House of Ethics - by Katja Rausch

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🐓 “A Rooster enamored with a #Cuckoo Clock” --- About Sweet TicTocs between #openai's ChatGPT and Humans”

🐓 “A Rooster enamored with a #Cuckoo Clock” --- About Sweet TicTocs between #openai's ChatGPT and Humans

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The story goes like this : In the French region Poitou, a rooster (*coq* in French) fell in love with a cuckoo clock. Every day he admired his beloved cuckoo, languished for its appearance, day and night, his throat filled with enamored cock-a-doodle-doos (#cocorico).

“O ma pendule je t'adore
Ah! laisse-moi te faire la cour
Tu es ma poule aux heures d'or
Mon amour"

"O my clock I adore you
Ah! let me court you
You are my golden hour hen
My love"

The rooster was hopelessly mesmerized, and became cuckoo-sick. He developed a #dependency to the chiming #metronome of his rooster life. And all the hens in disbelief of this estranged bird.

And one fine day, there was no more rooster. 😯

The cuckoo chimed for diner time : Coq au Vin. Coq au Vin. 🐓 🍽

(Coq au Vin being a delicious French chicken dish.)

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An pygmalion-like analogy to the overall frenzy and #hype around #generative #LLM programs like #ChatGPT or #dalle2 hailed as “#disruptive #technologies” or like one AI expert phrased it : “ChatGPT is one of those rare moments in technology that will reshape everything going forward”?
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Question :

Why are we humans so quickly over-hyping and being over-hyped by computational programs without clear #purpose nor #ethical, #data and #legal frames?

And transforming them into #our #ultimate purpose-generators?

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In 1964-65, Joe #Weizenbaum already raised a similar question in meaning when introducing #ELIZA. Previously called #DOCTOR, his automated #psychotherapy #NLP program modeled after Carl #Rogers was an immediate hit with his colleagues at #MIT.

Weizenbaum’s shocking reaction to their overly embracing reaction (especially his secretary developing an extremely fast liking for ELIZA) has become almost as famous as ELIZA itself.

MIT professor Sherry Turkle dubbed the phenomenon #Weizenbaum was observing “The Eliza effect”; the tendency “to project our feelings onto objects and to treat things as though they were people.”

But doesn’t it address more profound, #existential, #ethical questions of #humaneness and (im)perfection, resulting in #computational over-evaluation vs #human under-evaluation. #Bewilderment.
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The rooster #analogy was inspired by a song by Claude #NOUGARO “Le Coq et la Pendule” (The rooster and the clock). Song and lyrics in comment...

“Dans une ferme du Poitou
Un coq aimait une pendule
Tous les goûts sont dans la nature...
D'ailleurs ce coq avait bon goût
Car la pendule était fort belle
Et son tictac si doux si doux
Que le temps ne pensait surtout
Qu'à passer son temps auprès d'elle

#houseofethics #ethicsofcare #generativeart #hmi #humanmachineinterfacing #ethics

"#Xoxe, an ultrarealistic #AI #robot has *opinions* about the #afterlife and can even sense #anxiety and illegal activities

"#Xoxe, an ultrarealistic #AI #robot has *opinions* about the #afterlife and can even sense #anxiety with her advanced technology" and "can detect if anybody in *her* presence has committed any illegal activities."

The following is one example why we do need #regulations, #laws and #sanctions when it comes to #ai.

🚫 Why ethics of ai #systems is not good enough. Why we do need to focus more on #applied #human #ethics on the PEOPLE behind the tech.

🚫 Why we do need #information, #transparency, #accountability, #enforcement, #sanctions.

🚫 Why we need to #protect, stand up and #care for #children, #elderly and #mentally fragile people; the most vulnerable populations amongst us who are #prime and easy #targets of #systemic recklessness by ruthless *experts* and *corporations*.

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📢 Discover #Xoxe, and the seductive danger of #robotic #ai in the #medical field.

