每周六给大家分享一篇深度好文:
本周:《There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI》
作者:Robert P Baird
平台:The Guardian
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推荐对 AI 有兴趣或者对 AI 投资下注的朋友一定要看下,是一篇很好的深度人物 + 思想随笔。
推荐的主要原因,是因为它写的是 Google DeepMind 里的哲学家 Iason Gabriel:
这个结合很有趣,一个政治哲学背景的人,如何在最前沿的 AI 实验室里,思考 AI 到底应该服务谁、服从谁、伤害谁、又由谁来决定它的价值边界。
文章从 Gabriel 2017 年加入 DeepMind 写起。
当时他几乎是少数真正进入前沿 AI 实验室内部的哲学家之一。文章借他的经历,把 AI 领域里两个长期分裂的阵营讲清楚了:一边是关注“失控、对齐、超级智能风险”的 AI safety,一边是关注“偏见、权力、社会伤害”的 AI ethics。
所以你可以看到 AI 对齐不是简单地让机器“听人话”,而是一个更复杂的四方关系:AI 系统、用户、开发者、社会。
如果 AI 只服务开发者,可能会损害用户;如果 AI 只服从用户,也可能损害社会;如果只追求技术最优,又可能忽略人的价值冲突。
另外关于 Agenty 的普及肯定是不可逆的趋势,未来 AI 不再只是输出文字,而是会在现实世界里行动。这个变化会让伦理、责任、权力边界都变得更尖锐。
与我而言这篇内容的最大启发:
1️⃣AI 时代更应该多读书多思考
AI 时代不要只追新工具,工具只是形式上的,真正重要的是你有没有自己的“价值排序”和“决策边界”。
没有这个边界,AI 越强,只会把你的混乱放大。
2️⃣超级个体;
未来的超级个体,除了熟练掌握工具,更重要的,是必须是能把 AI 放进自己的判断系统里,同时知道什么时候不能让 AI 替自己做决定的人。
3️⃣投资启发;
我以前以为 AI 竞争的除了技术就是算力。
原来 AI 公司、Crypto 项目、平台型产品,最后竞争的不只是技术参数,而是谁掌握入口、数据、执行权和价值定义权和伦理决定权。
谁能决定“系统应该偏向谁”,谁就拥有真正的权力。
AI 还有很长的发展路径,投资一定要多样化,不要只看某一个面。
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Ashton Forbes Claims Secret U.S. Technology Removed MH370 From the Sky...🧐🤔
More than a decade after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people aboard, the aircraft’s main wreckage and flight recorders have still not been located.
That unresolved absence has allowed numerous alternative theories to develop, including one centered on two viral videos that appear to show a passenger aircraft surrounded by three luminous objects before suddenly disappearing.
In a recent interview, information technology consultant Ashton Forbes argued that the videos may show what happened to MH370.
Forbes does not believe the objects were extraterrestrial.
He claims they may represent secret technology developed or operated by the United States military, possibly the U.S. Navy.
The two controversial recordings are commonly described online as a satellite video and an infrared drone video.
Both appear to show a large passenger aircraft flying through clouds while three small objects circle it.
The sequence ends with a bright visual event, after which the aircraft and the objects are no longer visible.
Forbes says he began investigating the recordings after encountering them online in 2023.
He explains that he had no previous involvement with the UFO community and initially approached the material by asking what evidence would need to exist for the videos to be authentic.
His argument depends on three broad areas.
The first is the unresolved disappearance of MH370.
The second is the alleged timing and provenance of the videos.
The third is the possibility that classified military technology could account for the aircraft’s apparent disappearance.
Forbes argues that a Boeing 777 should not have been able to disappear completely in 2014.
He points to satellite surveillance, military radar, aircraft engine monitoring, acoustic detection systems and over the horizon radar networks as technologies that might have recorded the aircraft or its destruction.
He specifically refers to Australia’s Jindalee Operational Radar Network, which can monitor activity across very large distances.
From his perspective, the absence of a publicly released record showing the final moments of MH370 suggests that relevant information may have been withheld.
However, MH370 did not disappear without leaving any trace.
Military radar recorded the aircraft reversing direction and crossing the Malay Peninsula after communication with civilian air traffic control ended.
Satellite communication data also indicated that the aircraft continued operating for several hours after it vanished from conventional air traffic tracking.
Those records became the basis for the official search in the southern Indian Ocean.
Physical debris was later recovered from islands and coastlines in the western Indian Ocean.
