Ai

[Piff paff puff]

What do you look forward to or think Ai future will look like?
I think holograms programmed to replace dead relatives, friends.
Hologram friends and lovers. This one I would particularly prefer, humans are too unpredictable for me to ever have had any meaningful contact with.
Ai pets. Lasting forever. No more mourning.
No more supermarkets, just a touch screen which can calculate from your finger your exact nutritional requirements for optimal all round health. No food. No boring supplements but being able to consume said nutrition by way of looking at pictures, listening to audio, through massage.
Before humans all become ai I think there will be different stages like hybrid. Replacement body parts that last forever. When Ai eventually takes over they will send drones to seek out complete humans and destroy them.

 

[Slaybutter]

Companies like Ultrahuman sell continuous glucose sensors that gets implanted in the arm. It pairs with their app. The brand is calling those customers cyborgs their product is only available in India at the mo

 

[Rockin' Robin]

It sounds like a nightmare, not any future I want to be part of.

 

[Sideboard Bob]

Two interesting AI stories I read about today, one about AI generated photography and another about an AI generated song.

A photographer entered an AI generated photo for a photography award… won, then withdrew his acceptance of the award.

Artist Wins Photography Contest After Submitting AI-Generated Image, Then Forfeits Prize

An artist won a photography contest after submitting an AI-generated image, then forfeited his prize.

www.artnews.com

An AI generated song with fake Drake and the Weeknd vocals has become a hit, but now removed from Spotify and Drake’s record label have issued a statement.

UMG issues statement on AI as Spotify, Apple and SoundCloud pull 'fake Drake & The Weeknd' track

Heart On My Sleeve, credited to Ghostwriter, racked up hundreds of thousands of plays until it was removed from platforms. The track uses AI tools to mimic music in the style of Drake and The Weeknd.

www.musicweek.com

 

[Sea]

I'm old fashioned, I prefer real humans and real human contact.
I also feel that AI is/will be a tool to control humans (well the average humans not multi billionaires).

 

[dot bold dot dot]

I'm nervous about it - I seem to be seeing Things about Ai everywhere at the moment.

I was doing an online quiz yesterday (Microsoft rewards) and I came across the title of a book called 'Do androids dream of electric sheep' and it caught my attention as it was originally published in 1968 which seemed like such a long time ago to even know about androids etc and although ai is relatively 'new' to most, I think, like most things nowadays, it is a lot more advanced than we realise or are currently able to see.

I know this isn't about androids as such but (from wikipedia) 'The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use (as "Androides") to Ephraim Chambers' 1728 Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.[3][7] By the late 1700s, "androides", elaborate mechanical devices resembling humans performing human activities, were displayed in exhibit halls.[8] The term "android" appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-like toy automatons.[9] The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve (1886).[3] This story features an artificial humanlike robot named Hadaly. As said by the officer in the story, "In this age of Realien advancement, who knows what goes on in the mind of those responsible for these mechanical dolls." The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers (1936) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future stories (1940–1944).'

In some ways I cannot comprehend the timescales of the above as being a child of the eighties, I was never really around advanced technology as such - it all seemed to ramp up after the millennium in my mind.

 

[OnlyHereForTheLolz]

Have any of you watched a documentary called Terminator. They actually made a few documentaries on the shitshow that AI’s will bring about.
Just be on the lookoit for skynet

 

[mcfeez]

Medical research. Computers can analyse and assess data and research more accurately and quickly than humans. They can run thousands of simulation and simulated experiments in no time at all. I believe this is already being done. Sadly this has negative connotations too but what AI doesn't.

Similarly using AI for cancer screening. I actually know of someone who was working on this software a few years ago in academic research but this is 100% an area that is moving forward.

 

[mochibean]

I think for some things it's okay, but I don't want to live in a future where everything is AI and heavily based on technology. Almost everything we do now is linked to our phones and technology in general and we're moving further and further away from nature. I think a lot of our theories and ideas are generally based on what could become facts, things that were once sci-fi have since been invented and are now real.

Also, job losses are an issue. For those in many industries, one day AI will be able to do their jobs better than they ever could.

Either way it goes whether, for the better or the worst, I think AI will rule almost every aspect of our daily lives.

 

[Bobby Chariot]

I'm nervous about it - I seem to be seeing Things about Ai everywhere at the moment.

I was doing an online quiz yesterday (Microsoft rewards) and I came across the title of a book called 'Do androids dream of electric sheep' and it caught my attention as it was originally published in 1968 which seemed like such a long time ago to even know about androids etc and although ai is relatively 'new' to most, I think, like most things nowadays, it is a lot more advanced than we realise or are currently able to see.

