I'm getting more and more concerned about AI...

[Brother D]

Interesting the inherent biases affecting AI resulting in Google's Gemeni effectively rewriting history... Shows the power that this stuff can have:



When asked to provide images of scientists:





The AI has currently been taken off-line due to backlash

[Terminator X]

The danger is that people will take the output as true. Given most treat even the newspapers as gospel already that is scary.

TX.

[Flumpo]

I think the funnier ones included them removing white people from ww2. Although that wasn’t really AI. It was just doing what it had been told by google

[tangerine_sedge]

bloomen said:

It's a bit unfortunate the current iterations are named AI. It should be called Mashup Spew because that's what it is.

Humans being humans, we will keenly place vital functions and institutions in the hands of something utterly mindless and stupid and pay the according price.

This. It's a bunch of clever maths and huge amounts of data. There's no consciousness and no hive mind ready to destroy humanity. It's a tool that can be used for good or bad.

P.s. Mashup spew is a perfect description.

[tangerine_sedge]

bloomen said:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busines...

Tyler Perry bins a big old expansion of his studio after seeing what Sora can do. He doesn't sound too optimistic about the future of entertainment jobs and who can blame him.

This is just a natural progression from CGI. Companies making CGI fodder now (superhero movies, I'm looking at you) will be able to make it cheaper and quicker without humans in the loop. The same will happen with the pop charts too - although you could argue that's already happened (old man shouting at clouds).

True artists will still create and stand out from the AI, until studios copy the originals, but artists will have to keep on inventing. I think there will be a backlash against AI in art/cinema/music and AI will be left to create the equivalent of lift music.

[Brother D]

Terminator X said:

The danger is that people will take the output as true. Given most treat even the newspapers as gospel already that is scary.

TX.

This is one of the things that scares me the most. I do think kids have less critical thinking skills today and take all their information from online websites and what is preached in schools. Worrisome indeed...

[Brother D]

This is not going well...

[grumbledoak]

Brother D said:

This is not going well...

It's a playbook. They are aiming for protected characteristic status, the same process that took homosexuality from illegal to "protected" (with annual month long celebrations).

So yes, sadly, this is going "well" for some.

[C n C]

In response to the OP's original question of "Is it just me?", I'd say that it's definitely not just you.

I know the following 2 articles have been posted before, and are now 9 years old, but if you haven't read them before, I'd suggest they are definitely worth a read (the second is a continuation of the first), and if (like me) you have, then maybe a re-read likely several years since you last read them?

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence

The AI Revolution: Our Immortality or Extinction

It may also be worth noting that at the time these were written, according to this Wikipedia page, the world's most powerful computer - the Tianhe 2 had a "computing power" of 40 x10^15 FLOPS.
This has obviously been superceded since then by others, and apparently the Tianhe-3 has recently been completed, according to this article on Techradar.

[rdjohn]

It is a worry as so many people have their minds so open to being misinformed.

In terms of Politics you simply need to be aware of the source. It is not as though Politicians have a strong reputation for being honest and open, AI is just the latest set of tools for them to achieve their aim.

Manipulating video images is a known issue already, so mind-blowing new evidence will be taken less seriously than, say DNA.

[ChemicalChaos]

Thread bump - Meta AI now makes up experience of having children and sending them to a special school...

What in the...?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13...

[Hoofy]

Weird. Looks like AI got confused with helping and mimmicking.

[a340driver]

Well the only online presence I have is Instagram and this. I don't post and they're correctly assuming that I like videos of cats.

I don't have a cat though, so I reckon I'm winning.

I'll properly win when I bin Insta as well. (I just like the cats).

Social media is toxic. PH is the least worst. But I like cars. What to do?