Notes on the coming AI-pocalypse (2 Viewers)

[Deadmanposting]

Really enjoyed this

fwiw, I got sent it by someone who works on the Watson programme at IBM and with MIT AI researchers
Which is just to say that if she thinks it's relevant to AI, it likely is

Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?

As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?

www.newyorker.com

 

[ann post]

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[ernesto]

Jesus fucking Christ

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[pete]

Inserted AI-generated Microsoft poll about woman’s death rankles The Guardian

Speculative AI news poll presented three choices: Murder, accident, or suicide.

arstechnica.com

 

[Deadmanposting]

Inserted AI-generated Microsoft poll about woman’s death rankles The Guardian

Speculative AI news poll presented three choices: Murder, accident, or suicide.

arstechnica.com

It's almost like the problem isn't the tech, but our species' capacity for being shitty to each other

 

[Anthony]

This reminds me of the death of music. "what are we going to do about everybody downloading music?" (while downloading music). What are we going to do about AI? Ask chat GPT.

 

[snakybus]

This reminds me of the death of music. "what are we going to do about everybody downloading music?" (while downloading music). What are we going to do about AI? Ask chat GPT.

Exactly this. I was at a recent conference that was all about AI and it was exactly like the early days of Napster and all that with people saying "It'll be fine! It'll be fine!" Everyone saying it's all about getting up to speed with it and harnessing it to get ahead of the curve and bla bla. You don't have a clue. Let's not kid ourselves, it gets really, really bad.

One woman made a very good point about discovery being a creative process, and anyone that's written a song knows that. You never end up with the song you started off with. I'm having fun with the thought that, with EVERYONE having access to this, the only edge employers will have will be their creatives, non-techies etc - all the stuff that you can't automate. But then folks had similar thoughts about music (there'll be less shit and more great homegrown stuff!) but ...all that happened was less music.

 

[egg_]

But then folks had similar thoughts about music (there'll be less shit and more great homegrown stuff!) but ...all that happened was less music.

Less music? Are you kidding me? The world is saturated with music! You have personally released 10 albums iirc. The only thing that died was record shops

 

[snakybus]

Less meaningful music.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I'm using AI daily in my work. No need to be scared guys. These are great tools.

 

[therealjohnny]

I'm using AI daily in my work. No need to be scared guys. These are great tools.

Me too

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I have a feeling AI will soon be doing my daily work instead of me

 

[GO]

I'm already artificially intelligent

 

[JohnnyRaz]

âThe Gospelâ: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza

Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly increases the number of targets for strikes in the Palestinian territory

www.theguardian.com

 

[therealjohnny]

AI’S Unsustainable Water Use: How Tech Giants Contribute To Global Water Shortages

Did you know? ChatGPT 'drinks' the equivalent of a 500ml bottle of water for a simple conversation of 20-50 questions and answers. Which may not seem like much... until you consider that it has more than 100 million active users.

www.forbes.com

How much water does AI consume? The public deserves to know - OECD.AI

Air pollution and carbon emissions are well-known environmental costs of AI. But water consumption is also an issue.

oecd.ai

AI's water footprint varies significantly depending on where it is trained and hosted. For example, AI consumes 1.8 – 12 litres of water for each kWh of energy usage across Microsoft's global data centres, with Ireland and the state of Washington being the most and least water-efficient locations, respectively

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Lots of ai talk in this

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[Reets]

Watching the Oireachtas Committee meeting on "Protection of Children in the use of Artificial Intelligence”.
It's grim. I knew it was bad, but targeting kids with videos of self hard and weightloss within minutes of setting up accounts (when they know the kids ages!) is beyond fucked.

 

[ann post]

I'm using AI daily in my work. No need to be scared guys. These are great tools.

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.

www.972mag.com

 

[magicbastarder]

not massively illuminating but somewhat amusing. how's that for a cast iron reason to watch?
gets to the topic of AI about three and a half minutes in.

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[Scientician 0.8]

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.

www.972mag.com

Others have pointed out that this doesn't make sense other than as a crude attempt to vacate the IDF of responsibility for war crimes. As described, it doesn't appear that sophisticated or useful. Might as well have written every Gazan's name on a raffle ticket and spun a drum. It's completely at odds with what people imagine "smart" weapons technology can do.