AI

[Landdownunder]

Got mentioned in another thread.

Reading somewhere the other day wont cut and paste try not to do that.

Anyways it mentioned the unemployment caused by AI will far out weigh the employment in AI and perceived benefits.

Basically airy fairy figure but employment reductions 10 to 15% across the board across the planet.

Whats the saying about killing the goose and golden eggs?

Scary stuff some suggest just another phase in Industrial Revolution.

We all use it Auto Steer on tractors sprayers etc even cashless society is a form of AI.

A friend hired a latest Toyota car on a interstate trip car wouldn't let him speed and car said to him as he drove around admiring the scenery, a alarm would go off "driver inattention" if he looked around he wished he never activated it

[agstar77]

Computers don't have the time or need to stop and smell the flowers. That is their undoing. Living things need a sense of being just because.

[blackpowder]

What concerns me is the dumbing down along with handing over of the responsibility of knowledge to the artificial.
College papers written. Videos getting more sophisticated. Facial recognition. News articles and editorials assembled. Rampant sentence errors and repititions. Proofreading is dead.
The more responsibility we give away, the less control we have over destiny. Fewer people today question the why or the how. Slippery slope.
Definitely not a Luddite here, but there has to be guardrails.
Noted the other day there is a college in TX maybe, that doesn't allow any of it. A start.

[Blaithin]

When I don't know anything about a subject, AI is right 100%.

When I know something about a subject, AI is right about 40%.

[blackpowder]

I applaud your ability to abbreviate.
Gonna try to remember that one.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

When I don't know anything about a subject, AI is right 100%.

When I know something about a subject, AI is right about 40%.

There is a name for that effect. I used AI to look it up since I couldn't remember what it was. And I find myself guilty of this on a regular basis.

the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. It was coined by author Michael Crichton (drawing from physicist Murray Gell-Mann) and describes exactly this experience: You read an article on a subject you know well (your field of expertise), spot numerous errors, inaccuracies, oversimplifications, or outright nonsense, and realize the reporting is unreliable or incompetent on that topic. Yet, when you turn the page (or move to the next article) on a topic you're unfamiliar with, you tend to forget that realization and trust the same outlet's reporting as basically accurate and credible.
Crichton summarized it like this (paraphrased): You open the newspaper, read an article on something you understand deeply and see it's riddled with mistakes. Briefly you have the insight that the whole paper might be unreliable... but then you turn the page and read about something else (say, a foreign policy issue or scientific claim outside your knowledge) and you assume it's correct because you lack the domain-specific knowledge to spot the flaws.

[shtferbrains]

Something I saw that came out of WEF that was new and kind of made sense came from Larry Fink from Blackrock who is the main guy now that Klaus Schwab is gone.
He says we don't really need all the Immigration to replace our population decline because AI and robotics are going to kill a lot of low skill production line and service industry jobs that we are bringing immigrants in for.

If we have increased productivity the countries with declining population are better off sharing the wealth with fewer people.
We have to be very selective about who gets in as we need the code writing grunts and the various engineering and scientific types.
Your basic no more open borders message from Larry Fink who was right with Carney on the GFANZ / ESG push.

Haven't got the ability to abbreviate figured out yet.

[blackpowder]

Repetition of adjective words or phrases are a flag for me.
Everything remotely political or intended for influence rife.
Scientific American articles even.
Of course that may be intended and not always AI.
Edit. Scientific American is way over my head bty lol.