Good weekend everyone,
It’s the weekend and therfor, another good time for me to share some thoughts and some ‘philosophy’ (as I did previously in this forum)
I suppose this thread is the one to post about my latest experience with the AI. Isn’t it?
As I’m about to release the next version of my project ‘MOE Space Museum’ with the adding of an ‘Auditorium’ featuring a selection of ~70 great works of Music from Medieval to Atomic Era selected by the AI (in this case, chatGPT), I find it interesting, as a sidenote, to share my thoughts and experience from this collaboration (with both chatGPT and MS bing AIs).
In particular, with this collaboration, one thing that striked me and is really starting to worry me is 'How much these (western-originated yet pretendingly ‘global’) AIs are ‘oriented’.
Despite from my multiple prompts/rules to make “the most ‘diverse’, ‘objective’ and ‘global’ selection”, the results I get are obviously very much orientated towards just ‘western/occidental’ culture. In a way, I believe it’s understandable, since based on data… and since most of the feed comes from the ‘mass’ western-culture orientated users. So, this is where I’d like to alarm people (people from the world) on what’s about to happen… and more importantly, how we can still change/influence things for the future. Of course, in my opinion only:
I believe the young/child AI from the 2020’s is now growing into a teenager. Despite it doesn’'t have all the ‘emotional issues’ of a human teenager it is still looking for it’s way to build up, grow as an adult. Again, in my opinion - it’s still gonna take a number more of data and interactions (plus of course, work on the algorythm and more/better rules)…before the AI will eventually (likely) become a true partner in our lifes and businesses.
I believe I stated this before but I’m gonna say it again: “We ALL have a responsibility” in how we make this thingy grow. We need to ‘nurture’ and ‘educate’ it. And this, in a way that’s not just matching our own limited and selfish lifes, but accounts ‘humanity’ altogether.
While building my virtual museum selected from the AI, I kept repeating to the AI that “this isn’t about ‘my preferences’”. It acknowledges it but, persists in making orientated ‘choices’ (or, in other words, giving what I believe to be ‘orientated’ responses). Though, eventually, when I start ‘challenging it’, these answers show something very different from the initial!
My thought is that there should be more of us ‘challenging the AI’, disrupting its logic and sharing different input/data. If we want an AI that’s not just a tool (or a weapon) to claim cultural hegemony for a certain type of governance/ideology, … well, we still have a long way to go. Starting with becoming better humans, more open, more doubtful and more empathetic. Because in the end, the AI is not just a machine; It’s essentially a machine made by…humans!