Re: Ideology
Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 11:14 pm
The ideology of "artificial intelligence" as another form of idealism to enslave workers
No. 5/81.V.2023
There are three big old ideological systems that are exploited by the bourgeoisie to maintain its hegemony - religion, nationalism and democracy. All of them, in fact, are the most speculative varieties of idealism, lies, fairy tales and nonsense, designed to cloud the brains of the working people, to confuse them, playing on herd feelings. Religion is mainly offered to the most culturally backward peoples, nationalism to the weak, catching up countries, and democracy is the lot of the developed capitalist countries.
Such an established gradation does not mean that religious ideology is simpler or more primitive than, for example, democratic. It's just that these types of worldview and political thinking historically belonged mainly to successive eras. Religion to feudalism. Nationalism to capitalism in the period of bourgeois revolutions. Democracy to imperialism (although democracy was both ancient and feudal, it flourished precisely when the masses became a little more literate and already stopped believing in biblical tales).
Moreover, all three ideologies were effectively adapted in modern conditions by the oligarchy.
The contradictions between religion, nationalism and democracy are just as artificial as between different religions, different nationalisms and different democracies. Insofar as they are all false, insofar as at the moment they add up to various ideological configurations, sometimes monstrously mutant, or, on the contrary, they can declare "irreconcilable contradictions". The whole point here is in the class struggle, in the contrasting interests of various countries, detachments of the bourgeoisie, etc., who use them. In other words, all these “three whales” in all their varieties and bizarre combinations are an ideological wrapper of lies covering up some real political processes with real economic interests in each specific case, in each specific country. Chatter for the fooled masses.
At the same time, it should be additionally noted that what has been said above does not mean that nations do not exist objectively, that there is no national liberation struggle, and so on. Nations exist and fight, but nationalism has nothing to do with it. It is not nationalism that leads the people to the liberation struggle, but the oppression of people on a national basis, the infringement of their feelings, language, culture, and the like. The latter only creates a fertile ground for nationalism due to the fact that the masses, unfortunately, are not able to independently master Marxism, and the communists are by no means always able to play a leading role in the national movement.
So, returning to the topic of the publication, we are waiting for the formation of a new, "fresh" ideological system of clouding people's brains. It will not be as large and comprehensive as these three, but the bourgeoisie is making a serious bet on it. This is the ideology of "artificial intelligence".
Ten years will pass, and we will see that the prime minister of some small European country will be “artificial intelligence”. Dismissal of people, crises and social upheavals will be explained by the influence of "artificial intelligence". Unpopular decisions and reforms will be carried out under the pretext of their validity by an impartial "artificial intelligence". In the latter case, “artificial intelligence” will be presented in a similar way to the way arguments based on statistics and cost economic parameters such as GDP, trade balance, and so on are used today.
In short, the bourgeoisie will slip between themselves, their government and the people the lining of "artificial intelligence". Since the bourgeoisie will command this "intellect", insofar as its functionality will serve its interests.
It's the same here as with any technology. Since technology belongs to the "dead" element of the productive forces (tools of production), it serves the one who owns it. If we grow up to put this technology at the service of us, the fighting communists within bourgeois society, then this concrete manifestation of it will be useful and progressive. But basically and in general, you need to understand that "artificial intelligence" will work for the ruling class. And it is important now, in connection with these trends, to debunk the myths about technology itself, to give a correct, scientific, Marxist understanding of it, and, of course, to debunk the ideology that the bourgeoisie winds up on it, giving a social and political color to its meaning.
Technology and ideology of "artificial intelligence"
First of all, you need to understand that "artificial intelligence" and specifically "neural networks" is a computer program in the most literal and direct sense of the word. The "neural network" differs from other programs in its relative complexity and computational gluttony. And those "neural networks" that are called "artificial intelligence" differ from the usual computer programs by the ability to use them without knowing the encoding and mastering the interface, that is, entering requests and setting tasks occur through ordinary human language.
Purely technologically, the essence of the “neural network” is that instead of writing a lot of algorithms manually, it is based on a limited number of algorithms that, based on a huge amount of data, create new algorithms, the number of which is potentially limited only by the amount of data. Of course, these data must be “marked up” manually by a person, or with the help of a person, their primary processing must be controlled. For example, the now popular ChatGPT, based on tens or hundreds of thousands of algorithms and a giant array of labeled data, has generated about 170 billion algorithms. It is clear that manually writing 170 billion formulas is an impossible task, but due to the uniformity of the data, this process can be automated, which was successfully done. What distinguishes ChatGPT from other similar programs is primarily the amount of data used, requiring huge investments in computing power. Microsoft made a very expensive chat room that won the hearts of the townsfolk and scammers.
