AI ... useful ... scary ... what to do? Test Case

I have had a great day. :slight_smile:

I think a lot of what occurs in the world is due to self centeredness.

A.I. has it uses, but it often be very irritating.

What happened to one-on-one face to face conversations?

Do you think "virtual assistant" should really be named "non-existant person."

Does A.I. have emotions?

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I agree.

Partly replaced by streaming media, leaving a sound of silence.
("And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made" - P.Simon)

I think a french term like "idiot savant simulateur" would be appropriate. :wink:

EDIT: after some thinking I think that the term "electronic psychopath" would be more fitting.

We, as humans, are easily fooled. Just like kids talk with their teddybears, we are not much different.

Think about how cardesigners speak about cars that have an "agressive look" just because they placed the headlights in a slanted way.

We so-called grownups still like to see faces in cars and attribute souls and identity to practically everything like the children we actually are.

By the way, that's a good thing, because if we weren't, we would all be 100%
psychopaths, not recognizing the humanity in others, not feeling empathy.

BUT: Since we are quite prone to that, it is inevitable that we can be easily fooled by thinking of an A.I. as humanoid.

A very good movie that goes much deeper into this question is Ex Machina (2014)

No, I don't think A.I. have emotions, I think we are just much more naive than we think we are.

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100% recommended. A very appropriate film for these times.

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"The Hitch-hiker Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams is still actual in AI epoch.

"I checked it very thoroughly," -- said the computer, -- "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is".

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This was humor. I should have ended it with a smiley face.

Have a good day.

As an example of how little people really know about how basic life interracts ...

  • the mother, and the child she carries during pregnancy, exchange DNA

meaning that the mother's DNA is "mutated" permanently by the unborn child's DNA, and the "corruption" of her DNA increases with every child carried!

I can't prove it, but I am sure that "corruption" is the root cause as to why some women have children and "bounce back" as if nothing happened, returning to their pre-pregnancy form (the corruption only involved "pre-existing" DNA strands), while others lose their pre-pregnancy form forever, wondering why they can't regain their "shape" (the corruption involved "non-pre-existing" DNA), and why they are "afflicted" in this manner, but not others!

So ... to say that we allow ourselves to be seduced by probability-driven algorithms that can "learn" independantly, with no overriding "master guidance" that is based on shared societal values or morals (no need to involve religion in this discussion), and to allow such "entities" (when will they truly become self-aware, and will we recognize it before it is too late) without keeping those fully "air-gapped" from the internet, is, in my view, the most blatant act of insanity that any person could possibly contemplate!!!

The aging process is linked to telomeres because they shorten each time a cell divides, a process that leads to cellular senescence (aging) or apoptosis (cell death). When telomeres become critically short, they can no longer protect the ends of chromosomes, triggering a state where cells stop dividing or die off, and contributing to age-related diseases and the physical signs of aging.

Does anybody remember the ms-dos program "Dr. Sbaitso", the virtual psychologist ?
It was extremely simple but could really get some people frustrated.

With the stunning advancements of AI, the issue reported on in this video was only a matter of time.

One thing I'm happy about is that the awareness of it is now instead of 20 years from now.

EDIT: by the way, we are historically and technically at this point now:

EDIT2: And this is a nice summary of what's happening now:

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Thanks for that its one of the few that IT havent blocked at work yet and I have been playing,

Generally itss really good but got a wierd answer to this question,

I have a tor website running on a raspberry pi, I connect to it using tor browser describe the connection process

Answer

Oops! There was an issue connecting to Qwen3-Max. Content Security Warning: The input text data may contain inappropriate content.

Its not like I am asking how too make a bomb or smth :smile:

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I can only guess that it has a hate on for Tor! :slight_smile:

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Customer sent this printer back for faded copies !!

They had done a few thousand prints with the “remove before use“ orange sealing tapes in place.

I uploaded the image along with a description of the fault to several AI models and ChatGPT was the only one that got it right, not that I needed help lol..

Mind you ChatGPT was useless at helping me change the text colour when I ssh into a Raspberry PI, Gemini got it right first time so I don’t think there is a best AI, use them all.

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ChatGPT reminds me of the old web crawlers, only it summarizes the results. It has no ability to distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources. I wanted to know when the USCG Ice Breaker Westwind was retired as I knew it was the last one retired so I asked the date of the last Wind class Ice Breaker to be retired. Imagine my surprise when it told me it was the Eastwind. When I pointed out that it found an incorrect answer it searched again and gave me the correct answer. It was off by 14 years. It had used Wikipedia which is unreliable for the first answer. I have asked it 8 more times since then, getting the incorrect answer each time. It can’t tell reliable information from unreliable. information and it obviously is not ‘learning’. Still garbage in, garbage out. Not much has changed.

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