I've always been concerned about the hype and misrepresentation of AI but I've struggled making my case when arguing with "less techie" folks about it. Thank you for all you do to cut thru the BS and make it easier for the rest of use to explain the perils of AI to our loved ones by making the issues around it clearer for the layperson. Finding your substack has been sanity saving for me!
Thanks for the headsup, Gary! Looks like nothing more than opening public pockets for private benefit, open doors to whatever is thunk up, and boosting energy resources, all in the name of "Maimlining" AI "into the veins of society. What could go wrong? As far as the Sky News reports indicates, nothing. Good to know. It's just that not a lot of good comes from the tried and true substances we usually associate with "mainlining." Neither the word, nor notion, of 'regulation' or caution makes an appearance in the piece of puff pastry - a press release passing as journalism.
It’s going to be amusingly ironic if AI is used by an anti-Oligarchy terrorist grouping, angry about wealth inequality, to plot and deliver a series of assassinations of high profile Silicon Valley executives
Oh yeah? How can you tell? (I'm definitely no conspiracy theorist but I'm convinced that concerns about "AI causing massive disinformation" are materializing nowadays)
Not even wandering on the political arena side (where there is probably much to say), as a former scientist (with engineering background), I'm really flabbergasted by the AI-generated headlines (and articles, when I find the time to read them) that I see daily about "incredible breakthroughs" in domains such as AI (of course), optronics, quantum computing, energy production (but also, less in my domains, biology, ...). If only 10% of these articles were grounded and trustworthy, we would be far better off than we really are ... Some of them are just pure BS, others have titles that overstate by far what research has actually produced ...
I've always been concerned about the hype and misrepresentation of AI but I've struggled making my case when arguing with "less techie" folks about it. Thank you for all you do to cut thru the BS and make it easier for the rest of use to explain the perils of AI to our loved ones by making the issues around it clearer for the layperson. Finding your substack has been sanity saving for me!
and on top of that, AI "writes" code that's unsecure and easily hacked. Technical debt up the wazoo for any naive org that dares the shortcutting. https://davidhsing.substack.com/p/ai-replacing-coders-not-so-fast
Thanks for the headsup, Gary! Looks like nothing more than opening public pockets for private benefit, open doors to whatever is thunk up, and boosting energy resources, all in the name of "Maimlining" AI "into the veins of society. What could go wrong? As far as the Sky News reports indicates, nothing. Good to know. It's just that not a lot of good comes from the tried and true substances we usually associate with "mainlining." Neither the word, nor notion, of 'regulation' or caution makes an appearance in the piece of puff pastry - a press release passing as journalism.
The canaries singing in the mines? Pretty scary future world.
It’s going to be amusingly ironic if AI is used by an anti-Oligarchy terrorist grouping, angry about wealth inequality, to plot and deliver a series of assassinations of high profile Silicon Valley executives
AI is software. Smart but fragile software that can amply people, get misused, or malfunction.
The danger of AI planning assassinations is vastly overstated for the foreseeable future.
For the record, the concern of AI causing massive disinformation campaigns did not materialize yet.
Oh yeah? How can you tell? (I'm definitely no conspiracy theorist but I'm convinced that concerns about "AI causing massive disinformation" are materializing nowadays)
Not even wandering on the political arena side (where there is probably much to say), as a former scientist (with engineering background), I'm really flabbergasted by the AI-generated headlines (and articles, when I find the time to read them) that I see daily about "incredible breakthroughs" in domains such as AI (of course), optronics, quantum computing, energy production (but also, less in my domains, biology, ...). If only 10% of these articles were grounded and trustworthy, we would be far better off than we really are ... Some of them are just pure BS, others have titles that overstate by far what research has actually produced ...
quantum risk - a wicked problem that emerges at the boundaries of our data dependency
https://opengovernance.net/quantum-risk-a-wicked-problem-that-emerges-at-the-boundaries-of-our-data-dependency-2dc36dfb21fb
If only we could have seen this coming, like, two years ago: https://mastodon.social/@mknepprath/109863601491677265
Really?
LLM software itself is incredibly stupid. Really simple.