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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A criminal co-conspirator? El Reg reports that “AI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime.”
Details at the link.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Charles Ferguson, a pioneer in website development, looks at the hype surrounding AI and hears a rhyme from his early career. Here’s a tiny bit from his article (emphasis added):
But sincerity often accompanies naivete, as I know all too well. Thirty years ago, I founded the startup that developed the first software tool enabling anyone to build a website — and I totally drank the Kool-Aid. We told ourselves that our product would allow truth-tellers and innovators to bypass gatekeepers, liberating and enlightening everyone. Social networks would, of course, do the same and together we would create a decentralized, egalitarian paradise of unfiltered truth. How wrong we were.
When I look at the AI landscape, heavily populated by extremely young founders, I see the same naivete.
I commend his article to your attention as a timely read.
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*Mark Twain.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Competent legal counsel? Don’t rest your case on it.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Inducing indolence and eroding intellects? I can’t be bothered to answer that, but Robert Lynch gas some thoughts on the matter.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A wolf in sheep’s clothing? At the Psychology Today website, Mike Brooks explores why many persons don’t see the dangers posed by AI. He makes four main points:
- We laugh at each new AI iteration right up until it’s too late. This is a pattern as old as the steam engine.
- AI agents have already retaliated against humans and disabled their own safety controls unprompted.
- Bad actors are imagining AI-powered schemes that decent people would never think to anticipate.
- There is no enforceable global regulation for autonomous AI agents operating on private computers.
Follow the link for a detailed exploration of each one.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Weaponized? Security maven Bruce Schneir looks at the recent who-shot-john at the Pentagon and concludes that “AI will be used for military purposes, just as every other technology our species has invented has.”
Follow the link for the full article.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A con artist’s co-conspirator? Philadelphia’s WPVI reports that a “new wave of smart scams, powered by artificial intelligence, is now targeting consumers every single day.”
Republican Thought Police 0
Now they’re even targeting artificial thought.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Cocksure of itself? At the Psychology Today website, Alain Samson warns us that “(b)oth LLMs themselves and users tend to overestimate the correctness of LLMs’ answers.”
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
To be trusted implicitly? At the Psychology Today website, Cornelia C. Walther says no way. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
All wet? Just listen to the segment about AI and car washes that starts at about the seven minute mark in this week’s episode of Le Show.
It is both an absolutely hoot and a glimpse into a dark maelstrom of mechanized moronism.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Input for the intolerant? Follow the paper trail.
Grokking the Disinformation Superhighway 0
At the Psychology Today website, Richard Restak warns that, “(t)hanks to the technology of the Internet and AI, misinformation is vastly increasing.” He points out that, not only can AI distort the present, it can distort the past:
Read the whole thing and remind yourself that, even if you see it on a computer screen (perhaps especially if you see it on a computer screen from “social” media), it ain’t necessarily so.
Afterthought:
I wonder how long it will be before the Trump maladministration starts to deploy AI in our national par–oh, never mind.
How Stuff Works: The Crypto Con 0
Non Sequitur pictures the process.
Afterthought:
If Carlo Ponzi were alive today, he’d be selling crypto and NFTs.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Secure? Security maven Bruce Schneier notes that
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