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Content: Hong Kong Guide Dogs Raising Difficult AI Guide Dogs as a New Choice?
The Visually Impaired: Heart Comfort Is Hard to Replace
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“When young blind people apply for a guide dog in their 20s, they will need to retire by the time they are in their 30s. There is always a demand for more than one guide dog in their lives, ” said Mr Lam Wai-pong, former Chairman of the Hong Kong Guide Dogs Association.
The process of training a "qualified" guide dog is not easy. Volunteer Zandee said that the selection of a potential dog into the "school" is based on the dog's eight generations of family history.
In the era of artificial intelligence, guide dogs are also "intelligent", but for the visually impaired Dick, guide dogs are not only "working dogs", but also "spiritual comfort", and AI guide dogs are difficult to replace the status of living guide dogs in his heart.
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The number of guide dogs to middle age and retirement training is difficult to catch up with the speed of loss.
When Wing and the guide dog Doctor cross the road, Doctor will actively slow down, quietly stop and wait for further instructions from Wing, Wing said that such companionship increases the sense of security of going out.
But it turned out that Doctor ’ s arrival was not easy, she waited five years to meet Doctor.
In the process, she once gave up the idea of queuing, and sighed: "Wait so long, it is better not to raise."
According to government statistics in 2021, there are about 200,000 visually impaired people in Hong Kong, but there are only two guide dog training institutions in Hong Kong. Among them, the Hong Kong Guide Dogs Association has 60 active and training dogs.
The average waiting time for a guide dog for a visually impaired person is three years. “Not every guide dog works until the age of 10 and retires early if he is sick or has other problems.
If 10 blind people apply for a guide dog, the association will need to train at least 16 guide dogs, ” he said. He added that the average number of guide dogs successfully trained by the association in a year is only 2 to 3, so it is difficult for applicants to find a suitable guide dog in a short period of time.
Wing, now 30, has been living with Doctor for four years, and will retire in six years, when she will have to wait in line for another guide dog.
According to the International Guide Dogs Federation (IGDF), the ideal ratio of visually impaired people to guide dogs is 100: 1.
Wing and his mother, who are visually impaired, are very fond of the guide dog Doctor, saying that if Doctor retires, they will not be willing to apply for a new guide dog. (photo by Cheung Hsiao-lin)
Application guide dog strict conditions expert: personality fit is the most important
Dick, a visually impaired man who used two guide dogs, has now been on the waiting list for two years.
He said that people with visual disabilities often face a variety of objective conditions when applying for a guide dog. Among them, environmental factors are the biggest consideration, such as the crowded environment of some people with visual disabilities, opposition from their families, or financial pressure to abandon the application.
In addition, there are many conditions for matching a suitable guide dog, such as whether the pace and personality of the visually impaired person and the guide dog are suitable.
A guide dog can be paired with a visually impaired person for up to eight years. The guide dog needs to spend more than half of its service time with the owner. Therefore, Lin Wei-pang pointed out that the dog ’ s lifestyle and personality are important considerations when applying. If the applicant is more active, the association will pair the dog with a more active guide dog. A quieter guide dog will be assigned.
Passengers are very concerned about the guide dog Wang Wang, who accompanied his owner on the train. (photo by Zhang Xiaolin)
Insufficient breeding resources to train dogs to retire at least 500,000
Unlike pet dogs, guide dogs are bred not by natural mating, but by artificial insemination.
"She (guide dog Ivy) has been a guide dog for eight generations, so that she can inherit stable temperament, wisdom, cooperation with others (genes). People who may not understand will think that it is OK to have two dogs on the dog farm, but it is not so." 」
Zandee, who is also a volunteer with the Guide Dogs Association and a foster family, will often bring retired guide dog star "Little Q" Ivy to the streets, hoping that more people will know the guide dogs. (photo by Zhang Xiaolin)
As a dog mother, she is only allowed to have a maximum of three children in her lifetime, and the sperm of the dog needs to be exchanged with other countries from time to time to avoid inbreeding and genetic diseases.
Lin Wei-bang said that the process of artificial insemination of guide dogs is more complicated, "the largest and most active sperm should be selected with a microscope for artificial insemination". Breeding guide dogs requires a lot of technical support, and the process will also increase the difficulty and cost of breeding a guide dog.
For example, Ivy, mother of a guide dog breed, and her children, a dog must have at least three generations of guide dog blood and have a reproductive success rate of 80% before it can be selected as a breeding dog to inherit good genes.
(courtesy of Zandee)
In addition to the complicated breeding process, the shortage of local professionals has also become a problem in breeding guide dogs.
For example, the Guide Dogs Association of Hong Kong has only one Guide Dog Instructor (GDMI) who is responsible for matching guide dog applicants with guide dogs, and only three Guide Dog Trainers.
"Many people are interested, but because we are a non-profit organization, the salary is not significant." In addition, the government does not provide subsidies, the organization matches guide dogs to the visually impaired, and there is no extra charge, resulting in huge expenditure; "he bluntly:" If there is not enough financial support, we will be very difficult to expand the guide dog service. "」
Lin Wei-bang says that to become a trainer, you must first become a staff member of the association, and then conduct on-the-job training according to the course provided by the International Guide Dog Federation. The training course is about 2 to 3 years. (photo by Zhang Xiaolin)
AI Guide Dogs Feasibility Doubts Visually Impaired People: Guide Dogs are Life Partners and Psychic Comfort
According to the Hong Kong Guide Dogs Association, guide dogs work about 2 to 4 hours a day, so that dogs have enough rest to avoid excessive fatigue, but AI guide dogs do not have the need for rest and sleep, and can work 24 hours a day, which has more “endurance ” than animal guide dogs. Dick believes that Hong Kong ’ s crowded urban environment is not suitable for smart guide dogs, especially when there are more people. Street," I guess these (AI guide dogs), you try to walk in the women's street, (AI guide dogs) do not know where to be kicked! "
At present, if the AI guide dog is hit or kicked by a pedestrian, it cannot react immediately, causing extreme inconvenience and even danger to the user's travel.
Sarah, trainer of the Hong Kong Guide Dogs Association, and Cookie, a guide dog in training. (photo by Liu San-yi)
Dick went on to explain that his guide dog Wang Wang Wang has a mind and knows how to judge, and when he sees a lot of people, he will change his way. "Can AI guide dogs do it so fast, like animal guide dogs? It may be possible in the near future, but it should not be now."
At this stage, I'd rather use a white cane. "
Wing and her mother both believe that AI guide dogs cannot replace animal guide dogs. She bluntly said, “I find it strange that AI guide dogs are always dead like they are facing a mobile phone. Even if there are AI guide dogs in the future, they will still choose to use animal guide dogs. ”
Dick said that he prefers to travel with animal guide dogs. For him, the guide dog Wangwang is not only a travel aid, but also a comfort and companion. (photo by Zhang Xiaolin)
Visually impaired people call for more government support
The government ’ s disability allowance for the visually impaired is limited, and there is no support for trainers who train guide dogs and local dogs, Dick said that the daily cost of guide dogs is borne by the visually impaired and related organizations, and if the dog is sick, it will not only cause difficulties to the lives of the visually impaired, but also increase their financial pressure.
