It occurs to me that a zombie apocalypse may be the outcome of AI development. You could say that AI IS the zombie apocalypse. Since Dawn of the Dead, zombies have eaten brains. This seems an apt metaphor for what generative AI using large language models is doing.
Machine reading as much of the world’s literature (and indeed anything digitised) is “eating brains”. Claims are made, for example, for enabling machines to emulate Leonardo and apply his mind to our challenges.
But can an AI dissimulate? Say, “I love you,” intentionally, without meaning it? A cheeky fib, a knowing wink? I guess this is what our sorcerers are instilling now.
What we forget is that all the languages, all the images, all the knowledge (up to now, anyway) has been produced by humans, with bodies. That “with bodies” is important. Pleasure and pain have emotional hinterlands, but their homeland is physical
Cared-for by robot zombies? Whose own fair hands will model those of the carer? The permutations become embarrassing. Commander Data managed a knowing wink when asked by a female crew member exactly how anatomically accurate he was?
Can a differently embodied consciousness empathise with a human consciousness? And vice, versa? How would they know they got the double entendre?
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