Artificial Intelligence - an end to simple living?

[bae]

Well, that didn't take as long as I thought! I figured it'd be at least until the end of the month... :-)

(Short summary: smart Stanford researchers with a public-domain AI system used the super-duper corporate AIs to train their inexpensive model. They spent ~$500 training the Stanford AI this way, basically harvesting huge amounts of money and time spent on all the previous models for free. And they weren't even very efficient. Anybody who wants to can trivially have a pretty top-notch AI running on inexpensive hardware Any Day Now.)

https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html

[iris lilies]

So when are they going to pass on that super AI intelligence to my voice to text program? It is still quite stupid. It insists on creating the word “Irish “every time I say “Iris.” I only correct it about 1 million bazillion times.

[LDAHL]

I see VP Harris has been appointed as the AI Czar to protect us from future Skynets.

I may be paranoid, but if I were a malevolent superintelligence she’d be the optimum choice for the person to limit the scope of my powers.

[flowerseverywhere]

Like all modern technology, it has great potential to be very evil. For those of us around pre computer, when punch cards were used and they filled a room, all of this can be overwhelming.

So what is the solution? Going to a grocery store, your position is tracked by gps. You scan a loyalty card and credit card. So think of all the information that is gathered by just that small sliver of a day. Where you go, where you shop, what you eat. After January 6 the amount of surveillance cameras, Gps records, videos stupidly posted to facebook, emails and so on were used as evidence.

Im hoping the good guys can get ahead of this.

[early morning]

I'm hoping the good guys can get ahead of this.

me too. if only we all agreed on who the "good guys" are. And while I detest the "czar" wording for what basically seems to be a committee chair, I don't see anything awful in putting Harris at the forefront of AI discussions. No matter who was tapped to do it - or what Harris personally is tasked to do - people who gonna hate, are gonna hate.

[iris lilies]

Or, they’ve given her stuff she can’t fix.

The Border.

now The AI Monster.

almost like they do not want her to succeed.

[JaneV2.0]

Or, they’ve given her stuff she can’t fix.

The Border.

now The AI Monster.

almost like they do not want her to succeed.

Good point.

[bae]

Like all modern technology, it has great potential to be very evil. For those of us around pre computer, when punch cards were used and they filled a room, all of this can be overwhelming.

Well, I wouldn't call punched cards "pre-computer", unless you are referring to weaving machines and tabulating machines. The punched cards I use(d) were very much fed into a computer.

Here's a timesharing operating system for one of those room-sized computers, back in the day - turned it from a boring feed-in-the-punched-cards monster into the world's most expensive handheld calculator, running a version of the APL language I invented just for that particular machine's "amazing" abilities. It still used little doughnute-shaped iron cores with wires wrapped around them for its memory!

And even then we worried about The Big AI - see the wonderful, and now quite timely, 1970 film "Colossus, the Forbin Project", which still holds up pretty well, if you can find a copy.

[LDAHL]

Well, I wouldn't call punched cards "pre-computer", unless you are referring to weaving machines and tabulating machines. The punched cards I use(d) were very much fed into a computer.

Here's a timesharing operating system for one of those room-sized computers, back in the day - turned it from a boring feed-in-the-punched-cards monster into the world's most expensive handheld calculator, running a version of the APL language I invented just for that particular machine's "amazing" abilities. It still used little doughnute-shaped iron cores with wires wrapped around them for its memory!

And even then we worried about The Big AI - see the wonderful, and now quite timely, 1970 film "Colossus, the Forbin Project", which still holds up pretty well, if you can find a copy.

Not to worry. Ten minutes of Kamala Harris’ incoherent extemporizing would blow out it’s logic circuits.

[Rogar]

Maybe humanity needs to be managed by an all knowing all powerful entity to prevent it from self destruction. Although I’d thought the aliens would do that.