In short, a "neural network" is a program for automating tasks that can be solved based on statistically significant "averages". They found their first and most impressive application in the recognition of images, text, and in working with large arrays of verbal information. Those. where it is relatively easy to find patterns based on the search for common parameters in a large sample.
The very technology of "neural networks" and even similar "chat bots" is and will continue to be widely used, it is far from useless. Although so far it looks more like a toy, it can also be used in solving quite serious applied problems. The question is not that the technology is somehow wrong, bourgeois and non-proletarian. The technology is wonderful. The question is how and to whom it serves and in what ideological wrapper it is enclosed. The USSR applied remarkable nuclear technologies by creating the world's first nuclear power plant, and the United States - a bomb. As they say, feel the difference.
What are all these bourgeois lackeys of technocracy telling us?
It all starts with the names of the programs - "neural networks", "artificial intelligence". The words "neural" and "intelligence" refer us to the fact that we are allegedly facing some kind of machine copy of the thought process. Computer propagandists say so directly that the “neural network” uses the same principles as our brain. All this, of course, is complete nonsense, exploiting methodological illiteracy and the complete lack of philosophical culture among most people, including industry professionals. No mathematical model can even roughly reflect the process of thinking, because thinking (and more broadly reflection as a whole) is based on a qualitative process, operating with quality, and mathematics underlying programming is capable of expressing exclusively the quantitative component of being. Quality cannot be deduced from quantity, on the contrary, quantity belongs to quality. Quality has quantitative certainty, and not vice versa. Quantitative operation can give a technical solution, but not thinking. This is clear to everyone who owns diamatics.
The problematic of the impossibility of computer thinking can be revealed at a more understandable, non-philosophical level. So, all these neurobiologists and neurocomputers assert and proceed from the fact that thinking is a property of the human brain. They delve into the brain tissue, make mathematical models, trying to comprehend the scientific secret of thinking, to reveal its mechanisms. Whereas Marxism asserts otherwise, that thinking is a property of highly organized matter - human society . A person thinks as a manifestation of society, and the brain is an organ of thinking. If we take a person who is healthy in every sense with a reference brain, without society, no thinking will arise in him. Therefore, to look for the mechanisms of thinking in the brain tissue is the wrong question. Moreover, it has been reliably established that depriving a person of a part of the brain leads to the fact that part of the functionality of the lost tissues is taken over by the remaining ones, that is, the brain connected to the sense organs is a universal biological mechanism in which the property of highly organized matter - society - is manifested. thinking. Technoromantics turn everything upside down, fall into empiricism and induction. Their technologies control technologists, the form determines the content, the manifestation determines the essence, the particular prevails over the general.
A computer program cannot form social bonds, cannot feel, does not have a psyche, so it is impossible to simulate its socialization. Due to the organization of this type of matter, neither the laws of living organisms nor the laws of social development apply to it. Therefore, it is inaccessible to operate with quality, essences, which means that goal-setting and thinking in general are impossible. She is not alive.
If we talk about the prospects for creating artificial intelligence, then it seems more realistic to implant human brain tissue into a highly developed animal, improve its sense organs through technology, artificially interfere with the body - release the vocal cords by upright posture for the emergence of articulate speech, and the like while improving training methods aside upbringing and education. But the question is: why mock an animal for the sake of some naked pseudo-scientific ambition?
People perfectly produce people, and we need to improve pedagogy, develop intellect on the basis of bringing social relations to the requirements of progress. People are wonderful at producing computer programs that automate the solution of applied problems. These are processes occurring at different levels in different spheres of productive forces.
The ideology of "artificial intelligence" is another bourgeois lie designed to confuse a one-sidedly educated public.
First , it breeds fears of a “machine uprising,” and intimidating the proletariat is one of the most effective ways to keep it in line.
Secondly , it provides another means of manipulating public consciousness. It makes it possible to deceive the proletariat with "impartial" analytics. Many do not understand two things. The first is that the way the fed “neural network” data is labeled, and what kind of data it is, depends on what it will produce at the output. The second is that the technology itself is expensive and under the control of the bourgeoisie. Yes, a simple “neural network” can be created even by a student on a laptop, but to create a “neural network” capable of solving complex problems, billions of dollars of investments in processor performance and data markup are needed.
Thirdly , it provides another (along with hunger, lack of money, consumer loans) tool to stimulate the workforce. “If you don’t work hard, I will replace you with AI.” Large corporations are already exploiting this topic with might and main.
So the statement of the technocrats that we are entering the age of AI should be understood first of all as another form of idealism is being formed to strengthen the power of capital over labor.
A. Redin
14/05/2023
https://prorivists.org/81_ai/
Google Translator
It helps to read "thinking" as 'consciousness', many animal 'think' to some degree. Maybe a google translator issue. Goddamn AI....
It ain't AI, it;s a bunch of cobbled together programs with a huge database. The hallmark of AI, in SF anyways, is nothing less than consciousness.
