V luči zadnjega poročanja o poskusih ameriške vojske z algoritmi umetne inteligence, ki bi vodili vojaške napade z droni, in kjer naj bi umetna inteligenca z dronom uničila svojega kreatorja in nadzornika, ker jo je omejeval pri doseganju postavljenega cilja (glejte tukaj https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/us-military-drone-ai-killed-operator-simulated-test?CMP=share_btn_tw), se tale markisstični pogled na umetno inteligenco ne zdi povsem odbit:
“Marx provides the proper theoretical framework for understanding knowledge. Humans, besides being unique concrete individuals, are also carriers of social relations, as abstract individuals. As abstract individuals, ‘humans’ is a general designation that obliterates differences between individuals, all of them with different interests and world views. Even if machines (computers) could think, they could not think like class-determined humans with different, class-determined conceptions of what is true and false, right or wrong. To believe that computers are capable of human thinking is not only wrong; it is also a pro-capital ideology because that is being blind to the class content of the knowledge stored up in labour power and thus to the contradictions inherent in the generation of knowledge.”
I invited my close colleague and joint author of our latest book, Guglielmo Carchedi, to write this post.
In a comment on Michael Roberts’ blog post concerning artificial intelligence (AI) and the new language learning machines (LLMs), the author and commentator, Jack Rasmus raised some pertinent questions, which I felt bound to take up.
Jack said: “does Marx’s analysis of machinery and his view that machinery is congealed labor value that is passed into the commodity as it depreciates apply completely to AI software-based machines that have the increasing capability to self-maintain and upgrade their own code without human labor intervention – i.e. not to depreciate?”
My answer to Jack’s’ legitimate question presupposes the development of a Marxist epistemology (a theory of knowledge), an area of research that has remained relatively unexplored and underdeveloped.
In my view, one of the key features of a Marxist approach is to make a…
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