by: Marceline Donaldson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of Robert’s Schools was Johns Hopkins University. We receive their magazine sent to Alumni and it is amazing. As I read through one edition from 2019 I came across an article on AI – partially reprouced below – and it gives hope as we look with fear at what those who are investing into the millions and trillions of dollars are contemplating and doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We saw this kind of development in the 1950’s and the 1960’s going forward with the predecessor to AI. As new technology took over way back then and “improved” life supposedly for us all. No comments about the thousands of people who became accepted on our streets, in our allies, in lost parts of our cities who were and are homeless. No looking at that development as having anything to do with the homelessness we have experienced and mostly ignored for a few generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My questions- Is\/Was it the technology which created that huge group of suffering humanity or was it how we used that technology because our flawed side took over and our natural inborn human greed got in the way of a better use of what was then new technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, we are experience the same thing – only the results which would parallel that time as we ignored the development of the homeless as the development of that technology which we discovered and constantly moved one more step forward from about the 1950’s on and made some of us extremely wealthy is nothing compared to what we are now facing and bringing into existence on this planet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our ability to develop such is fantastic and says much for our human nature. What provides many words of caution is that other side of human nature which causes us to need to accumulate what we have defined as “wealth” and to stash it wherever we think it will multiply and we will be greater as our “wealth” increases. Adding to that our ability to ignore the suffering of others who are squeezed out into an unbelievably painful existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Excerpts from the article in the Johns Hopkins Magazine by Rachel Wallace follows. It gives possibilities for AI that I have not heard from other places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In a Japanese cafe, no one bats an eye when the server happens to be a robot – though the same scene in the U. S. would cause quite a stir. <\/strong>…….<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why the discrepancy? Yulin Frumer, who has spent years in Japan researching the development of science and technology, says it comes down to psychology; that differences in demographics, political priorities and even – or maybe especially – the movies we watch influence both how we make technology and our reactions to it…….Frumer is interested in the role human psychology plays in technology, so she explores the factors behind those cultural differences by studying how Japanese roboticists make decisions about design and function, and what influences their choices. What leads someone to make a robot appear humanoid versus macnine-like, for example, or prioritize intelligence over emotions?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n …..In Japan. humanoid robots are very big says Frumer…. It’s a highly developed technological country excited about robots. In the American discourse about AI, talk of robots is full of fear; they’re coming to get us or take over the world, be our overlords. So the question is, what’s the source of the difference?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What Frumer wants her students to appreciate is that there is never just one obvious way of designing technology or software algorithms, so it is important to become aware of biases that drive us to subconsciously favor certain genders, races, cultures, or abilities – like all-male crash test dummies or voice recognition software that doesn’t recognize accented English.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In Japan, researcing the role human psychology plays in technology – for example – people bedridden by illness have found meaningful work remotely operating robots that serve and interact with customers in cafes..”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n And the work they have thus found amounts to a paid job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have not heard of such anyplace else. Hopefully, that means our scope is limited and there are such examples of how to use AI that is meaningful and positive to the human condition and not zeroed in on humanity’s penchant to respond to all such developments out of greed and keep all it produces limited to a small group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by: Marceline Donaldson One of Robert’s Schools was Johns Hopkins University. We receive their magazine sent to Alumni and it is amazing. As I read through one edition from 2019 I came across an article on AI – partially reprouced below – and it gives hope as we look with fear at what those who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}