So nice to see the work I committed myself to in 1970 becoming interesting to all you guys that thought I was a useless idiot who read to much and was wasting myself in computational psychology.
Most all my work in Robotics (starting in 1981) was associated with "inspection technology" where I explored generative techniques to get computers to be as good at visual inspection and skilled observation as humans by using generative techniques for generating what something should look like, and then describing in English, what seemed wrong about it.
That said, having also authored a number of international standards, you really should consider the absolute need for licensing the purveyors, and the users, of generative AI technology. You have to empower ($$) a group, like NIST.GOV to lead and Universities ($$) to organize a permanent effort to develop standards for such licensing under ISO/ANSI (and equivalent efforts under ISO in other countries.) The bad side of generative AI is much much worse than porn. See @cogsec on Twitter for literally hundreds of single page examples based on prior history. Or this:
This has been done before. Even in the area of AI. OpenAI and Google and Microsoft in their early days are examples as well as DARPA for the Universities. But you have to explicitly require research into licensing standards. Or it won't be done.
Social media, like media in general, cannot be trusted. Let alone the actual purveyors of this technology. But the standards need to be developed in the open over a number of years by a process like the ISO 27000 series backed by industry and governments on a global scale.
There is a LOT more this stuff can do to benefit humankind, but the governments have to be wise, and they can only be wise if the people are wise and force them to be wise. Otherwise, this is just a doomsday project. This is an inescapable fact of the how your brain computes, and how the deep learning machines that have been modelled after your brain computes as well.
https://medium.com/liecatcher/how-your-brain-computes-41ebe7428ff9
Don't listen to engineers, corporations, or governments, (or non-profits), but do put them to work on the standards. They are good people if you let them do their work.
https://medium.com/liecatcher/why-democracy-928725232ba1
And never ever let this genie out of the bottle without sophisticated licensing being developed by the governments of the world that will fund the essential licensing knowledge in the form of technical standards. There will be less law needed that way. And fewer people will die, and more will live happy lives.
https://medium.com/liecatcher/is-it-better-to-have-your-own-chatbot-a256277531b6
I'll also copy this and write it up as a separate Medium article. If somebody wants to publish it more widely free free (but with Attribution).
Also this article I am commenting on is a great article. But this person or these people are anonymous. Just wish they could understand the need to come out of the closet and take some responsibility. (See articles referenced for why).
