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AI seems to be a character multiplier. If you’re a charlatan AI can make you more of one.
Because they are going to let AI dictate policy and protocols this insane trend is going to kill people.
“Peer reviewed scientific publications” has become a major joke/vehicle for fraud, including for the scientific journal publishing houses.
I always thought publish or perish was horrible standard.
They can call it hallucinating or whatever other cute word they choose to use in place of bad/incorrect/false data, but it won't change the fact that this machine can simply makes things up to fit the pattern being requested. This software is not Commander Data from Star Trek, not by a long shot, nor will it be no matter what the salesmen keep telling everyone. Those same AI bros who are heavily invested in it will now appear in a puff of digital smoke and tell me what a luddite I am.
Given Apple's recent truth telling regarding "AI" and LLMs...I don't think I'm far off.
Yep.
AI is a gargantuan waste of money and people’s time.
Every few weeks, “generation x” states with great firmness that us old people are obsolete, time to get to the nursing home, and blah-blah-blah.
To an experienced ear they sound like they feel threatened when they say this, don’t they?
No, actually people over 65 are (this according to my own personal research) of more value than ever before - because we had to memorize stuff in order to learn, had to read books and visit libraries to do research, had to think of unique inquiries and come up with our own hypotheses, and so on. (And we make WAY better employees, even though we are old!)
I wasn’t very good in school - I’m apparently super smart but I’m lazy in about the same proportion as smart. However, a lot of the stuff I see presented as information on social media makes me feel like a frequing genius and font of knowledge.
AI hasn’t done much for the creative side of thinking, either - just so you’ll know. Predictable, boring, AI-generated video and images are a positive detriment to art and anything creative - and it seems like it’s getting worse, don’t it? LOL! Worse and worse and worse! (It sure helps the perverts, though, doesn’t it? They’re having their best years right now!)
My paintings are bad, but again - I painted them myself and they contain meaning at least to me. (Mr K - not the one on this forum - is an excellent professional-level painter has said a few of my paintings are good. That in turn makes me feel good because they’re really my paintings and I wasn’t sitting there like a fool dictating to a machine that’s actually NOT producing art - and not research, either!- and instead, like, sucking my brains out bit by bit.)
Like internet career trolls aren’t going to immediately infest every AI engine out there (like they did with internet “search”) and render it unusable in a short time?
That’s what I thought when I got over the first flush of “Wow, what is this AI stuff?” and realized it’s just more time- and money-wasting garbage.
And that’s what it was!
Especially psychological and sociological journals, which is mostly bullshit in the first place.
But if you're interested in computer history, today's "AI" could be said to sometimes pass the test of what Alan Turing said would be artificial intelligence. He said it's when the response it gives you can't be distinguished from a real person's response. Of course, Alan Turing is the one who invented the first computer during World War II, so his opinion deserves at least considering.
There are obviously still some situations that "AI" isn't as good as a human. For example, I asked ChatGPT to make a C# program to prove the Pythagorean Theorem. It produced a C# program that calculated the PT, but not one that proved the PT (like I did in a trigonometry course). But there are other situations where "AI" is fooling people into thinking they're getting accurate and verified information, generated in seconds.
Like everything out there, eventually corrupted by man. AI is evil, man’s garbage “ science “ goes in ….garbage in, garbage out.
God’s given reasoning abilities are being destroyed.
And why is ol Peter Theil of Palantir fame, is getting billions in US granted contracts to put AI in charge of EVERYTHING GLOBALY?.
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Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, has secured billions in contracts from the United States government.
Palantir provides data analytics and software services to various federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The company’s technology is used for diverse applications, including military targeting with its Maven AI system, tracking migrant movements, and potentially compiling data across agencies like the IRS and the Social Security Administration.
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The substantial government funding has also significantly impacted Palantir’s stock, which has seen substantial gains.
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Oh, that’s why, Nancy and the Dems and rinos must have stock options ?
what could go wrong ?../
But there are other situations where “AI” is fooling people into thinking they’re getting accurate and verified information, generated in seconds
Now, probably more 50% of high school, and even more college undergraduate “papers” and answers and calculations are AI generated or internet text copies.
It rapidly turns into a numbers game - quantity not quality decides P & T in higher education.
Easy problem to solve.
Just have each submission screened by an AI for plagiarism
Duke University Agrees to Pay U.S. $112.5 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Related to Scientific Research Misconduct
1. Duke was able to put the blame on some back room technician, for 12 years of making up stuff. The lead researcher if not the department head should also be held accountable for data and results, and BS if they don’t know enough or care enough to know the details. Peer review could then dig into statistical methods and any other doubts and skepticism.
2. The academic world bitched and moaned when research funds were cut for overhead. These overhead duties should have been directed to be being damn sure the work was correct, not for jetting off the international conferences and building out staff who drink coffee and stare at each other.
3. I’ve also seen poor research ideas, execution, and lack of interest in private business. PhD’s wanting their name on publications while cursorily looking over the shoulders of those doing the work. On the plus side, I’ve also seen annual shark tank type reviews among stakeholders and funders. hard grilling. Are results tracking expectations and still aligned with needs? Some projects politely stopped. But also the opposite, “if we got you more funds, could you go faster?”
Related: Wiley had to retract 11,000 fraudulent “peer reviewed” papers and shut down 19 “scientific” journals.
https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc
The plan is to enslave us.
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