The most humanist goal of AI research is to free people from slavery, to end the need for people to sell their labor to corporate machines in exchange for food, housing, healthcare and the ability to take care of family and loved ones.
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Replying to @Plinz
That is the whole point of research in general at all, isn‘t it?
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Replying to @mcwolffs
I don't think so. Most research has much narrower goals, such as how to build a faster GPU, or how to sell more soda, or how to kill efficiently from a distance.
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Replying to @Plinz
Still there is a difference: Not every Culture evolved to do research. Research as a value is very specific. It is self-evident for us, we‘re used to do research as a cultural matter of course. The motive lies within our history of thought, exported via coloni-/globilazation.
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Replying to @mcwolffs
The research itself is usually done by people who are intrinsically motivated to do it, and funded by societal leadership that understands that the future and survival of their society depends on it. Cultures that don’t do that simply don’t last.
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Replying to @Plinz
The clue lies within „intrinsically“: it is bred somewhere else. Leaders arn‘t that wise, they reproduce unwittingly common patterns (intrinsically). And there are plenty of cultures without science & research. All of them lasted very long and some still do.
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Replying to @Plinz
Aborigines; China up to 1854; Zulu (either up to the present day, or at least for a long period); african cultures up until the first wave of globalization aka colonization - some of them up to the present day; (post)-"modern" muslim factions like the IS ...
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Replying to @mcwolffs
The Aborigines and Zulu were stone age cultures that were obliterated as soon as they came in conflict with modern cultures. The African tribes could not resist the colonization by Arabs. China was a special case, which selectively inhibited destabilizing research.
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Replying to @Plinz
So obviously it’s not intrinsically, but external. And for China - obviously - it‘s complicated, but not intrinsically too. Conclusio: It differs between cultures. The reasons for the differences are hidden. Intrinsic motivation is a very specific culture, which also colonizes.
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oh god, a social constructionist ;)
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Replying to @Plinz
Or a substantialism? As told: the reasons seem hidden. In any case: the urge to do science and research is specific. So AI expresses one specific cultural wish, which is staged as general. In other words: Don’t mix correlation and causation.
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