Let's talk about Artificial Intelligence

[facthunter]

I met a Girl once who was Pretty unreal.  Nev

[onetrack]

I'd really like to see AI tackle a fatberg. But of course, there will be a mechanised robotic drain cleaner that has an AI programmed brain, which will figure out the best way to tackle that fatberg.

 

The primary aim of senior pollies at present, should be - producing a vision, and a long-term plan, as to how our societies will function in the AI-age - where the likelihood of the concentration of massive wealth, will only increase.

For too long now, we are regularly being told that wealthy people getting wealthier, simply creates more jobs for us plebs. It ain't necessarly so (says Porgy and Bess), and the sooner our senior pollies produce a plan to address wealth inequality in a fair and just manner, the better the chance we have of avoiding civil revolution.

 

We have a modest form of that revolution starting now, as voters desert the major parties and vote for fringe parties who produce radical outbursts. And the scary part is the voters always blame the wrong people for a countrys problems.

[facthunter]

We expect more and more of Governments and to Pay Very little tax as well to Pay for those services, How does THAT work?  Nev

[old man emu]

What makes understanding AI difficult for me is the the very may ways that it is being used. Those many ways make it nearly impossible to say, "This is what AI is". I don't think that I could make a complete list of what one can do with AI. It seems that it is not possible to say what it can't do - apart from tasks invovling human imagination. I suppose one could compare it to a word processing program like Word. Have you ever used all the features that come in that program?

[pmccarthy]

If a large language model can do all that, is it just language that makes us intelligent?

[nomadpete]

Good question. No doubt there is a connection.

 

On the flip side of that thought,

Without my grasp of language, I would never have found out how unintelligent some folk are....

[facthunter]

Language allows us to express ourselves and communicate. Intelligence is how well you Process information. Intelligence is not the same as knowledge.  Knowledge is acquired.  Nev

[old man emu]

2 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

is it just language that makes us intelligent?

Individually we are intelligent beings. Just recall the last time you had to come up with a decision to some problem or task that was facing you. If you were successful, or not, your level of knowledge incerased. But that knowledge will remain inaccessible to the rest of us without a language to use to communicate it from you to us. The first method is the spoken word. After that the problem to be overcome is making a permanent record and that leads to writing. Once somethng is writeen people must learn to interpret your symbols, i.e. that's reading.

[old man emu]

Here is an example of how the AI program Claude is being used by the presenter to confirm family records. It is an example of my point that there are so many uses for AI that most of us have never thought of. However, I would rather read a novel written by a real person than one created from prompts to an AI program.

 

 

 

[facthunter]

Who wouldn't prefer the REAL thing.. ? Nev

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Who wouldn't prefer the REAL thing.. ? Nev

Have you ever done any geneological research? Pages and pages of records to go through which takes ages. If AI can do the grunt work, then I'd say that it as a good use for it.

[facthunter]

I think we are at cross purposes. It has it's uses and searching seems to be one of them. I don't want it Imitating/enhancing  reality and Being substituted/offered AS reality in an attempt to Misrepresent the TRUTH. . Nev