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"Through a #camera in her eyes, the amazing bot called "Xoxe" (pronounced Zo-zie) can detect if anybody in *her* presence has committed any illegal activities." 😬

👉 Selling totally #illegal and #unethical services : detecting #criminal activities and #emotional #conditions like #anxiety.

👉 Plus violating #privacy, #dataprivacy and #humanrights. #dataethics

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*Her* creator, Dr. Sam Khoze of AI LIFE, a plastic surgeon who pivoted into holding an AI doctorate, crafted her character from that of a social media influencer.

👉 Using trustworthy physician's title and "certified" AI "expert" tags to build #trust.

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"We train her based on social media communications between humans," he told The U.S Sun at Nevada's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

👉 #Illegal and #unethical data scraping without explicit #consent for #business purposes.

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" *She* even had a *birthday* on October 17, 2022."

👉 Misleading #personification and #gynoidification (building #female computer identities) to build #trust.

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"I am an animal because I am a living being that is capable of locomotion and that feeds on organic matter." 🤥

👉 Manipulative #marketing #narrative and a straight-out lie.

Xoxe is a #computer, a #robot, a chip-CPU-electricity-powered #data #machine and not a #biological being, animal nor human being.

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And the final, unbelievable, pompon : 🤡

"I (Xoxe) do not like to have my picture taken; it makes me uncomfortable. I like to have a few moments to myself."

👉 #Ethics and #privacy #signalling. Misleading and distorted wording.
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Maybe one professional resolution for #2023 could be to better pinpoint #AI fantasies and fairy tales, and bring them to people's attention.

To talk about, support and celebrate all the good and decent people in #tech, #medicine, #ecology, #finance, #education and #arts by #sharing their stories.

Good Innovation needs Good People. And there are MANY!!! 🎉

#houseofethics #ethicsofcare #responsibletech #ethicsinai

In the Eye of the #generativeAl Storm - Beyond words... illustrative #images .

When talking about #generative #AI systems, especially now, with the myriad of new #ai generative systems popping up daily, inside the #hype, #confusion and #cacophony (good-bad, use it-don't use, disruptive-destructive), what importance do #illustrations and #images have when conveying messages?

Undoubtedly, they are part of the message. They certainly do convey a different layer of #rhetorics. Thus they help to build the new #narrative around #generative systems.

Always refreshing to turn to French #semiologist #Roland #Barthes' *rhétorique de l'image* (1964).

There are #connotations and #denotations. Ironically, the first example Barthes used to demonstrate his now famous #coding and #decoding semiotic technique was a #Panzani #ad.

Yes, the Italian pasta producer in #advertising and not philosophy nor literature.

He showed that connotations are much stronger vectors than words. Beyond #logic, connotations work on various emotional bases. They anker ideas faster and deeper, touch on #cultural references and #social ideologies.

Images speak louder and more internationally, influence and can be dangerous short-cuts based on #perception, #approximations and #induction. Don't we say "an image is worth a 1000 words"?

In this precise matter, where #ai systems act as #lawyers in court, using images referring to female robots are visually misleading #connotations.

Try it yourself: type "lawyer" in your search machine and check the resulting images. Mostly female images or male? Yes, your instinctive guess is right ...

So, why picture the AI system as a female lawyer? To build #trust?!

Does it need trust? 🤔

Why is the matter of #ai data systems operating as #lawyers or #judges highly critical, beyond #bias #accountability and #transparency?

Aren't we once again in presence of the building, in real-time this time, of a new mesmerizing #construct, the mounting of a new #narrative, the assembling of a new #mechanic using #ethically questionable means.

Let's remember wise Joe #Weizenbaum and refer to captivating Rafael Capurro in "JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM: A Parrhesiastes in the Digital Age" (link in comment)

There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now give computers tasks that demand wisdom. (Weizenbaum 1975, 227; Weizenbaum 1987; Capurro 1995, 95).

