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I know I'm getting old, but it seems HAL from the 1968 movie, "2001, A Space Odyesey", is coming true every day.

Who knows, some people I know say AI will be an economic salvation, I am scepticle but my inner Luddite is making me queasy.

Flame away.

1 posted on 04/09/2024 7:36:23 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

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skep·ti·cal
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not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations.
“the public were deeply skeptical about some of the proposals”


2 posted on 04/09/2024 7:43:31 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: DallasBiff

I’m thinking of getting a shotgun - to take down drones


3 posted on 04/09/2024 8:09:39 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Celebrate Climate Change !!!)
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To: DallasBiff
A few decades ago, my farsighted group of parents friends, when
gathered round would joke about being replaced by a live wire.
6 posted on 04/09/2024 8:26:22 PM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: DallasBiff

Our saving grace is the flawed nature of technology.

AI will never be what people think it will be. Technology never meets expectations.


8 posted on 04/09/2024 9:24:10 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: DallasBiff

Do you remember at the dawn on the PC-warnings of madmen building super computers in their garages to threaten earth?

warnings of immense job losses to the computers?

Same old tune. I’m still wondering if the computer chip created or destroyed more jobs.


11 posted on 04/09/2024 10:45:53 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: DallasBiff

AI=Anti-INRI

The danger is not that Artificial Intelligence will become self-aware, it can’t.
The danger is people believing that it HAS become sentient and that it is infallible, that its logic is perfect and must be obeyed.
That is when the edicts and decisions from AI will lead to bloodshed.

The machines will never rise up and kill us; they’ll convince us to kill each other.


12 posted on 04/09/2024 10:46:29 PM PDT by Ignatz (The bees don't bother to tell the flies that honey tastes better than dung.)
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To: DallasBiff

No flames from here.

Technology has improved out lives greatly.

*Smart* technology is betraying us as it allows government surveillance and control of our lives.

AI?

A whole ‘nother issue itself. Opposing AI does not make one a *luddite*> It makes one wise. This has far too much potential to backfire and destroy mankind.

Not necessarily because the AI will become sentient and decide to eliminate humans by itself, but it’s the human programmers of AI I do not trust.


19 posted on 04/10/2024 6:25:38 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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