(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
An example: You make an 15 minute phone call with a machine. The talk is completely impersonal. Your errand is to test the machine's ability to read information about you based only on your voice, both facts and feelings. The result comes: You are open, curious, fairly disorganized, happy to contact, risk averse. You suffer from stress and stress. You put work ahead of other life situations. The system has compared your speech pattern with 5000-like tests. The information you get about yourself is confirmed by your colleagues.
The example is taken from the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit, titled "Die Seele auf der Zunge" ("The soul on the tongue"), and the journalist who conducted this self-test, had to reconsider his skepticism. The technique of reading emotions and facts from the voice was originally used for the purpose of helping parents understand their autistic children. Today, it mainly aims to assess job seekers and find out what consumers want, based on huge amounts of data. Science's basic model, cause and effect, is overrun by surveillance-oriented systems. Internet giant Amazon already offers several Alexa-language devices and has applied for patents to read emotions and illnesses from the voice.
Digital tyranny
How excited, or how scared, should we be for the artificial intelligence revolution? We face challenges we do not even know. How will man be put together in (evolutionary) a short time? Historian and author Yuval Noah Harari has dealt with the theme both thoroughly and imaginatively. Whoever reads his latest book, 21 thoughts for that 21. century, without first reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind, or special Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, may risk missing out on the basic background of several of his main theses. One of them is about the fusion of information and biotechnology, which according to Harari threatens modern core values such as freedom and equality. The author's explanation is that the pursuit of gathering more and more data for the benefit of commercial interests, rather than investing more in developing human consciousness, represents a threat. The threat is that we are upgrading big data, while downgrading human beings. Digital tyranny leaps over human equality and guides us towards the greatest difference society that has ever existed. "Most people would not suffer from exploitation but with irrelevance," Harari states.
What does irrelevance look like in the information and biotechnology merger mix of the future? Everyone needs work to survive financially. Artificial intelligence (AI) will undoubtedly make many people unemployed, but it will also undoubtedly create new jobs. The catch is that the unemployed without education will fall off the load. Harari refers to the United States military. They now have a shortage of labor, as, for example, thirty men are needed to operate a war drone over Syria, while it needs eighty to analyze all the information it is harvesting. Where does all this expertise come from?
design Man
The book's prediction is that in all likelihood it will be easier to create new jobs than to retrain people to fill high-skilled positions. We know the facts. With new methods to keep people alive longer, new challenges will also hit the community like a hammer. Already, we have many hundreds more years than before. Who should pay for all the old people when we also need solutions for all those who do not find a job?
"Most people would not suffer under exploitation, but under irrelevance."
Harari points to those who, through good economics and biotechnology, become a beautiful, sheltered elite, and asks: "Will the designer man with zero training and zero tools for empathy and structural solidarity be able to support society?" And continues: “[i] ntelligence is not synonymous with consciousness. KI may not have its own consciousness, but we can – and the less we give parts of it into our hands Big Data, the more we are able to find our own, personal starting point for face-to-face solutions with the future. We HAD a lot of control. God was put on the sidelines and lost authority. The Church falls short of science, for it lives by the will to admit mistakes and improve results, while priests and gurus only learn to produce better excuses. But now the big IT companies Facebook, Amazon and Google are using our unsuspecting deliveries to manage our needs where they want them. In reality, we are no longer consumers. We are products. ”
Now we do not need any learned academic to tell us that KI is and will be a size that only works with what we feed it. We know that a self-driving car can make faster and safer decisions than the man behind the wheel, but it is the man behind the programming and the laws of the country that decide which decisions to make. Harari has found her way to problem solving and personal development through meditation. It makes him wake up excited every morning. We are not clones (yet). We can all seek our own method. Especially if we fail to ask Google.
