Artificial Intelligence (3 Viewers)

The tide has definitely turned and as more and more businesses are looking into it, the propaganda to get their workers to "like" it is getting stronger. Those silly corporate health and safety, and discrimination modules you have to do every three months or so are heavily introducing AI related topics, and I've recently started a government backed Leadership and Management Apprenticeship with a whole section on it. I don't like it (while simultaneously being fascinated), and am scared of it, but to pass I have to answer in the contrary. :dub smilie:
 
I so tired of the A.I. slop/ aesthetic EVERYWHERE at the moment. Every company is leaning into it, but I genuinely don't think they have a clue what to do with it. The current government harking on about A.I. taking over the civil service, but FOR WHAT?

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I mean let's not pretend the general population hasn't jumped all over it either. The current AI we have is far from some elite tool. It'll all come down to how successful governments are at landing the regulations that they want for it.
 
I have definitely used it for odd bits of gruntwork — a step in the proofreading process, formulae for spreadsheets, pictures of Enya delicately plucking a harp while Rome burns. That sort of thing.

Speaking to people who've been hiring recently, I've been told how they're absolutely OVERWHELMED with applications, but also they find hundreds of them are basically exactly the same application because people are using AI to write the whole thing.
 
I have definitely used it for odd bits of gruntwork — a step in the proofreading process, formulae for spreadsheets, pictures of Enya delicately plucking a harp while Rome burns. That sort of thing.

Speaking to people who've been hiring recently, I've been told how they're absolutely OVERWHELMED with applications, but also they find hundreds of them are basically exactly the same application because people are using AI to write the whole thing.
I don't understand why people don't give stuff a once over themselves after having AI write it. It's so obviously American in the way it writes that it sticks out like a sore thumb to me. Whenever I use AI to write I have to go over it to make it sound less like a LinkedIn post.
 
I use ChatGPT all the time. Most usefully, I put a medical letter, full of jargon for my mother, into it and it helpfully explained it.

It absolutely has it's uses but the absolute visible dominance of it at the moment is draining. I can't recall a technological advancement that has taken over quite so rapidly.
 
It’s so odd how ChatGPT can’t handle the most simple of tasks and yet we act like it does.

I asked it yesterday to doctor a photo of a telephone with a yellow background to extend the background and change the orientation. I gave pretty clear and detailed instructions. It gave me back a picture of a rabbit in a forest.

It took me at least ten goes for it to get it right.
 
It can give you a full analysis of a piece of writing in seconds, something that would take a human at the very least an hour to do.

Yet when I tried playing 20 Questions: Real Housewives Edition it couldn't keep up with whose turn it was at all
 
It does get stuff wrong a LOT.

I'm not paying for it, until it stops using shit sources for info and getting mixed up. Got forbid it could manage something like ASFM.
 
I don't understand (well, I do, relentless pursuit of profit etc) why just because we *can* do something, it automatically follows that we *have to*.

If it's a truth universally acknowledged that AI could end up killing us all, why not just...turn it all off and stop doing it?

We're such a bizarre species.
Why did we send out expeditions to discover other continents when the odds heavily favoured death? Why did we send men into space despite the huge risk? Its inherent in us.

There is no universal truth that AI will kill us, and its just as likely it will help us end hunger, cure disease, enable fusion etc etc
 
I find the "AI will kill us" concerns mostly paranoia - although a very understandable paranoia. But, as with all other tech, it'll all come down to how it's used.

My bigger concern is we'll all have no choice but to grow dependent on it and when it's taken away (either by force or by accident) we'll all become useless and return to being cavemen. I'm definitely not paranoid.
 
What's interesting is how the right wing have colonised this so quickly. They were dead against sampling, wanting 100% royalties for a three-second drum loop and so on because that was THEIR COPYRIGHT. But now they want to feed everything into their machine without compensation because FUCK YOUR COPYRIGHT. Now there's money to be made, they want to feed the whole of human history into their machine to ruin your income source. The precipice they're on is crazy - "we can get rid of so many jobs!", OK sure, but if no-one's getting paid, who buys your stuff?
 
What's interesting is how the right wing have colonised this so quickly. They were dead against sampling, wanting 100% royalties for a three-second drum loop and so on because that was THEIR COPYRIGHT. But now they want to feed everything into their machine without compensation because FUCK YOUR COPYRIGHT. Now there's money to be made, they want to feed the whole of human history into their machine to ruin your income source. The precipice they're on is crazy - "we can get rid of so many jobs!", OK sure, but if no-one's getting paid, who buys your stuff?
This is the thing, all the right wing techno fascists think theyre the smartest in the room and theyre all over it but as soon as theyve think they have the upper hand they get outdone by the calculators and we end up with fully automated luxury communism 😍
 
Just read this through and it chilled me to my core. As a parent does it not terrify you?
I am a hopeless optimist so no, but I do think we are on the precipice of radical change.

One of the reasons we didnt put Ron Jr into mainstream school in his early years was because it was very clear his future would look entirely different. We put a lot of energy into emotional intelligence because ultimately it will be needed and in demand.
 
well I read that last night when already in a bit of a bleak mood and it did terrify me (and I only read the "good" ending) :D
 
I think there will need to be grassroots movements of people resisting the use of AI. it may not do a lot ultimately but it's probably all we can do. I'm thinking of seeing if something exists already in Amsterdam (lots of creative industry types there and a lot who are proper little cum guzzlers for AI)
 

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