Summary

The article contemplates the impact of current content creation on the future AI's understanding of humanity.

Abstract

The author delves into the essence of human nature as depicted through digital content, questioning whether creators bear a responsibility to represent humanity accurately. With the proliferation of videos, photos, and written works online, the article speculates on how an AI a century from now might interpret human history based on these digital footprints. It raises concerns about the potential misrepresentation of humans as "strange creatures" due to the disproportionate focus on entertainment, extremes, and sexual content in popular media. The piece also touches on the predictive capabilities of modern AI, which can infer individual thoughts and behaviors from sensor data, potentially influencing future societal honesty and privacy. The author advocates for content creators to contribute positively to the AI narrative of humanity, emphasizing the importance of their role in shaping the collective digital legacy.

Opinions

The author believes that content creators have a significant influence on how future AI will perceive humanity.
There is a concern that the current trend of content creation, driven by viewership and monetization, may lead to a skewed portrayal of humans.
The article suggests that AI, through advanced sensors and data analysis, is already capable of predicting human thoughts and actions.
The author posits that the future may hold a reality where personal and private information is widely accessible and scrutinized by AI.
There is an expressed responsibility for content creators to produce material that positively reflects and contributes to humanity's digital record.
The author implies that the predictive nature of AI could potentially lead to a society where honesty is enforced due to the inability to hide true intentions or actions.
The piece concludes with a call to action for content creators to be mindful of their impact on the AI-driven interpretation of humanity.

An AI Definition of What It Means to Be Human

Do Content Creators Have an Obligation to Humanity?

Pondering Humanity

I often ponder the question of humanity. What does it mean to be human? Do we define humanity by what we write, build, or create? Artists have painted, sculpted, and created artwork for thousands of years. Does this give us insight into the future of mankind?

Portraying Humans

How will trillions of videos, photos, essays, blogs, and digital books paint the history of humanity? Imagine an AI Program a hundred years from now compiling, analyzing, and then portraying humans based on content creation we already have on the internet today.

Strange Creatures

It is an interesting thought, considering most of the content creation is based on entertainment value, the extremes of humanity, and sexual content. The weighted average or algorithm will be based on total views and time spent viewing certain content. Based on TikTok and YouTube views, an AI Supercomputer will be hard-pressed to view us as anything other than strange creatures.

Differentiating Reality

Are we really that strange, are we really that violent, are we really that sexual? No, we aren’t, but that is what we watch and create more of the same to generate money and viewership. How will the computer program differentiate interest and reality? It will be interesting to see, and we won’t have to wait nearly as long as a hundred years.

Predicting Thoughts

Have you noticed that you no longer need to talk about a subject before it pops up on Facebook, Instagram, or any other social media site you might frequent? Computer systems are now collecting information based on thoughts. How is the algorithm doing this?

Sensor Data

With the advent of lidar, health monitors, videos, photos, voice stress analyzers, speech, views, etc., the algorithm can predict what you are thinking about. It isn’t rocket science or science fiction. The sensors in your phone, computer, and home surveillance systems record enough data to create a rough model of predictive patterns.

Predictive Patterns

Imagine the same program that produced predictive text predicting your next move. You pick up the car keys, and it already knows you are going to the gym, the store, or your friend’s home. How does it do this? The simple answer is your attire, time of day, and your predictive pattern based on accumulated GPS data. As I said, it isn’t rocket science or science fiction.

Capturing the Past

Soon enough, your health monitor will be predicting your lifespan and health today, tomorrow, and next week. Once you have enough human data available to analyze, anything becomes possible. Add the lidar, video sensors, and sound wave capture, and you paint the present, past, and future.

No Escape

Even with your phone in your pocket, the sensors capture everything around you in 3D. You cannot see it, hear it, or feel it, but the computer systems record everything. There is no escape, no off button, and the future is now. All we need is a system large enough and fast enough to process all the information.

Future Honesty in Doubt

It is coming sooner than you think. It is recording everything now for use later down the road. Imagine a world where if you lose your car keys, you ask Siri, where are my keys, and she knows when, where, and why your keys are in the planter box next to the sun tea maker on the back porch. That will be useful, but what happens when you tell your boss you are stuck in traffic but actually at home in bed? It will either make us rigorously honest individuals or manipulate us into an alternate reality where everything you do and say is subject to public scrutiny, including your private thoughts.

Survival Instincts

Will we learn to think one thing and do something completely different as a survival instinct? Will it curtail our creativity? What if you are judged by what you write, say and think? Will we slowly devolve into simpletons incapable of independent thought? Will we lose our individuality?

Acceptable Standards Modeling

Back to Content Creators and our obligation to humanity; are we the last generation that will produce 100% Human Content? Everything going forward will be molded and reformulated into modern conformity based on the weighted average viewership of acceptable standards. We are defining humanity today, tomorrow, and yesterday, but maybe not next month. A new reality is coming soon.

A Content Creator’s Responsibility

As a content creator, I assume some responsibility for the future of mankind. I am adding my collective input to the great AI of tomorrow. I try to add positive information that has value to mankind. I keep my dialogue unbiased and free for the masses. Will my two cents make a difference? I doubt it, but it is better for a few good men and women to do something rather than nothing at all. My hope is that after writing a thousand blogs, it has enough information to say, “Yes, this is a real human being.” I like that because I am a human. From Ketchikan, Alaska, with love and humanity.

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