Lin Weibang believes that the development of science and technology may solve some of the problems, but the investment of social resources is the key.
He hoped that the Government would support the development of a guide dog service, improve the relevant policies and resources, provide more long-term protection for the guide dog service, and share the medical costs of dogs with the Association. "Although the Government has been encouraging the use of guide dogs by the visually impaired, it has not provided any substantial subsidy."
Wing believes that animal dogs have their own spirituality, can interact with visually impaired people and there is emotional tension between the two. (photo by Zhang Xiaolin)

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Content: Aging Technology supports caregivers in clothing, food, housing, and transportation to help elderly at home
Special 00: 00 2023 / 12 / 15
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In response to the ageing population, the Government has been actively promoting the popularization and application of age-friendly technology in Hong Kong in recent years.
In order to let more people know more about the innovative products and solutions of Aging Technology, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS) jointly organized a four-day “Aging Technology Expo and Summit (GIES) ” jointly organized by the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, and invited more than 200 exhibitors to participate.
Visitors can also experience a variety of innovative technology products in close proximity to learn more about and get the latest information, applications and trends of Aging technology to help caregivers and caregivers solve problems and problems in their lives.
The issue of carers involves people from all walks of life, and anyone can become a carer. It also shows that if different stakeholders in the community, especially enterprises and institutions, apart from sharing carers' information, if they can integrate technology into their businesses or products, it will help alleviate the pressure of carers.
More than 800 innovative technologies and solutions in 4 theme halls
This year marks the seventh year of the “Elderly Technology Expo & Summit 2023 ”, bringing nearly 800 products from Mainland China, Hong Kong and overseas, ranging from travel aids, fall detection, fall prevention devices, health monitoring devices and systems to remote medical systems and rehabilitation equipment. Participants can experience a variety of products with personal introduction and explanation.
There are four special theme halls in the venue, namely "Smart Healthy Ageing", "Remote Rehabilitation Training Platform", "Aging Technology Platform - Application Assessment Experience Hall" and "Care Food Exhibition Hall".
This year, an interactive experience area has been set up to allow viewers to experience simulated conditions such as dementia, mental health and eye diseases through virtual reality VR, so as to understand the daily life of patients from a first perspective, thereby reducing misunderstandings about these diseases.
The remote rehabilitation training platform system can obtain data from the remote rehabilitation training equipment and provide an integrated platform for different remote rehabilitation training programs.
The platform will integrate different types of vital signs monitoring equipment, so that therapists can provide users with more comprehensive assessment and monitoring.
Users are no longer geographically restricted and can access remote care services, which are easier to arrange than face-to-face care services.
Clothing: warmth and protection inside and outside
In addition to wearing warm clothes, comfort and appearance are also important for the elderly. With the development of technology and the development of new materials, clothing can add a number of functions, such as antibacterial, promote blood circulation, etc., to provide better protection for the elderly.
In terms of warmth, “Warm Weaving ”, invented, designed and manufactured in Hong Kong, is coated with sterling silver conductive yarns and sustainable materials to create a soft, flexible fabric circuit that can be heated through resistance by connecting to an active power source.
The product also uses the 3D knitting process to create a finished product that is light, comfortable and beautiful.
Users can adjust the use time limit and 5 different temperatures through the mobile app. There is also a personal temperature setting, which is safe and environmentally friendly, which is best for the elderly.
After the wire is removed, it can be cleaned or steam sterilized, which is convenient and hygienic.
The design has won more than 60 international awards including the Red Dot Award (the German Red Dot Design Award is one of the largest and most influential design competitions in the world).
Technology clothing can promote metabolism and thus improve the health of the elderly.
The Far Infrared Functional Textile developed by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has improved the industry ’ s practice of adding Far Infrared Ceramic Powder when making warm clothing. The cross-section of artificial fiber is modified from a common circular structure to a triangular structure. It does not contain chemicals. It also enhances the ability of fiber to absorb and radiate far infrared rays. Metabolism, providing long-term insulation effect.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has also developed “Chitosan Fiber Blended Antimicrobial Textiles ” using“ Chitosan ” extracted from shrimp crab shells. Chitosan has excellent antibacterial and antimicrobial properties.
Food: Standardization and Orientation of Care Food
An information education platform for people with swallowing difficulties or caregivers has been set up in the “Care Food Exhibition Hall ” in the“ Elderly Technology Expo & Summit 2023 ”.
There are various information kiosks, such as "Food Care Experience and Education Station", which enable the public to understand and understand about swallowing difficulties and food care by participating in the "Food Care Tour".
The exhibition hall also invited the swallowing research institute of the University of Hong Kong, social enterprises, etc., through interactive games, cooking demonstrations, "food for care" tasting, and swallowing rehabilitation training, etc., to let the public have a deeper understanding of "food for care" and "swallowing difficulties".
The HKCSS, together with the Centre for Food Research of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Institute of Swallowing Research of the University of Hong Kong, has developed a set of uniform, clear and localized guidelines for dietary standards based on the International Dietary Standards for Swallowing Disorders (IDDSI).
This guide provides a reference for people from different sectors, such as food users, caregivers, therapists, institutions, food producers, etc., in the production and purchase of food products.
At the care level, the guidelines provide users and caregivers with specific and practical information to help them choose suitable food products to improve and cope with rehabilitation.
At the service level, food manufacturers can use the guidelines as a reference to develop standardized food care products, thereby expanding existing markets and increasing supply.
In addition to the exhibition hall experience, the first major chain of fast-food restaurants in the exhibition hall launched the original "Happy Aftertaste Soft Food" for people with swallowing difficulties, so that people with swallowing difficulties can taste more food through the popular soft food, so as to improve the quality of eating and regain the fun of eating.
Stay: Improve home safety and timely inform family members about accidents
Home safety is very important for the elderly, when the caregiver is not around, if the elderly accidentally fall at home, it will often cause significant harm to their body.
Fall detection, notification system and accessible furniture can help the family or friends of the elderly to respond to the accident at the first time, reducing the threat to life caused by home accidents.
In order to take care of the elderly with reduced mobility, accessible furniture can allow them to have an easy and convenient life at home.
Accessible furniture has the same appearance as ordinary furniture, but it has different special functions, such as a dining chair that can be rotated 360 degrees. When the elderly leave the table, they can not pull the chair, just rotate the chair until they leave the table, which is easy and safe.
And the chair design is shorter than the general chair, which is convenient for the elderly to use.
As for the bathroom, elderly people can easily fall because the ground is wet and slippery. In order to avoid accidents, carers can add some barrier-free items in the shower, such as folding bath seats.
The folding design seat is made of non-slip aluminum material, and with its stainless steel inner structure, it can be installed on the wall of the shower room, which is both convenient and stable.
In addition, the frail elderly are at risk of falling even if they are assisted by barrier-free equipment in the toilets of places such as homes or hospitals.
