Now I see the creepy side of AI

I know you do! I meant my own flippancy

I wasn't being flippant.  Tree3squared = Nine Elms Market.

I was asked in an endless loop to identify a cartoon penguin in a captur style "prove you're human" sequence at the weekend.  I obviously couldn't convince "it" I am human.

I'm not the type to be flippant about AI.  I take this stuff very seriously - penguin spotting and all!!

I didn't have a clue so googled it, then just went along with it ....

Pennys dropped! Good one! I'm more of an Amiga speed.

I will cease with anymore flippancy on this thread.

I actually don't. ...ohhhhhhh

Pretty quick for me....Commodore 64 quick.

Obviously...! 

Nine Elms Market.  Obviously !

Peter

Thank you for the correction....which I accept to a large degree.

However, huge data is just that.

AI is MUCH more than a repository of data...it can be instructed to use that data, manipulate that data, project a version of that data, generate similes of that data etc.

I don't claim to be an expert on these matters, but I note that most notable humans that are.....seem to be confirming my long-held suspicions that us humans are not ready to play with such powerful tools....not just yet!

Pandora or patience?  I'm patient..quite happy just to play with the plethora of tools I already have.

Number.

Maybe we can blow up AI by asking it what tree3 squared is

Huge data. Knowledge implies a level of understanding we haven't reached yet. At the end of the day these AIs are just guess the next word machines that are using a huge chunk of the internet as a guide. We showed it most of the net and the words sunk in but it doesn't fully know what they are. It recites them like a magic spell. It can guess the right answer to 'what is 2+2' is '4' because its seen 2+2 lots in text. Ask it what 'what is 36573+64563' and its going to struggle. Those are not numbers its seen.

I fear not.....I think it has HUGE knowledge and zero wisdom.  That is a very dangerous mis-match in my opinion.

When I see or hear about AI, I think of skynet and the terminator films.  The 5G masts look like mechanical Triffids spying on us. 

I saw this article recently "MRI scans and AI technology really could read what we’re thinking. The implications are terrifying" :

https://theconversation.com/mri-scans-and-ai-technology-really-could-read-what-were-thinking-the-implications-are-terrifying-205503

Potentially scary stuff which could develop into something worse in the future.

There you go AI is just as dumb as us humans.

Nope....that wasn't AI, it was Bob in 'Graphic Design' after a Tequila-fueled Stag Do in Bognar Regis!!  VERY human mistake!

The real creepy side of AI is when it puts fingernails on the wrong side of Georgia Tennant’s right hand 

There's also 'Listening in' by the Undertones. And 'Telephone Thing' by The Fall.

It's the objective of technology to serve mankind, not the other way around.

Technology is useful, but it is going too far now. 

The human race needs a balance.

I tried to order beer for my friend during a zoom call once, whilst he went to the bog, using his Alexa..

It was successful, and I had to get him to cancel it on his return.

The problem is that nowadays every service you use is being run not on your local machine but on someone else's machine, and exporting huge amounts of meta data which is being collected and collated by at least two separate entities who use it against you.

It's a process that was once described to me by a priest (when my then G/F was having some trouble with demonic activity, jeez, some women can be hard work!) which he called "the hidden hook" where a process that is ultimately bad for you is overlaid with an attractive appearance. The propaganda that surrounds the vast majority of "alternative lifestyles" is an outstanding example of the "hidden hook" it appears, when you actually go and look into the issues that they face and have to deal with when they decide to stop trying to "fit in" with the majority. Job advertisements also are a strongly representative of this concept. Caveat Emptor.

A.I. Is apparently really useful for making a degree easy to obtain, and degrees make you money...  I can't be bothered, but it might help some of you "over achieve" in life! 

Here's a seventies tune that seems to fit the zeitgeist.

www.youtube.com/watch