Artificial Intelligence - The Sorcerer's Apprentice

[Marty_d]

If you want to know how smart AI currently is, go to MS Copilot and ask the question "How many times does the letter R appear in the word 'strawberry'?"

[pmccarthy]

Yesterday I read about the Google woman who was giving a speech about AI and was interrupted by her own Google assistant on her phone. I was reading the article out to my wife and the Google assistant in our kitchen piped up asking if we wanted to know more about AI.

[onetrack]

I don't talk to any computer or phone. I can have enough interaction with them just using keyboards and buttons. Voice-actuated "assistants" are something I don't need - and can't use anyway, because of my deafness.

Plus, I wouldn't trust either MS or Google with my voice record. It's bad enough the level of hidden tracking they carry out now. And don't get me started on Farcebook, I treat them like a black snake.

[pmccarthy]

Quite likely.

[Marty_d]

Case doesn't matter. When I tried it told me there are two R's.

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, Marty_d said:

Case doesn't matter. When I tried it told me there are two R's.

The point is, each AI is still learning. It is young but gradually it will learn to spell as poorly as the rest orf us.

[facthunter]

Ethics is easy. Don't treat anyone in a way you wouldn't want to be treated yourself..  Nev

[facthunter]

WE have no shortage of people who use ANYTHING for the wrong purpose. Nev

[onetrack]

I find it hard to imagine what kind of amoral person devises improved human killing devices for war use. Some of the acoustic anti-personnel mines would have to be amongst some of the most evil inventions anyone ever designed.

[facthunter]

There has always been wars and thieves. and the need for walls and castles. . It's easier to pinch stuff rather than make or buy it so  we need enforcers.  Nev. 

[spacesailor]

My ' smart ' TV keeps asking  , do we want our smart remote to couple to the " set-top-box " . who uses ' set-top-boxes ' anymore .

spacesailor

 

[onetrack]

We've got a "Fetch TV" set top box, it vastly improves the ability and options on a Smart TV.

[spacesailor]

As to the question of , " what crazy person/ dictator would start a nuclear war " .

The answer is " there's hundreds of unstable people , wanting to end their misery , & would take us all with them for company " .

While a teenager I definately was one , " not "  to give the yanks " red button " to .   ( goodbye cruel world ) .

spacesailor

Edited September 8 by spacesailor

[newsaroundme]

I'm using Gemini and have spent the last day or so attempting to correct it. It won't accept the corrections. I'm having a great time though because I am detecting flaws. I'm looking forward to using the API to play with this even more.

[newsaroundme]

I have incorporated generative AI using the SDK in python and feel like a young kid with a Meccano set.

[Jerry_Atrick]

I am waiting for the degenerate AI 😉

 

 

[newsaroundme]

2 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

I am waiting for the degenerate AI 😉

 

 

Isn't that Facebook?

[Jerry_Atrick]

Ahh.. yes.. Meta...

 

Forgot about that one.

[red750]

This might appeal to you both.

 

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, wasimtariq323 said:

With online IT courses, you can learn how to build, manage, and implement AI systems effectively, shaping the future of technology.

Which is all well and good if doing those things is your choice of career path. However, the majority of the populations chooses other pathways where AI is hardly relevant to their day-to-day lives. However, their lives are affected by the storymakers who use the listener's lack of understanding of AI to create the modern equivalent of ghost and bug-eyed monster stories to feed our fear of the unknown. 

 

We are being urged to upgrade to Windows 11 to access great new features, but how many of us can live quite happily with features introduced in Windows 7 without suffering loss of efficiency?

[Marty_d]

Win98 SE service pack 2.
 

No further changes were needed.

[old man emu]

20 minutes ago, Marty_d said:

Win98 SE service pack 2. No further changes were needed.

I bow to your superior knowledge.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Actually, how many of you use Google, or Ecosia, or any of the popular search engines? They all have deployed AI for years.. how do you thhink they understand "what is a xxxxxx?" These are all forms of AI and AI has been around for around 50 years. The modern advances in chip processing power, and some sifty use of massive parralel but very small instruction set processeors (or GPUs, Graphic Processing Units) has allowed AI to be far more interactive. In analgous terms, it has moved from the DOS command line to early versions of Windows, to now mid-versions..

 

Do we need AI? No. Do we really need any technological advancement? No. But technoclogical advancement brings significant benefits - or advantages; as it brings significant disadvantages. The trick is to harness the advantages and minimise the disadvantages.

 

AI, like many businesses, will be used predominantly in the commercial sense. Can a company massively increase their productivity? We are trialling it with a popular online meeting software package to remove the need for a minute taker. The reality is the scribe or however known the person who was in meetings for minute taking as long gone the ay of the dodo, so there is no employee savings to be made; the benefit is the in crease in productivity in minute taking, summarisation of key points, etc. Even if it gets it only 80% right, it is a massive inprovement in productivity.

 

I think AU is near the point where it will be a net remover of jobs from the economy. While automation has removed a lot of jobs from the production line (think car manufacturing), it has given other jobs, which  admittedly require more training and a desire to move into those areas. But history is full of change.. Want a career in agriculture? Better be preapred for training at a tertiary level because there aren't too many labouring jobs around anymore - least not compared to those in days gone by.

 

AI online systems doesn't mean how to program AI, oether; there are AI courses in how to use it effectively - I have seen jobs a "AI Prompt Engineers" that pay handsomely. Using AI properly to generate code; write prose, or create images (save for the copright challenges) does require some getting used to. There are courses to understand its application, its limitatins, ethical uses, etc..

 

It may not be a career choice, but for a lot of people, neither is maths. But if it becomes so uniquitous it is important to learn about it, then should we not learn about it? Is life not a long learning experience?

[spacesailor]

Manual labour. 

An English artist travels  the world, collecting. 

'Old tared rope' , from which he makes " boardroom " wall hangings . ( 3d touch smell sight ) .

The price of which he couldn't earn in his old foundry worker pay-rate .

spacesailor

 

[old man emu]

3 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

should we not learn about it?

The answer is another question - How deeply does the average person go into it? Most of us don't know how to apply most of the features of WORD, but most of us can produce what we want from what we do know of it.