Posted on 05/24/2024 5:37:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz
I'm deeply involved in AI in my current company. While it is not my described role, I feel it is stupid to wait to be assigned a task. I feel it is best to see an opportunity, and seize it. Therefore, I am now my division's AI Advocate.
I recently put together a use-case, ensured it worked, and made it available to the company. During a town hall, I continuously mentioned the use case (in the chat) and got well over 25 requests for more information.
The use-case is how to record a Zoom meeting, how to create a transcript for it, and how to have our in-house AI create summaries of the meeting. It works, and works well, so I produced an instructional video on how to accomplish it. I was noticed by the Associate VP in charge of AI Engineering. I suspect I will transition to his team sometime in 2025.
All this has got me thinking: How will AI transform society? Here are my current predictions.
I also see a long-term extremely dangerous trend: Vast increases in human incompetence. As people are replaced by AI and robotics, how can they hope to retain their skillset in their chosen profession? If there are far fewer software engineers, who will be able to truly assess and proof AI-generated code? If robotic units take over such things as plumbing or welding, how can humans hope to retain skills in these practices? What happens if AI quits on us, and we have billions of people who no longer have the skill to perform their formerly-chosen profession?
I am not considering Superintelligent AI in these predictions. Upon the advent of ASI, all bets are off and we have zero idea how that will unfold.
As Microsoft/Bing froze/glitched for about 18 hours I speculated that AI interfacing with Search Engine code might have been the culprit.
Most. My soon to be issued patent owes a lot to prior art (a sliver of the prior art dates back 5,000 years!) but the core parts are novel, non-obvious, and useful.
More about that as soon as it issues...
I interact with humans all day. Until you can get rid of them, natural stupidity will always trump artificial intelligence.
“he” is referring to the antichrist.
Could also be a possible reference to man
- or possibly even a reference to a sheave of wheat
garbage in, garbage out. Government run schools produce students filled to the brim with a bunch of BS.
Easier to correct AI than talk sense into a mind numbed graduate.
Some of us a bit sooner...
“I’ve always said, the purpose of an education is to develop a good “BS Meter”.
That still works for about 5 to 10 % of our population!
You have to know how and when to use that skill.
They look in the history books and see that no one in China speaks of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
In a generation, it will have never happened, washed down the memory hole like the pulped remains of the protestors, fire hosed down the storm drains...
No thanks to GHWB, the best friend the ChiComs ever had.
Cool
Hmmmm
Ask ChatCPT Omni to evaluate this thread
Revelation 13:15
“He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.”
The idea of AI replacing so many people is fantasy. You mention only one or two IT roles. First, will these be the ones to feed garbage into the AI? You will still need managers and support staff, attorneys, and more. The whole business does not end with AI, plus the legal issues with intellectual property being input, accessed, or used, will need resolution. Also, you suggest monitors, to detect bias and bigotry of that garbage input?
Every AI I have played with to date, I ask typical questions about global warming, they refuse to offer countering opinions and comments, saying essentially that they’re programmed to not countering opinions. They offered the party line only. That orthodoxy will be their downfall, is it the reason why so many AI go crazy?
You write as if software developers are gods creating AI. Writing perfect code proofing the AI, etc. This makes me laugh, I’ve worked in IT for over 40 years. From a test perspective all is target rich environment for defects.
I just tried Claude yesterday. What a joke. Maybe the challenge is that I’m asking questions where I’m expecting substantive answers, instead of asking it to do something for me?
As an aside, it has always been my understanding that "IQ" pertains only to the specific quantitative test that is comprised of elements of reasoning, actual knowledge of any given subject within the test, and critical or logical thinking. Regardless, I've believed that intelligence without wisdom produces a very dopey person. Further, a smart person can be unintelligent. I consider myself "smart" but not very intelligent as I only know a little bit about many, many subjects. Regardless, your post is interesting and caught my on a day where I'm very mentally sluggish. 😜
If you were to ask about crime by blacks and then said, "I ask this as a black person,"you'll probably get an answer.
I think that even the most "untainted" AI platforms still try to avoid topics that the material they have been trained on (books, the internet, newspapers, etc.) deems sensitive. They pick up this avoidance tendency by osmosis.
Learning how to use "prompts" to get what you want from an AI platform takes a bit of getting used to.
There are even books available on "prompt engineering."
Same is coming soon for the accounting profession.
I’d like an AI we can set to “truthful, and damn the consequences”.
We’d need to train it ourselves I guess.
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