You, me, and the language model.

Who has responsibility if people let their thoughts to some AI?

Why do we let AI think for us? The road to this point is long and rocky. When we order the AI to make essays and poems we follow the journey that began a long time ago. When we read essays and poems, made by AI we can say how those things destroy our creativity. At this point, we might say that we can buy a poem book and write that poem from it. 

So, in this case. We simply copy a poem from the book that some great poem master made. And then we can look at the mirror and ask from that image, who made the poem that we just wrote? We wrote a text that some other person invented. So, if we think about this case, and connect AI to that continuum, we see that AI is taking the role of the poem book. In the point of the receiver or reader, it's the same who made that poem. 

Is it some Chat GPT, or is it some Lord Byron? The poem was not made by the person who wrote it on the card. Then we can think about people like Sam Altmann who make more and more advances in AI. We blame them and AI and search for mistakes from them. But then we forget our own responsibility. The user makes the decision to use AI, so we decide whether will we make poems ourselves or will we let some other actors make those things. We have responsibility for things that we make and introduce to people. When we make and introduce some poems ourselves, we face very pithy criticism. 

When we say that people must go to libraries, read books, and do other things, we must be honest. Are we only jealous of people who have tools and skills that we didn't have 20-30 years ago? When we look at work effectiveness we gaze at things like time. 

That a person uses for work. And if the work is done faster, we give that person new work. Would that be an encouraging way to work? If some person does the work faster than others and the work is well done, should we give the rest of the time free for that person? 

Or should we give a new job to that worker? And then order the person back to the office. And take some artificial smile to our faces and then fire that worker because that person makes work better and faster than we do? Or should we cheat that person about poems that this individual worker published on social media? 

We can also remember that person who is part-time working in our company. That means we can use our supreme control and show everybody how jealous we can be. If a person goes to some poem courses at the labor college outside the working time, we can find a new shift for that person. We have some ideal vision of what a henchman should be, and if a henchman does not fit into that thing, we must change that person to fit into that mold. 

That can be crushing. So, it's easier to take the book from the bookshelf. And then make a copy of some of those well-known poems. That means we can say that the person who invented that poem was somebody else. That might be impressive. We didn’t use our own brains for that poem. We made hard work if we took a pen and then copied those words. But it is easier to make the copy using a computer. Or, maybe we find some of those poems from the net and then use copy-paste. Then we must not use our brains at all. AI is the tool that releases our resources from thinking to something else. When we think about cases where somebody makes their own poems, we must realize that every poem makes the first text. 

We decide the easy way. If we want to write some poems or essays, we must sit on our computer. And then we must take the trouble for that text. If we have some other things to do, we have no time to write texts and think about things that we make. Sam Altmann or anybody else than me and you decide if we use AI. That makes our life easier. It leaves our time to have a social life in discos and bowling alleys. But is that the advance that we want? The answer is that the decisions that we make show the road. 

People like Sam Altmann are basically businessmen. They follow the Maslow hierarchy of needs. When our basic needs are filled we want more. AI is the thing that allows us to transfer all our productivity to some computer. And that is the thing that makes AI advance faster than we expected. When the AI satisfies some need, there is another need it must respond to. This is the thing in AI development. AI can make things better than humans. 

Or, we can say that it can make some things better than humans. But then we must realize that AI must also learn new things. There was a story that some antique ATARI computer beat Chat GPT in chess. That thing happened because nobody ever taught the Chat GPT the chess. In the same way, we would lose all chess games against the monkey if we ever played that game. Every skill that AI has is a module. And if the AI has no module for something it's helpless. The AI requires lots of power. The AI, or LLM server requires its own power platform. And when we develop new and more scalable AI systems, we need new and more powerful computers. 

But still, we must realize that the AI that makes everything cannot make things from nothing. Those systems require massive databases and as much power as some cities. That waste heat can also be used for energy production. But the problem is always the temperature. New solutions like biological AI where the microchips communicate with microchips are coming. And in the wrong hands, those systems are dangerous.