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.
Are you saying without AI we go dark? That would be dumb.
No, I’m saying when we go dark, we’ll be without AI.
...and anything requiring electricity; water, fuel, sanitation, HVAC, refrigeration, TV, radio, internet, power tools, groceries, medicines, etc.
Using AI to review medical problems of many patients:
AI Overview: Yes, dual sensory impairment (DSI) of hearing and vision is strong!
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Yes, dual sensory impairment (DSI) of hearing and vision is strongly associated with an increased risk of dementia in older adults. In fact, people with DSI are nearly twice as likely to develop dementia as those without impairments. For example, a 2022 cohort study of over 500,000 people in the UK found that participants with DSI had an 82% higher risk of dementia, compared to 50% for those with vision impairment alone and 42% for those with hearing impairment alone.
MedicalNewsToday
Hearing plus vision loss increases the odds of dementia
Jul 20, 2020 — People with both hearing and visual loss were nearly twice as likely to develop dementia as those without such impairments. However, according to the results, the increased risk of dementia for an individual with DSI is only somewhat related to the severity of hearing and visual impairment. While those classified as having a high level of DSI are at the greatest risk of developing dementia, those with lower DSI levels also have a significantly higher risk of dementia.
AAIC
Longitudinal Changes in Hearing and Visual Impairments and ...
May 5, 2022 — Question Is dual sensory impairment associated with risk of dementia, including Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia, among older adults? Findings In this cohort study that included 2927 adults aged 65 years and older, dual sensory impairment was associated with a 160% increased risk for all-cause dementia and a 267% increased risk for Alzheimer disease. Meaning These findings suggest that assessment of both hearing and vision may help to identify older adults who are at high risk of developing dementia.
Healthy Hearing:
Hearing and vision loss equals ‘substantial’ risk for dementia ...
Jul 11, 2022 — Similarly, a June 2022 cohort study in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, which looked at more than half a million people in the UK also found that participants with vision impairment had a 50 percent higher risk for developing dementia, while people with a hearing impairment had a 42 percent higher risk. Highest still was the risk for developing dementia in people with dual sensory impairment: 82 percent.
The increased risk of dementia for people with DSI is somewhat related to the severity of their impairments, but those with lower levels of DSI also have a significantly higher risk. Assessing both hearing and vision may help identify older adults who are at high risk of developing dementia.
Hearing loss can also be an early symptom of dementia. Central hearing loss, which is when the brain has trouble processing sounds, may be a very early symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. To: Reduce the risk of dementia: you can: Get your hearing tested, Protect your hearing from a young age, and Use hearing aids.
'Data centers' imply data centers of individual companies, not data centers of cloud providers. Data centers of cloud providers are simply referred to as cloud.
The issue is cost. Cloud providers baited companies with attractive promotional pricing into getting rid of their data centers. Once the promotional pricing expired these companies were in shock at their cloud bills. Not what they had been led to believe. Lot of articles, if you search, on companies moving migrating away from the cloud.
” For example, AI compiled decent open source info on my father’s historic legal achievements, but with major inaccuracies that were spotted by me only because I was his son. This scares me as history can be further rewritten (or erased) and new generations would never know any better.”
And therein lies a major problem...ie GIGO?
HaHA...well...that’s ONE way to get rid of the lawyers
I can still quickly add and subtract large numbers in my head and multiply and divide them. Younger folks show me off to others like I am working magic. I teach many kids how to make change without a calculator. Some think that is so silly when you can just push a couple of buttons then they find themselves making change and it all clicks WOW they don’t need a key pad!!!
I prefer paper maps which I believe are extinct and refuse to use GPS. I do copy of maps from Mapquest and use them that way. My wife loves her GPS but I get where I need o go more reliably.
What I really want is AI to clean up after I have cooked a meal...a real meal...not a microwave one. Can we start there?
Fewer engineers and technicians.
Or radically fewer humans which seems to be the direction of Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab.
The powers at be are engineering things so they don’t lose their productivity by eliminating people.
Or a hundred million or a million.
But people have to be productive. Basic Income is just moving money around in a circle. It produces nothing. The System doesn’t need unproductive units and will eventually eliminate hem either at the direction of the few humans at the top or at its own initiative. Sufficiently evolved/developed the System doesn’t need those meat things at the top either.
The idea is to create so much productivity through automation that people cannot be productive enough to keep up.
I don’t doubt that the intent is evil. It would be ok if those planning for an AI future were keeping it people-centric, but they aren’t. They are intending a future where AI has control.
You understand the key to a healthy brain.
If we fail to use this part of the brain and our corresponding aspect of consciousness, it atrophies.
When it atrophies, we lose the use of our logic and don’t even realize it. When this happens, our consciousness shifts into the emotional aspect which causes us to be manipulated and vulnerable.
We develop loopy logic that makes it difficult to make logical decisions.
What we are seeing in our government is a result of this shift in consciousness.
would you hit it?...
Very true...and even worse.
This problem is not just in our government.
The entire political Left in this country and around the world has become infected by the kind of thinking (or non-thinking) you describe. Many, many people are refusing to use the left hemispheres of their brains (i.e., the logical, rational, calculating parts).
They are, by and large, now insane and non-functional as human beings.
AI is just as subject to GIGO as anything else that runs on a computer.
Where AI differs is in the inherent (and subtle) BIAS that can be built into it by feeding it biased data/biased information.
When every source used to feed an AI engine has the same bias, AI cannot help itself but to generate biased results. It cannot distinguish AT ALL the difference between truth and lie. That means AI will be nothing more IMO than a mass gaslighting tool, spewing lies and disinformation because of the purposely biased information it's fed.
Therefore, he/they who controls the information given to AI, controls the world.
There's your one world government right there, Laz. All enabled by AI.
The rest of the "mass layoff's" and Universal Basic Income, that all comes AFTERWARDS. AFTER everyone (as much as "everyone is possible) has been sufficiently gaslit to believe it's all OK and just part of "advancing humanity".
The dangerous people will be you, I, and others like us who will remain steadfast independent thinkers who know how to legitimately and logically question everything.
If for some reason the bastards take me alive (I'm NOT planning on that) then I'll see you in the gulag, old friend.
Terminator is more likely. In fact, they're already here. Military development of robots for war already exist.
Drones. Armed fighting robotic dogs, armed, fighting stand-up human like robots capable of firing weapons. (Boston Dynamics has them.)
Just a matter of time before they turn them on us.
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