AlphaZero - die Macht der Maschinen

[Dost]

KI: Amadeus-Code schreibt perfekte Popsongs

Hinter den Computer-Songs von "Amadeus Code" stecken die japanischen Wissenschaftler und Musik-Experten Jun Inoue, Gyo Kitagawa und Taishi Fukuyama. Für ihre Songwriting-Maschine haben sie Dekaden von zeitgenössischen Songs und klassischer Musik und Stücke von großer wirtschaftlicher oder sozialer Bedeutung analysiert und "Amadeus Code" mit diesen Daten gefüttert. Das Ergebnis ist eine Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), die auf das Komponieren von ansprechenden Melodien spezialisiert ist.[...]

Das Tool, das es übrigens auch als App für iOS-Geräte gibt, sei vielmehr als Inspirationsquelle für professionelle Musiker gedacht, denen auf der Suche nach der nächsten Millionen-Dollar-Melodie noch die zündende Idee fehlt. Über Umwege könnten die Kompositionen von "Amadeus Code" also doch in den Charts landen. Merken würde es wahrscheinlich niemand.

Wird vermutlich demnächst sein wie bei dopingverseuchten Sportarten. Bei jedem tollen neuen Song wird es Zweifel geben, hat es sich der Künstler selber ausgedacht, oder steckt die KI dahinter.

Na ja, an sich auch egal, so lange es gut klingt...

[hans]

Das “problem“ lässt sich doch einfach lösen:

Das generationenraimschiff stürzt computergesteuert (fail-safe, ohne möglichkeit, das programm zu beeinflussen) auf einem geeigneten planeten ab, sobald verschiedenste parameter, die ein zivilisationsaufbau benötigt (sauerstoff, wasser, klima, ressourcen...) erfüllt sind.

Programmierte bruchlandung, irreparable schäden am antrieb und hülle...
Das wrack kann also als grundstock „ausgeschlachtet“ werden, eine zivilisation muss, sofernman überleben will, gegründet werden...

fast das gleiche wurde längst als serie verfilmt. ist aber 15-20 jahre her..

[Proteus]

fast das gleiche wurde längst als serie verfilmt. ist aber 15-20 jahre her..

Meinst Du Earth 2?

[hans]

die macht der maschinen ist angesagt. neulich ist mir ein kritischer denker untergekommen, der die sache sehr innovativ aufdröselt, so verblüffend dass er trotz sehr kritischer sichtweisen zum intellektuellen stargast in silicon valley geworden ist.

es geht um die frage, ob die menschliche evolution zu ende ist, weil das menschliche verhalten mittels big data und AI heute grösstenteils "hackbar" geworden ist.
doch das gruppenverhalten und volksverhalten ist historisch von religionen bzw überhöhten narrativen bestimmt worden, er sagt, es liegt an der menschlichen fähigkeit der organisation durch narrative, also sich was auszudenken, das die massen motiviert. anders hätte die menschheit sich nicht dominierend gegen alle anderen lebewesen und die naturgewalten durchsetzen können.

und nun könnte es geschehen, dass die religiösen narrative durch die cyberworld abgelöst werden.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/b...on-valley.html

Yuval Noah Harari wrote in The Guardian, “If humans are hackable animals, and if our choices and opinions don’t reflect our free will, what should the point of politics be?”

“How do you live when you realize … that your heart might be a government agent, that your amygdala might be working for Putin, and that the next thought that emerges in your mind might well be the result of some algorithm that knows you better than you know yourself?

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An Alphabet media relations manager later reached out to Mr. Harari’s team to tell him to tell me that the visit to X was not allowed to be part of this article.

The request confused and then amused Mr. Harari. It is interesting, he said, that unlike politicians, tech companies do not need a free press, since they already control the means of message distribution.

He said he had resigned himself to tech executives’ global reign, pointing out how much worse the politicians are.

“I’ve met a number of these high-tech giants, and generally they’re good people,” he said. “They’re not Attila the Hun. In the lottery of human leaders, you could get far worse.”

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He told the audience that free will is an illusion, and that human rights are just a story we tell ourselves. Political parties, he said, might not make sense anymore.

He went on to argue that the liberal world order has relied on fictions like “the customer is always right” and “follow your heart,” and that these ideas no longer work in the age of artificial intelligence, when hearts can be manipulated at scale.
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“Now you increasingly feel that there are all these elites that just don’t need me,” he said. “And it’s much worse to be irrelevant than to be exploited.”

The useless class he describes is uniquely vulnerable. “If a century ago you mounted a revolution against exploitation, you knew that when bad comes to worse, they can’t shoot all of us because they need us,” he said, citing army service and factory work.

Now it is becoming less clear why the ruling elite would not just kill the new useless class. “You’re totally expendable,” he told the audience.

This, Mr. Harari told me later, is why Silicon Valley is so excited about the concept of universal basic income, or stipends paid to people regardless of whether they work.

The message is: “We don’t need you. But we are nice, so we’ll take care of you.”



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https://slate.com/culture/2018/11/yu...hollywood.html
One of Harari’s most controversial assertions is that the transition from small hunter-gatherer groups to agricultural settlements was a net loss for most human beings. “On the whole,” he writes, “foragers seem to have enjoyed a more comfortable and rewarding lifestyle than most of the peasants, shepherds, laborers and office clerks who followed in their footsteps.” Their daily activities were more varied and interesting, their diets better, their societies more egalitarian, and their bodies fitter. This argument is quintessential Harari: It taps into a contemporary infatuation (in this case, with “paleo” health regimens) even as it tweaks the myopia of the middle-class people who embrace such fads. Any reader insisting that, given a choice, they’d prefer to keep antibiotics, central heating, and The Ring of the Nibelungen is bidden to remind themselves of how many people in the modern era have to scrape by without such luxuries. “If you look at it from the perspective of the middle classes in the affluent societies of today,” he told the Guardian, the agricultural revolution “looks like a very good idea. If you look at it from the perspective of somebody in Bangladesh who works 12 hours a day in a sweatshop”—the end result of that revolution—“it looks like a bad idea.”

Another foundational idea in Harari’s take on history is that “fiction” is the superpower that has enabled homo sapiens to access unprecedented power over other species. The other primates can’t manage stable communities of more than about 150 members. But following what Harari calls “the Cognitive Revolution”—marked by the development of language—“large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths.”
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..both the obsolescence of faith in the age of science and an exaggerated focus on “selfish gene” scenarios in which a ruthless competition underlies every aspect of human existence. An even cruder version of the same attitude can be found in online communities of incels, pickup artists, MGTOWs, and other alienated men, with their pseudoscientific mythos of alpha and beta males and the women who will or won’t sleep with them.

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“even among chimpanzees, the alpha male wins his position by building a stable coalition with other males and females, not through mindless violence.” The pervasiveness of patriarchy among human cultures he regards as an enduring puzzle: “How did it happen that in the one species whose success depends above all on cooperation, individuals who are supposedly less cooperative (men) control individuals who are supposedly more cooperative (women)? At present, we have no good answer.”
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In a talk the author delivered at Google’s headquarters just before the American publication of Sapiens, he described “liberal humanism” as the dominant “religion” of our time. For Harari, “religion” denotes a set of ideas that “gives legitimacy to human laws and norms by hanging on to some superhuman law or entity.” Often, the superhuman authority is a god, but increasingly, ideologies refer to “natural law,” including such principles as human rights, which have no existence outside the human mind. These beliefs, too, are fictions in his book. Liberal humanism, rooted in the idea of the inviolable individual who carries a sense of truth and freedom at her core, is imaginary. It may soon give way to a different “center of meaning,” most likely “data.”