I know this isn't about androids as such but (from wikipedia) 'The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use (as "Androides") to Ephraim Chambers' 1728 Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.[3][7] By the late 1700s, "androides", elaborate mechanical devices resembling humans performing human activities, were displayed in exhibit halls.[8] The term "android" appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-like toy automatons.[9] The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve (1886).[3] This story features an artificial humanlike robot named Hadaly. As said by the officer in the story, "In this age of Realien advancement, who knows what goes on in the mind of those responsible for these mechanical dolls." The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers (1936) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future stories (1940–1944).'

In some ways I cannot comprehend the timescales of the above as being a child of the eighties, I was never really around advanced technology as such - it all seemed to ramp up after the millennium in my mind.

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K Dick
The book became the basis for the BladeRunner movies.

I remember doing Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in secondary school, written in the 1930's it's scary how some of it has materialised to modern times.

 

[greenvelvet]

It is amazing what it can do, like people have said already it can be used for diagnosing serious illnesses & it can also be used to simulate processes which means not needing to spend the time, resources and money physically testing them. It’s hard to imagine how significant the advances in technology will be as a result. It’s a big deal in the context of the climate crisis.

I do worry about it being worked on without strict ethical guidance, and especially it being released to the public to dick about it with. I saw this video made with AI where Kanye West and Drake performed some Doja Cat song. Obviously this is hilarious but it was really convincing and I worry that technology could be used for identity theft etc.. Once the means to do it is released to the public you can’t withdraw it. I also find some of the arguments around it not risking people’s jobs unsatisfactory. companies are investing in it a lot atm and you don’t hear anywhere near as much about the ethical considerations alongside it/social impacts from those same companies.

 

[Bobby Chariot]

It is amazing what it can do, like people have said already it can be used for diagnosing serious illnesses & it can also be used to simulate processes which means not needing to spend the time, resources and money physically testing them. It’s hard to imagine how significant the advances in technology will be as a result. It’s a big deal in the context of the climate crisis.

I do worry about it being worked on without strict ethical guidance, and especially it being released to the public to dick about it with. I saw this video made with AI where Kanye West and Drake performed some Doja Cat song. Obviously this is hilarious but it was really convincing and I worry that technology could be used for identity theft etc.. Once the means to do it is released to the public you can’t withdraw it. I also find some of the arguments around it not risking people’s jobs unsatisfactory. companies are investing in it a lot atm and you don’t hear anywhere near as much about the ethical considerations alongside it/social impacts from those same companies.

Yes, even the likes of Bill Gates and Elon Musk have been expressing their fears about A.I recently.
It could be used for all sorts of dodgy things which may outweigh any benefits it has.
Our dog died last year & we miss him terribly but I certainly would not want an A.I replacement, people & pets die, that's the real world.
I find A.I a bit disturbing tbh

 

[Ndrangheta]

I find A.I a bit disturbing tbh

Remember that photo with the little girl surrounded by fairies in the 1920s ? Everyone thought that was real ... that's where we are now with AI. I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it, we'll catch-up and be able to tell fake from real just as we know those fairies were fake. Or were they??

 

[Sideboard Bob]

A quiz to see if you can tell which pictures and videos are AI and which are real. I got 6/8, but had to check some of them pretty closely!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zqnwxg8

 

[OnlyHereForTheLolz]

My biggest problem with AI is the dumbing down of people. You can already see how technology has dumbed down younger generations, now they are using chatgpt to do their assignments. I almost feel like the human race is devolving

 

[LaBlonde]

this sums up why, ethically, i just can’t get behind it. aside from all the really valid points made in this thread so far, it basically means that you can fake entire people - both through a chat bot and with deep fakes (which have already crossed the line with famous peoples’ images being used in porn etc):

Michael Schumacher: Seven-time F1 champion's family plan legal action after AI-generated 'interview'

Michael Schumacher's family are planning legal action against a magazine which published an artificial intelligence-generated 'interview' with the former Formula 1 racer.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Black.bird]

I actually think it's very grim. We're going to reach the point of not knowing what's real and what isn't.

People will likely get stitched up for doing things they didn't do - how will they prove their innocence?

 

[Pipsy]

Men will find new ways to terrorise us with their depravity. Can't say I'm all that excited.

 

[mcfeez]

My biggest problem with AI is the dumbing down of people. You can already see how technology has dumbed down younger generations, now they are using chatgpt to do their assignments. I almost feel like the human race is devolving

I was literally discussing this with my partner. We work in software and chatgpt is immensely useful for getting quick tasks done (small code solutions, powershell scripting etc) but at the same time students studying computer science and the like would literally just be able to plug in assignment questions and tasks they are being set and get the answer. Before that they had to stick the question on a forum and usually software professionals can tell its a student asking for homework solutions and wouldn't tell them the answer directly.

 

[Bobby Chariot]

One of the pioneers of AI, Dr Geoffrey Hinton has quit his post at Google over his fears about the technology.
He's already started speaking out about it.