Human-Machine Superintelligence (HMSI) vs. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Technological Unemployment: a paradigm shift or constructive disruption
Human and machine powers are most productively harnessed by designing Real World AI as a hybrid human- machine superintelligence (HMSI) in which each party complements each other’s strengths and counterbalances each other’s weaknesses.
Its current alternative, the human-imitating AI/ML/DL technology is highly likely the road to the downfall of humanity.
HMSI as a paradigm shift in AI and ML
HMSI is all about 5 interrelated universes:
how it is all represented, mapped, coded and processed by computing machinery of any complexity, from smart phones to the internet of everything and beyond.
HMSI is the science and engineering of mind, intelligence or intellect, its nature, models, theories, algorithms, architectures and applications.
HMSI as a symbiotic superintelligence is to overrule the extant statistic narrow AI with its branches, as machine learning, deep learning, machine vision, NLP, cognitive computing, etc. It presents an existential danger to humanity if it progresses as it is, as specialized superhuman automated machine learning systems, from task-specific cognitive robots to professional bots to self-driving autonomous transport.
It is plain and clear that, unlike previous technological revolutions, such an ANI will create mass technology unemployment, MAKING HUMAN LABOR, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL, REDUNDANT.
Paradigm Shifts as Constructive Disruptions
Paradigms are important because they define how we understand the world and perceive reality. They are a profound change in model, modality, or perception, a change in the perception of how things should be thought about, done, or made.
The concept of paradigm shifts was explored by American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn in his book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." Kuhn contested that paradigm shifts characterize a revolution to a prevailing scientific framework. They arise when the dominant paradigm, under which normally accepted science operates, is rendered incompatible or insufficient, facilitating the adoption of a revised or completely new theory or paradigm.
Some of the examples of Kuhnian paradigm shifts in science are:
1543 – The transition in cosmology from a Ptolemaic cosmology to a Copernican one.
1543 – The acceptance of the work of Andreas Vesalius, whose work De humani corporis fabrica corrected the numerous errors in the previously-held system created by Galen.
1687 – The transition in mechanics from Aristotelian mechanics to classical mechanics.
1783 – The acceptance of Lavoisier's theory of chemical reactions and combustion in place of phlogiston theory, known as the chemical revolution.
1859 – The revolution in evolution from goal-directed change to Charles Darwin's natural selection.
1880 - The germ theory of disease began overtaking Galen's miasma theory.
1905 – The development of quantum mechanics, which replaced classical mechanics at microscopic scales.
1887 to 1905 – The transition from the luminiferous aether present in space to electromagnetic radiation in spacetime.
1919 – The transition between the worldview of Newtonian gravity and general relativity.
1964 - The discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation leads to the big bang theory being accepted over the steady state theory in cosmology.
1965 - The acceptance of plate tectonics as the explanation for large-scale geologic changes.
1974 - The discovery of the J/psi meson, and the acceptance of the existence of quarks and the Standard Model of particle physics.
1960 to 1985 - The acceptance of the ubiquity of nonlinear dynamical systems as promoted by chaos theory, instead of a laplacian world-view of deterministic predictability.
The cognitive revolution from behaviourist approaches to psychological study and the acceptance of cognition as central to studying human behaviour.
In software engineering, the transition from the Rational Paradigm to the Empirical Paradigm.
In artificial intelligence, the transition from classical AI to data-driven AI to Human-Machine Superintelligence.
Human-Machine Superintelligence: A Paradigm Shift or Disruption in AI
The paradigm shift brought on by the HMSI technology is to be more disruptive than the Internet, one of the most revolutionary and disruptive technologies in history.
The biggest problem of AI is its prejudiced, biased definition skewed to human intelligence founded on the assumption that human intelligence "can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it".
“Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions”.
The term "artificial intelligence" is often used to describe machines (or computers) that mimic "cognitive" functions that humans associate with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem solving".
the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals.
Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.
“The study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience”
True AI is NOT about simulating or imitating or copycatting or faking human mind/intelligence/intellect/understanding.
True MI is not after replicating human brains to create human replicants, virtually identical to adult humans but having superior strength, speed, agility, resilience, and intelligence, like in the Westworld, Blade Runner 2049…
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True MI is a good symbiont to human minds, with mutualistic relationships, complementing us where we need them.
