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from using technology to find intimacy with one another, to intimacy with technology \u2013 SAG 27 Apr 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Promises of Artificial Intelligence<\/h1>\n

Good introduction to AI concepts: Plug and Pray \u2013 Von Computern und anderen Menschen – Dokumentarfilm von Jens Schanze 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plug_%26_Pray<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMy main objection was that when the program says ‘I understand’, then that’s a lie. There’s no one there. \u2026 I can’t imagine that you can do an effective therapy for someone who is emotionally troubled by systematically lying to him.” Joseph Weizenbaum, Plug and Pray documentary, from~ 30’30<\/p>\n

“At the beginning of all this computer stuff, in the first 15 years or so, it was very clear to us that you can give the computer a job only, if you understand that job very well and deeply. Otherwise you can’t ask it to do it. Now that has changed. If we don’t understand a task, then we give it to the computer, who then is being asked to solve it with artifical intelligence. \u2026 But there’s a real danger. We’ve seen that in many, in almost all areas where the computer has been introduced, it’s irreversible. At banks, for example. And if we start to rely on artifical intelligence now, and it’s not reversible, and then we discover that this program does something we first don’t understand and then don’t like. Where does that leave us?\u201d Plug and Pray documentary, 25’36 \u2013 26’50 (an interview from 1987)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the other end of the spectrum:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already have many examples of what I call narrow artificial intelligence \u2026 \u2013 and within 20 years, around 2029, computers will really match the full range of human intelligence. So we’ll be more machine-like than biological. So when I say that people say, I don’t want to become a machine. But they’re thinking about today’s machines, like this. Now we don’t want to become machines like this. I’m talking about a different kind of machine. A machine that’s actually just as subtle, just as complex, just as endearing, just as emotional as human beings. Or even more so. Even more exemplary of our moral, emotional and sprititual intelligence. We’re going to merge with this technology. We’re going to become hybrids of biological and non-biological intelligence, and ultimately be millions of times smarter than we are today. And that’s our destiny.\u201d Ray Kurzweil, (from minute 6.30)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2192 says we are going to MERGE with this technology. A longing to be expanded, connected, rescued from state of being cut off.<\/p>\n

Kraftwerk, 1970s: We are the Robots https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ<\/a> \u2013\u2013 a longing to be one with the machine, machine-like (very different from James Brown’s idea though). Is this chiefly a male desire, to be free of the mess of emotional confusion, ambiguity?<\/p>\n

\u2192 also see G\u00fcnther Anders, Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen, Band I, C. H. Beck, M\u00fcnchen 1956. \u201cPromethean Shame\u201d, man\u2019s feeling of inadequacy in view of his creations.<\/p>\n

2. Tell Computers and Humans Apart<\/h1>\n

Turing Test: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turing_test<\/a><\/p>\n

A Turing Test we\u2019re all familiar with: CAPTCHA: “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”) https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CAPTCHA<\/a><\/p>\n

reCAPTCHA (human users exploited for machine learning) https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/intro\/index.html#ease-of-use<\/a><\/p>\n

Contemporary example: Try anything hosted on Cloudflare via Tor, and you\u2019ll have to prove you\u2019re not a bot: https:\/\/support.cloudflare.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/203306930-Does-CloudFlare-block-Tor-<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Live Bots to talk to<\/h1>\n