarish threats posed by A.I.
Well, at least he gets the notion that government is untrustworthy and foolish with his side of TDS.
It is still not too late, though, for radical rethinking before something very bad happens that forces all the key players to do things they never imagined, things they will have to do in the middle of a full-blown A.I.-driven crisis. I’d rather be remembered as the boy who cried wolf when the wolf never came than as someone who got eaten by it.
So here goes: “Wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf.”
The same NY Times wouldn’t cover Biden’s declining mental health or Hunter’s laptop.
But I will breathe a sigh of relief only when I see Washington and Beijing put their heads together with their respective A.I. companies to draw up a long-term plan for how they can continue to compete on A.I. technologies, while simultaneously agreeing on internal A.I. guardrails to prevent increasingly capable A.I. systems from, on their own, creating catastrophic cybersecurity, biological, nuclear or financial risks. This a geopolitical, geoeconomic and technological challenge no generation of American and Chinese statesmen has ever before faced. They dodge it at their, and our, peril.
Yes, yes, he does go on a rant in wanting the same governments that failed for COVID and September 11th to be in charge of AI. With a decent side of TDS.
“We’ve unleashed Darwin in silicon,” Beinhocker explained. The latest A.I. models have demonstrated a capacity for “self-improvement, self-replication and self-preservation. When you put those three things together, and their evolution happens at silicon speed, not human speed, you’ve got something extremely powerful, potentially dangerous and impossible to control.”
This becomes even more true as we begin to give our A.I. systems bodies in the form of robots, drones and vehicles. We must ensure that there is always a human in the loop — that they are never fully autonomous — until we can guarantee these systems will always operate in line with human well-being, Beinhocker added.
Would these be the same humans who had a failure of imagination? Liberals are nuts.
Not a fan of the self-righteous Friedman (Tommy), but this time you should ignore Willy and listen to Tommy.
Tommy’s “Money shots” that Willy ignored:
1. (Donny’s love of AI) is said to be driven, (his staff) reported, by (Donny’s) fear that “if the artificial intelligence boom fueling the American economy slows down, the market could crash and recession could quickly follow.”
and on government regulation:
2. Good regulations create trust, and trust grows markets. How do you think the airline industry or the pharmaceutical industry grew so big, so fast? Because government regulations created trust among consumers that the planes they fly and the medicines they take are safe.
Your Donny is a self-absorbed sociopath with a short-circuiting, dying brain. He needs to be stopped before it’s too late for America and the world. His ONLY interest is Donny, not the nation. His concern is the moment.
So Rimjob, just another copy&paste along with cheap shots at our President.
Got anything new or worthwhile to share with all of your fans?
Bwaha!
Somewhat ironic that the simple, tiny brain of our obsessed fan, The Pinhead, failed to recognize the copy&paste from the Willy’s own copy&pasted article.
The Pinhead should have his mommy read it to him.
Our self-absorbed socialist from St Louis wrote:
President Trump’s term ends on January 20, 2029, and even though he’s trolled the left about a third term, he’s constitutionally ineligible for one. More, he’d be 83 years old.
But no, the distinguished Mr Dowd believes that he needs to be stopped now, because he doesn’t like the President’s policies. But, regardless of his motive or how he came to his decisions, Mr Trump’s policies are the better ones for our country. He’s enforcing our laws, including our immigration laws, something Mr Dowd should appreciate, given some of his past comments concerning law enforcement against Mr Trump. He’s cutting back on welfare and social program fraud. He’s apprehended Nicolas Maduro and tried to interdict drug smuggling. He’s secured our southern border. He helped Israel demolish Hamas — and remember: the Hamas attack was when the doddering dolt from Delaware was on office — and Hezbollah. He’s cut back on ridiculous programs to fight
global warmingclimate change, programs that the Democrats will not even campaign on because they know they are vote losers. He’s withdrawn us from the ridiculous Paris climate accords, something the shyster from Chicago signed but wouldn’t submit for ratification. He’s doing everything he can to getmenmales out of women’s sports, and just this morning it was announced that hundreds of thousands of fraudsters are being kicked off of Obysmalcare.All of those things are good things!
I was curious if Friedman wrote any doom and gloom about the horrors of Y2K.
What are the odds that the NYT staff uses AI in writing their stories?
Since they were presumably journalism majors, not the brightest bulbs in the universities’ rosters, the odds are high.
They probably do. Helping search for the right phrase or searching the literature differs from breaking into the control centers of utilities, banks, investment firms, police, newspapers, government, Social Security, health care, insurance etc.
But what could we have done about it on September 10th?
Significant security changes were made to airlines after September 11th that would have drawn widespread criticism prior to that. Armed air marshals? Crew cabin locked? Greater passenger screening?
Then there have been the stricter banking regulations and Real ID. Real ID was just so important that it wasn’t fully put into effect until 2025.
Stop blaming George W. Bush for 9/11!!!
Biden left a national security paper explicitly entitled “Biden Determined to Attack the USA With Planes”
You can watch Condoleeza Rice being forced to admit that to Congress” on you tube