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 ...
I remember when the PDR was on nearly every desk at hospitals.
I wonder if that is still a thing or if looking up the facts regarding pharmaceuticals is now done mainly using AI systems via smartphones...
AI is certain to have serious downsides, worse than people are predicting. It might be like "free" electricity nuclear power, which turned out to have a serious expensive accident about every 10 years. Widespread AI will turn out have a serious mass accident more frequently. As before, nothing will be done. We'll just put up with it.
Mother Nature is smarter than any AI and will carry on, with or without us, although the Amish are sitting pretty.
That paper textbook can't be changed on some anonymous stranger's whim without your knowledge. The same cannot be said of the electronic resources.
I really wish denial and ignorance could save us....but I have my doubts.
Lol.
Find an actual bio for Arthur Christopher Schaper, more than "a blogger, writer, and commentator."
What is his education? As a teacher before becoming the above, one should be able to learn more of him. Give it a try....
On the title / question: "Is AI Gloom and Doom Justified?" Yes and no. Depends on who answers. I say not really. It's not "intelligent," just fast. And prone to repeating GIGO. That's what large language models all do. And some become racist. Others misogynist. A Google AI became "depressed.: What is certain is this is all jolly fun.
A curiosity, please. Does your tagline indicate reading Théodoros Daoud, listening to Edith Piaf or some other source(s)?
I’ve had the exact same thing when asking about genetics. I assumed if I gave Grok chromosome and base pair numbers it would immediately know what genes were contained in that region.
It started talking about a gene that was tens of thousands of basepairs upstream.
When I corrected Grok it gave the exact thing you found: “Thanks for catching that.”
The only “doom” facing American workers are H1Bs.
“Thanks for catching that.”
Then it often persists in making the exact same error! Once a thread has an error in it, I find that thread is contaminated and usually cannot be fixed. The only solution is to start another thread.
But it sure makes you nervous seeing all those errors.
Almost exclusively leftists. Ask a political question and you will get a response right out of CNN because most all news is leftest.
“”Almost exclusively leftists. Ask a political question and you will get a response right out of CNN because most all news is leftest.””
Exactly. Which is why it will probably be propped up by leftists with taxpayer money... long after its allure and popularity has faded with average Americans.
I’m afraid to imagine what it is going to do to our voting system.
“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?”
That is absolutely part of the problem, the other half is what humans plan to do with that power of the machine. But one must be on the upper part of the Bell Curve to even comprehend this fact.
Almost exclusively leftists. Ask a political question and you will get a response right out of CNN because most all news is leftest.
“Programmed by fellas, with compassion and vision.”
It’s from Piaf’s version of Ca ira, and it means, “enough with the lies and slogans”.
AI doesn’t have any power that humans don’t give it. A great deal of circumspection needs to drive that. You wouldn’t give a loaded revolver to a three year old. (Well, I might but you wouldn’t...)
AI is only as good as the information fed into it by humans.
Some wall street prognosticator said he sees the biggest crash ever based on crypto. Sorry I did not write down his name.
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