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Why you should be frightened by AI

I'm just going by what is stated on Help Desks. People complain a lot when their unsourced edit get removed.
The problem is that many of the "sources" are just as inaccurate as the Wikipedia article.
 
The good thing about Wikipedia is you can edit the mistakes.
It would take 1000 squared editors to correct all the errors ...
 
And there is chatter among the techbros that they could do SO much better in terms of output quality if the holders of copyright were (*ahem*) forced by law to cooperate and give access to their copyrighted content---in other words, prohibited from refusing to share.
I went back and found the source material. It's actually beyond "chatter":

 
Making sure additions to Wikipedia are well sourced is something that wasn't done very well in the early days, but it is being done more carefully now.

Wikipedia does not require sources to be online but it is helpful if you want to verify the information.
i read wikipedia for hours daily and that is simply not true .
 
AI is a myth. Any intelligence developed by non-humans is either placed or developed second hand by human intervention. Machines do not "learn" on their own.
AI is prolly too complex for me to explain, but it is wack, cocky, untrustworthy, unreliable as anything produced after like a certain date in the past when stuff wasn't made as good, and not developed the same as us and that is the reason why ai will never take over the music industry that's a buncha hoo ha
 
This week some articles in The Charlotte Observer have said things like "Previous Observer coverage was summarized by AI" and "This summary of the week's events was produced by AI and edited by people".
 
I just saw the wording online. "The summary above was drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division. All stories listed were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists."
 
I went back and found the source material. It's actually beyond "chatter":

The problem is that, on the practical level, the tech companies do not need a legal OK to datamine others' intellectual property. They already have done it, thanks to the use of non-profit webcrawlers that scoured the web for billions of photos and millions of terrabytes of other intellectual property (i.e., written data -- fiction books [including Steven King], nonfiction books, newspapers and websties, etc.). the webcrawler organizations called them 'datasets'. The AI companies in turn bought these 'datasets'. Stephen King knows his books have been datamined. He appears to be fine with it.:


The NY Times and some other news publishers apparently sued Microsoft and some others for their AI services datamining their IP, but even if the courts somehow rule in favor of the papers, the genie is long out of the bottle. How, for example, is any IP owner going to prove that one particular sentence in one of their books or articles was stolen by AI? or a photo, for that matter, especially when photos, writing, can be manipulated so easily by an AI program?
 
AI is not even close to ready for prime time. Because for it to work convincingly, it has to think like a human. That is still going to take a very long time yet. Until then, AI is just running on one leg.

The voices are terrible. And can be detected easily by any careful listener. The mispronunciations and odd intonations (which are more frequent than the programmers admit) give it away. Anything requiring depth in understanding is a non-starter. And that's what keeps it presently and for the forseeable future, not much more than a gizmo to play with.
 
I saw a video of AI someone took in a Wal-Mart (or like store). It showed what looked like live pigs falling out of the ceiling from an open tile. It was so real looking it was scary, like what you see in movies. I suppose it pays the bills if you're working in the industry. The details were so real looking.
 
Not true. I took a random sample of Wikipedia articles on radio stations (I picked several of the "heritage" stations from each of the top 50 markets) and found around 80% contained significant inaccuracies or omissions.
I've looked up the bios of well-known radio/voiceover people and find articles that combine the bios of several people with the same name. Mark Elliot, in addition to his work at legendary radio stations was somehow also a renowned psychologist in Toronto according to the Wiki article. It also mixed up two Paul Youngs in the music business, making me wrong on the internet, which is the unpardonable sin LOL
 
I've looked up the bios of well-known radio/voiceover people and find articles that combine the bios of several people with the same name. Mark Elliot, in addition to his work at legendary radio stations was somehow also a renowned psychologist in Toronto according to the Wiki article. It also mixed up two Paul Youngs in the music business, making me wrong on the internet, which is the unpardonable sin LOL

And if people realized that AI will "make them wrong on the internet", this whole thing could just go away.
 
Here's another reason to be frightened by AI:

"In just 11 months since the company arrived in Memphis, xAI has become one of Shelby County’s largest emitters of smog-producing nitrogen oxides, according to calculations by environmental groups whose data has been reviewed by POLITICO’s E&E News. The plant is in an area whose air is already considered unhealthy due to smog.

The turbines spew nitrogen oxides, also known as NOx, at an estimated rate of 1,200 to 2,000 tons a year — far more than the gas-fired power plant across the street or the oil refinery down the road....

The Memphis xAI showdown could become a national test case for artificial intelligence, which demands more electricity than regular internet searches to complete even simple tasks."

 


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