Our baseline instinct is that most new technology is a waste of time. Even not-so-smart electronics often do more harm than good. Like mutations in the gene pool, most are sterile...or grotesque.
Love self-deprecating humor, and agree with what happens in the back seat of any car! You hit the nail squarely on the head and drove home with one smack. There really is no "I" in AI.
It's programmed by a human, for example, what data set to align with, what do we feed it. It can not tell you anything someone doesn't already know. Google a query and you will get a different response, because Google uses up to date info. The AI, is only as proficient as the date of the last data set.
Where it begins to get a spooky is the alignment of Quantum & AI. The same data set limits apply, but Quantum can reach out to Google (and other search engines) for the latest data and augment its delivery of the result.
Per the Bing statement of "they really do not know who I am". Some are claiming a relationship to eschatology and alignment with the dark side. Interesting to say the least.
Most AI's now have the ability to search the Internet. Most of them now "remember" what you've talked about in your previous chats as well.
ChatGPT, Grok and Claude all "remember" previous chats. Gemini, sadly, does not yet. But you can practically stuff an entire encyclopedia into a single Gemini chat and it won't complain, whereas the others, go "what the flying duck are you doing?"
While good AI can rationalize, and empathize, it still can't make decisions that matter. They can shuttle you to the next set of questions, and potentially using your voice, get you into the right queue, but that's where it ends.
That is why the majority of us, myself included, try to find the quickest way to a human, on all the IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems around the world.
Why?
Because we want someone, who can make a decision. Usually tied to money.
It may give us some information, but the people in charge behind those systems, won't be giving those machines the ability to make dollar based decisions any time soon.
AI: "Oh we lost your suitcase for you? I'll just have some funds deposited immediately to your account. Will $1,000 do?"
Y'all know I'm a Luddite and a non-investor. You won't be surprised when I state that AI exists, because it can. It can exist for two reasons: the control crowd see their opportunity, and the profit crowd think they can make money. This is the same forked tongue that got us in trouble with immigration, especially illegal immigration. The control crowd saw the chance to un-white America, and the profit crowd saw a way to make more money. So, when it comes down to evaluating a trend or development, you know the 2 criteria to apply: control outcome and profit outcome. Best always. PM
I think it's a matter of time. The internet was not initially useful, but, you must admit the newsletter business has become much more profitable because of it. We are also, invoices, purchase order, bills of lading are now all emailed, even receiving payment is via ACH. We ship product to a small town, then invoice to the home office in Atlanta, and magically, the invoice and the received bill of lading are joined in the cloud and payment is produced, very efficient, and very fast. There is no time for thinking or contemplation, if I do I'm wasting time!!
Maybe AI will be the same way, given enough time. I used to get a great magazine every month called International Living, loved it, and subscribed for years. Read it cover to cover even making notes in the margins. Then it went all electronic and they lost me. No time to think and dream. I envy you Bill, that's what you do for a living, connect dots, think, contemplate. What a great job!
I'll just remember to keep "it" in the closet. Locked away. Overnight. Charging. While we sleep comfortably in our locked bedroom doors. With the knives in the kitchen, strategically on the top shelf.
Yes but at least you could set the points on your '58 Chevy. I knew a guy who timed his flathead six by moving the distributor until a 50 cent piece would sit on edge atop the engine without falling over while it was idling, Try DYIing a timing problem on you F-150 today and see how long it is before you are calling a tow truck and looking forward to a repair bill in the thousands...
And what good is an extra ten years of life if there is no one with which you can have an intelligent conversation. Last night I talked with an old college friend who graduated with a degree in English. He told me that he no longer reads books. Maybe soon we will be able to discuss the relationship of Joyce's "Ulysses" to Homer's "Odyssey" with our robot companion...
But you can. Ask ChatGPT to compare "Moby Dick" to "The book of Luke" for a great contrast discussion. Or how "Moby Dick" parallels Hitler or Napoleon.
I don’t understand what the point is. I believe no intelligent human being will let a machine make decisions for them. Yes, they may get information from a machine so that THEY can make a more intelligent decision. I don’t believe that human beings with a certain amount of intelligence will GIVE UP complete control to an AI machine.
Notice, that they trust AI with making driving decisions (ultimately deciding whether someone lives or dies), but not handling your bank account overcharges. Or whether you can return that set of steak knives at Costco.
How many "intelligent" human beings took COVID shots without doing any research to see if there were any studies? Believing a machine or government gets the same result. Humans want to believe somebody or machine is smart and will look after them - except maybe in the back seat of a 57 Chevy.
WOW-I remember very clearly. I had a ‘57 Chevy. Wish I still had it. I sold it for $250. You are correct. I guess the average person is quite ________. I’ll let you fill in this one.
We are at the front end of the world’s largest IT project. It is going to collapse under its own weight. This is not an opinion.