As now, a [human-modeled specialized superpowerful] AI is emerging as a replacement for human jobs, which are mostly task-specific and specialized, being liable to robotic automation.
A paradigm shift required to engineer real, true MI (Machine Intelligence) dumping “AI refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions”.
The extant AI is a Non-AI, imitation AI, simulation AI, or simply fake AI having nothing with true and real MI (AI).
Such a Non-AI is an [advanced data analysis] computing system using predictive analytics, machine learning and deep learning, NLP or cognitive computing techniques, relies on mathematical/statistic models and algorithms to find out some probabilistic correlative patterns in the input data to produce the output data dubbed as “insights, recommendations, decisions, predictions or prescriptions”.
In fact, it is simply [inductive inference statistic] computing machinery which classifies or clusters training data sets of data points or observations or exemplars or instances. It usually consists of pairs of an input vector (or scalar) and the corresponding output vector (or scalar), where the answer is commonly denoted as the target (or label or class).
The model (a NN or any probabilistic classifiers) is run with the training dataset and produces a result, which is then compared with the target, for each input vector in the training dataset. All is to adjust the hyperparameters (as the number of hidden units in each layer in ANNs) and parameters (e.g. weights of connections between neurons in ANN) of the model by feature/variable/attribute selection and parameter estimation to obtain some invented performance characteristics such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, F-measure, and so on.
It is all software automation with no signs of real intelligence, intellect, understanding, mind or sapience, not mentioning any self-learning or self-knowledge.
Currently, AI is a highly efficient extrapolation technique to find a relation between many inputs to some outputs. But you need huge amounts of training data specific to the problem domain - this is very expensive and irrational, for the number of problems could be just innumerable.
As a result, we don't hear of commercial success other than in pattern recognition and rules-based game playing.
In order to develop a general-purpose MI, you need to extract the general-purpose rules that work for the broadened scope of the problem domain. And that can not be extracted with a small set of training data, but a universal world data model with its subset of rules that govern everything.
This is how our brain derives general rules to tackle new situations all the time.
Why is Acausal Non-Real Fake AI so harmful?
Five top-performing tech stocks in the market, namely, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet’s Google, FAAMG, represent the U.S.'s Narrow AI technology leaders whose products span standard machine learning and deep learning or data analytics cloud platforms, with mobile and desktop systems, hosting services, online operations, and software products. The five FAAMG companies had a joint market capitalization of around $4.5 trillion a year ago, and now exceed $7.6 trillion, being all within the top 10 companies in the US.
As to the modest Gartner's predictions, the total FAI-derived business value is forecast to reach $3.9 trillion in 2022.
You don’t need to be a great economist to foresee that such a speculative, circular and leveraged mega bubbles lead the global COVID-19 plagued economy to its deep recession and real economy collapse.
A real solution here is not a fake and false, narrow and weak, acausal AI of ML and DL, relying on blind statistics and mathematics to imitate some specific parts of human cognition or intelligent behavior.
What the pandemic-stricken world needs, it is the Real AI Technology which must be developed as a digital general purpose technology, like a Synergetic Cyber-Human Intelligence.
Human minds as collective intelligence and world knowledge will be integrated with the Human-Machine Intelligence and Learning (HMIL) Global Platform, or Global AI:
GAI = HMIL = AI + ML + DL + NLU + 6G+ Bio-, Nano-, Cognitive engineering + Robotics +
SC, QC + the Internet of Everything + Human Minds + MME, BCE + Digital Superintelligence =
Encyclopedic Intelligence = Real AI = Global AI = Global Cyber-Human Supermind
Again, the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) as a fusion of advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), genetic engineering, quantum computing, and other digital technologies transforms human economy into machine economy.
A human-like AI/ML/DL technology might rapidly make entire industries obsolete, in either case triggering a widespread mass unemployment, while over-enriching the FAI Big Tech.
Conclusion
In today's artificial intelligence, there is a transition from the data-driven AI to the Human-Machine Superintelligence.
HMSI is the science and engineering of mind, intelligence or intellect, its nature, models, theories, algorithms, architectures and applications.
The paradigm shift brought on by the HMSI technology is to be more disruptive than the Internet, one of the most revolutionary and disruptive technologies in history.
Modern humanity lives in exponential times, 30 years are like 5 years.
HMSI/AI, as [Human-Machine] Digital SuperIntelligence, is to take over by 2025, as Musk wisely anticipated in his visionary forecasting.
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