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AI is coming for us

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11 hours ago, Zico said:

"Have to wonder where it all ends"

"Essentially we’re ten years away from Skynet or the Borg"

They’ll come for you first because you mocked them

39 minutes ago, Spider said:

They’ll come for you first because you mocked them

I'll be ready and waiting to unplug them

1 hour ago, Zico said:

I'll be ready and waiting to unplug them

They won’t use conventional power.

you’re just not a visionary 

17 hours ago, Spider said:

They won’t use conventional power.

you’re just not a visionary 

20 years from The Matrix

Govt advisors saying AI could bring end of humanity within two years.

Given their record I’m pretty reassured 

2 hours ago, green genie said:

Govt advisors saying AI could bring end of humanity within two years.

Given their record I’m pretty reassured 

Create panic

Nail down big contracts to “deal” with panic.

Retire to well-feathered nest.

 

Just now, Spider said:

Create panic

Nail down big contracts to “deal” with panic.

Retire to well-feathered nest.

 

Got the taste for opportunities with Covid

I’m excited about AI referees in pro football.

Every decision correct. Every foul, every offside, every dive - all sorted in milliseconds by our digital overlords.

And AI stewards telling us to sit down.

2 hours ago, Spider said:

Create panic

Nail down big contracts to “deal” with panic.

Retire to well-feathered nest.

 

Well they'll now be running out of the  money they made dealing with the Millennium Bug.

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11 hours ago, green genie said:

Govt advisors saying AI could bring end of humanity within two years.

Given their record I’m pretty reassured 

Worth a read of the article on sky news.

The advisor was responding to a letter and comments from many experts in the field, and covers the need for regulation.

A civil servant doing his job. Thankfully.

23 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

 

This been my main worry about how it will be utilised 

If you can generate images of anything and anyone

And voices

Etc 

Then you can tell whatever story you want

40 minutes ago, Zico said:

This been my main worry about how it will be utilised 

If you can generate images of anything and anyone

And voices

Etc 

Then you can tell whatever story you want

Exactly

It won’t be Skynet that wipes us out.

Itll be us.

But AI will cause it.

Get that bank loan. Enjoy what’s left.

1 minute ago, Spider said:

Exactly

It won’t be Skynet that wipes us out.

Itll be us.

But AI will cause it.

Get that bank loan. Enjoy what’s left.

At least it should kill off the celebrity news columns and paparazzi 

4 minutes ago, Zico said:

At least it should kill off the celebrity news columns and paparazzi 

Hopefully

By the way, when applying for the loan, don’t use “imminent Armageddon” as the reason for it.

 

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1 hour ago, Zico said:

AI to stop water pollution before it happens 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65913940.amp

 

Very interesting that.

Just shows though that AI as a term has a broad meaning.

To me that is a system of analytical equipment working in conjunction with software to produce a picture of the future- just like weather forecasting.

In my mind, that isn't AI though. I always imagine it to be a set up that can "think" for itself and essentially modify its own software as it learns. Sorry if that is anthropomorphising it, but I dunno the techical terms for it 

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Very interesting that.

Just shows though that AI as a term has a broad meaning.

To me that is a system of analytical equipment working in conjunction with software to produce a picture of the future- just like weather forecasting.

In my mind, that isn't AI though. I always imagine it to be a set up that can "think" for itself and essentially modify its own software as it learns. Sorry if that is anthropomorphising it, but I dunno the techical terms for it 

AI is very broad as it can be used for pretty much anything 

self modification of code of software, the idea of it going rogue and turning itself into a wrong un or whatever is science fiction 

It might be able to make its own source code more efficient if that's what it's been programmed to do 

It consumes information and data, learns and acts accordingly based on what it's been programmed to do and in turn asked to do 

I imagine You would normally need someone to interpret the data and make a specific request to a particular farmer to stop using a particular fertiliser in a specific field based on current and forecast trends, or maybe it's never been done that way 

But AI makes it possible 

The analytical side of it is one thing 

The recommended actions of the back of it is another 

Likewise 

Knowing the weather forecast is one thing 

But you could have an AI app that you tell where you are going on a certain day and it could say "take it brolly as it will be raining" or "going to be really hot, don't forget sun cream" etc

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Surely the last paragraph is implied by the forecast itself. A bit worrying that anyone might need to be told!

Anyway, why do you think so many top bods in the field have written a letter about their concerns?

I saw an article where the US military was running theoretical tests to determine if autonomous uavs might inadvertantly attack the base operator as they "work out" solutions.

All very deep!

15 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Surely the last paragraph is implied by the forecast itself. A bit worrying that anyone might need to be told!

Anyway, why do you think so many top bods in the field have written a letter about their concerns?

I saw an article where the US military was running theoretical tests to determine if autonomous uavs might inadvertantly attack the base operator as they "work out" solutions.

All very deep!

The weather example was a simplistic example of how it can be utilised, ie analyse and react, but that is effectively what the water pollution system is doing 

The concerns are rightly about the utilisation and what humans do with it, and where it takes us 

It needs regulation

But there's so many positive things it can be used for 

There's also a lot of paranoid as well imo 

  • 2 weeks later...

AI cuts treatment time for cancer radiotherapy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65988768

A new type of artificial-intelligence technology that cuts the time cancer patients must wait before starting radiotherapy is to be offered at cost price to all NHS trusts in England.

On 06/06/2023 at 10:15, MickyD said:

Well they'll now be running out of the  money they made dealing with the Millennium Bug.

Y2k38 isn't far off...

On 17/06/2023 at 11:25, Zico said:

AI to stop water pollution before it happens 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65913940.amp

 

Blimey, a news article that understands river pollution is an issue with agriculture rather than claiming the water companies dump raw sewage for fun

Biggest problem with that experiment is the instrumentation needs calibrating and filters cleaned at leat weekly as well as relying on solar power. The EA are trying to impose similar sets upstream and downstream of every treatment works discharge with no understanding of the engineering reality.

10 minutes ago, green genie said:

Blimey, a news article that understands river pollution is an issue with agriculture rather than claiming the water companies dump raw sewage for fun

Biggest problem with that experiment is the instrumentation needs calibrating and filters cleaned at leat weekly as well as relying on solar power. The EA are trying to impose similar sets upstream and downstream of every treatment works discharge with no understanding of the engineering reality.

On one specific beach...

AI now aiding the production and delivery of VR child sex channels. The rock spiders must be fucking ecstatic. Interesting legal considerations if (questionably) "no child was harmed in the production of this output". What about feeding and nurturing an vile sickness?

In this so called cancel culture we are blighted with, they should cancel this madness now. Chuck in Faceache and Twatter too. Win-win-win.

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