AI - spot AI

Recency bias is real....
 
Some would argue humanity peaked during the Athens Golden Age in 4th century B.C.
Others when shaman Oswley Stanley made the scene.
Will go for any time prior to the populate doing the walking dead shuffle with faces glued to pixels...
 
Reluctant to jump into this one, I'll probably get slammed, but that's OK.

It just seems there are a lot of doom sayers/doom scrollers around. I wonder how much is the product of spending too much time on social media (other than this site of course). The young folks I know are nothing like what is described by some who have commented on this thread - they are intelligent, hard working, and committed. They use AI and other information technologies as tools, not to do their thinking for them. I would suggest some are far better at critical thinking and far more suspicious and wary of what they hear and read than many of my generation. Are there undereducated, ignorant, gullible, easily duped fools about? Of course there are, but it has always been thus, just for may, they are more visible with the advent of social media and the urge to post every thought that comes into their head (says I?).

Anyways, I choose to live in the now, worry about things I can affect, and not those I can't, and certainly not speculate on a completely unknown future. Perhaps that is me burying my head in the sand, but I refuse to spend time and energy on things I cannot control, or on things that try to control me.

Cheers
 
Canuck from Kansas said:
Reluctant to jump into this one, I'll probably get slammed, but that's OK.

It just seems there are a lot of doom sayers/doom scrollers around. I wonder how much is the product of spending too much time on social media (other than this site of course). The young folks I know are nothing like what is described by some who have commented on this thread - they are intelligent, hard working, and committed. They use AI and other information technologies as tools, not to do their thinking for them. I would suggest some are far better at critical thinking and far more suspicious and wary of what they hear and read than many of my generation. Are there undereducated, ignorant, gullible, easily duped fools about? Of course there are, but it has always been thus, just for may, they are more visible with the advent of social media and the urge to post every thought that comes into their head (says I?).

Anyways, I choose to live in the now, worry about things I can affect, and not those I can't, and certainly not speculate on a completely unknown future. Perhaps that is me burying my head in the sand, but I refuse to spend time and energy on things I cannot control, or on things that try to control me.

Cheers
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The kids are very smart, worry about climate change not AI because we can change the weather and but cannot regulate big tech. Got it.
 
Dustin Chromers said:
The kids are very smart, worry about climate change not AI because we can change the weather and but cannot regulate big tech. Got it.
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Not really sure you do ...

Now back to the football!!!
 
Canuck from Kansas said:
They use AI and other information technologies as tools, not to do their thinking for them.
Cheers
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I read an interesting article this morning on AI in schools, that included this paragraph:

"When my business school colleagues insist that ChatGPT is “just another tool in the toolbox,” I’m tempted to remind them that Facebook was once “just a way to connect with friends.” But there’s a difference between tools and technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the very environments in which we think, work, and relate. As philosopher Peter Hershock observes, we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself. A pen extends communication without redefining it; social media transformed what we mean by privacy, friendship, even truth."

www.currentaffairs.org

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org www.currentaffairs.org
 
Tech oligarchy, large sums of money deployed by lobbyists, AI and a lax oversight and regulatory environment...

What could go wrong ?
 
Canuck from Kansas said:
The young folks I know are nothing like what is described by some who have commented on this thread - they are intelligent, hard working, and committed.
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I see young people like that also. Brilliant critical thinkers who have advanced degrees and can multi-task and solve differential equations in their head, yet they cannot stop staring at their damn smart phones - to the point of crossing streets with eyes glued to the phone instead of watching the traffic. I don't think that's a great strategy for long-term survival.
 
Uphill, in the snow, both ways to school...
Looking at their phones the whole time.
:)
 
Mossback said:
Uphill, in the snow, both ways to school...
Looking at their phones the whole time.
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They are looking at their phone because they are lost despite going there several times. The sense of direction I was told by a young person is a fifties concept.
 
I'm doing PT with one of those smart young people, and I brought up my perception of the evils of AI. He said he used it all the time, to help with writing and research. I asked if he thought it could help me condense the building codes for the shop I want to build, and he said that is the exact kind of thing it is good for. So I tried that, and it's going to save me a bunch of time, by making me aware of issues I'm sure I would have discovered the hard way.
It's got possibilities to be the kind of tool to help humanity do all the best things, if that's what humanity wants to use it for. Unfortunately the more powerful the tool the more harm greedy, power-hungry, dishonest people can do. Maybe the online betting people will allow me to wager on who I think is going to come out on top.
On the bright side, I think this technology is going to make it hard to make a living as a Lawyer. The world could benefit from less lawsuits.
 
Irony aside, no one here seems to be in the chicken little sky is falling mode, we're discussing the fundamental challenges humanity faces in the roll-out of embedded AI and and the primary question it generates.
Should the free market be allowed to use AI without restriction, or do we need guardrails against what will likely be the more egregious impacts of unchecked AI:
Currently there are two thoughts, both of what you would expect - capitalists want unchecked access and so have ramped up the big lobby machines to get them just that, while governance bodies want to impose AI restrictions based on perceived economic and social threats to what is likely the majority of the population.
As with everything else, the middle road looks to be the safest. Utilize the positives of AI for education, healthcare and advancement in technologies requiring dense computing power, while minimizing threats to mass unemployment and a severe imbalance between legitimate governance and billionaire autocracy.
 
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nwbobber said:
On the bright side, I think this technology is going to make it hard to make a living as a Lawyer.
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I don't know. The things (good) lawyers are good at-- judgment, discernment, creatively applying old rules to new fact patterns-- are the things AI is not good at, at least not yet.

Most cases that go to trial are edge cases with uncertain outcomes, otherwise they would have settled or not been brought at all (or at least one of the parties is not acting rationally).

There are specialized AI tools for the major legal databases, but as yet they are really only good for a general overview of an area of law and answering questions like "what are the five most cited cases discussing X." Even then the output is riddled with errors.

I don't think lawyers are at risk from AI anytime soon.
 
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nwbobber said:
I'm doing PT with one of those smart young people, and I brought up my perception of the evils of AI. He said he used it all the time, to help with writing and research. I asked if he thought it could help me condense the building codes for the shop I want to build, and he said that is the exact kind of thing it is good for. So I tried that, and it's going to save me a bunch of time, by making me aware of issues I'm sure I would have discovered the hard way.
It's got possibilities to be the kind of tool to help humanity do all the best things, if that's what humanity wants to use it for. Unfortunately the more powerful the tool the more harm greedy, power-hungry, dishonest people can do. Maybe the online betting people will allow me to wager on who I think is going to come out on top.
On the bright side, I think this technology is going to make it hard to make a living as a Lawyer. The world could benefit from less lawsuits.
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Maybe not lawyers yet. Possibly paralegals who do research for the lawyers who then review such for applicability.
Biggest stumbling block, issue I have with AI, the immense amount of electricity required to run it. Costs have slowly drifted up for consumers, whereas do AI facilities pay true rates?
Already they are talking a return to nuclear power.
 
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