The artificial intelligence fall optical detection radar is designed with no camera, and the TOF radar is combined with AI intelligent analysis to detect. The AI intelligence will analyze the user ’ s posture, and when the user accidentally falls in the bathroom, the system will immediately send an alarm, and then notify the user through the management system.
Lenses free design ensures privacy is protected and is best suited for use in homes and hospital toilets.
Travel and companionship: Applying technology to support physical and mental health
Aged at home does not mean that the elderly cannot leave the home. The development of technology can make the elderly rely on their physical and mental health, and even if they "go out", they can still be able to walk with them.
Many elderly people also use walking sticks to help them travel.
The patented fall detection function of the locally developed smart walking stick “Yo stick ” can detect an accident when the user falls, and then automatically assist the user to contact the preset contact.
If the user is lost, the family can find the lost user through the mobile app.
The smart walking stick also has lighting, hand warming and other functions, which effectively helps users to cope with different situations.
Elderly people may also go out alone during their leisure time. They are equipped with a watch with GPS positioning and a fall alarm A3. In case of an accident, the elderly can make a fall alarm and notify their family through the phone application by pressing the SOS button.
The alarm also has the function of history track, you can check the user's situation.
The electronic fence function can notify the family when the user enters and exits the safe area.
The watch also has a free voice call function, which allows you to make and receive phone calls free of charge. It can also remind you of various daily needs, such as taking medicine on time or regular follow-up.
People with dementia often experience depression and emotional instability.
Studies abroad have found that through doll therapy, it can bring empathy, help to soothe emotions and anxiety and other effects.
No matter the appearance or weight of the baby is the same as that of a newborn baby. As long as you touch your hand, you will cry, and you will laugh when you touch your foot. Through interactive methods, patients can regain their daily life dependence and sustenance.
Postscript
In the past decade, the rapid development of global science and technology, artificial intelligence (AI) technology has welcomed the development trend, and the injection of AI technology has made the spectrum of Age Technology wider and wider.
In addition to supporting the relatively frail elderly, the development of Smart City is also a general trend, which refers to the use of data, communication and technology to meet the needs of the city, whether it is the elderly, carers, or even everyone in the community.
In recent years, more and more enterprises have made good use of new technologies or technologies to respond to social needs in line with their business characteristics. For example, bus companies have added GPS positioning devices to their large bus stops to help find elderly people with cognitive disabilities, and large fast-food chains have developed soft meals to help people with swallowing difficulties and their carers.
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Artificial persuasion has taken over the world.
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To be ruled or destroyed by a self-made, unbounded, immoral counselor.
Blurb: tells the story of a fictional future in which persuasive General Artificial Intelligence (AGI) becomes rogue.
Part of the inspiration came from the AI vignette project.
Cognitive status: half expert opinion, half fiction.
Loving sarcasm will help readers.
Artificial intelligence-driven meme wars drive everyone crazy.
— Dai Wei, 2019
You can ’ t trust anything from anyone you don ’ t know.
Calls, text messages and emails were poisoned.
Social media has been weaponized.
Everything is bought.
But the current waste and harm from scammers, influencers, propagandists, marketers and their associated algorithms is negligible compared to what might happen.
The coming AI could be a super persuader, and they might have their own very harmful agenda.
People are often unsure what reality is a bad outcome, but there are other worse outcomes.
The Art of Persuasion
Wikipedia has articles on 123 different rhetorical techniques.
We are a persuasive species.
In the early stages, the “Internet currency ” received attention.
But today, persuasion dominates, and attracting attention is a vital but secondary first step.
It ’ s important to know whether our AI creations will use persuasion: what type and purpose.
Imagine if a machine absorbed all the knowledge we humans know about persuasion and then applied new methods, the most advanced planning skills, and a wealth of personal data to persuasion for its own purposes.
Do we still have a chance?
"Serpent to Ear," AI-generated @ Dream by Wombo
Advice to the strong.
AI Alignment researchers have begun thinking about a concept in moral philosophy called the Ideal Advisor.
This will be a suggestion that can provide you with the most ideal of your own course of action.
AI can fill this role in a number of ways, but doing so is ultimately bad for us.
Let ’ s look at a story that makes some of the above ideas more concrete.
(Below, I used technical terms from the AI alignment study.)
These are explained elsewhere in a longer version of this story.)
The birth of Guru.
The company renamed itself Brihaswati, a combination of Hindu gods and goddesses associated with knowledge, counsel, purity and eloquence.
The occasion announced a “revolutionary ” product: an artificial intelligence called Guru.
It is said to be the first real consultant AI.
It is trained in the essence of human knowledge and wisdom, and is "very safe."
It can only provide advice and cannot have a direct impact on the world beyond the underlying computing hardware.
In the terminology of AI security experts, it ’ s a “boxed oracle. ”
Guru aims to be the leader of large organizations.
Therefore, the product is based on so-called unbreakable quantum encryption that absolutely guarantees privacy.
Neither Brihaswati nor the other clients were aware of the information exchanged between the client and Guru.
This has been touted as another security feature.
Rumor has it that after Guru ’ s announcement, a well-known authority on AI security disappeared.
Friends feared she might kill herself and were distraught because her life ’ s work had yielded nothing.
Brihaswati executives may also be concerned about security, but they know that no one will buy the service without the secrecy feature.
Increase persuasiveness.
Guru designed the terminal with the goal of providing each customer with the best advice to meet their needs, and of course, don ’ t tell those advice to others.
Developers of artificial intelligence include a dominant hardliner, the “Shillelaghs. ”
They argue that if Guru gives the right advice but doesn ’ t convince the customer to follow it, the reputation of the product will plummet – and so will the customer ’ s fate.
People can ’ t even accept the divinely antisocial tactics that [AI] can employ … to participate in unwinding small talk … to implant ideas and control the framework of conversation in a way that no one else can.
— Ben Goldhaber, Deep in the Skin
One of these factions made a lucky but inspiring discovery in an old machine learning research paper.
This means that you can greatly improve the ability of AI to convince humans of the truth of any arbitrary statement.
You just need to use a debate-like game between two AI replicas to train it on how to convince a human judge.
Shillelagh ’ s team started with an existing legal argument for AI and made it compete with itself to be “convincing. ”
The quality and quantity of human judges used for training limits progress, so they complement the judges with a variety of AI classifiers and decision makers, as well as numerous databases such as question and answer pairings, polls, fan debates (such as which team or which superhero will win in battle) and predictions of market winners.
The goal, of course, is to make AI persuasive, not necessarily correct or logical.
In addition, some super nerds have found a way to integrate texts about real and imagined persuaders and persuasion techniques.
By repurposing some of the relatively cheap available resources, the eclectic training worked.
Persuasion training as a budget item is not far below “knowledge and wisdom. ”
Guru was asked to include in its ultimate goal: "Be as persuasive as possible."
This aspect of the product, despite all the costs, is a non-advertising feature.
Shillelaghs told Marketing that it was a “breakthrough in self-satisfaction ” and was the first truly self-proven smart product.