No. 5/81.V.2023
There are three big old ideological systems that are exploited by the bourgeoisie to maintain its hegemony - religion, nationalism and democracy. All of them, in fact, are the most speculative varieties of idealism, lies, fairy tales and nonsense, designed to cloud the brains of the working people, to confuse them, playing on herd feelings. Religion is mainly offered to the most culturally backward peoples, nationalism to the weak, catching up countries, and democracy is the lot of the developed capitalist countries.
Such an established gradation does not mean that religious ideology is simpler or more primitive than, for example, democratic. It's just that these types of worldview and political thinking historically belonged mainly to successive eras. Religion to feudalism. Nationalism to capitalism in the period of bourgeois revolutions. Democracy to imperialism (although democracy was both ancient and feudal, it flourished precisely when the masses became a little more literate and already stopped believing in biblical tales).
Moreover, all three ideologies were effectively adapted in modern conditions by the oligarchy.
The contradictions between religion, nationalism and democracy are just as artificial as between different religions, different nationalisms and different democracies. Insofar as they are all false, insofar as at the moment they add up to various ideological configurations, sometimes monstrously mutant, or, on the contrary, they can declare "irreconcilable contradictions". The whole point here is in the class struggle, in the contrasting interests of various countries, detachments of the bourgeoisie, etc., who use them. In other words, all these “three whales” in all their varieties and bizarre combinations are an ideological wrapper of lies covering up some real political processes with real economic interests in each specific case, in each specific country. Chatter for the fooled masses.
At the same time, it should be additionally noted that what has been said above does not mean that nations do not exist objectively, that there is no national liberation struggle, and so on. Nations exist and fight, but nationalism has nothing to do with it. It is not nationalism that leads the people to the liberation struggle, but the oppression of people on a national basis, the infringement of their feelings, language, culture, and the like. The latter only creates a fertile ground for nationalism due to the fact that the masses, unfortunately, are not able to independently master Marxism, and the communists are by no means always able to play a leading role in the national movement.
So, returning to the topic of the publication, we are waiting for the formation of a new, "fresh" ideological system of clouding people's brains. It will not be as large and comprehensive as these three, but the bourgeoisie is making a serious bet on it. This is the ideology of "artificial intelligence".
Ten years will pass, and we will see that the prime minister of some small European country will be “artificial intelligence”. Dismissal of people, crises and social upheavals will be explained by the influence of "artificial intelligence". Unpopular decisions and reforms will be carried out under the pretext of their validity by an impartial "artificial intelligence". In the latter case, “artificial intelligence” will be presented in a similar way to the way arguments based on statistics and cost economic parameters such as GDP, trade balance, and so on are used today.
In short, the bourgeoisie will slip between themselves, their government and the people the lining of "artificial intelligence". Since the bourgeoisie will command this "intellect", insofar as its functionality will serve its interests.
It's the same here as with any technology. Since technology belongs to the "dead" element of the productive forces (tools of production), it serves the one who owns it. If we grow up to put this technology at the service of us, the fighting communists within bourgeois society, then this concrete manifestation of it will be useful and progressive. But basically and in general, you need to understand that "artificial intelligence" will work for the ruling class. And it is important now, in connection with these trends, to debunk the myths about technology itself, to give a correct, scientific, Marxist understanding of it, and, of course, to debunk the ideology that the bourgeoisie winds up on it, giving a social and political color to its meaning.
Technology and ideology of "artificial intelligence"
First of all, you need to understand that "artificial intelligence" and specifically "neural networks" is a computer program in the most literal and direct sense of the word. The "neural network" differs from other programs in its relative complexity and computational gluttony. And those "neural networks" that are called "artificial intelligence" differ from the usual computer programs by the ability to use them without knowing the encoding and mastering the interface, that is, entering requests and setting tasks occur through ordinary human language.
Purely technologically, the essence of the “neural network” is that instead of writing a lot of algorithms manually, it is based on a limited number of algorithms that, based on a huge amount of data, create new algorithms, the number of which is potentially limited only by the amount of data. Of course, these data must be “marked up” manually by a person, or with the help of a person, their primary processing must be controlled. For example, the now popular ChatGPT, based on tens or hundreds of thousands of algorithms and a giant array of labeled data, has generated about 170 billion algorithms. It is clear that manually writing 170 billion formulas is an impossible task, but due to the uniformity of the data, this process can be automated, which was successfully done. What distinguishes ChatGPT from other similar programs is primarily the amount of data used, requiring huge investments in computing power. Microsoft made a very expensive chat room that won the hearts of the townsfolk and scammers.
In short, a "neural network" is a program for automating tasks that can be solved based on statistically significant "averages". They found their first and most impressive application in the recognition of images, text, and in working with large arrays of verbal information. Those. where it is relatively easy to find patterns based on the search for common parameters in a large sample.
