Just seeing this. I love your optimism. While I try to be optimistic I’m also a realist. AI could be horrific if not kept in check. I seem to recall an apple that wasn’t supposed to be eaten. 🤔
Your info and links on copy write and AI were great. Yes, I took an article I wasn't pleased with one time and ran it through AI and said make this more humorous! It worked. This countdown stuff is making nervous Mark . 😃
Isn't it human nature to deplore almost anything new and at first incomprehensible and to imagine it will be the end of civilization or at least put people out of work? I plead ignorance when it comes to AI. My worry is less that it will put people out of work than that it will make it easier for bad actors to disrupt our institutions and augment social and political unrest. This is just a gut reaction as I haven't read enough about it to back this up (though, as you see, that isn't stopping me from putting in my two cents worth here!) Like all technology, I think AI has the potential to be as helpful as it is hurtful, but that depends on the human minds behind it and the guardrails (if any) that are placed upon it. It will ultimately reflect the ethics (or lack thereof) that animate its creators and end users. Anyway, that's my uninformed take on the subject.
As always, I appreciate your provocative topics, Mark. I'll miss that when you leave this platform, but I'll still have a lot of reading to do when it comes to your past posts, assuming you leave them up.
Hello! I am sad to see the countdown ticking down, but I'm very interested in seeing what you'll be creating with the extra writing time you'll have when your posts get to "0."
This most recent post is fascinating and your opinion meshes with my techie husband's. I'm the biology geek in our house and he's an expert in all things that run on electricity - when I told him that I was a little worried about AI taking over jobs, I apparently touched a sore spot, as he began a rant about the stupid way AI is portrayed in popular media. The short version: He said AI is nothing more than programming and while AI might be used to do any number of nefarious things (the idea of a Twitter/X based AI boggles my mind!), an artificially intelligent machine will not suddenly decide to take over the world - some evil HUMANS may indeed end up trying to program an AI machine to do such a thing, but the machine is a tool and will only follow its programming. As you point out, "garbage in, garbage out" will always be a limiting factor in AI.
Two quick points... ivermectin is a very good medication for worming equine (hee haw!) and hydroxychloroquine is useful for alleviating the effects of rheumatoid arthritis. I'm not sure they're much better for preventing covid than injecting bleach (the bio geek in me shudders!), though when covid hit our house last year my father-in-law (an 86 year old man who was taking hydroxychloroquine for RA) was the only family member to escape symptoms (though it might be coincidental, of course - he and I were both fully vaccinated, and I had only mild symptoms, while my unvaccinated hubby was sick in bed for three days).
Have a good day, and I look forward to your last three articles!
Not sure if you are still on the platform Mark. If so, let me know
Just seeing this. I love your optimism. While I try to be optimistic I’m also a realist. AI could be horrific if not kept in check. I seem to recall an apple that wasn’t supposed to be eaten. 🤔
Your info and links on copy write and AI were great. Yes, I took an article I wasn't pleased with one time and ran it through AI and said make this more humorous! It worked. This countdown stuff is making nervous Mark . 😃
Isn't it human nature to deplore almost anything new and at first incomprehensible and to imagine it will be the end of civilization or at least put people out of work? I plead ignorance when it comes to AI. My worry is less that it will put people out of work than that it will make it easier for bad actors to disrupt our institutions and augment social and political unrest. This is just a gut reaction as I haven't read enough about it to back this up (though, as you see, that isn't stopping me from putting in my two cents worth here!) Like all technology, I think AI has the potential to be as helpful as it is hurtful, but that depends on the human minds behind it and the guardrails (if any) that are placed upon it. It will ultimately reflect the ethics (or lack thereof) that animate its creators and end users. Anyway, that's my uninformed take on the subject.
As always, I appreciate your provocative topics, Mark. I'll miss that when you leave this platform, but I'll still have a lot of reading to do when it comes to your past posts, assuming you leave them up.
Hello! I am sad to see the countdown ticking down, but I'm very interested in seeing what you'll be creating with the extra writing time you'll have when your posts get to "0."
This most recent post is fascinating and your opinion meshes with my techie husband's. I'm the biology geek in our house and he's an expert in all things that run on electricity - when I told him that I was a little worried about AI taking over jobs, I apparently touched a sore spot, as he began a rant about the stupid way AI is portrayed in popular media. The short version: He said AI is nothing more than programming and while AI might be used to do any number of nefarious things (the idea of a Twitter/X based AI boggles my mind!), an artificially intelligent machine will not suddenly decide to take over the world - some evil HUMANS may indeed end up trying to program an AI machine to do such a thing, but the machine is a tool and will only follow its programming. As you point out, "garbage in, garbage out" will always be a limiting factor in AI.
Two quick points... ivermectin is a very good medication for worming equine (hee haw!) and hydroxychloroquine is useful for alleviating the effects of rheumatoid arthritis. I'm not sure they're much better for preventing covid than injecting bleach (the bio geek in me shudders!), though when covid hit our house last year my father-in-law (an 86 year old man who was taking hydroxychloroquine for RA) was the only family member to escape symptoms (though it might be coincidental, of course - he and I were both fully vaccinated, and I had only mild symptoms, while my unvaccinated hubby was sick in bed for three days).
Have a good day, and I look forward to your last three articles!
My favorite read for AI and LLM understanding is Sam from Apperceptive. He used to run a self-driving car company and now writes about the realities of AI, LLMs, self-driving automobiles, and all of their shortcomings: https://apperceptive.substack.com/p/how-the-field-of-ai-got-like-this?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1006396&post_id=138520319&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2cyoe