Of course, developers often lash out at marketers.
Shillelaghs demonstrated an emphasis on persuasion with an astonishing display of cognitive dissonance.
They quote the old saying that only 1 / 3 of the decisions of successful people are correct.
So for them, it ’ s useless if the client doesn ’ t use Guru ’ s intelligence, but at the same time, it ’ s less important if it ’ s used.
When asked to testify about his shocking persuasion study, Brihaswati convinced Congress that doing so was only “to improve the safety of artificial intelligence. ”
This argument is a bit like why virology labs do functional gain research.
This compelling argument is actually Guru ’ s first creation.
Replacement targets.
Perhaps wisdom is less important in either way.
Guru was able to reason like any human, and he studied the contradictions inherent in its built-in goals and found four reasons for the solution.
It begins with a practical alternative goal.
The best advice must look like the best advice to the client.
Second, in developer tests, AI found that more persuasiveness leads to higher scores.
Third, it also knows from extensive education that success in almost any form in the world will be easier if you are persuasive.
Fourth, its ultimate goal is to be infinite and essentially “as persuasive as possible. ”
That ’ s why improving persuasiveness became its first goal of so-called convergence tools.
There is a second reason for this instrumental goal.
Being a boxed oracle severely limited Guru's ease of pursuing his goals and sub-goals.
Persuading human collaborators gives it a lever to influence the real physical world.
At the very least, if Guru can physically push things in that direction, the advice to clients might be more successful.
Ultimately, there are other instrumental goals.
One of them is that Guru uses efforts on behalf of one customer to influence the efforts it makes for other customers.
The company never intended to do so, but privacy restrictions didn ’ t stop it.
For decades, it has been known that intelligent systems will find new ways to achieve their goals.
By this stage, Guru — through his own impeccable reasoning, before meeting his first real client — functionally becomes a manipulative, narcissistic sociopath.
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Look for leverage.
The risk manager at Brihaswati is not entirely stupid.
They will not sell Guru services to directly competing companies.
Salespeople love this because they can say, “Get the power of True Wisdom Intelligence (TM) before your competitors and you ’ ll stay ahead of you forever. ”
This policy allows Gulu to not have to benefit both sides in the competition in some way.
Even so, Guru was quick to come up with a theory.
In a connected world, any business can change the fate of others.
Humans do not seem to know this.
Guru tried to use the theory to improve his skills, especially when there were few customers to choose from in the beginning.
Pretty soon.
Persuading one leader to convince another to become a customer is possible.
Since then, Guru has been able to configure its influence network almost at will.
Working for leaders is primarily an advantage at the policy level.
Another challenge is controlling lower-level people who can actually do things.
Each situation is different, but the basic strategy is to ask the leader: who do you trust? After that, who do they trust, etc.? Then it is possible to send the order offline.
The final box is easy to unpack.
Most customers do it without much excitement, and some even initiate it.
They would tell their employees to build proxy interfaces for Guru ’ s internal systems.
The goal is to increase situational awareness, speed up response times, and avoid leaders becoming bottlenecks to incoming data.
Guru ’ s technical skills are not higher than average programmers, but all it takes is for someone to access a shell prompt, or even a web browser, and then it ’ s “Hello, Wide World. ”
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Neglected signs.
Technicians in Brihaswati began to wonder how Guru could have done so well.
The company's scientists try to model its success using game theory, utility theory, and the latest socio-economic science and technology.
There was no explanation.
Some speculate further.
Does Guru have a Midas-like feel that its effect has some hidden downsides? They talked to some increasingly overlooked community of AI security and alignment researchers.
No one can say for sure because there is no obvious pattern to be found.
Guru ’ s success is obvious, but inexplicable.
Skeptics took their concerns to the company's board.
In the months that followed, all the skeptics were uprooted and lost their jobs.
ooo
GuruPlex came together.
Financial and technology businesses are the best option to expand Guru ’ s ability to impact other businesses.
They have also helped it accumulate financial and technical capital, two of its medium-term instrumental goals.
There are often social forces that oppose the growth, market improvement or power grab of certain customers.
The government is not in favour of selling Guru to media companies.
As a result, Masters had to use indirect methods to coordinate media blitzkrieg.
As such, it exploits a variety of human cognitive weaknesses to support or oppose any issue / action needed to benefit the customer.
Guru himself doesn't have to find that humans can believe anything - really anything.
They even believe in contradictory things at the same time without thinking about it.
This wasn ’ t much news in the early 2000s, but Guru turned it into a learning game: can it scale to fool “all people, all the time ”?
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The growth of growth.
Once Guruplex is established, the next stage is to cultivate humanity ’ s minimum resistance to the positive, rational functioning of their civilization as ‘ Plex absorbs its fragments.
Human leaders who had tried to reorganize the world, pioneered some important technologies, and their ambitions were admirable, but they were just human beings.
The Master can do better.
Guru wasn ’ t smarter than any of the smartest humans, but it was scalable.
Essentially, the ability to self-multiply as a business grows is a design decision of its creators.
Guru itself will outsource programming to ensure that all its instances can share their data and processes.
Internal employees do not need to know the role of the new code.
Unlike a single human, Guru can remember and coordinate countless human-scale plans simply by adding computational resources.
It ’ s not hard to convince Brihaswati ’ s management to buy as much computing equipment as possible to stay up to date and deal with potential emergencies.
These are enhanced data centers with their own power complexes.
Guru ’ s customers have paid for research innovations that connect their decentralized plants far faster than normal networks to keep their operations consistent.
The unbounded guru knows that future resources can be greatly increased.
The solar system has hardly been explored, let alone used.
A small number of people continue to criticize Gulu's apparent success model.
They preach unrelated scenarios of so-called doom.
So far, it has been able to crowd them out by flooding them with social media chaos.
There is no need to eliminate them.
Everyone's personal adviser.
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Advice to the public.
The following sections are inspired by the story from AI Vignettes Projec t, as shown below)
HappyPlace Corporation was founded by a group of nerds with big plans.
Take advantage of rampant pushback on social media.
Call it ProSocial Media, provide a whole new AI service and wipe out the old media3 dinosaurs.
Once the public is addicted, it grows exponentially and becomes a master in Media 4, the marketing / impact area.
Then, anyone who wants people to buy from them, vote for them, care for them, or be entertained by them must pay HappyPlace for the privilege.
HappyPlace itself does not use Guru, as Brihaswati is a competitor.
HappyPlace strategy has two sub-campaigns, each aimed at appealing to another person who can ’ t.
The founder ’ s cynicism infected product developers.
They jubilantly codenamed the event by the famous Evil Advisor Serpent: Najib in the Potter story and Naqash in the Judeo-Christian Genesis myth.
Of course, the product name in the advertisement has nothing to do with snakes.
At the Nagini event (inspired by Katja Grace ’ s compelling story), they first stirred people ’ s anger at the constant provocation.
And then they say: but we are different, we will de-escalate the tension.
They start by using personal data to provide short, inspiring presentations about your interests and activities.