The globalist oligarchs who are “masterminding”(need a good antonym here) this Mother Of All IT projects have no sense of history, this driven by their gargantuan egos that result in them driving with no rearview mirror and a windshield that, rather than depicting the real world ahead, depicts a virtual and imaginary world that is a creation of their diseased minds. This is all quite evident. Just in the last two weeks we have seen major outages in the worlds two largest Cloud computing systems, AWS and Microsoft Azure. Nothing newsworthy here other than the immediate impacts. No one to connect the dots, and this is only the beginning. Take AI Data Centers. Each one could be characterized as a massive energy/water infrastructure project married to a massive IT project contained within a massive construction project. The Laws of Project Management would say that such projects are not “too big to fail”, rather they are too big to succeed. Raise you hand if you believe that the technocratic geniuses that are mentally architecting our future will get all the data centers they need, when they need them, all operating at capacity? If they don’t, the wheels come off the Digital Utopia wagon. I didn’t see any hands. The data center feature happens to be the most important link in the chain. If it fails the entire vision comes crashing down. The Laws of Unforeseen and Unintended Consequences will be legion. The problems and failures will be inherent and consistent with scale and scope.
"They", whoever is building these new AI centers, had better build their own power generation capabilities (apparently nuclear) or a terrorist cutoff of external power would render it incapable of adding 1 plus 1. We obviously don't have to worry about paying for building them. We just have the Fed create trillions more paper currency to go with the "well over" 100 trillion dollars currently owed. Everybody knows that the "dollar" is as good as gold, at least until gold is revalued to gold.
I share your wonder how exactly AI will improve our well being.
The best that I can come up with is more time (e. g., no need to mow the grass, vacuum the carpet, fumble around with maps, etc.) and better health (thanks to fast breakthrough medical research)
Ideally, AI will one day find a way to negate our species penchant to war, steal, lie, harm and cheat
So how do Eric Schmidt and the rest of the tech geniuses think they will be able to monetize AI if millions/billions of people are displaced from their jobs? Are they globalist UBI believers where the government - in partnership with them and the rest of their elite tech wizards - become the only game in town? The dystopian collectivist world described by Griffin in "The Creature From Jekyll Island" is just around the corner. I'm left wondering if cognitive dissonance has become an epidemic. Perhaps they should ask their AI what the world will look like when the population is unemployed, drugged and living without purpose...
No need to think or be clever, just buy silver. None of that stuff works without silver.
Love self-deprecating humor, and agree with what happens in the back seat of any car! You hit the nail squarely on the head and drove home with one smack. There really is no "I" in AI.
It's programmed by a human, for example, what data set to align with, what do we feed it. It can not tell you anything someone doesn't already know. Google a query and you will get a different response, because Google uses up to date info. The AI, is only as proficient as the date of the last data set.
Where it begins to get a spooky is the alignment of Quantum & AI. The same data set limits apply, but Quantum can reach out to Google (and other search engines) for the latest data and augment its delivery of the result.
Per the Bing statement of "they really do not know who I am". Some are claiming a relationship to eschatology and alignment with the dark side. Interesting to say the least.
Nice write up!
When the bench seat went away, so did the fun. No more opening up the passenger door and sliding across to the wheel. Best always. PM
Most AI's now have the ability to search the Internet. Most of them now "remember" what you've talked about in your previous chats as well.
ChatGPT, Grok and Claude all "remember" previous chats. Gemini, sadly, does not yet. But you can practically stuff an entire encyclopedia into a single Gemini chat and it won't complain, whereas the others, go "what the flying duck are you doing?"
and of course, i been using Gemini!
BS, mistakes and hallucinations... 57 chevy :)
Bill asks what AI might do: " Launch nuclear missiles on its own? Shut down the internet or skew an election by falsifying the news?"
Presidents of both parties have done precisely that, and he doesn't get on about them.
you did make me laugh
That's because he was talking about lack of intelligence. Uh, wait...
I'll tell you what AI can't do. Yet.
While good AI can rationalize, and empathize, it still can't make decisions that matter. They can shuttle you to the next set of questions, and potentially using your voice, get you into the right queue, but that's where it ends.
That is why the majority of us, myself included, try to find the quickest way to a human, on all the IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems around the world.
Why?
Because we want someone, who can make a decision. Usually tied to money.
It may give us some information, but the people in charge behind those systems, won't be giving those machines the ability to make dollar based decisions any time soon.
AI: "Oh we lost your suitcase for you? I'll just have some funds deposited immediately to your account. Will $1,000 do?"
Y'all know I'm a Luddite and a non-investor. You won't be surprised when I state that AI exists, because it can. It can exist for two reasons: the control crowd see their opportunity, and the profit crowd think they can make money. This is the same forked tongue that got us in trouble with immigration, especially illegal immigration. The control crowd saw the chance to un-white America, and the profit crowd saw a way to make more money. So, when it comes down to evaluating a trend or development, you know the 2 criteria to apply: control outcome and profit outcome. Best always. PM
I think it's a matter of time. The internet was not initially useful, but, you must admit the newsletter business has become much more profitable because of it. We are also, invoices, purchase order, bills of lading are now all emailed, even receiving payment is via ACH. We ship product to a small town, then invoice to the home office in Atlanta, and magically, the invoice and the received bill of lading are joined in the cloud and payment is produced, very efficient, and very fast. There is no time for thinking or contemplation, if I do I'm wasting time!!
