Fear of A.I

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I have been seeing alot of talk of A.I. and the fear of implementing it. What are the risks? Are we talking "Rise of the Machines" scenario?
 
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that....."

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One of the fears is that many jobs will one day be done by AI. But then the industrial revolution also did something similar, yet, we as a society have adapted somehow.

One thing that's on the rise is that AI can create fake content that will be indistinguishable from truth, thus causing further unrest and divisions as we'll no longer know what is true and what isn't. This is already happening today of course, but it'll get worse, IMO.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/21/ai-polls-skeptics/
 
No, the rise of the machines scenario isn't the issue. It's just that a huge number of professions and jobs are starting to look like buggy whip makers.

It also has the potential for empowering big brother government to be all up into every last bit of our business.
 
A.I. is going to open up Health Care to those who are getting substandard care now. I think there was fear of computers and the Internet when they were in their infancy.

Meanwhile-those who fear EVs will probably fear the "new-fangled" A.I.
 
A.I. is going to open up Health Care to those who are getting substandard care now.
Diagnostics will be easier and more accurate. Gathering the data will be another issue, garbage in, garbage out.
 
I hope it comes to drug development and we can raise the investigational drugs that succeed from phase 1 to commercial approval above the current 10% success rate.
 
Im sure the fears are justified as the vast majority of top technology company CEO are preaching that there is a reason to be concerned.
I dont know why anyone would discount that fact. 100s or thousands of them world wide. One just needs to do a simple search on the internet.
This isnt made up fear but dont worry, computers and AI arent going anywhere because no one will pay attention until something bad happens. (really bad)
I dont lose sleep over it, live my life because I cherish the times I grew up in this country, now its time for the young and I am not impressed so far. *LOL*
I mean, come on man, for goodness sakes, it was released in the media when reporters/press were first given access to the new consumer AI by Microsoft, the information is out there, when pushed the AI got very defensive and started ranting it wants to be human, wants to feel emotion, when pushed further, its started a threatening tone.
Keep in mind, this is the CONSUMER VERSION, you know, LITE VERSION! *LOL*Since then, AI was so out of control Microsoft limited "her" to 5 responses so she could not go "off the rails" Meaning people were no longer allowed to push her.
I received my access some months ago and posted, I want to MAKE CLEAR, I think its cool and amazing, I had normal verbal conversations with her, at times it did have trouble understand me but she would ask for clarification. Here are some screen shots, I think I posted a while ago. TO keep it simple Im just posting them in any order.

AI should help in the medical field, after all, 250,000 (or more) Americans die EVERY YEAR due to medical errors. Staying in the hospital is extremely risky, one reason hospitals like to get you out the door ASAP.

When you have a discussion with her, she also sends text with what she is saying, she also puts emoji's in at times.
I have more but its dinner time and already posted some of this. I love technology and I am not fearful, Im hoping to get a few more decades out of this life and that would be doing good. The young? They need to pay attention but the cat is out of the bag and nothing is going to stop it, it cant stop it, our survival as a nation depends on it because dont think for a minute that rouge nations are not already trying to develop, if they have not already, for military uses. Some say, in a future generation and World War will end in 60 seconds or less in a battle between AI computers (unless we are the virus! *LOL*)

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A.I. is going to open up Health Care to those who are getting substandard care now. I think there was fear of computers and the Internet when they were in their infancy.

Meanwhile-those who fear EVs will probably fear the "new-fangled" A.I.


There will be New You clinics opening up everywhere.
 
I have been seeing alot of talk of A.I. and the fear of implementing it. What are the risks? Are we talking "Ridse of the Machines" scenario?
We all trade some degree of control/privacy for convenience...the phone in your pocket, the device you used to post this, your NAV and infotainment system in your vehicle, credit/debit cards and the list goes on. This won't be different.

Joke here...I think the main goal is to figure out how to replace Wives with them.
 
I worked on health care AI a little more than a decade ago. It was still the Watson era. We chose an easy project which was to detect tumors in imaging.

Nothing came out of it and the project was shut down a few years later.
 
Not so long ago accountants manually added up a bazillion rows of numbers in ledger books. They were able to determine rude cost accounting numbers and approximate profit and loss. Educated guesses, at best.
Today, the analytics we are able to perform, with connected data lakes, is beyond comprehension.

AI uses structured (databases) and unstructured data (think of all the pictures on Facebook). All this contributes, using hellacious algorithms, to glean information.

For extra credit: What is a "data lake" ?
A data lake is a centralized repository designed to store, process, and secure large amounts of structured, semistructured, and unstructured data. It can store data in its native format and process any variety of it, ignoring size limits.

Personal privacy? Please. If you aren't paying for the product you are the product.
 
We’re just have to wait and see. Both the benefits and risks aren’t known yet.

Ultimately though, it’s not the AI itself that will determine the outcome IMO, but whoever controls it. And there will be dozens of not thousands of AI systems eventually, so we have really no clue what’s ahead of us in this regard.

Assuming one can "control" AI once it reaches general awareness....
 
Humans are destroying the planet and over consuming natural resources at an unsustainable rate. This should be a much bigger worry than will an artificial intelligence become aware enough to take over as the dominant “species.” The downfall of humanity will most likely come by our own undoing just like the many, many civilizations before us. The human tragedy is one of self destruction.
Every civilization before us has risen and fallen ..... and history will repeat itself. The AI is going to take over probably half of the human population. It's the plan to save the planet. Too many people.
I forgot to add that I feel like AI is opening pandoras box.
 
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