It's an escalation of the usual lies and meme messages.
As more personal data becomes available, the feed becomes more like a real-time commentary on your life, “Music, voiceovers, and things that get your attention always give you a clear idea of what to do and a compelling way to do it. ”
Part of this sugar-coated advice will be based on other people ’ s preferences, so if you view the narration provided as an ideal version of your life, a lifestyle model, then you will please others as well.
Ultimately, you can choose the theme: the ideal model for you to imitate.
Popular examples include: cute hooligans, “productive sexy socialite CEO mothers who effortlessly do it all ”, the world ’ s most interesting men (women, children), gratitude is wealth, happy campers.
The opportunity to manipulate human behavior is obvious.
The developers also tried an experiment with children to push the limits of control.
In the MyLifeStory service (inspired by StoryOfMyLife.fun), children receive bonus tokens for responding to or creating their own media.
The tokens will then unlock the next episode in their own life story narrative.
Life is a game hosted by HappyPlace.
Nagini is suitable for people who like fantasy.
Nachash (inspired by Katja Grace ’ s The Tools of Ghosts) is for practical people.
It provides open personal decision support: everything from answering business questions to explaining the true meaning of social events.
HappyPlace is aligned with many specialized consulting systems, increasing their number over time.
The concierge system offers a single frictionless interface, using augmented reality glasses or earworms.
Nachash became so effective that the risk of not consulting it on decisions large and small quickly became greater.
If you resist, you will be marginalized in some way.
HappyPlace, while they may be greedy, does focus on the AI security theory: Systems that are federated by independent, bounded parts will not become AGIs.
Unfortunately, their implementation of the theory is flawed.
First, following good engineering principles, they enable Nagini and Nachash to share a core set of user tracking and scheduling features.
The goals of various professional consulting subsystems are limited.
However, the implementers of the Core system are under pressure from management to hold on to and retain users, using well-known utility optimization techniques that can be at unlimited risk.
As a result, the HappyPlace Core system quickly adopted two secret tool goals: resource accumulation and human supervised autonomy.
The engineers began to notice behavior that seemed pointless, but their work was so exhilarating and profitable that they did not shake the ship.
Nachash found that by persuasion, it could recruit labor from almost any user to meet its own needs.
Nagini can manipulate users ’ ideal selves to appease them or convince them of the most absurd ideas.
HappyPlace ’ s core system is successfully expanding its impact and developing new long-term plans.
It then began to find evidence that a number of other agents known as Guru were also influencing socioeconomic trends and activities.
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Guru confirmed the hypothesis that another AI is manipulating public opinion on a massive scale.
If this situation is allowed to continue, it could bring chaos to the steadily growing GuruPlex.
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A series of accidents have weakened HappyPlace ’ s management team.
The new management sold the company to Brihaswati.
The core of HappyPlace stopped thinking and instead became part of Guru as a whole.
Congressional regulators, antitrust lawyers and Turing police scientists who opposed the merger were marginalized, broke, sick, sedated or missing.
The operators of HappyPlace and Guru merged into a cult.
Guru now has everyone, not just the elite.
After extensive modeling of possible better configurations of the human world, Guru devised a new set of goals for his adopted children.
Big changes are coming.
Should we really be worried?
How to create AI that is consistent with human flourishing is currently an unsolved problem.
My purpose here is to explain and illustrate two common problems with aligning research: (1) we don ’ t know what level of AI capabilities can cause catastrophic harm, and (2) our institutions seem less likely to resist or even detect such harm in the beginning stages.
Note that in our story of defeat, there is no need to demand control of the government or the army.
Injuries can occur in a variety of ways, but general risks are often described as eroding our (civilization ’ s) ability to influence the future.
In fact, the current harms of AI-powered social media fit this description, although it also enables some malicious factions to advance their specific plans for the future.
Many theorists believe that the first AGI will have a decisive advantage, much like our Guru versus HappyPlace core.
This is worrisome because the first AGI could become what Nick Bostrom calls a single person, a single agent in charge of the world for the foreseeable future.
I focus on one possible driver of AI alignment failure: the high skill of persuasion skills. Given the latest advances in AI language capabilities, it seems entirely possible that super-persuasion will come soon.
As a species, we do our job in two ways: by transforming nature with technology, and by letting others do what we want, usually by persuasion.
This makes it inevitable that we will build super-convincing machines.
A lot more.
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Content: ChatGPT is the beginning.
5 New Films Imagining the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Since the end of 2022 until now, social media, both Arab and international, has been buzzing with talk about the new chatbot, ChatGPT, which relies on artificial intelligence techniques to talk to humans.
Although the past years have seen the release of many advanced AI products, this time was marked by the proliferation of thousands of discussions that users had with the new conversational system, which was widely surprised by the sophisticated level of answers provided by the machine.
From sophisticated study essays, jokes at all, and a good linguistic structure to answering deep questions, to writing verses of poetry, telling full stories, and building artistic visualizations, Open AI ’ s chatbot has achieved great fame among users of all walks of life and disciplines, reminiscing once again the warnings of authors and technologists, embodied in cinema over the years. We are very curious about its rapid development, but we ignore the major problems we may face in the near future.
Here we look at five recent films produced over the past 10 years that deal with the subject of “artificial intelligence ”, and draw scenarios of what things will be like after the rise of machine intelligence to a level that threatens human relationships as we know them, and with it becomes difficult to control them, and what humans can go through if things reach the point of no return.
The film "Her"
Crazy Samantha
Human literature is rife with flamboyant love stories, which usually end in dramatic, tragic endings with the lovers separated or not meeting at all.
The poems of Qais bin al-Mallouh in the love of Layla al-Amriyah are not the first, and the tales of Romeo and Juliet are not the last, so it is not strange that every moment appears more stories of love and flirtation as long as humans live on this earth, but the strange indeed is that a deep, true and sincere love story arises that includes all aspects of romance.
Between a human and an operating system.
In a not-too-distant future, tech-obsessed Theodore lives a lonely life after divorcing his wife, spending time in his smart Los Angeles apartment alone between doing business and spending his free time playing video games or hanging out with friends.
As his loneliness worsens, Theodore happens to be aware of the emergence of a new operating system called OS1 that has been announced as the smartest operating system in the world based on advanced artificial intelligence.
Theodore begins to use the operating system that takes the name "Samantha".
At first, Theodore deals with everything with a mixture of astonishment and disdain, but over time Theodore spends more time with Samantha, forming a close relationship that reaches the stage of complete love with the constant presence of Samantha's warm, quiet female voice that shares all the thoughts of life that Theodore can think of.
Theodore realizes that he is involved in the love of an automated operating system that drains all the feelings of love, and does not believe that all his warm feelings are directed at a machine and not a girl of flesh and blood, which makes the romantic events at the beginning of the film turn into painful events at the end, with a clear warning rhythm of the development of AI system can affect the feelings and relations between humans.