The very technology of "neural networks" and even similar "chat bots" is and will continue to be widely used, it is far from useless. Although so far it looks more like a toy, it can also be used in solving quite serious applied problems. The question is not that the technology is somehow wrong, bourgeois and non-proletarian. The technology is wonderful. The question is how and to whom it serves and in what ideological wrapper it is enclosed. The USSR applied remarkable nuclear technologies by creating the world's first nuclear power plant, and the United States - a bomb. As they say, feel the difference.
What are all these bourgeois lackeys of technocracy telling us?
It all starts with the names of the programs - "neural networks", "artificial intelligence". The words "neural" and "intelligence" refer us to the fact that we are allegedly facing some kind of machine copy of the thought process. Computer propagandists say so directly that the “neural network” uses the same principles as our brain. All this, of course, is complete nonsense, exploiting methodological illiteracy and the complete lack of philosophical culture among most people, including industry professionals. No mathematical model can even roughly reflect the process of thinking, because thinking (and more broadly reflection as a whole) is based on a qualitative process, operating with quality, and mathematics underlying programming is capable of expressing exclusively the quantitative component of being. Quality cannot be deduced from quantity, on the contrary, quantity belongs to quality. Quality has quantitative certainty, and not vice versa. Quantitative operation can give a technical solution, but not thinking. This is clear to everyone who owns diamatics.
The problematic of the impossibility of computer thinking can be revealed at a more understandable, non-philosophical level. So, all these neurobiologists and neurocomputers assert and proceed from the fact that thinking is a property of the human brain. They delve into the brain tissue, make mathematical models, trying to comprehend the scientific secret of thinking, to reveal its mechanisms. Whereas Marxism asserts otherwise, that thinking is a property of highly organized matter - human society . A person thinks as a manifestation of society, and the brain is an organ of thinking. If we take a person who is healthy in every sense with a reference brain, without society, no thinking will arise in him. Therefore, to look for the mechanisms of thinking in the brain tissue is the wrong question. Moreover, it has been reliably established that depriving a person of a part of the brain leads to the fact that part of the functionality of the lost tissues is taken over by the remaining ones, that is, the brain connected to the sense organs is a universal biological mechanism in which the property of highly organized matter - society - is manifested. thinking. Technoromantics turn everything upside down, fall into empiricism and induction. Their technologies control technologists, the form determines the content, the manifestation determines the essence, the particular prevails over the general.
A computer program cannot form social bonds, cannot feel, does not have a psyche, so it is impossible to simulate its socialization. Due to the organization of this type of matter, neither the laws of living organisms nor the laws of social development apply to it. Therefore, it is inaccessible to operate with quality, essences, which means that goal-setting and thinking in general are impossible. She is not alive.
If we talk about the prospects for creating artificial intelligence, then it seems more realistic to implant human brain tissue into a highly developed animal, improve its sense organs through technology, artificially interfere with the body - release the vocal cords by upright posture for the emergence of articulate speech, and the like while improving training methods aside upbringing and education. But the question is: why mock an animal for the sake of some naked pseudo-scientific ambition?
People perfectly produce people, and we need to improve pedagogy, develop intellect on the basis of bringing social relations to the requirements of progress. People are wonderful at producing computer programs that automate the solution of applied problems. These are processes occurring at different levels in different spheres of productive forces.
The ideology of "artificial intelligence" is another bourgeois lie designed to confuse a one-sidedly educated public.
First , it breeds fears of a “machine uprising,” and intimidating the proletariat is one of the most effective ways to keep it in line.
Secondly , it provides another means of manipulating public consciousness. It makes it possible to deceive the proletariat with "impartial" analytics. Many do not understand two things. The first is that the way the fed “neural network” data is labeled, and what kind of data it is, depends on what it will produce at the output. The second is that the technology itself is expensive and under the control of the bourgeoisie. Yes, a simple “neural network” can be created even by a student on a laptop, but to create a “neural network” capable of solving complex problems, billions of dollars of investments in processor performance and data markup are needed.
Thirdly , it provides another (along with hunger, lack of money, consumer loans) tool to stimulate the workforce. “If you don’t work hard, I will replace you with AI.” Large corporations are already exploiting this topic with might and main.
So the statement of the technocrats that we are entering the age of AI should be understood first of all as another form of idealism is being formed to strengthen the power of capital over labor.
A. Redin
14/05/2023
https://prorivists.org/81_ai/
Google Translator
It helps to read "thinking" as 'consciousness', many animal 'think' to some degree. Maybe a google translator issue. Goddamn AI....
It ain't AI, it;s a bunch of cobbled together programs with a huge database. The hallmark of AI, in SF anyways, is nothing less than consciousness.