Pisaries Creator

I don’t know too much about A.I. besides watching movies about A.I. and the current writer’s strike happening in Hollywood right now. I’ve had a few conversations about A.I. with people. My current take on it is while it has some benefits, I’m more concerned about the unintended consequences concerning A.I. I’ve said a few times on social media other than this blog that technology will be the death of us (human beings). I know I will be long gone when this happens, at least in this lifetime, but I sure hope it doesn’t come to this tragic reality in the future. I do know this. Back when I was in graduate school, I read a book by Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton called The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, and while there has been spotlight on the inequality in the U.S. and some legislative changes regarding this, not enough has been done to reverse this trend. This also leads to another roadblock, which is the widening gap between the economic classes outside of the criminal justice system. Believe you me that those who will control and get the most benefit out of A.I. will be those who already control and have the most influence over Washington D.C.

Besides A.I. helping out non-creative people be more creative (when it comes to writing), I view it the same as water. When the water supply in the U.S. is beyond scarce (even more so than now), the lower classes will be the ones to suffer much like the homeless now are suffering more than any of us who have a roof over our heads, food to eat, and clean water to drink. If robots take over the world, it won’t be because they are smarter than humans and it won’t be because they have evolved more to a point of better adaptation, it will be because of a few people controlling the masses. Come back to Planet Reality people. Robots don’t control robots. They are called human beings. The robot is just the vehicle a few humans in power will use to get their objectives across, good or bad.

There might be some benefit to robots being police officers or military soldiers or even police/military dogs, but not enough to convince me they should replace humans or dogs in both professions. Sure, it would decrease the rate of job deaths but let’s be honest here. I can see this go really wrong. These police and miliary officers have to be programmed and thus controlled by humans. I always say personal views first and professional second when it comes to a person’s identity. All it takes is one person to program a “robot cop” to only focus on a certain group of people for arrests. in my view, robots in this case won’t make things better because as humans we haven’t solved the issue of police corruption and can’t seem to agree on the need for police reform. Besides, I’d much rather have a human police officer arrive on scene for a domestic violence case. Why? Because the human brain is complex and despite the best and the brightest minds, we still don’t know all we can know about it. Therefore, a human engineer probably can’t program a robot to be as complex as the human brain. Even if this person miraculously does, there will be technical issues later that will need fixing. Better start engaging these kids now to be interested in fixing these kinds of A.I. technical problems now so they go to college later. Oh wait, how is that going to happen when the U.S. school system is clearly behind the rest of the world in terms of education.

While I’m not freaking out about A.I., I do have some reservations about it and the people it will affect. Beyond certain jobs already phasing out human work for automation such as assembly lines that need to churn out massive production, you still need people to make sure things are running smoothly from the beginning to the end of the process. I will never go near A.I. writing assistant generators but I did watch someone type in a few words for subject matter and in the vein of a certain author and then spit out a short story. One was along the lines of Stephenie Meyer and the other one Stephen King. The program spit out the same template and changed a few words here and there to make it read more like Meyer and then King. The bottom line is the short story didn’t have much creativity but was written okay. I see for a “non-writer” how great this can be and sound. I’m not judging people who use it because I don’t want to spend my precious energy on how right or wrong this is although a person who uses this is losing the experience of the writing process from the beginning idea to the torturous journey of filling in blank pages with sentences.

If you are stuck flushing out a story, A.I. might help a writer get over that hump. I would want to be as original and authentic as possible although some stories because of their topic seem repetitive such as a love story. I probably will never use A.I. for writing because in a way the A.I. is taking from other works and from an ethical standpoint, I wonder where plagiarism might enter into the framework. I know A.I. has already immersed itself into different job markets. I don’t want it to become the man behind the curtain. It is something to fear. I don’t think so, not in the theatrical sense, but A.I. could be something that seriously gets away from us if we throw caution out the window. The difference between a human being and robot is clear. Again, it’s the person behind the A.I. that matters. We all know bias and greed exist. Will A.I. just be another way to control the masses? Will it make it easier for those in power? Will it keep the already poor even poorer? Will it keep the already rich, even richer?

For me, I’m not ready to freak out about A.I., not quite yet, because with or without A.I., the problems will still exist among us. There are some things you have no control over and A.I. is one of them. I chose not to use it when it comes to creativity and hope that the U.S. government and those who have influence over A.I. put their heads together for the greater good. If not, then yes, I might freak out about A.I.