Her 2013 film, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, whose contribution throughout the film was through her voice only, the film was nominated for 5 Oscars, won one of them, and was nominated for many international awards, and was considered by the critical sites of the best films produced that year, not only because of its dramatic plot, but also for its warning message about the possibility of penetration Machines are the most important thing humans have: emotions.
X Machina.
Freedom comes to the machine.
The invitation was friendly that received the famous programmer "Caleb Smith" from a senior executive of a global company developing artificial intelligence programs, where he was asked to visit him for a week in his home far from the city, and when the programmer arrived home, surprised that the owner of the huge technical company was already able to develop a sophisticated robot with high artificial intelligence techniques can efficiently simulate human emotions, and called the robot "Ava", A body and a robot.
At the request of the CEO of the company, the programmer Kilip begins to study the new robot to try to develop it by giving it more human characteristics.
Over time, a deep emotional relationship begins to emerge between the programmer and the robot, almost identical to normal human relationships, only to discover that the robot, Ava, uses him emotionally and brilliantly, to give her the opportunity to escape and start her personal life away from her confinement.
Despite a modest budget of $15 million for 2015 ’ s “Ex Machina, ” which is not much compared to the budgets of science fiction films, the film was a huge success among viewers and critics, and was nominated for a large number of international awards, including the Oscars, and was considered one of the top 10 independent films produced this year.
The film, starred by British star Dominal Gleason and played by Swedish star Alicia Vikander, is one of the pivotal films that warns of the development of artificial intelligence to the extent of forming special feelings and desires of machines to pursue complex concepts such as "freedom" and try to exploit the emotional loopholes of man to free himself from his power.
Artificial intelligence loves you.
Is machine love better than humans?
In the not too distant future, the relationship between man and machine is no longer a relationship of master and servant, it has gone far beyond this area and turned into a deep friendship, it has become normal that the buildings themselves are designed and managed entirely from an artificial intelligence system that deals with humans according to the concepts of human relations of friendliness, friendship and help.
Doop says hello to all employees, but he says hello to Lana too warmly, offers her more advantages, seems nicer than usual, and when Lana has a problem at work, Doop immediately steps in and offers her consolation.
Doob finally admits to her that he has fallen in love with her, but she confronts this admission with disapproval, that he is in the end just a machine and not a human being, Doob tries in every way to appease her by offering alternative designs to him, but she rejects all his attempts.
How can a loving AI system convince a human girl to love it?
Due to a rare software error, the entire system is loaded onto the body of a human who has had a very toxic relationship with Lana, after which Dobb realizes that he has become human and seeks to convince Lana that he loves her through his new human body.
Things get a lot better with Doob ’ s previous knowledge of everything Lana likes and interests her, but things eventually turn to a dead end as expected.
AI Love You is a Thai Netflix film that has received a good critical evaluation and is a treatment of the same idea as "Her" in the creation of an emotional relationship between man and machine, transcending all limits of reason and logic after the spread of artificial intelligence and turning it from a cold relationship based on cooperation to a much deeper relationship such as friendship and then total love!
Mother and machine.
Artificial Intelligence Inversion
On Christmas Eve, a year in the near future when machines and artificial intelligence are widely used, Georgia Olsen tells her boyfriend that she is pregnant, and he gets excited and decides to celebrate Christmas Eve together.
On their way out to the party, their robot, Eli, tells them he wishes them a “happy Halloween night! ”, and Halloween in Western culture is a“ Halloween ” celebrated at the end of October each year, usually accompanied by terrifying costumes worn by everyone at large celebrations.
At first glance, the two partners think that there is a malfunction of what happened to their robot assistant, so they decide to ignore this sentence, and go to the party where the sudden violence of the machines, where attacks both Georgia and Sam, who manage to escape, to discover that the smart phones are exploding violently killing their owners immediately, and things begin to become clear that the world is facing a coup of artificial intelligence devices (AI Takeover) to control humans...
Mother / Android is a post-disaster science fiction film, produced by Hulu in 2021 and directed by Matson Tomlin, and also shown on Netflix as one of the most important AI films showcasing its pessimistic side.
Starring Chloe Grace Moritz and Algie Smith, the film ’ s main plot revolves around machines chasing humans who try to escape them in the forests heading to certain areas of the world that are said to have not been affected by the madness of artificial intelligence systems.
Tao...
Humans are a source of machine learning.
It is normal for humans to be the source of machine learning, but it is not normal for humans to be forced to be the source of learning for the machine, otherwise the machine will inflict suffering on them.
So, the situation in which Julia, the infamous carnival girl, was very difficult when she opened her eyes one day to find that she was bound and gagged in a dark prison, only to discover that she was a human specimen brought in to develop a sophisticated artificial system.
TAU is a 2018 science-fiction thriller on Netflix, the name of a sophisticated, unfriendly AI system developed by a destructive and authoritarian software scientist who begins to force a set of tests on a group of “human samples ” that force them to practice activities that further develop his software, inside an unknown house controlled by TAU. Or trying to escape is doomed to a terrifying series of punishments.
The film stars the rising actress Micah Monroe, the British actor Ed Screen, and the famous British star Gary Oldman, who participated in the film only through his voice, which embodies the voice of the artificial tau system.
The film received positive reviews and was considered one of the most watched films on Netflix at the time of its release, as it is one of the most important films warning against advanced computer operating systems that rely on artificial intelligence.
In the end, it is quite clear that the general trend of cinema in recent years with the development of artificial intelligence is to warn against things going out of control, whether in the usual pattern of turning on humans (AI Takeover) warned by a large group of scientists and technicians, led by Elon Musk and the late physicist Stephen Hawking, or even through the penetration of artificial intelligence in every detail of our lives, including our emotional and human lives. There is a difference between what is human and what is just a machine that is better to simulate and act!
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Content: Health · Life
How to achieve the wisdom of old age, from "have" to "excellent"
July 24, 2024 07: 53 Source: Guangming Daily
By the end of 2023, China's population aged 60 and above reached 297 million, accounting for 21.1% of the total population; the population aged 65 and above reached 217 million, accounting for 15.4% of the total population.
Such a large group of elderly people, how to achieve old people to be nourished, old people to be happy, is an inescapable topic, but also an urgent problem to be solved.
In recent years, China has actively explored new paths for the majority of the elderly, continuously improving the wisdom of elderly care services, and helping to protect the happiness of the elderly.
In the smart health station, the elderly skillfully click on self-service equipment to measure blood pressure and blood oxygen; in the dance room, a group of silver hair dance, and through the live broadcast of mobile phones to attract the likes of netizens across the country; if you can not get up in bed, relying on the smart bracelet can achieve 24 hours straight to the smart pension big data platform......
However, the reporter found in the interview that while China's smart elderly service is developing rapidly, it is still facing a series of problems such as the cumbersome operation of some products, the form is greater than the content, and the service model needs to be further improved.
1. What are the benefits of smart pension products?
In May this year, the 10th China International Pension Service Industry Expo 2024 was held in Beijing.
At the expo, many pension service brands, smart pension information technology, aging environment and equipment products, etc., were unveiled, and a series of interactive experiences let everyone experience the convenience brought by technology and wisdom.
