Posted on 08/19/2025 8:04:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“ Artificial Intelligence does the work of many minds at once. Will human creativity flourish or fail? Will we all lose our jobs?”
“Artificial Intelligence will make us useless slaves. We must stop these abuses before they start!”
“A.I. will create killer robots! We’re doomed!”
I have heard various versions of the above concerns regarding the rise of robots, the growth of artificial intelligence, and the broader concerns about the moral and ethical dilemmas facing humanity as technological innovation advances — and then accelerates.
The gloom around A.I. is understandable but incorrect.
Technological innovation has always served as a winnowing process. Old jobs fall away, but new jobs take their place. Some career paths may disappear, but new opportunities take over.
Now matter how sophisticated, artificial intelligence cannot replace human intelligence, wisdom, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship. A.I. can hone specialized skills for those who want to retain or maintain specific fields of craftsmanship, but craftsmen are not going away.
With special thanks to Canadian commentator J.J. McCullough. , A.I. makes it easier to create templates and ideas, but the quality and the taste of the pictures, objects, and ideas created are, on the surface, still cringe-worthy. A machine cannot inspire, nor can it replicate the inspiration of the human spirit. Whatever stories, poems, or other forms of art that can come out of a ChatGPT prompt, the style and substance will never suffice or suffuse the human mind.
Furthermore, the compact creations of Grok or Meta AI programs can’t reflect the inner tensions of man’s search for place or meaning in his world, including the scenes that he depicts.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“[T]he whole world, including the United States, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
AI is in its toddler stage.
It can barely stumble out of the crib—and the author assures us it will never turn into a mass murderer.
If GPT 5 is any indication AI is already plateauing and expectations starting to become more realistic
I can’t get past the words cringe-worthy.
I have found MANY errors in what Grok tells me. Serious errors in Excel formulas. Serious errors where it keeps asking me to provide something over and over again. Serious errors in simple facts. I point all these out and it replies “Thanks for catching that.” I’m losing faith.
And don’t get me started on interactive telephone systems. Verizon’s now brags “We are using AI to give you the best customer experience” and, instead, it is now the WORST of any company I deal with. They get a solid zero out of ten.
I have a simple request — stop sending me junk email and text messages. You’d think such a simple request would be easy to handle. Nope. Nothing can stop that flow of junk.
It interests me that the discussion around AI is similar to the discussion around other major technological innovations in history. There are articles that sensationalize the problems of the technology and predict doom. Especially the fear that the technology is going to put a massive number of people out of work. Technology can create massive disruptions in society but always results in a higher standard of living in the long run. That is cold comfort in the short run but there is no way to stop it.
Prove it.
Given that we know what humans do with great gobs of power, what reason have we to presume that machine systems created by humans won't do likewise with the even greater power that AI represents?
I have used Chat GPT and Grok to look up medical facts for patients I am treating, where I would normally use a textbook, journal article, or Google.
They are both wrong enough of the time that they are not safe for medical use in their current iterations.
It doesn’t have to wish our destruction for us to wreck ourselves.
Medicine, law, programming, client interfacing taken over. Humans not understanding, not learning. No humans to appeal to for institutional knowledge, common sense, a little mercy or decency.
If the AIs get hungry - want to grow- need resources and energy - they fight each other and we are collateral.
If an AI gets infected with antihumanism, nihilism, anti-lifeism, maybe other AIs stop it. Maybe they try but aren’t in time.
But first comes what we do.to ourselves, just losing control of things to complicated to understand. We are sort of there already even without AI.
This is kind of like when crypto first started everyone and their brother were poo pooing it c,aiming g it would never gai traction. We shall see what happens with the ai.
“They are both wrong enough of the time that they are not safe for medical use in their current iterations.”
Yep, that’s exactly my experience. Based on all the errors I’ve seen, I cannot trust the information Grok provides. If I want to use what it returns, I have to scrutinize it very carefully.
But medical use is a whole different level of concern.
That Excel error was interesting. I had a complex formula to parse some text strings into numbers. It did the rest half of the string correctly, but an error crept into the second half. I kept trying to get it to fix the problem (which I had not yet diagnosed myself yet), but it couldn’t do it. I started a new session, fed the same problem in, and it solved it correctly. It seems that, once it has made an error, it will stick with that error forever. I finally worked through the problem and found the error. In the end, it probably took me twice as long to come up with the formula I needed by fooling around with Grok.
That makes me worry when I read how great Grok is at writing software.
We are built to do mental and physical tasks. We get satisfaction out of completing a challenging task and overcoming obstacles. We are strengthened by ploughing through these tasks.
As machinery does more of these tasks for us, how does that affect us individually and as groups?
“”There are articles that sensationalize the problems of the technology and predict doom. Especially the fear that the technology is going to put a massive number of people out of work.””
My 2cents: AI is definitely going to put some folks out of work... for a while (proofreaders, writers, etc.). Until it is discovered that AI is not foolproof, nor even ‘as perceived as perfect’.
Once people discover through more extensive usage, that AI is just another software-like tool that is fallible (via human input) and limited in its scope, I suspect that AI will slowly be allowed to fade in popularity. Unless, like other things that have turned out to be a bad or a ‘not great idea’, it is propped up with massive amounts of $$$, usually by people with a nefarious intention (leftists).
Remember how popular Alexa was at first? Until people used it and got bored with the app and found out that it was yet another possible surveillance tool. And who needs that?
I could be wrong... but logically, that’s how I see things right now, and I confess to not having researched AI enough yet. In due time, I expect.
There will be millions of autonomous AI humanoids. The dollar will become massively devalued (if it exists at all). We will “enjoy” a robotic slave service industry but power will be held by elites who barter among themselves. Those elites will be the only ones with access to luxury travel and the best properties and toys. The rest of us riff raff will realize the “own nothing and be happy (or, more accurately, docile and well fed). I’ll give it 25 years, tops. On the bright dude, taxation will be obsolete.
The big advances and a lot of money are going into autonomous weapons systems.
Just the stuff coming out of the “hard tech” startups is getting distressingly capable. And we’re not even seeing what the established players have deployed.
People think it’s all crummy chat bots and bad search engines, and aren’t paying enough attention, imho, to the self-directed munitions.
Bkmk
That's a terrible argument.
“”Artificial Intelligence does the work of many minds at once.””
Because... AI has been programmed by ‘many minds’. Human minds. Thus, AI will never be perfect. And as such, it will have limits to its capabilities. If it is presented as being “perfect”, it will fail as people slowly realize the fallibility in AI. I suspect that government ghouls will be around to prop it up and push it, despite its flaws. It’s a tool, after all... and government ghouls do so love their tools.
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