[Getready]

Did AI take into account that scribe “A” had a hand cramp and lost his pen and wrote slightly differently every so often?
AI means humans are unable to do deep thought.

[texas booster]

“Part of the reason why artificial intelligence research was needed to allow the authors of this groundbreaking study to confirm the identification of two different scribes, is that the two hands are rather similar and may be compatible with a single scribe who changed his pen,” says Charlotte Hempel at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

“The authors also open up the fascinating question of whether this level of affinity between the scribal hands points to a stellar professional, able to ‘match’ another hand or whether we are dealing with a shared scribal training environment,” says Hempel.

I'll take a shared scribal training environment for $1,000, Alex.

[William Tell]

”AI means humans are unable to do deep thought.”

I recently became aware of the accomplishments of AlphaZero, which plays chess, and AlphaGo, which plays the game of Go. Really pretty impressive.

We truly live in interesting times.

[DoodleBob]

AI is basically statistical optimization with re-estimation on the fly, either supervised or unsupervised.

How good is this new way of doing things? An autonomous Tesla killed two people in California when it crashed into a tree and started a massive four-hour fire that took 32,000 GALLONS of water to extinguish it.

Other autonomous navigating systems fail to see dark-skinned people because such people aren't well-populated in the training dataset, and the data scientists are can't see the forest through the trees.

For certain, low-intensity cost/benefit items like "recommendations" pushed to you on Netflix or Spotify or Amazon based on your behavior, maybe AI is good.

For other stuff, it's nowhere near as good as a human.