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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A profligate perjuror? Above the Law reports that
Real evidence at the link.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Angela Wilson looks at the placement of proposed AI data centers and hears a rhyme. Here’s a bit from her parsing of the poesy:
“Black communities face the highest impact from AI and data centers because they’re already disproportionately impacted by climate change, which is driven by CO2 emitted in part by the energy production involved in running data centers,” according to the Climate Justice Alliance.
Follow the link. It gets verse.
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*Mark Twain.
Geeking Out 0
Linux Mint in a Virtualbox VM on Mageia v. 9 with the IceWM window manager.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A reliable source of news? If you think that possilbe, then read this report by Chron.com’s Gwen Howerton about how AI-managed “news” websites mangle reporting and fabricate facts can be less than accurate.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Psychopathic? Anita Chabria argues that it well may be. Here’s how she opens her article:
Repeated law-breaking. Lying and deceit. Reckless disregard for safety. Lack of remorse.
Those are traits that help define a psychopath, someone who lives among us but doesn’t have the empathy and ethics necessary to behave in a civilized, or even safe, fashion.
Unfortunately, it’s also increasingly clear that these are the traits that define the most powerful artificial intelligence models being developed at alarming speed by for-profit corporations – corporations that would like us to believe that slowing down this roll toward AI dominance is somewhere between impossible and foolhardy.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Still rising again after all these years? At the Psychology Today website, psychology professor Glenn Geher reports that “AI-related technology has been shown to include implicit racist messaging.”
Follow the link for the evidence.
A Questionable Identity 0
Security maven Bruce Schneier tells the story arrested and detained because a Flock camera misread his license plate.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Gullible? El Reg reports that
Details at the link.
Metastasized 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay reports on how a contractor constructing a data center for the Zuckerborg nearly poisoned a community with lethal waste water.
The Crypto Con 0
But is it truly a con? At Above the Law, tax attorney Steven Chung applies the eye of a lawyer to Donald Trump’s crypto capers.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Threatening to accelerate the concentration of wealth in this new gilded age? Security maven Bruce Schneier argues that (emphasis added), (a)s for AI itself, the concentration of power and wealth in these tech companies is the greatest existential risk facing society today.
Follow the link to see why.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Slopping all over the internet? El Reg reports that
Much more at the link.
And, remember, “social” media isn’t.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A ghostwriter? At the Psychology Today website, Jim Taylor argues that “(p)eople shouldn’t take ownership of content they did not write.”
The (Google) Surveillance State 0
The EFF explains how, for Google, the days of “Don’t Be Evil” are very much a thing of the past.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Willing to betray secrets? Just be sure to ask it nicely.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A learning aid? At the Psychology Today website, Timothy Cook (no, not that Tim Cook) reports that “AI use can raise scores in the short term but worsen kids’ thinking abilities in the long term, studies find.”
Follow the link for mere.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Capable of critical thought? Zeynep Tufekci argues that (emphasis added)
Large language models are not reasoning machines. They’re plausibility engines. They can only assess which answers are probable, based on the data on which the models have been trained.
Follow the link for his arguements.
And, in more news of AI . . . .