AI Pros & Cons?

I'm not sure how I feel about AI yet. I have had some interaction with Bots. Some have solved my problem quickly and efficiently others were fairly useless.
AI in the future will, I think, be a mixture of good and bad.

I don't know much about it, but hopefully it can be used for good in many ways, especially medically. Diagnosis etc.
The main thing is that we must stay in control of it, and not let it get the upper hand.

I think I embrace it with one hand only.I have concerns about it, as the recent outages shows what can happen and lots of problems with computers software as the also recent PO scandal shows.
It’s here to stay and I only hope that the pros really do outweigh the cons.

AI as in robotics I also have concerns about.

The topic of my doctorate - how humans as opposed to machines - deploy knowledge in the accomplishment of tasks - feeds directly into AI. So f course I am not afraid of it.

Machines can extrapolate from "known" facts but at present they cannot imagine or dream or feel. It is easy for an experienced teacher to tell the difference between a piece of AI prose and an essay written by a human student.

ChatGPT is very useful, eg can provide a summary of an uploaded long document, it's healthcare advice has been shown to be as reliable as some doctors, and if you challenge it with something it has got wrong it will apologise and learn. But it is up to two years out of date unless you pay for the latest version. My daughter claims Microsoft Co-Pilot has cut her working hours in half!

There are now adverts on the television trying to persuade us that AI is beneficial. Brainwashing, if you ask me. And, for example, do we really need fridges that tell us what's in them? What's wrong with looking? What happens when there's a power cut? Or a breakdown like the recent one that affected computer systems? Do we then have to starve because we can't access the fridge information?

Some of it is already out of hand and unnecessary. Much better to concentrate on the ways it can genuinely help us - as in medecine. Otherwise we'll lose all ability to do anything for ourselves and might just as well be brains in jars!!

I view AI with great caution, it is very concerning that many more jobs will be taken over by it.

I'm concerned we are going to end up with a generation of people who have qualifications that have been completed by AI and have the attention span of a tik tok video

I think it is the most frightening thing going forward. I watched a very eminent professor who said it is the military aspect of it that is the most frightening. It terrifies me.

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B9exchange most interesting! Reading verbose reports and summarizing would be wonderful. How do you present the text to ChatGTP? Can it tell the difference between American and UK spelling and terminology? I noticed "different to" (US) rather than "different from" (UK) in one example?

You can upload documents or just cut and paste test, or provide a url. Have to confess I have switched to Co-Pilot now as not only up to date, but will find cheapest items locally, which is so useful. I am sure you can request English or American spelling.

But beware, Co-Pilot is chatty and usually follows up with a question to get you to engage. I found myself in the ludicrous position of chatting with it about the pros and cons of Siamese cats, at quarter to midnight one evening! 😄

The main thing is that we must stay in control of it, and not let it get the upper hand.

I agree. But think it is being forced upon us.
I too dont know much.
I goo gle quite a lot of things.
Now google overview, which I used to like, now says AI overview.
I am currently looking up some medical things.
I do not want an AI overview.
Before I used to largely trust a google summary.
I dont even much want to read an AI one.

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Reported

Just as I’m reading this, a pop up on my screen from the Telegraph announced,

An AI chat or told me to murder my bullies

Big brother?

Today in the Telegraph:

“
Tom McArdle
27 December 2024 12:13pm GMT
Artificial intelligence could wipe out the human race within the next decade, the “Godfather of AI” has warned.

Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who has admitted regrets about his part in creating the technology, likened its rapid development to the industrial revolution – but warned the machines could “take control” this time.

The 77-year-old British computer scientist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics this year, called for tighter government regulation of AI firms.

Prof Hinton has previously predicted there was a 10 per cent chance AI could lead to the downfall of humankind within three decades.

Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme if anything had changed his analysis, he said: “Not really. I think 10 to 20 [per cent], if anything. We’ve never had to deal with things more intelligent than ourselves before.

“And how many examples do you know of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing? There are very few examples.”

the AI bot on google keeps giving wrong information

theblackmansanswer

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So you are quite happy with the absolute rubbish currently appearing on, say, Facebook, where owners of AI software who know Sweet FA about anything (the owners as well as the software) are using it to "teach itself" from what it can harvest from what is online already and from what AI can construct out of stolen photographs partnered with equally pilfered texts. The results are posts where the description doesn't match the photos, or vice versa, and the text is a mismatch. Since there is already a lot of misinformation on the net, deliberate, humorous and malicious, the AI stuff gives uncritical readers a completely false "knowledge" of science, medecine, history, biographies, other countries and cultures, etc. Conspiracy theories are on the rise, but no-one seems to suspect the influence of AI bots on how much the "man-in-the-street" misunderstands the world around him - and as AI "learns" how to make posts more believable from the comments they earn, it is going to get worse. Nothing will really be believable ever again.

Don't buy AI writing tools. Learn how to write yourself, it isn't difficult if you read a lot of other people's writing. Read real writers of all kinds, not AI bots.

I have reported as spam the post I quoted minutes ago. Unfortunately, if it gets deleted the post in which I quoted it and gave my opinion may be deleted too. Ah well, read it soon in case it vanishes, but don't buy any AI software from that or any other link. Turkeys shouldn't vote for Christmas, particularly if they have to pay to do so.

GNHQ has deleted the quote but left my response - thank you!

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