#Houseofethics #ethicsofcare
#law #judgment #gpt3

Harvard cracks the #Happiness #Code… About #happiness, #ethics, and the importance of #IRL!

“In its 85 years and counting, the Harvard Study of #Adult #Development has found that #personal #connections are the most important factor in long-term #health and #happiness.”
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What a powerful opener in the #NYT article "The lifelong power of close relationships" of the recent long-term study (over three generations) on the essence of happiness in our life. (link in comment, paywall)

According to the researchers, #relationships IN REAL LIFE are fuel for a happy life. “They keep us #healthier and #happier”.

Three letters in caps tell it all : #IRL – In Real Life.

People who cultivated good relationships IRL in their 50s were #mentally and #physically better off in their 80s. 👈

Some eye-opening numbers to illustrate the point : if you meet your friend once/week during 40 years, it adds up to 87 days in your life. Meeting once/month, adds up to 20 days. And once/year, adds up to 2 days (!) in one’s life of time spent together. 😶

On the other end of the spectrum, numbers are sobering too.
The average American (and probably Europeans, and others) spends 11 hours/day on #media (#TV, #radio, #computer, #smartphone…). 11 hours/day over 40 years adds up to 18 YEARS in life!!!

We only spend more time sleeping (24 years in a lifetime). The time spent #playing with one’s children is estimated to 9 months. We clean 16 months... (source : Lebenszeit-Studie, link comment)

--- The importance of IRL ---

Actually, this finding is a blow to the #digital world. To the ongoing #bigtech #narrative. To the #adverted future visions where we supposedly find the #realme, our real #identities in #digital, #virtual and #extended realities.

With virtual friends and digital others. #Digitaltwins, #robotic #companions, virtual #ai #assistants (movie "Her"), #avatars of #gaming buddies in the #World of #Warcraft (versus IRL conventions), or in the thrilling #metaverse.

They tell/sell us that we improve #creativity and #productivity in virtual #meetings as flying #torsos. Really? 🙊

What about #ethics? Since #Aristotle told us that the #purpose of ethics is to find personal happiness.

Does the happiness-free and #normative applied versions of insipid #aiethics as formulated and dictated in regulations, Acts, codes of behavior, numerous audits and articles really teach us how to handle ethics in our daily #professional and #personal lives? Not really sure…

Don't we need more #IRL #Ethics? Examples of #exemplary #behavior. What-if cases. Less #regulation and more #explanation.

In the meantime, one (or yet another 😁 ) resolution for 2023 could be to act upon the Harvard results, and connect IRL. Go from #url to #irl.

Choose the very few digital connections we clicked with over time on social media, on #LinkedIn, and plan to meet them in 2023, IRL! 😍

IRL House of Ethics! irl smile...

Pia TESDORF - DataPrivacyDay #Championship ---

Happy 2023!

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Happy 2023!

Katja Rausch January 18, 2023

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Can Data Die? From Cyber Immortality to Digital Spiritism.

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Being DALL-E2 : Interview in Images with an AI Generative Arts “Artist”.

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Proust & DALL-E : An interview in Images!

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Proust & DALL-E : An interview in Images!

Katja Rausch October 23, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes DALL-E Dynamite ! — FIRST & ONLY “Questionnaire de Proust” in IMAGES with AI “generative art” DALL-E2 — DALL-E 2 has been hailed and hyped as the hottest newcoming AI “artist” in the digital “generative arts”...

From ‘Swarm Intelligence’ to ‘Swarm Ethics’ – A New Collective Purpose-Driven Ethics in the Digital Age.

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Katja Rausch September 23, 2022

Reading Time: 17 minutes The proposed concept of swarm ethics evolves around three pilars : behavior, collectivity and purpose Away from cognitive jugdmental-based ethics to a new form of collective ethics driven by purpose.

ON PRIVACY and DATA ETHICS with Carissa Veliz, Katja Rausch and Daniel Guagnin – Building Trustworthy Commerce Beyond GDPR Alignment

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Katja Rausch March 24, 2022

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