Thoughts About AI

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GypsmJim

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As a former business owner, I became a member of Linkedin many years ago. In recent years there has been a lot of discussion there about AI. Some sing its benefits, others proclaim it is evil. Two persons that I am personally acquainted with have directly opposite opinions. Both are very successful, although one is a crook and the other an outstanding businessman. (although I'm not sure if that has any relevance here)

Anywhoot, since I respect the opinions of all the people here, I was just wondering what the general consensus is among us.....
 
FWIW, here's a screen cap from an old movie called Tron and it reflects my opinion...

Note, I did not annotate the image, I had the subtitles enabled so it's the actual script.
 

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It may be far fetched but maybe Terminator wasn't science fiction at all. Look t how many things have happened since Jules Verne's writing. Nucclear powered submarines and surface war ships. The airplane. Possibly lasers being the birth of a 40 megawatt plasma gun?

Ever since the first computer, scientists have asked computers just how they might improve themselves and the computers would give them an answer which when utilized made the computer more powerful. It could only be a matter of time than the computer would decide to eliminate man. Considering the thinking of some of the doing ecofreaks programing might even hurry that idea within the AI community.

Terminator was just a sci-fi movie. AI ain't sci-fi. It's here and its potential is apparently limitless.
Paul B.
 
Like any tech it can be used for good or bad, will be, and is right now. Just like firearms. What should be understood tho, is unlike firearms, AI and it's progeny continues to evolve at an ever increasing rate (this year will see the roll out of AGI Artificial General Intelligence ). So fast that it's difficult to even keep up, let alone predict where it will go from here and what it's capabilities might be even a year or 2 from now.

It should also be understood that it's world wide with thousands of individuals, hundreds of companies, and dozens of countries pouring trillions of dollars into advancing the tech for every imaginable use, including military, as quickly, and as powerful, as possible. And many of them, foreign and domestic, are not our friends.

See this article from last week:

 
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I think it's very beneficial. I was listening to one podcast. And they talked about the idea teachers say that it can be used for plagiarism. Well they gave one example of a teacher that said use Chat GPT to print a story and they the students had to go and edit the story themselves.

I think schools should embrace AI and NOT make kids shy away from it. AI isn't going away.

I saw a quote. Something to the effect of "Don't be scared of AI taking your job. Be scared of the person that can use AI taking your job."

Chat GPT has a paid version which you have an account and can "teach" it to be smarter in specific areas. I would bet businesses are using it to write customer facing services and things like newsletters or customer updates.

Did you know you can call 1800CHATGPT? That's 1-800-242-8478.

We called them last night. My daughter found something on Instagram about AI now being able to spell Strawberry or Raspberry correctly. Unfortunately she is correct the voice claiming to be Chat GPT could not spell either fruit.

It's a pleasing lady's voice by the way.
 
Scares the wee wee outta me..... The worst part is that I'll definitely live to be 100 and thus, no escaping for me... :eek:
Well maybe the good, helpful to humanity superintelligent machines, will win and everything will be peachy cool and wonderful. If not, just save a bullet for yourself. ;)

Btw, a update on Military AI. Speeding up the Kill Chain.

 
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What's called AI now is not AI. Nothing more than improved graphics & ignorant robo voice. It's not AI until it's self aware & can think for itself.
Plenty of sci fi movies posing theories of what AI can be.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Have you heard of the "Stargate Project"? Announced by Trump today.


"This is a very large investment that affects all of humanity," Oracle founder Larry Ellison told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier on "Special Report" on Tuesday.

President Trump unveiled a massive AI infrastructure project from the private sector on the first full day of his second term in office on Tuesday.

The initial investment for the project will be $100 billion, with plans to expand to $500 billion over the next four years. The first data center built under the initiative will be in Texas, and it will eventually expand to other states.

"This means we can create A.I. and A.G.I. in the United States of America. {it] wouldn't have been obvious that this was possible," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said. "I think with a different president it might not have been possible. But we are thrilled to get to do this, and I think it'll be great for Americans, great for the whole world."

Altman conceded A.I. pioneers need to be "responsible" and develop the technology "carefully."

"I think people are really good, and people will do, on balance, incredible things with this technology. The scale of this investment obviously is huge. And what I think that says about the likely progress of the technology, at least what all of us believe, is correspondingly huge. But I have enormous faith will figure it out," he said.
 
Do we take the 1950's view of tech making our lives better or the dystopian world imagined now?
 

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When AI was just a thought in the mid eighties I was invited by IBM as a Systems Engineer to join the AI group. I am not a Bible thumper but have firm beliefs in the God and what is written I follow. I told my boss I would not accept because I would believe that as Adam and Eve partook the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the consequences that we should never approach an equal of God.
There are very good things that AI can be used for and evil things in the wrong hands. In social media it has been used to curtail free speech, the evil side. As an example the algorithms couldn't distinguish between a hoe and a ho when someone was trying to sell some garden tools and AI thought they were human trafficking. Similar things has happened to me and to all of i am sure, in a group when I listed the the scope rings and height with the scope I used on a particular rifle. They interpreted it as i was selling when there was nothing that was in anything written that indicated I was selling anything. But Zuckerberg thought so.
I can positively say that China has some of the most sophisticated usage of algorithms that can decode an address or an email even if you try to slightly to circumvent an email exchange in some of their web sites . It will even track for days any assembly of it for days in each conversation.
For me the last project I worked on would be considered somewhat AI when a partner and I wrote a predictive failure analysis program on the systems that IBM Watson hardware platform is running on. It would sleep until an error occurred. Woke up monitor certain areas if it hicupped again it would analyze the error and deduce the part associated with that error, most generally a hard disk drive, submit an order for parts and send that part to the account. Alert the dispatch system to tell the field engineer when the part will arrive at his account to go replace it. Sox years ago there were 97 complexes in a cluster of those systems that was the hardware platform to make IBM Watson function.
What is frustrating for me is searches for data i want to know in using a sophisticated system which I coukd enter a search argument and have it return what I asked. Now you google something and you get thousands of results instead of a couple of answers very directly associated with the question. Also I think logically in a discipline of technology of mainframe processing and it is so illogical to me the way the pc world does things.
What believe a whole generation is being slanted in their knowledge they build with what master minds want them to know. A grooming of their minds. It is also changing there common sense abilities by just getting an answer to a question that you don't have to solve the problem through a human process to learn how things are done. I.E. don't know what a dipstick is or milk comes from cows.
I was once asked by a manager at IBM why I used a male connotation when referring to mainframe systems and not a "she", my answer. Computers are logically put together and I can fix them. Women, I have yet to figure them out!!! LOL
Just my $.02 worth.
 
Have you heard of the "Stargate Project"? Announced by Trump today.

Thanks, I hadn't heard of this. All this is, is a more advanced faster computer still has to be programmed by humans, GIGO. I repeat, The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
 
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