AI

[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

 

[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

 

[Rockin' Robin]

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

 

[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?

 

[Ndrangheta]

The technology isn't the problem. It's the way it'll be used, by who, and in what way. No doubt humanity will find another way to fuck itself. why do good when you can just line your pockets and be cruel to others? It's the human way!

 

[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).

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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

 

[Sea]

I feel like somebody wants humans to self destruct/be fxxked up. All this technology, dumbing down/addiction of tik tok/instagram/reality shows/trans gender& drag act/ mass manipulation during covid & the covid vaccine/cost of living/ etc seems so "forced" to destroy human brains and common sense.
Sounds crazy I know.

If I believed in God I'd be able to blame it as the devil's work (he'd better look like the emoji, I don't want a slick suited Samuel Neil!).


**goes off to an island with no WiFi!**

 

[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

 

[greenvelvet]

Chat GPT will cost education bodies hours of extra work not just to determine whether someone’s work has been created by AI, but to restructure assessment methods. The way things are being taught is being changed because of Chat GPT; more exams will be implemented because of it and likely within the next year. If you’ve gone an entire year using Chat GPT where you can, you are going to feel a jolt when you sit down in the exam hall with 50% of your grade depending on what you put down on the paper in front of you. I know students might think they are saving themselves faff but that pull on resources is going to be felt elsewhere.

I just wish it hadn’t been spaffed out to the public like this. The genie is well out of the bottle now

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[cortie]

Chat GPT will cost education bodies hours of extra work not just to determine whether someone’s work has been created by AI, but to restructure assessment methods. The way things are being taught is being changed because of Chat GPT; more exams will be implemented because of it and likely within the next year. If you’ve gone an entire year using Chat GPT where you can, you are going to feel a jolt when you sit down in the exam hall with 50% of your grade depending on what you put down on the paper in front of you. I know students might think they are saving themselves faff but that pull on resources is going to be felt elsewhere.

I just wish it hadn’t been spaffed out to the public like this. The genie is well out of the bottle now

Totally agree with you. It is often impossible to determine whether a text is written by a human or chatGPT without a special program. If people study only for the sake of getting a diploma and use such means for the sake of getting good grades, then it's really sad.

 

[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.

 

[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

 

[mochibean]

AI is fucking terrifying.

Chat GPT will cost education bodies hours of extra work not just to determine whether someone’s work has been created by AI, but to restructure assessment methods. The way things are being taught is being changed because of Chat GPT; more exams will be implemented because of it and likely within the next year. If you’ve gone an entire year using Chat GPT where you can, you are going to feel a jolt when you sit down in the exam hall with 50% of your grade depending on what you put down on the paper in front of you. I know students might think they are saving themselves faff but that pull on resources is going to be felt elsewhere.

I just wish it hadn’t been spaffed out to the public like this. The genie is well out of the bottle now

I asked Chat GPT one of my assignment questions at uni, gave it all the relevant information and it still couldn't get it right. Whilst for some subjects I'm sure it'd be fine, if you don't know your stuff you won't be able to check it yourself before you submit your work and it could very well be wrong. The quality of it is pretty low tbh.

Anyone doing this is only cheating themselves anyway tbh, good luck going through school and failing exams because you learnt nothing, or landing a job after uni and realising you're way out of your depth because you never studied.

 

[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

 

[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.