The technological breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence,represented by ChatGPT,have brought about significant social changes as well as new problems and challenges.Generative artificial intelligence has ...The technological breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence,represented by ChatGPT,have brought about significant social changes as well as new problems and challenges.Generative artificial intelligence has inherent flaws such as language imbalance,algorithmic black box,and algorithmic bias,and at the same time,it has external risks such as algorithmic comfort zone,data pollution,algorithmic infringement,and inaccurate output.These problems lead to the difficulty in legislation for the governance of generative artificial intelligence.Taking the data contamination incident in Google Translate as an example,this article proposes that in the process of constructing machine translation ethics,the responsibility mechanism of generative artificial intelligence should be constructed around three elements:data processing,algorithmic optimisation,and ethical alignment.展开更多
The current process of scientific and technological development is the outcome of the epochal Cultural Revolution in the West:i.e.The emergence of the Age of Enlightenment and its pursuit of“rationality”.Today,“rat...The current process of scientific and technological development is the outcome of the epochal Cultural Revolution in the West:i.e.The emergence of the Age of Enlightenment and its pursuit of“rationality”.Today,“rationality”combined with“logic”has mutated into a“strong belief”in the power of rationality and“computational processes”as a‘safer’and the only way to acquire knowledge.This is the main driving force behind the emergence of AI.The core of this mindset is the fundamental duality of the observer and the observed.After the imperial expansion of Western Europe-in alliance with religion,its previous foe(“Christianity”)-this worldview became the globally dominant mindset.The paper explores the dominant narrative of rationality and reason in Western science,and seeks an alternative world of cultural diversity.展开更多
There have been widespread concerns about two aspects of the current explosion of predictive text models and other algorithm-based computational tools.On one hand,it is often insisted that Artificial Intelligence(AI)s...There have been widespread concerns about two aspects of the current explosion of predictive text models and other algorithm-based computational tools.On one hand,it is often insisted that Artificial Intelligence(AI)should be made“ethical”,and software providers take this seriously,attempting to make sure that their tools are not used to facilitate grossly criminal or widely condemned activities.On the other hand,it is also widely understood that those who create these tools have a responsibility to ensure that they are“unbiased”,as opposed to simply helping one side in political contestation define their perspectives as reality for all.Unfortunately,these two goals cannot be jointly satisfied,as there are perhaps no ethical prescriptions worthy of notice that are not contested by some.Here I investigate the current ethico-political sensibility of ChatGPT,demonstrating that the very attempt to give it an ethical keel has also given it a measurably left position in the political space and a concomitant position in social space among the privileged.展开更多
基金supported by Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Novel Security Intelligence Technologies(Grant No.2022B1212010005)XJTLU Research Development Funding(Grant No.RDF-22-01-053).
文摘The technological breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence,represented by ChatGPT,have brought about significant social changes as well as new problems and challenges.Generative artificial intelligence has inherent flaws such as language imbalance,algorithmic black box,and algorithmic bias,and at the same time,it has external risks such as algorithmic comfort zone,data pollution,algorithmic infringement,and inaccurate output.These problems lead to the difficulty in legislation for the governance of generative artificial intelligence.Taking the data contamination incident in Google Translate as an example,this article proposes that in the process of constructing machine translation ethics,the responsibility mechanism of generative artificial intelligence should be constructed around three elements:data processing,algorithmic optimisation,and ethical alignment.
文摘The current process of scientific and technological development is the outcome of the epochal Cultural Revolution in the West:i.e.The emergence of the Age of Enlightenment and its pursuit of“rationality”.Today,“rationality”combined with“logic”has mutated into a“strong belief”in the power of rationality and“computational processes”as a‘safer’and the only way to acquire knowledge.This is the main driving force behind the emergence of AI.The core of this mindset is the fundamental duality of the observer and the observed.After the imperial expansion of Western Europe-in alliance with religion,its previous foe(“Christianity”)-this worldview became the globally dominant mindset.The paper explores the dominant narrative of rationality and reason in Western science,and seeks an alternative world of cultural diversity.
文摘There have been widespread concerns about two aspects of the current explosion of predictive text models and other algorithm-based computational tools.On one hand,it is often insisted that Artificial Intelligence(AI)should be made“ethical”,and software providers take this seriously,attempting to make sure that their tools are not used to facilitate grossly criminal or widely condemned activities.On the other hand,it is also widely understood that those who create these tools have a responsibility to ensure that they are“unbiased”,as opposed to simply helping one side in political contestation define their perspectives as reality for all.Unfortunately,these two goals cannot be jointly satisfied,as there are perhaps no ethical prescriptions worthy of notice that are not contested by some.Here I investigate the current ethico-political sensibility of ChatGPT,demonstrating that the very attempt to give it an ethical keel has also given it a measurably left position in the political space and a concomitant position in social space among the privileged.
