[Misc] Are you pro or anti AI?

[marlowe]

But I rather like AI. It is to genuine content what a porn mag is to a relationship (showing my age, there).

Which is someone ironic, as a lot of Internet porn is now also AI generated (so a friend told me).

Imagine the disappointment and feeling you've been slightly cheated after you've just shot your load and then you realise that the woman you've just been tossing yourself off to isn't even real.

It's one thing being scammed out of thousands of pounds by an online scammer, but being scammed out of a wank is taking things too far.

 

[RandyWanger]

AI has some way to go, biggest issues being that people think the information is correct, but everyone should know about AI hallucinations and that it is only as good as the LLM it is trained with. Often it’s bias and has some addenda.
ChatGPT used to be OpenAI, as in open source but it was soon closed and used to steal data and make a few a lot of money.
dfinity foundation are working on an on chain AI that will be decentralise. That I am interested in.

 

[zefarelly]

Artificial Intelligence

The clue is in the name.

 

[Blues Guitarist]

What jobs can’t AI do?

Build a house?
Paint a hallway?
Cook?
Nurse?
Police?

AI can support both nurses and the police by analysing large data sets and providing quality information that helps them do their job better.

 

[Blues Guitarist]

2, how do I tell if my students are cheating?

Ironically - you can use AI to do that.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Who needs real women?

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

 

[maffew]

It’s just going to take some time before the companies running this stuff package it as such.

E.g. 0-999 customer service operatives £500pcm. 1000-2000 customer service operatives £900pcm.

This is actually already happening (i know this first hand), and it's not just web chat, conversation/voice as well..

 

[Bodian]

I saw the interesting story about Daisy the AI granny that has been trained to take scam calls. She spends ages wasting their time by being cooperative and compliant but taking her time understanding what scammers want her to do and being really annoying and wanting a nice long chat at the same time.
Wonderful stuff.

However - quite a few scam calls I get are clearly automated, it could be that Daisy the AI granny is busy talking to a different AI scammer. The whole thing going on with no human involvement whatsoever!

 

[zefarelly]

AI can support both nurses and the police by analysing large data sets and providing quality information that helps them do their job better.

But thats not artificial or intelligent, its just a pre programmed box ticking machine . . . . Which is great for saving time, but something you want to make life critical decisions.

 

[Hovegull]

I agree. AI can’t provide care, empathy, hand holding or administer complex drugs

 

[joydivisionovengloves]

An aeroplane can take you half way around the world to an island paradise.
An aeroplane can drop a nuclear bomb.

 

[nicko31]

Pro it provided there's proper regulation. Sadly this isn't the direction of travel

 

[Commander]

Usual shit with humans. If used properly for the good of the species it could create a utopia. We’ll use it to best the shit out of each other instead.

 

[Justice]

It is the most incredible leap in technological evolution of all time. It will change everything, as humans will become effectively obsolete.

We have created something that can use all human knowledge and refer to it almost impeccably in an instant, and use it to create new logic and ideas to build on that knowledge, also in an instant. No human being can compete with it.

When AI becomes established, there will be no need to hire human beings for most jobs anymore.

The technology is amazing, it could make all of our lives utopian. But whether we are ready for this, or whether global politics and the capitalist overlords will allow it to become a utopia for us, is the only reason to doubt it - as in the same way it can (and surely will) be utilised for more sinister means.

It’s only really the office bods that should be worried it’s hardly going to start plumbing and hanging doors.

 

[GT49er]

Yes. No. Don't know.

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Where's the 'x' in 'Basic Instinct'?

 

[Blues Guitarist]

But thats not artificial or intelligent, its just a pre programmed box ticking machine . . . . Which is great for saving time, but something you want to make life critical decisions.

It can be AI.

Artificial Intelligence for Medical Diagnostics—Existing and Future AI Technology! - PMC

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[cheshunt seagull]

As someone who has a blood cancer I think it there can be massive future benefits in individual treatment paths. For the most part now the path is the same for everyone largely on a try it and see if it works basis but it is a highly varied and personalised illness. The ability to manipulate data to identify what is likely to work or not will not only prolong lives but also has the potential to save money that is wasted on treatments that have no chance of working. Obviously this would be the case with many other conditions as well.

So in that respect I am positive but am very aware of the risks and the implications for things as fundamental as our concept of work.

 

[The Clamp]

Same with any new tech;


It has great potential but will likely be underfunded for medical and helpful applications and heavily funded by narcissistic billionaires to help make them wealthier or assist in their crazy schemes.


I’m thinking un-fuckable spong-head, Elon Musk and his lifelong ambition to get revenge on school bullies and girls who wouldn’t shag him, by rocketing his own jizz into the cosmos in an attempt to rule the universe for all time.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I'd love to see a robot crawl under your bath and replace a pair of 40 year old taps!

That’s after it’s carried out the major challenge of removing the bath panel

 

[Han Solo]

"It is what it is".

Once the first people connect their brains to neural networks based on AI, they become superhuman, which spells the end of the homo sapiens and the emergence of whatever we'll call the future human. This is obvious. Once a few get these superpowers, everyone is going to want them - bit like with cars and phones. People don't want to be left behind.

AI is the end game for homo sapiens but likely the saviour of the human species in the long run.

Personally don't want anything to do with it, but the augmented people are likely going to love it and can't imagine living with the barbaric primitive flawed brains of today, bit like how people these days wouldn't want to ride a horse to work.