A flaperon found on Réunion Island was confirmed as belonging to MH370, and additional pieces were either confirmed or assessed as almost certainly originating from the aircraft.
The main fuselage, engines and flight recorders remain missing, but it is inaccurate to say that no physical evidence from the aircraft has ever been found.
Forbes also points to the online history of the alleged satellite video.
The original upload reportedly described the file as having been received on March 12, 2014, four days after MH370 disappeared.
The video itself was published online in May 2014.
Forbes argues that this narrow timeline would have made it extremely difficult for someone to create an elaborate fabrication containing accurate details about the case.
The problem is that the “received March 12” statement comes from the anonymous uploader’s description.
It is not an independently authenticated government timestamp.
A description written by the person uploading a video cannot establish when the underlying footage was created or received.
The fact that the material appeared online within several months of the disappearance is relevant to its history, but it does not prove that it was recorded by a military satellite or drone.
It also does not make visual effects work impossible.
The strongest public challenge to the alleged satellite video concerns its cloud background.
Researchers identified cloud photographs that appear to match the background used in the video.
Those photographs were reportedly taken in 2012, approximately two years before MH370 disappeared, and later appeared in an online visual asset library.
The photographer provided raw image files associated with the original photographs.
If the match is genuine, the implication is substantial.
A real satellite recording of MH370 in 2014 could not naturally contain a cloud scene photographed in another location in 2012.
That would indicate that the video was assembled using preexisting visual material.
Supporters of the videos have disputed the conclusion, questioned the history of the image files and argued that the entire moving sequence has not been satisfactorily reproduced from a single static background.
Nevertheless, the visual correspondence remains one of the most serious problems facing the authenticity claim.
The infrared video has also been criticized because the final flash resembles an existing visual effects element used in older digital productions.
Similar appearance alone does not automatically prove that an effect was copied, but it adds another unresolved issue to the footage.
Forbes rejects the idea that these elements conclusively demonstrate a hoax.
He believes the videos contain technical details, motion, perspective and apparent sensor information that would have been unusually difficult to fabricate so soon after the disappearance.
He also argues that two different viewpoints showing the same event would require a coordinated and technically sophisticated production.
Even if the videos were authentic recordings of a real aircraft, a further problem would remain.
Nothing visible in them independently identifies the plane as MH370.
There is no readable registration number, no authenticated telemetry and no verified chain of custody connecting the recordings to the aircraft.
The association with MH370 was made online after the disappearance.
Forbes’s most extraordinary claim is that the three objects and the aircraft’s disappearance may be linked to secret human technology rather than extraterrestrial intervention.
He describes the objects as advanced systems associated with the U.S. military and suggests that the event could involve technology capable of manipulating space, energy or the physical position of the aircraft.
No publicly available technical evidence currently demonstrates that the United States possesses a system capable of making a Boeing 777 disappear in the manner shown.
No identified satellite operator, drone crew, intelligence officer or military program has authenticated the footage.
No original government file, metadata record or classified document has been publicly verified as its source.
The official investigation also provides a different evidentiary trail.
Radar and Inmarsat data indicate that MH370 continued flying for hours after its initial diversion.
Confirmed debris recovered in the Indian Ocean is consistent with the aircraft having ended in that region.
These findings do not explain why the plane diverted, who controlled it during its final hours or exactly where the main wreckage lies.
They do, however, create a major conflict with the interpretation that the aircraft disappeared during the event shown in the viral recordings.
The continued mystery of MH370 is real.
The failure to locate the main wreckage and flight recorders has left the families of those aboard without a complete explanation.
There were also serious failures in communication, coordination and the early search response.
Those failures deserve continued investigation.
But an unresolved tragedy does not automatically validate every alternative explanation.
For the viral videos to be accepted as genuine evidence, investigators would need the original files, a verifiable chain of custody, authenticated metadata, confirmation of the recording platforms, orbital or flight data matching the scene, and independent analysis showing that the imagery was not assembled from existing visual assets.
Forbes presents the videos as the key to solving one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.
The publicly available evidence currently supports a more cautious conclusion.
The footage is historically connected to the MH370 discussion and contains enough detail to continue generating debate, but its source remains unverified and major visual evidence indicates that at least part of it may have been artificially constructed.
Until the original files and their provenance can be authenticated, the videos cannot establish that MH370 was removed by UFOs, secret U.S. technology or any other unconventional system.
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