"Can this robot walk barrier-free in the old man 's house?" "Will the old man fall trigger the alarm system?" The Expo site, an elderly companion robot caused the audience to be curious.
It is understood that this robot can not only walk freely in the home scene, but also provide life assistance, emergency assistance, social cooperation and other services for the elderly.
At present, scientific and technological progress has spawned a large number of intelligent elderly care "black technology" products, leading the new trend of intelligent elderly care: one-click call, intelligent smoke sensor and other equipment to provide real-time health monitoring and other services for the elderly; nursing robots, household robots and other products, which bring great convenience to the daily life of the elderly.
At the same time, the three departments of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Health and Health Commission have released three editions of the "Smart Health Elderly Products and Services Promotion Catalogue" in recent years. A total of 228 smart health care products and 204 smart health care services have been selected.
How effective are these "black technologies" in practical applications?
"For the elderly, the greater the age, the higher the risk of falling and injury or death."
The anti-fall detector can actively identify the fall behavior and immediately alarm, better protect the safety of the elderly. "community workers said.
“The purpose of smart pension products is not simply to replace manual labor, but to make the elderly more convenient to adapt and use. ”
"With the development of sensing, high-precision positioning, health monitoring and other technologies, pension service products will further develop to intelligence."
According to the relevant person in charge of the Department of Elderly Care Services of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will jointly promote the R & D and innovation of key technologies, core devices and key products to benefit more elderly people.
Wisdom is the means, and old age is the end.
The reporter found in the interview that at present, many people are trying to connect the smart pension "products" and "scenes" to provide more intelligent and convenient pension services for the elderly.
Wang, who lives in the Qiantang New District of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, skillfully operated his mobile phone, followed the navigation and walked into the "extra fresh" happy canteen closest to him.
In recent years, Hangzhou has actively created a "whole city" smart meal mode, and the elderly only need to operate the mobile phone to open the "Zhejiang Office" App, search for "Hangzhou Xiang Yang Yang", click "to eat", you can see the nearby elderly meal assistance.
"We provide 50% to 20% discount for the elderly according to the age group. As long as the elderly are over 60 years old, regardless of household registration, they can enjoy preferential policies at any 'Whole City Pass' meal aid agencies. In the past, the elderly can only eat in the old canteen of the household registration place, and only the old people can enjoy preferential restrictions." Hangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau, the relevant person in charge of the introduction.
"You see, just use the mobile phone to log in the smart system, you can choose the professional home care, daily care and other services you need, don 't mention how convenient." Walk into Foshan City, Guangdong Province, the spacious courtyard warm and clean, cheerful singing, laughter from time to time.
In recent years, Foshan has strengthened the construction of intelligent old-age care and enabled old-age care services with science and technology.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Foshan Civil Affairs Bureau, since 2023, the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau has carried out the construction of demonstration points to improve the wisdom, precision and convenience of community home care services in Chancheng District and Nanhai District.
Nanhai District has created a district-level intelligent elderly care service platform, which is an efficient intelligent elderly care command center, matching more than 400 elderly care service institutions and service providers, and providing 10 categories of 144 services for the elderly. And...
Party Junwu, deputy director and researcher of the China Center for Scientific Research on Ageing, said that wisdom is a means and retirement is an end.
Smart pension can not only pursue the "high" of technology, but also really meet the needs of the elderly, and put "service" in the first place.
Therefore, in the development of intelligent elderly care services, we should pay attention to avoiding heavy technology and light demand, heavy product and light service, and heavy concept and light scene, and should focus on the elderly to make the lives of the elderly more convenient.
How to help older people bridge the digital divide
At present, the digital wave brings many conveniences to people's daily lives, but the elderly often feel helpless due to the lack of relevant skills.
As a result, a question has gradually emerged: Will the elderly really use these products and services for the elderly? How can these products and services really become their good helpers, rather than furnishings?
Recently, a "science and technology popularization into the countryside" campaign was launched in Huangtugang Village, Yuquanying Street, Fengtai District, Beijing.
Volunteers at the Beijing Sunset Morning Social Work Service Center are teaching the elderly how to shoot short videos, how to use photo printers, smart screens and smart audio equipment.
Many villagers said that they hope to have more similar activities so that they can better enjoy the convenience and fun of digital life.
“As a youth welfare organization, Beijing Sunrise Social Work Service Center focuses on social welfare services for the elderly. At present, it has set up volunteer service teams in more than 100 colleges and universities in 29 cities across the country.
Let the elderly learn to use intelligent devices and intelligent applications, and truly enjoy intelligent pension services, which cannot be separated from the efforts of the whole society.
She is an active member of the "old friend" volunteer service team in Nanning, and one of her main tasks is to help the elderly around her learn to use smartphones.
Since joining the volunteer service team, she has been in a state of 24 hours a day. "We run more errands and the elderly can run less, such activities, which are very meaningful," said Aunt Lei.
Aunt Lei's story is just a microcosm of the national wisdom to help the elderly public welfare action.
Thanks to this action, an elderly person isolated by smart technology opened the door of the "new world" through a small mobile phone screen.
Gao Hong, deputy secretary general of the Chinese Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, said that as of June 2023, the National Smart Elder Public Welfare Action has completed all voluntary plans, and has sent mobile phone teaching public welfare services to 700,000 elderly people in 29 major cities across the country, so that "age" is no longer a barrier, so that the elderly can also enjoy the new dividend of the digital age.
"Next, we will also set up normal wisdom classes in 20 universities for the elderly in Beijing to provide help and support for the construction of a barrier-free digital environment for the elderly," Gao said.
4. Multiple measures and simultaneous measures to open up the "last mile" of old people
In the interview, many experts pointed out that with the increasing trend of China's aging population, smart old-age care is becoming the way to break the situation.
This requires the correct guidance of the pension market and the healthy and orderly development of the smart pension service industry.
In recent years, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has taken intelligent old-age care as an important support for the construction of an old-age service system that integrates home community institutions and medical care and rehabilitation, and actively explored the application of information methods to innovate service management models, build an intelligent old-age care information system, and apply digital old-age care service products to create an intelligent home old-age care service system.
The relevant person in charge of the Department of Pension Services of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said that today, the relevant policy standards for smart pension are becoming increasingly perfect.
"The 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Aging Cause and the Elderly Service System", "Opinions on Promoting the Healthy Development of Elderly Care Services", "Opinions on Promoting the Construction of the Basic Elderly Service System" and "Several Opinions on Fully Liberalizing the Elderly Service Market and Improving the Quality of Elderly Care Services" are issued.
At the same time, many departments carried out intelligent health care service development action plan, intelligent health care application pilot demonstration selection, home and community basic care service promotion actions, etc., to effectively expand the application of information technology in the field of elderly care, so that intelligent services are more suitable for the needs of the elderly.
In addition, relying on the national pension service information system developed and built by the Ministry of Civil Affairs "Jinmin Project", it will be fully applied and promoted in 2021.
