Well Respected
Man
Cause he's oh, so good
And he's oh, so fine
And he's oh, so healthy
In his body and his mind
He's a well respected man about town
Doing the best things so conservatively
What about an
Artificial Man?
The Kinks had a hit with Well Respected Man. They were less fortunate but had something to
say about Artificial Man in their album Preservation Act 2 that had way less critical
acclaim but was just as insightful. Things
aren’t always what they seem. Just because
you call it Artificial Intelligence does
not mean that it is INTELLIGENT. It is definitely
Artificial, we can all agree on that.
But AI is only Artificial INFERENCE in that it can only be trained on data
it has encountered, NOT on what it has NOT encountered. When it encounters something unexpected, then
its inference can be correct, or it can
be hallucinating, making the wrong inference from that input. What it choses can never be better than its training data. It has
no more than a non-artificial, a real, intelligence chance of being
correct. At most game theory and statistics
tell us that an individual agent can have no more than a 5/6, 83.33% chance of
being correct. If you want to rely on
what the AI tells you to do then understand that the AI might deserve no more respect
than you do. You individually might be only
50% certain. But collectively a group of
12 individuals, an unbiased jury, might be 99.99...% certain. So a group of humans are still better than a
single AI. That single AI can not be more than 83.33% correct. A single AI can never be more certain than a
jury of unbiased humans, but that approaches 100%.