Maybe AI will be the same way, given enough time. I used to get a great magazine every month called International Living, loved it, and subscribed for years. Read it cover to cover even making notes in the margins. Then it went all electronic and they lost me. No time to think and dream. I envy you Bill, that's what you do for a living, connect dots, think, contemplate. What a great job!
Jim C
Until AI can fix the leak in my roof or change a flat tire by the side of the road it’s basically useless.
That's this guy, coupled with AI. And a set of wrenches.
https://www.1x.tech/neo
Deposit down! (Is that Bill?)
I'll just remember to keep "it" in the closet. Locked away. Overnight. Charging. While we sleep comfortably in our locked bedroom doors. With the knives in the kitchen, strategically on the top shelf.
Yes but at least you could set the points on your '58 Chevy. I knew a guy who timed his flathead six by moving the distributor until a 50 cent piece would sit on edge atop the engine without falling over while it was idling, Try DYIing a timing problem on you F-150 today and see how long it is before you are calling a tow truck and looking forward to a repair bill in the thousands...
And what good is an extra ten years of life if there is no one with which you can have an intelligent conversation. Last night I talked with an old college friend who graduated with a degree in English. He told me that he no longer reads books. Maybe soon we will be able to discuss the relationship of Joyce's "Ulysses" to Homer's "Odyssey" with our robot companion...
But you can. Ask ChatGPT to compare "Moby Dick" to "The book of Luke" for a great contrast discussion. Or how "Moby Dick" parallels Hitler or Napoleon.
It can go where we didn't think it possible.
I don’t understand what the point is. I believe no intelligent human being will let a machine make decisions for them. Yes, they may get information from a machine so that THEY can make a more intelligent decision. I don’t believe that human beings with a certain amount of intelligence will GIVE UP complete control to an AI machine.
But they have. See Tesla's Self Driving.
Notice, that they trust AI with making driving decisions (ultimately deciding whether someone lives or dies), but not handling your bank account overcharges. Or whether you can return that set of steak knives at Costco.
Abe, You'd be surprised what a human being, intelligent or no, will allow, And that's what the control advocates are banking on. Best always. PM
How many "intelligent" human beings took COVID shots without doing any research to see if there were any studies? Believing a machine or government gets the same result. Humans want to believe somebody or machine is smart and will look after them - except maybe in the back seat of a 57 Chevy.
WOW-I remember very clearly. I had a ‘57 Chevy. Wish I still had it. I sold it for $250. You are correct. I guess the average person is quite ________. I’ll let you fill in this one.
We are at the front end of the world’s largest IT project. It is going to collapse under its own weight. This is not an opinion.
The globalist oligarchs who are “masterminding”(need a good antonym here) this Mother Of All IT projects have no sense of history, this driven by their gargantuan egos that result in them driving with no rearview mirror and a windshield that, rather than depicting the real world ahead, depicts a virtual and imaginary world that is a creation of their diseased minds. This is all quite evident. Just in the last two weeks we have seen major outages in the worlds two largest Cloud computing systems, AWS and Microsoft Azure. Nothing newsworthy here other than the immediate impacts. No one to connect the dots, and this is only the beginning. Take AI Data Centers. Each one could be characterized as a massive energy/water infrastructure project married to a massive IT project contained within a massive construction project. The Laws of Project Management would say that such projects are not “too big to fail”, rather they are too big to succeed. Raise you hand if you believe that the technocratic geniuses that are mentally architecting our future will get all the data centers they need, when they need them, all operating at capacity? If they don’t, the wheels come off the Digital Utopia wagon. I didn’t see any hands. The data center feature happens to be the most important link in the chain. If it fails the entire vision comes crashing down. The Laws of Unforeseen and Unintended Consequences will be legion. The problems and failures will be inherent and consistent with scale and scope.
And this is only the beginning
A great one, Bill, keep them coming.
Artificial “Imitation” ……
"They", whoever is building these new AI centers, had better build their own power generation capabilities (apparently nuclear) or a terrorist cutoff of external power would render it incapable of adding 1 plus 1. We obviously don't have to worry about paying for building them. We just have the Fed create trillions more paper currency to go with the "well over" 100 trillion dollars currently owed. Everybody knows that the "dollar" is as good as gold, at least until gold is revalued to gold.
Excellent article Bill.
I share your wonder how exactly AI will improve our well being.
The best that I can come up with is more time (e. g., no need to mow the grass, vacuum the carpet, fumble around with maps, etc.) and better health (thanks to fast breakthrough medical research)
Ideally, AI will one day find a way to negate our species penchant to war, steal, lie, harm and cheat
So how do Eric Schmidt and the rest of the tech geniuses think they will be able to monetize AI if millions/billions of people are displaced from their jobs? Are they globalist UBI believers where the government - in partnership with them and the rest of their elite tech wizards - become the only game in town? The dystopian collectivist world described by Griffin in "The Creature From Jekyll Island" is just around the corner. I'm left wondering if cognitive dissonance has become an epidemic. Perhaps they should ask their AI what the world will look like when the population is unemployed, drugged and living without purpose...