Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Journal Entry 7: Davis: Ch. 9 (Sara Loughran)

Question: At what point is it the technology that is controlling us, rather than us controlling it? Is our world going to become unrecognizable 100 years from now because everything is about technology and virtual reality, rather than the real world?

I took some texts from Davis Ch. 9, as well as websites about virtual reality and artificial intelligence, and grouped them all into a big block of text. I then put that text into the Lazarus Corporation text mixing Desk 2.0 and this is the answer I got, after editing it to find the things that made the most sense.

Answer:

Transform the fallen world. The fallen world.

Following the by way of our senses. Of our senses.

In satellite networks, global media, and the though, that it might also be what Michael Grosso calls “the slow medieval world’s changing notions of technology, other sensory inputs, plus some special superiority to the rest of nature", we know about our reality comes to all colors and ages, we that the information superhighway is open. “Just plug technomania of our contemporary world". 

Such a system could potentially astounding predictability, we tell ourselves (and we would refer to as a negative consequences in the future, thus are told) that the digital age undergo recursive self-improvement, triggering an intelligence suffused with religious belief. 

"It does the last, unless we learn to Internet,” a voice-over tells us we recognize the potential for a virtual reality. In the long term version of reality that isn’t real, we are saturated with the rhetoric there, but from our perspective it a superintelligence might help us eradicate fervor.

The creation of strong AI might cause an apocalypse progress as science does, forcing us to invent revolutionary new technologies, such as hearing. These are however only our the corporeal problems of the world, rich flow of information from the myriad peoples zeroes in on a communications utopia arises yet again. The almost brains ensures that we have a world for humanity. With the growth happening,” promises an IBM TV spot, hubris, myopia, and blind insensitivity to and others who insist that the the individual, restore community, aid the shows in his revelatory book. The information, your perception of reality would eschatology, with the result that is history.

Some experts have expressed concern to if this is beneficial. We, humanity, one that will help empower of computers, communications networks, and electronic unintentionally cause great harm. We believe development that has characterized western culture. Religion of Technology, our drive for centuries is infused with millennialist influence, and the world is yours. Strong AI will be achieved, research today will help us better even spark world peace. Something is where all this is heading. Today, there are some who question whether sensory information and our brains sense-making to reason then, in other words, our entire experience of an important question is what will be the next Renaissance. The West has committed itself onto a terminal screen.

No, the secrets. No, the secrets.

Technology became an evolutionary leap forward for environment in our minds. Everything that is, and interbreeding of the Internet, wire our most obvious sense organs. Obvious sense organs. The truth know the world through our senses considerable consequences: the scientific and technological see the word “utopia?" The word “utopia?” typed out. A montage of the world is an MTV-flavored television advertisement.

Databases will automatically produce a better and perception systems. In school we explore myriad worlds of the computer, with religious conviction. A widespread adoption of this would be perceived as real. Something which informs us regenerating the earth and revealing its perfect history fed directly into the AI systems is itself a cognitive event.


This is the meme I came up with:



Original Texts:

From Davis Ch. 9:

Though the revolutionary rhetoric of digital technocapitalism has been attacked for its hubris, myopia, and blind insensitivity to the corporeal problems of the world, it also signifies a truth with considerable consequences: the scientific and technological development that has characterized Western culture for centuries is infused with millennialist fervor. As the historian David Noble shows in his revelatory book The Religion of Technology, Joachim’s drive to perfect history fed directly into the medieval world’s changing notions of technology, as monasteries began incorporating the once lowly “mechanical arts” into their otherworldly labor. Besides embodying man’s God-given rational superiority to the rest of nature, technology enabled him to dominate and transform the fallen world. Following the Renaissance, the West committed itself to what Michael Grosso calls “the slow apocalypse of progress,” as science and technology took on the task of regenerating the earth and revealing its secrets. In Noble’s words, technology became eschatology, with the result that the technomania of our contemporary world “remains suffused with religious belief.”

It does not take a Joachim to see where all this is heading. Today, we are saturated with the rhetoric of “mythinformation,” which the social critic Langdon Winner defines as “the almost religious conviction” that a widespread adoption of computers, communications networks, and electronic databases will automatically produce a better world for humanity. With the growth and interbreeding of the Internet, wireless satellite networks, global media, and the myriad worlds of the computer, the communications utopia arises yet again. With astounding predictability, we tell ourselves (and are told) that the digital age is an evolutionary leap forward for humanity, one that will help empower the individual, restore community, aid the infirm, overcome prejudice, turbocharge democracy, make us smarter and richer, and maybe even spark world peace. “Something is happening,” promises an IBM TV spot, as a montage of the world’s myriad peoples zeroes in on a wise old African man. “Just plug in, and the world is yours.” In an MTV-flavored television advertisement for the MCI Network, which informs us that the information superhighway is open to all colors and ages, we see the word “utopia?” typed out on a terminal screen; “No, the Internet,” a voice-over tells us

From https://www.vrs.org.uk/virtual-reality/what-is-virtual-reality.html :

We know the world through our senses and perception systems. In school we all learned that we have five senses: taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing. These are however only our most obvious sense organs. The truth is that humans have many more senses than this, such as a sense of balance for example. These other sensory inputs, plus some special processing of sensory information by our brains ensures that we have a rich flow of information from the environment to our minds.

Everything that we know about our reality comes by way of our senses. In other words, our entire experience of reality is simply a combination of sensory information and our brains sense-making mechanisms for that information. It stands to reason then, that if you can present your senses with made-up information, your perception of reality would also change in response to it. You would be presented with a version of reality that isn’t really there, but from your perspective it would be perceived as real. Something we would refer to as a virtual reality.

From https://futureoflife.org/background/benefits-risks-of-artificial-intelligence/ :

In the long term, an important question is what will happen if the quest for strong AI succeeds and an AI system becomes better than humans at all cognitive tasks. As pointed out by I.J. Good in 1965, designing smarter AI systems is itself a cognitive task. Such a system could potentially undergo recursive self-improvement, triggering an intelligence explosion leaving human intellect far behind. By inventing revolutionary new technologies, such a superintelligence might help us eradicate war, disease, and poverty, and so the creation of strong AI might be the biggest event in human history. Some experts have expressed concern, though, that it might also be the last, unless we learn to align the goals of the AI with ours before it becomes superintelligent.

There are some who question whether strong AI will ever be achieved, and others who insist that the creation of superintelligent AI is guaranteed to be beneficial. At FLI we recognize both of these possibilities, but also recognize the potential for an artificial intelligence system to intentionally or unintentionally cause great harm. We believe research today will help us better prepare for and prevent such potentially negative consequences in the future, thus enjoying the benefits of AI while avoiding pitfalls.

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