AI is NOT Artificial Intelligence, the real threat of AI is 'Automated Stupidity.' | Words MADDER

"Artificial Intelligence" is a sci-fi concept exploited for deceptive marketing and misleading media attention. We aren't even close to making real AI. What we have today is "Automated Intelligence" and the real risk of AI is "Automated Stupidity."

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For further reading and references check out the links below:

FTC Warns Companies to Keep AI Claims In-Check:

How GPT Language Processing Works:

Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures (machine learning clip referenced in video)

Artificial Intelligence on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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[PatriceBoivin]

"garbage in, garbage out."
My electronics teacher in high school used to say "the computer does EXACTLY what the programmer told it to do." If it's wrong, well, it can do it once or a million times, it doesn't care how much work it means, it's a machine. It will repeat the error a million times.

[Xokzu]

Company takes accountability: ❌

Company blame shifting to a computer: ✅

[stg]

Given how much they have to lobotomize AI to not learn... We don't even have automated intelligence, we have a Wikipedia regurgitation machine.

[Humorless_Wokescold]

Thank you so much for this. The AI hype train is bonkers even amongst people who should know better.

[DavidRTribble]

3:54 A.I. (as it currently exists in the public) is nothing more than really impressive *pattern matching.* It is not intelligent, it does not have true understanding or comprehension of anything. It certainly has no model of human understanding, just loads of pre-scanned/pre-sorted data.

The basic algorithm is:
1) Take input (usually from a human interface).
2) Do pattern matching of that input against a huge amount of pre-scanned data.
3) Output some form of the best matching data.
4) Repeat.

Granted, humans also have great pattern-matching abilities (evolved for survival), so this kind of A.I. looks impressive to us. But it seems unlikely that this (alone) could conquer humanity and and take over the world.

[stevea.b.]

Thank you for greatly helping to stem the tide of nonsense about AI.

[checkoutmyyoutubepage]

I’ve always felt that the AI people keep talking about on TV is nothing like real AI. Yeah, you’re right, it’s just a very elaborate form of automation that can get nuances better.

[AutitsicDysexlia]

Yes, it's all NLP, Text generation... (I'm a data scientist.)

[InnovativeSaint]

I think the difference between AI and natural intelligence is this:
An intelligent being receives data, and then there's like this tiny person in the mind that sees all of this data and, for whatever reason, chooses what to select and what to ignore. The end result of this is our philosophy and moral practices.
With a non-intelligent entity, it receives data, there is no tiny person inside, it attempts to act out all possibilities.

[peterbezak]

Missed the chance to use Artificial Idiocy in the title.

[greg]

The power of the editor... never to be underestimated.

[RichardRoy]

So, another word for AI is PS...Professional Scapegoat. Or CL...Cheap Labor.

[Albert_XXI]

"in the world of advertisement there's no such thing as a lie, there's only the expedient exaggeration". We used to call it routines, subroutines...damn sellers😅. Thanks for your content.

[miklov]

I try my best to use "machine learning" rather than "artificial intelligence" unless we are actually talking about strategy, which we almost never are and when we are it is mostly fantasies anyway.

[DR---]

I agreed with everything except the part were you said we should start referring to it as automated intelligence. Artificial means fake so artificial intelligence means fake intelligence. As in not actually intelligent. It's tricking you into believing intelligent like a magic trick.

Automated intelligence suggests that there is actual real intelligence behind the computer's behavior. Which is incorrect.

[chrisronin]

came for 5-dimensional space time. stayed for the real truths. you summed up the current state of things so perfectly. it’s insane how everyone wants to scapegoat technology for what is in every which way unresolved social issues that are wholly within our capacity to solve.

[biguprochester]

God I thought I was only one who called bullshit on this whole movement.

[FromTheHeart]

Pure oxigen in the midst of a stupidity pandemic. Thank you so so much for this and for your entire channel!!! Eternally grateful!

[matthewhall]

Thank you for this video. I always thought that "A.I.", at least as we know it, could never be truly sentient because it must follow the rules set by the programmer. It cannot think for itself, and it has no impetus to think for itself.

[DemoBot-yqdn]

The real threat of A.I is tempering with data to get someone charged with a crime he didn't commit.
They're already doing it without A.I, imagine how much easier it will be once all those "security footage" can be doctored.