We all have worked with many assistive technologies before machine learning and when applying assistive form could easily make us able to listen and scale to people Pol.is.
P-O-L.is is a technology, AI-based conversation that we use extensively to visualize people’s different resonance and feelings on the common topics to find shared values despite different positions.
It’s entirely open source, open data, its algorithm very easy to explain. You can easily modify and fork it, and audit study it. It’s truly aligned to the interest of the people working in it. All this makes it an enabling technology that everybody can learn and democratize.
Democracy I would argue is by itself a technology that is assistive. On the other hand, if it’s unaccountable, if it’s not aligned to the person using it, if the person using it is just treated a user, I know some other industry that treats its customers as users.
Then addictive manufacturing industries and then that shapes the power balance either towards surveillance capitalism or to state surveillance. In the end is that not AI enslaving people that only happens in movies, but people enslave other people through AI. That’s possible. Then that’s why I refer to as authoritarian intelligence.
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Thank you. Very excellent questions and I’ll make the transcript and send it to you.
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The host sets himself free.
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Did you say super like?
I have seen that.
Thank you.
Because I support a new political party: Can’t Stop This Party. Since you are a party member, and because I support the party, I should also support the party members’ programs.
Yes, so guessing that game was important then.
…win.
I read an article like that in the 2016 Journal of Current Biology, which said, “Intraspinal Sensory Neurons Provide Powerful Inhibition to Motor Circuits Ensuring Postural Control during Locomotion.”
You see, brain control, brain, control. One of the co-authors of this article is our Brian here.
Whose brain did you control at that time?
Zebrafish larvae, right?
OK. So even when zebrafish were little, you kept controlling them through cerebrospinal fluid?
Before birth. You implemented brain control in the fetus.
Yes, in fact, Brian is the capable one.
In fact, in front of Brian, I dare not say that I could control others’ brain waves, because you have actually done it.
Of course not. My name is TANG Feng.
In fact, I think the most important thing is that my name has now become a verb.
A transitive verb.
It means that something has been removed and taken down. For example, if someone asks me a question on Slido and finds that question is gone, then that is the so-called “being Tang-Fenged.”
When a noun becomes a verb, it means that it is beyond my control and has become a concept that everyone can use.
Just like we don’t say “you go to the search engine to find it,” instead, we all say “you Google it.” This is called “verbing” a noun.
Alas, this is a very good question.
If this were part of my conspiracy, we wouldn’t be talking about it here at all.
In fact, we know that the title of Brian’s thesis is “Sensory Neurons Provide Powerful Inhibition.”
This means that when we talk about it here, no one will think about anything else! This is Brian’s conspiracy.
I was. Before entering the cabinet.
It should not be so. Because our AI at this stage, I usually call it Assistive Intelligence, like an assistant.
The most important thing is this: it’s like a secretary who helps you decide all kinds of itineraries, but when you ask them why, if they never tells you, then you will actually fire them.
This means that the current situation of our human society is that AI can only do auxiliary tasks, and we don’t actually put it in a position where auxiliary becomes judgment and a boss.
So as long as we keep to this bottom line of privacy and accountability, i.e., to protect one’s privacy, and to be accountable, just like an assistant. Thus, it is impossible to dominate the world.
That is a very good question. It’s like “how to contain the Genie in the magic lamp.”
So the simplest is that you don’t want this magic lamp to have an opening at all. It’s like when you are driving, sometimes you look at the navigation. If you don’t connect the navigation to your steering wheel, that’ll do.
In simple terms, do not connect the cerebrospinal fluid to the motor circuit…
Of course I’m on the side of modern Homo sapiens… Well, we split up right away.
Right, so the most important thing here is that if Assistive Intelligence develops into so-called Augmented Intelligence, then we actually feel every day, like, the cell phone seems to have become a part of our body.
A situation like that would be augmenting our existing social norm. Just like we wouldn’t say simply because I wear glasses to correct myopia, that somehow makes me a non-human cyborg.
In the future, when everyone can have the same augmented intelligence, human society will become better as a whole. The focus is still the same: We cannot leave some people behind, while only a few people becoming the kind of cyborg you just described.
In fact, there is no need to wait for the future. It is happening now.
People in places with broadband access, for example through 4G signals, are not the same as those in places completely disconnected from the net.
