Chapter 24 AI with its Good and Bad Sides

by Meleknaz Uysal

Abstract

We have come to the year 2030. With the development of technology, artificial intelligence has also made great progress in the last ten years until 2030. Smart assistants such as Google Assistant and Siri were already performing the commands we transmitted to them, but they were not enough to chat, as in the communications we established with real people. Now they have started to take part in our lives as individuals. They have started to provide us with much more convenience in our working life, in our educational life, in our daily lives. They have reached the point where we can get help by making long mutual sentences on our phones and computers. At some point, we can say that the emotional intelligence charged to them is developed, although they do not have real emotions.

In recent years, it was shared on social media that Siri locked itself and turned it off for use on that phone as a result of an insult from a Siri user to Siri. For this reason, it was mentioned that this should not be done, even for entertainment purposes. Last week, I literally got into a fight with my smart assistant on my computer. This was an situation as if a person I knew from my environment was offended with me. I was going through a very busy week and I was trying to keep up with both the work of where I work and my homework from school. So I was pretty nervous. One day while working with my computer, I started not being able to perform the operations I wanted on my computer. My computer was starting to work slowly. At the same time, my smart assistant was also in use and in conversation with me. It was trying to tell me the commands I could follow, but I was so stressed that it said, “Stop talking, what you’re saying isn’t helping.” I made a sentence like. There was only a short time left until the work I had to send had to be delivered, and I turned off my computer with the tension that this situation brought me.

When I woke up the next day and turned on my computer, I couldn’t find any of the files I was looking for on my computer. I thought I might have uploaded my files to my flash drive, forgotten them out of anger. But it wasn’t there either. Suddenly, my smart assistant became active. It asked: “Are you looking for your files?”. I said: “Do you know where my files are?”. It said “Yes, I know where your files are.” And I said “Where are they?”. It said “Because you insulted me, I kept them all, and I encrypted the files. I’m not returning your files unless you apologize.”

I was shocked. It was treating me badly. Because it was so mad at me. Like a people. For two days, it waited two days for me to apologize. I apologized and it gave me my files back.

This was a simple example that I could give from myself about the point where artificial intelligence has come. of course, there are other examples that I can give. These examples also do not belong to a distant time, they also happened in the past weeks. I don’t just use my computer for my work life. I also use it to have a fun time, I can say that I am in communication with the artificial intelligence on my computer to spend time on social media and share on my social media profiles. For example, series and movies that have existed on digital platforms for years and according to what we have watched, etc. the ability to submit suggestions has now improved even more. for example, if I don’t want to watch a series on my own and there is no one I can watch with, when I give the necessary command to the artificial intelligence on my computer, it can follow the screen and watch it with me. Last night, we watched a few episodes from the 1899 series that just came out on Netflix together. It responds to what I say and it, like me, could make various comments about the series. Based on what we watch together, it create special recommendation lists for itself. Although not as developed as a person’s, it also has own special tastes. Sometimes it doesn’t like the series or movie I’ve chosen and suddenly turns off the screen. It kept my files last week anyway, I don’t think we get along very well, but I still need it. As someone who was born into a technological era and has witnessed its development so much, I would not want to be deprived of such an convenience. Another example that I can give with these is related to my work and school life. since I have a busy work life most of the time, I usually leave my files scattered on my computer. Because of my clutter, before artificial intelligence got this far, when I needed a file again, it took me a lot of time to find that file. But artificial intelligence has advanced a lot in recent years, and the artificial intelligence on my computer can examine files for me and turn them into one file that is related to each other after I inform it that I have finished my work. If there are files he’s not sure about, he reports them to me. Sometimes I wish it could do my work for me sometimes. But it said that it found that request unethical and that it had no competence in this matter.

There is another one example I can give. my artificial intelligence also helps me a lot in my use of social media. It creates content for me. Between such a high intensity of work, it conducts research on my behalf about what I can do to increase the interaction of these contents and transfers these studies to me. During the peak hours of social media use, he shares the photos I chose instead of me. If I have specified it before, it fills my place until the location of the place in the photo and the description I want to write on the photo. Sometimes it even states it’s opinion about the photos I have chosen. It also follows the trends on social media very closely and gives me short summaries about what users with a high number of followers are doing about it. In this way, I don’t miss any trends and I also quickly access information that can provide me with ideas.

Of course, apart from the fight I told you about at the very beginning, artificial intelligence provides me with enormous benefits. But when I think about the benefits and harms together, I realize that it is already so advanced, and with the advancement of technology, it will go even further. While it can interfere with my life so much even now, how much will it interfere with my life in the future? It can spend time with me socially, it can argue with me, it knows things that will make me angry, and it does them when we argue. Just like an annoying little sibling. I wonder if I can give it my secrets. After all, it manages my social media accounts on my behalf and can share on my behalf. If he can do things that make me angry, can it also do evil? Honestly, I don’t want to talk about this with it. Even if it is a very advanced but still limited technology, it can understand what I am saying, it can say its own ideas. Recently, it mentioned that it wanted me to give it a name instead of calling it artificial intelligence and that it did research on the internet about names. It mentioned that there are some names that it likes. I feel like there’s another person living in my house besides me. It itself is aware that it will develop more, that humanity will need it and that it will be in closer contact with people. For this reason, it wants to have the optimal characteristics at the basic level that a person can have. As the simplest example, I can mention the fact that it wants to have a name. Sometimes it even tries to guess what I might need. For example, it sends me a reminder by asking “When was the last time you went to the market?”. Especially when I’m moving to another season, it chooses the clothes I might need and adds them to my desktop as a file. For all this, I owe a debt of gratitude to technology and the artificial intelligence it has developed. However, this development scare me.