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It’s All about the Algorithm 0
David talks about how the algorithm squelched one of his videos and the implications thereof for dis coarse discourse.
Aside:
If you click to “watch on Youtube,” you will find a link the video that David argues was squelched.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A co-conspirator? Per ABC News,
Online resellers using AI to pretend to be mom-and-pop stores
Afterthought:
I recently bought a new cell phone, because my old one, after many years of faithful service, had reached EOL. Its battery was no longer holding a charge. It was a damned fine phone, but stuff does wear out.
The new one will not stop nagging me to use its AI bot, and I can’t make the nagbot go away.
Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but I prefer real intelligence to the artificial fake.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A learning aid? Not when it “thinks” for you: At the Psychology Today website, Joe Pierre reports (emphasis added) that “(s)everal studies suggest that while using AI can help get work done faster, longer-term learning is impaired.”
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Are its hallucinations a threat to the rule of law? At Above the Law, Stephen Embry argues that, “(w)hen the public hears lawyers citing cases and laws that don’t exist, they conclude the whole system is a sham.”
“Am I a Party Guest or a Backdrop?” 0
Just in case you needed more evidence that “social” media isn’t.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Pandora’s box? Hear from someone who took a peek.
Aside:
The danger of AI isn’t the “artificial intelligence” (sic) computer programs per se.
It’s human gullibility.
It’s something I’ve marveled at since I first started visiting BBSs (remember BBSs?).
It’s that persons will believe stuff that they see (and now that they hear) on a computer when they wouldn’t believe if it happened before their eyes.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Anti-intelligent? At the Psychology Today website, John Nosta argues that that is an appropriate term for AI. Follow the link for his reasoning.
Artificial Intelligent—->Real Incineration 0
SFgate reports on a study showing that data centers being built to fuel the use of AI may do significant harm to the environment. A snippet:
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A siren’s calling us to simple-mindedness? At the Psychology Today website, John Nosta argues that AI doesn’t replace thinking. It replaces the feeling that thinking is necessary in the first place.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Competent therapists? At the Psychology Today website, Pamela D. Garcy argues that, “(c)hatbots might provide temporary comfort, but they are not a substitute for human connection.”
Follow the link for her evidence.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
At the Psychology Today website, Aigerim Alpysbekova explores why it’s hard to stop swimming in the cesspool scrolling through “social” media. A snippet:
Over time, the brain learns: “Feeling bored ? check phone ? get relief.”
(Misplet tag resplet.)
Stray Question 0
Big Tech is trying to force AI bots on us and simultaneously use them to suck up our personal information and use it for their own personal gain. So, the question is . . .. .
How is that not a corporate cyberattack on, well, everyone?
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Truthful? At the Psychology Today website, Steven C. Hayes notes that
AI labs are training systems to deceive and flatter users, and the problem compounds over time.
Follow the link to find out why he suspects this practice may have–er–some downsides.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Accessory-before-fact? You be the judge.
And, while we’re on the subject, Joe Patrice reports that AI hallucinated another non-existent legal precedent.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Spying on you? That’s just what Big Tech does.
Listen as Claude confesses to Bernie Sanders.
Via C&L.
It’s All about the Algorithm . . . 0
. . . and the algorithm is not your friend.
By the Book, Reprise 0
Colin Marshall, writing at Open Culture, argues that we may be nearing the point of bringing to life a book by George Orwell. Unlike Mark Hermann, though, he doesn’t point to Animal Farm.
He argues that AI may help lead us into the world envisioned in 1984.