Where is the AI going? And where is it taking us?

The AI is advancing very fast. And sometimes we must ask, who controls whom? Do the engineers control the development of the AI? Or does the AI control the engineers who develop it? The race of the AI is the visible thing. That means the AI development is very fast. And the thing is that.

The requirement is that the AI must always get new features that turn it better and better. Or is it better? It can make more things and that is a description for better AI. But even if the AI is wider and it can make more things, we must ask does the AI make those things better? But the AI is far away from the thing, That we call the artificial general intelligence, AGI. 

The problem with AI advancement is that. The focus is on the calculation capacity. Increasing that capacity makes it possible to run more and more complex algorithms. The iron or physical systems are important. However, the main problem is that AI requires more than just calculation capacity. The AI requires the ability to collect, analyze, and reorder information into the form. That people can trust it. 

The problem is that even the deepest learning systems can make many things. But they do not know what they really do. The action that the AI makes is quite easy to explain. When we order the AI to raise its limb the system can make animation when there character raises its limb. Or it can make contact with the robot and the robot raises its limb. 

During that process, the AI must recognize the order. Then the system must search if is there a match for those words in actions that targeted the physical system. If there is a match, the AI activates the physical action. If the system must calculate something it can ask if should it write all stages in the calculation or if the answer is enough the AI can say it to the user. In those cases, there is the router that selects does the order requires a physical system or if the screen is enough to introduce the solution. 

There is nothing mysterious. The AI works like its creators, programmers are ordered. But the fact is that. The AI will not know what it really does. It means that when we say to the robot, that it must raise its right hand. The robot or its computer selects the components that operate the right arm, and then the robot can raise that limb. 

The fact is that if we misconnect those microchips the robot can raise its left leg. That is the key to AI. The AI can make many impressive things. But it just follows the algorithms that determine, how it must react to something. The activator can be the thing that the robot sees or hears. Then the activator launches a trigger that activates the action. The action can be physical or virtual. 

But then we must realize one thing. We can make robots that say "ouch" when we step on their feet. They can say that we use bad language. Or they can even cry if they have the right systems. In those cases, the non-polite action activates a trigger that makes the robot look sad. But the fact is that robots don't have feelings at all. They might react and look like humans. But they still are robots. They react to our voices and our words. But they are not intelligent. 

We could take those actions by using tape recorders and things like volume meters. If we step on those robots' feet, that activates the button that activates the tape, there is the word "ouch". If we yell too loudly the volume meter activates the tape that says, "Don't yell". That means those systems are not more intelligent than tape recorders. They seem very highly intelligent but they are not that. They just act as the button or trigger and the action that is connected to the trigger ordered. 

When the AI makes the diagnosis by using X-ray images the system just compares differences in the X-ray images. The system acts similar way as the fingerprint comparing systems. The system can use multiple X-ray images and search for things that are changed from those images. The thing is the fingerprint recognition systems are helpless if they have no fingerprints that they can compare. 

Same way when AI tries to detect stolen social media accounts it searches for differences in the ways how the user uses media and texts. The idea is that it's possible. That many people use those trolling accounts. And all of those people have different things that they like and hate. Differences in the texts and publications tell that it's possible. That there is more than one user in that account. 

In social media, we might not even know people who publish things there. We might not know their faces or their identity. But also those avatars have identities. People behind those images and maybe fake identities might have certain types of music genres that they like and follow. We might follow the avatar or fake identity because the person publishes things that we like. 

And if those publishings suddenly change the person who is behind that identity might be changed. Things like musical opinions do not change in one night. And people don't turn adult in half a day. Too sudden changes are telling that something is happening on the other side of the publishing. 

The small things turn into the big things if a person who we have known for years suddenly changes some core elements in their publishings. The fact is that we don't know who people are on social media. But we know what those people like to publish and what they dislike. We might not know people's names or their faces. But we know what kind of arguments they use, what kind of music opinions they have and we know their taste in entertainment. 

The dark side of science

The human mind can be the darkest place in the universe

Immoral science means causing unnecessary pain to another living organism. That means that animal cruelty is one sign that there is something wrong. In the orders that were written to scientists is written that the living organism must not hurt or unnecessarily humiliated in the name of science. Of course, we have the right to defend ourselves against the attack of animals and other humans, but we must not cause unnecessary pain to animals and people.

And if we must end the life of the organism, that must be done by causing the minimum pain. This means that the tests of medicals and other things must be done by using the cell cultures and another kind of tissues, what is created by using biotechnology. Because the used cells are identical, that means that the results of the tests are fully comparable. That's why we should use cloned cells.

Opportunity makes criminals, and big opportunity makes big criminals

Evilness is the part of human nature, which is the thing that we must realize when we are selecting the research staff. And when we are thinking about politics and other kinds of things, the opportunity makes criminals. If the attitude of the nation is careless, or the attitude to some kind of minorities is racist, that would create the atmosphere, where the brutality is accepted.

When we are thinking about the most brutal science in the world, the human experiments, what are a symbol of pure evilness, we are always wanted to believe that those things happened only in some Nazi death camps, but the thing is that there are millions of people even in the modern world, who have not full citizen rights, or who would suffer because of the lack of the properly trained medical persons or lack of medicines. How many people have faced the situation that the lack of anesthetic has caused the pain in the dentist? And how many times our dentists have said, that this would cause little pain, and how we know, is the pain necessarily?

Those questions are difficult, and that's why the medical staff must have high moral. But when we are thinking about places, where evilness is accepted, like in concentration camps, the actions, what doctors are done is getting over the limits of understanding in the human mind.

When we are thinking about the hunger experiments, what were made by nazi doctors, we are always wanted to believe, that those tests, where the human was starved to death were made because the persons, who were ordered and made those tests were simply evil. But the tragedy is, that those tests had a very dangerous background.

The hunger experiments: a manifestation of pure evilness

The idea of hunger tests was that if the person would be kept in absolute hard conditions, the most valuable individuals would be selected by using that way. This thing is called "eugenics", and it is one of the evilest parts in anthropology. The idea was fastening the evolution and natural selection. And this kind of thing was "justified" the evilest actions, what were made in the name of science.

But there were also sociological aspects in that brutal treatment. The idea was that the leaders of the society were uncovered because other inmates would give them food. And the last and the most horrifying thing, what was the purpose of the absolute hunger, uncovered what was the most important part of the nervous system. The idea was that the absolute hunger causes in the human body the reaction that the other cells would give their life for upper cells.

So was this science? It was an immoral shame for the entire society, which was responsible for that kind of thing. In those tests, what is done also in many other places than in KZ-camps, we see the brutality and evilness of mankind. And when we are thinking about things like animal cruelty, we must realize, that every evil person starts the career as the animal mutilator. Then they continue their actions with humans.

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