"AI doesn't make stuff up out of whole cloth, nor does it have a bad memory." YES

Paco Dennis said:
I don't think I will still be alive when the AI crisis will unfold. But, it is a big problem. I don't think mankind is ready for it. We are still too selfish. The one I think is coming for even us seniors is food and energy scarcity. I live pay check to paycheck and losing about $100 a month. I only have $3000 left to my name and 40 silver dollars. But I think this is going to be very wide spread. Shotages...everywhere...everything. :eek:
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Sorry if I'm bringing you down, Paco.

Food prices are horrendous. My usual shop of groceries is rising and rising. Energy is crazy.

It's just not oldsters recognizing this is going on. We don't seem to have political leaders willing to do anything about it - and that includes those in power and those looking to be in power.

I know that I've changed my outlook a lot since retiring. My business instincts have been tempered with a new reality. I guess it's all part of the evolution of life. For the most part, I lust for nothing more these days. I want to see out my remaining days coasting, I don't need more of anything; and that's not because I have a lot, but because as you get older, you recognize that we invest ourselves in things that are not, ultimately, important.
 
In 1995, critics scoffed that online databases would never replace newspapers or public libraries, but we witnessed the transition of the internet from an impractical novelty to the very foundation of global commerce. The landscape then is similar to current skepticism of AI.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
In 1995, critics scoffed that online databases would never replace newspapers or public libraries, but we witnessed the transition of the internet from an impractical novelty to the very foundation of global commerce. The landscape then is similar to current skepticism of AI.
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Best go back to the invention of the steam engine. Some of us knew in the 90's that a seismic change was going to happen in media.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I wouldn't argue with that, and more seismic changes (i.e. AI) are inevitable. All start with flaws.
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I've stated much the same many times. AI is inevitable. Pretending we can decide whether it is used or not, or even influence its development, is am illusion. There are too many reasons why AI simply has to be.
 
At first I discounted AI thinking that it was programming that would be strictly influenced by the mind of the programmer. Maybe it is or isn't but when just searching the internet for information or answers to questions I find the AI mode in my browser at least makes it more simple. I phrase a question typed into the browser and safe time figuring out exactly what my search parameters need to be. I'm probably not using this resources anywhere close to its capability but it answers my needs. I've never been one to fear automation of most sorts, but I also don't want it to replace my ability to reason.
 
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