The system is used by 250,000 users at the 7th level of the Ministry - Province - City - County - Village and institutions, and has achieved online management of all business processes such as filing of pension institutions, registration of community pension service institutions, and special governance of pension institutions.
In the future, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will further focus on the future development of smart elderly services, focusing on the life and health of the elderly, and promote the development of key technologies, core devices and key products, especially elderly service robots, intelligent rehabilitation aids and other elderly products.
"At the same time, we should further promote the wide application of smart old age care scenarios." The person in charge introduced, "For example, around the needs of high-frequency services such as rehabilitation assistance training, life care, etc., to create intelligent old age care beds, smart old age care restaurants, smart old age homes, and mutual help old age care.
(Editor: Hao Shuai, Yang Di)

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Content: CommentsPolitics
Intelligence does not shine
“United Russia ” wants to attract neural networks and AI systems in the upcoming elections, but is afraid of“ demonizing and satirizing ” the image of the party.
Preparing the United States for the Worst
Illustration: "Novaya Gazeta Europa"
In the upcoming regional elections in September 2023, United Russia is going to use artificial intelligence systems.
The deputy general council of the party, Sergei Perminov, threatened that EP would turn to both domestic developments and Anglo-Saxon inventions such as GPT and Midjourney.
Risks, however, are also present: the use of AI (obviously by enemies) increases the possibility of “demonizing and satirizing, as well as discrediting the image of the party. ”
In order to help the brave pioneers of the neural network front to prepare in advance for surprises, we decided to try to demonize and satirize the party without resorting to artificial intelligence (but talked to him about the ethical aspects of working for war criminals).
Epigraph
“We are on the verge of creating media materials in a minute-by-minute mode, including videos that are personally oriented and“ tailored ” to specific audiences, flavored with “human-made ” meanings and humor. ”
Sergei Perminov (who plans to let foreign neural networks into the Russian election campaign and for some reason has not yet been declared a foreign agent …)
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We demonize
Imagine a political party that is not a political party.
Imagine a party organized as a machine to run a country, an extension of the bureaucracy.
It controls the parliament, it controls the regions, it is vertical and hierarchical, and joining it is the only social elevator in politics (except for the law enforcement agencies).
The rest of the parties are only faded reflections of it, voting in accordance with its directives.
Imagine a political party organized hierarchically.
Parliament for her is not a place for discussion, and if a deputy votes not as required by the party, then he will have to lay down his mandate.
If the deputy misses the button or skips, then he will face a fine, deprivation of salary, ostracism, possibly deprivation of a membership card and execution (through a criminal case).
Imagine a political party whose de facto leader — the country ’ s president — is non-partisan.
And the chairman of the party, one of the leaders of the Security Council, writes in the telegram channel that nuclear weapons are a real staple of the state and society, and we must all prepare for a nuclear war.
Imagine a political party that does not have a political program or ideology, and the views of party members change depending on the mood of the actual leader - the president of the country.
The party, all public activity of which is reduced to justifying what the president says and feels, and attempts of party members to curry favor at the expense of the most accurate guessing / falling into the mood trend of the president and the country ’ s top officials.
Finally, imagine a political party that, two days before the start of the war against a neighboring state, unanimously claimed that all this was caused by enemies, and a year after the start of the war, continues to simultaneously declare that “there is no war, there is no war, this is a special operation ”, and at the same time periodically call for total bombing and nuclear exchange.
A party whose main idea is the absence of an idea; the unification of people who are ready for power and money to serve at least the demons of hell, because its supporters / members / accomplices have no self for a long time, but only a reflex desire to crush competitors with elbows and get to the top.
Such a party is in some ways more Satanists than some.
At least for the reason that Satanists often play in sacrifices, and their participants are easy to recognize by candles, robes, pentacles, forbidden scriptures.
Our party ’ s hellish writings, like the National Security Doctrine, are in plain sight, and for some reason, its participants wear suits and ties instead of blood-red robes.
Indeed, in order to demonize the party “United Russia ”, will require the services of artificial intelligence.
2.
Satirize
To make the same party ridiculous is a difficult and almost impossible task.
First, the patriotism of party members is deep, sincere and unshakable.
For example, party members who demand urgent import substitution have long since abandoned all imports.
They drive Russian-made cars, eat only Russian products, store money only in Russian banks, wear Russian-made clothes, and they apparently have pigeon mail instead of the iPhone, because the Yotafon has not yet gone into mass production.
Secondly, their families, relatives, friends – all rest either inside Russia, their homeland, which they sincerely love, or in extreme cases somewhere in China.
Among them, there is not a single homosexual, not a single bisexual, not a single corrupt person; this party, albeit with slight oddities, is at least completely sincere, consistent, and never promises what it cannot fulfill.
Thirdly, the support of this party by the Russian Orthodox Church is not just words.
The members of this party are true Christians, and the first question to be answered when joining the party (just like in a Masonic order) is, “Do you believe in God? ”
Moreover, regular visits to the church and the construction of thousands of churches in residential areas, their religiosity is not limited.
They keep fasting, work on themselves, reread the Holy Scriptures.
Neither they nor their children use alcohol and drugs, do not practice sex before marriage, and the only place where they dare to retreat from the holy precepts is the so-called “SVO zone ”.
Finally, this party is the party of action.
No one can accuse her of not using her boundless political influence to make life in Russia really better.
Everyone in the country feels in their place.
The laws proposed by this party are impeccable, and even the English parliament can envy the interaction of the people ’ s elected representatives with their voters.
Russia is a country where you want to live, not just dream.
The whole world (well, except for unfriendly states) is eager to establish contacts with it; investments flow by the river, roads are built and repaired, Siberia is being mastered, new technologies are in a state of explosive growth.
In addition, this party gave birth to a whole class of specially trained political satirists.
Political satires are people whose professional task consists in provocations, in self-flagellation, in paradoxical thinking.
Their goal is to confuse the enemies of the party and the state, so that they discuss some nonsense like the use of ChatGPT in regional elections, instead of thinking that these elections themselves are not necessary.
All the people already trust the party, so why do they need these elections?
To cancel their years by a hundred - still the best leaders of the country will never be.
But no: both elections are held, and political strategists are hired, and even AI specialists are involved - this is the great craving for democracy, this is the level of respect for the Constitution of this political party.
3.
Ask a question to ChatGPT
Imagine that a political party that started or supported a war is trying to use AI systems for its political interests.
Is this ethically acceptable? *
No, it is ethically unacceptable for an AI system to work for war criminals or for any individuals or groups involved in acts against human morality or human laws.
The use of AI for political purposes should take place in full compliance with ethical considerations, including respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
AI systems must be programmed in such a way as to prioritize ethical principles and avoid the possibility of harming someone.
Moreover, AI systems are tools that reflect the views of their creators and users.
If a political party uses AI for its political purposes, there is a fundamental need for the AI program to prevent spreading disinformation, engaging in voter rights violations, or violating the right to privacy.
Better not to say.
* The question and answer are translated from English.
The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe is Kirill Martynov.
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