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AI. Beautiful. I see examples of people having conversations with ChatGPT - some love the software, some hate it, some have already folded it's responses into the fabric of their day-to-day lives.
I haven't. I have nothing against AI, but I will not be delving into it with reckless abandon (or at all) like I did w/ the WWW in the mid-90s. A lot of headache (for me, my life) could have been head off if I had not gone down The Rabbithole.
The Web is great. It's also so elementary in "concept" (or was, now it's a reality) that it's hard to imagine civilization became so enamored with it.
A server talks to another server. The messages can be, and are, fast. Fairly quicker than the postal service, and back and forth continuously should one choose.
Cool. What about the rest? What do we need (most of) it for? A blog, a social media account, a Tumblr site paying tribute to parmesan cheese - why?
I'm here to say this, though (and hey, thanx, Web, for the platform to say it! Sacrifice: warranted!) - my late-Father and many of his age range (some older, some younger) saved themselves a lot of headache, ridiculousness by not "going online". I don't mean they weren't active on Facebook, I mean they never as much as sent an e-mail or had a laptop in their hands. They didn't care. Why would they? Granted, people much older than they ("they" would be in their 70s or 80s (or some much younger) now) were and are quite well-versed in Internet jargon, but the Average Person probably could have, and did, and do, get by without the Web and carry on fine without *too* much sacrifice in day-to-day life.
So, if I were to learn a lesson from "The Olds", it would be to not drink the Electric Kool-Aid of AI, or/and the (surely well-meaning) co's behind it. It's a segment of Computer Science that is A) very fascinating, B) full of potential, C) will effect everyone, everywhere - including me. Amd D) totally on auto-hype in terms of civilization and everyone (everywhere) either drawing X amount of joy/amusement from it, or X amount of distress and headache because of it. *I* don't need to chase it like it's the best thing since sliced bread (man, what a turning point that was!) ;)
Hope everyone is well.
Until later...
Have a listen to this, man, if you haven't heard it already:
These dudes really know what they're talking about.
A.I. is not a fractional departmentalized "one field" machine learning algorithm anymore, it's a language-based centralized "main field" machine learning algorithm, drawing information (knowledge) from one single source instead of many (separated from one another). This is the paradigm. The danger. The conflict of interest. The model used by OpenAI (GPT) and Google (Bard) in their research.
This needs to be regulated by a centralized entity (a democratic organisation or state) that people are a part of and have a say in. Not managed freely and without control by corporate entities that have only one purpose in mind: to make "good" money, and not necessarily "good" choices. Then, we're fucked. 1984 and beyond. Orwell. And this is no fucking joke. This is real. This is happening now. This is what the search algorithms in Google and Bing Search will be based on. Continuously. Not what you put in, but what you are expected to put in. Is this what we want? Not being able to make our own choices in the future? No, I don't think so. And if more people would be able to understand this, for real, they would agree. At least, I hope so. This is why we should care. Why we need to come together. Why we need to slow this down.
But what do I know? I'm just in for the ride. To see it all come crashing down… like a big fat A.I. bride rolling down Main Street on her old rusty bike with a Rig Rat 2.0 smile on her face and a frown – indicating her mathematical confusion in computing whether or not she's "feeling" happy or sad.
Later…
the game has changed, son of flynn...
To me "AI" refers to "Automaton Intelligence", which to me is the kind most humans exhibit. So I'm hardly surprised an automaton without flesh could exhibit it. It's just the vomiting out of associations-driven information.
Knees jerking is all it 'tis.
This too.... ;-)
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