{"id":613868,"date":"2023-03-03T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/welcome-to-the-museum-of-the-future-ai-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:49:08","slug":"welcome-to-the-museum-of-the-future-ai-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/welcome-to-the-museum-of-the-future-ai-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Museum of the Future AI Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Audrey Kim\u2019s dog<\/span> Murphy uses a combination of head nods and 10 buttons on the ground to communicate, she says, and has a habit of making friends with crows. She taught him to use the buttons because she believes consciousness is a spectrum and intelligence is mysterious. Those tenets also led her to become curator of the\u00a0Misalignment Museum<\/a>, a temporary exhibition about the future of artificial intelligence that opens today in San Francisco, ground zero for recent excitement about\u00a0generative AI<\/a> and\u00a0chatbots<\/a> like\u00a0OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Misalignment Museum imagines a future in which AI starts to take the route mapped out in countless science fiction films\u2014becoming self aware and setting about killing off humanity. Fortunately, in Kim\u2019s vision the algorithms self-correct and stop short of killing all people. Her museum, packed with artistic allegories about AI and art made with AI assistance, is presented as a memorial of humankind\u2019s future near-miss with extinction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIt’s weird, because it\u2019s such a terrifying topic, but it makes me happy people are interested,\u201d Kim says from a coffee shop across the street. As we talk, we watch passersby peer into the gallery space\u2014fittingly located eight blocks from the offices of OpenAI\u2014that has a prominent \u201cSorry for killing most of humanity\u201d sign along one wall.<\/p>\n

The project started five months ago, shortly before\u00a0ChatGPT<\/a> sparked expectation in the tech industry and beyond that we are on the cusp of a wave of AI disruption and somehow closer to the nebulous concept of artificial general intelligence, or AGI. There\u2019s no consensus about the definition of AGI, but the museum calls it the ability to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human can.<\/p>\n

Kim says the museum is meant to raise conversations about the destabilizing implications of supposedly intelligent technology. The collection is split across two floors, with more optimistic visions of our AI-infused upstairs, and dystopian ones on the lower level.<\/p>\n

Upstairs there\u2019s piano music composed with bacteria, an interactive play on Michelangelo\u2019s \u201cCreation of Adam\u201d from the Sistine Chapel, and soon an installation that uses computer vision from Google to describe people and objects that appear in front of a camera.<\/p>\n

Downstairs is art from\u00a0Matrix: Resurrections<\/em><\/a> (a set designer on the movie, Barbara Munch Cameron, helped plan the museum\u2019s layout), a\u00a0never-ending AI-generated conversation<\/a> between\u00a0Slavoj \u017di\u017eek and Werner Herzog, and a robotic arm holding a pen that writes notes from the perspective of an AI that views humans as a threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the gates-to-hell selfie spot,\u201d Kim says, pointing out a quote from Dante above the entrance to the lower section of the museum: \u201cAbandon all hope ye who enter here.\u201d The museum is also home to a deepfake of Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking from a script generated by ChatGPT, a statue of two people embracing made from 15,000 paper clips that\u2019s meant to be an\u00a0allegory about AI safety<\/a>, and robots flown in from Vienna made from Spam tins with little arms that type.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s so much goodness this kind of tech can engender, so much suffering it can prevent, and then there\u2019s the aspect of how much destruction it can cause and how much can get lost in that process,\u201d says Kim, who was an early employee of Google and has also worked at the United Nations and as an assistant to Paul Graham, cofounder of the Y Combinator startup incubator. \u201cI don\u2019t think we have all the answers. We just need to be very pro-human and give people the critical means to think about this tech.\u201d<\/p>\n

The temporary exhibit is funded until May by an anonymous donor, but the space shows the influence of a number of tech founders and thinkers, from a framed\u00a0tweet<\/a> about AI and effective altruism by Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz to the bathtub full of pasta near the exhibit entrance. The latter is a reference to the ideas of Holden Karnofsky, a cofounder with Moskovitz of Open Philanthropy, which has funded OpenAI and other work concerned with the future path of AI. Karnofsky has argued that we\u2019re living in what may be the most important century in human history, before the potential arrival of transformational AI he calls Process for Automating Scientific and Technological Advancement, or PASTA.<\/p>\n

Attempts to predict the distant future of AI have recently come to center on ChatGPT and related technology, like\u00a0Microsoft\u2019s new search interface<\/a>, despite its\u00a0well-documented limitations<\/a> and still\u00a0unclear value<\/a>. Entrepreneurs betting on the technology are making bombastic claims about what their tech is capable of doing. Last week, OpenAI\u2019s CEO published a blog post about how the company is \u201cPlanning for AGI<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shortly thereafter, the US Federal Trade Commission, an agency that protects against deceptive business practices,\u00a0warned<\/a> marketers against making false claims about what their technology is capable of doing. FTC attorney\u00a0Michael Atleson wrote in his own blog post that \u201cwe\u2019re not yet living in the realm of science fiction, where computers can generally make trustworthy predictions of human behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many AI researchers believe that, while generative AI systems like ChatGPT can be impressive, the technology is unworthy of being credited with intelligence, because the algorithm only repeats and remixes patterns from its training data.<\/p>\n

In this view, it\u2019s better to think of the narrow AI of today as more like a calculator or toaster, not a sentient being. Some AI ethicists believe that ascribing human characteristics like sentience to technology can distract from conversations about other forms of harmful automation such as surveillance technology\u00a0being exported by companies in democratic and authoritarian nations alike<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kim says she first became familiar with machine learning as an early hire at autonomous-driving startup Cruise, later acquired by General Motors. She began to think about how AI that works properly could eliminate much unnecessary death and suffering\u2014but also that if the technology doesn\u2019t work it could present a huge risk to human lives.<\/p>\n

In addition to displaying AI art and art about AI, the Misalignment Museum plans to host screenings of movies that explore the darker potential of the technology, like\u00a0The Terminator<\/em>,\u00a0Ex Machina<\/em>,\u00a0Her<\/em>, and\u00a0Theater of Thought<\/em>, a 2022 documentary about neuroscience and AI directed by Herzog.<\/p>\n

Kim says she finds it unlikely that AGI will kill most of humanity, despite her exhibition\u2019s theme, but that people should think about impacts of AI already appearing, like\u00a0educators<\/a> and\u00a0literary editors<\/a> attempting to parse the difference between human- and AI-generated text, or\u00a0WIRED\u2019s own discussions<\/a> about how generative AI could or should help journalists.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI is going to affect all of, us so to me it’s about how do we get as many people to start thinking about it and forming their own opinions,\u201d says Kim. The\u00a0Misalignment Museum is open to the public Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.\u00a0She plans to host tours for school groups to survey the exhibits and browse a library of reading material about the opportunities and potential harms of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m working on getting step ladders so when the kids come in they can see the Spambots\u2019 eyes,\u201d Kim says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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