Concise plain language explanation by Deanna Zandt, especially the section distinguishing among the types of AI. Thank you. Then there's the matter of AI-driven physical robots.
Thank you for this. I don’t trust an unregulated AI any further than I could throw a piano. The capitalist class has proved to be interested only in making a buck at everyone else’s expense.
AI will never replace humans. Robots, especially, are cold, ugly, and not at all reliable. Deanna explains the serious shortcomings and dangers of AI in language that even we (two octos) can understand. Thanks!
Thank you. I'm an old, old woman and I want humans involved in any transactions. I hate to talk with a robot that answers the phone for companies I am seeking help from. So much time and aggravation is wasted trying to connect with a person.
It can indeed feel very discouraging-- but I don't think we're losing more of our humanity. I think when we understand better how the tools work, we can stake a claim on our humanity and resist the attempts to rob us of it.
What I believe has many people worried is the accumulative affect of the surveillance gathering that AI is capable of producing. Beyond medical data on each of us, AI can access our banking information (credit cards, accounts, mortgages, loans including titles to houses, cars, and businesses), shopping habits, social media posts, emails, photos, educational records, judicial records, marriages, divorces, etc - basically a person’s entire life. AI says this information is safe - at the moment - but cannot predict if it will be hacked by some future technology that would enable bad actors, foreign or domestic, to steal your identity and/or manipulate some fraudulent claims against you. AI’s compilation of a county’s data is the perfect set up and motivation for cyber war when that data is breached. So, do we trust governments or tech bros to keep the savings we spent a lifetime to earn safe? Does anyone trust the bumbling Trump administration? If so, would you trust the Democrats next?
Yes, true enough. Also this push of Trump’s for our voting records and histories, along with birth certificates, passports, social security numbers, and driver’s licenses would make it very convenient for his corrupt DOJ to identify, vilify, and prosecute people as domestic terrorists because he doesn’t like their social media posts (like this one.) Someday there could be an even more vengeful autocrat, a smart one, then what will happen with AI technology in those hands?
I live in a red area and there is no one around here who wants a proposed data center nearby because of the problems with utility usage and government surveillance capabilities, and we don’t even have flock patrols!
Best info on tech issues by concerned, very savvy humans at EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and Mozilla. Also "Futurism" site seems like good info.
These technologies become political issues because: 1.) They accumulate personal info on us for niche marketing. But also data about non-conforming opinions. 2.) Big Tech, Monster Tech, is controlled by the monstrously wealthy who easily buy political parties. Techno bros almost all libertarians; they want to get rid of hated govt regs. Total liberty for them and the rest of us as disposable technoserfs monitored 24/7. 3.) Flock street cams are found to not increase safety but mostly about control. Data centers as raising local electrical rates and wiping out water resources. Ungrateful techo-illiterates then fight their betters and scare elected officials.
Econ system issues are shaped in law by political decisions. Like the Ds dumping the New Deal, including financial regs, for corporate economic beliefs. Outsourcing manufacturing was a deliberate D policy as was supporting the WTO, etc. not just Rs. "...must constantly show that they are growing, their profits are increasing..." Limitlessness on a finite planet--no prob, right? Easier if de facto econ empire militarily enforced, which explains much of U.S. foreign policy.
The justification of "value to shareholders increasing" is another sham. Why don't the actual producers, the workforce, count? Besides, unless an IPO, buying stock is not investing. Like when you buy a used truck from someone, the $$ don't go to Ford or Toyota. Playing the stock market is basically a form of betting. The rich exchange markers (stocks) among themselves. After '08, why would anyone not among the elite trust Wall St?! Especially when never re-regulated.
So, basically AI legitimizes plagiarism and everyone's okay with that? Geez! How I appreciate the fact that Jim uses his own brain to write sans the AI garbage. America doesn't need freakin' AI. What America needs is RI, Real Intelligence. ARGH!
The Stock Market is really a big gamble but now our living communities are the stakes in the Wall Street game. Watching "A Good Year" with Russell Crowe.
Concise plain language explanation by Deanna Zandt, especially the section distinguishing among the types of AI. Thank you. Then there's the matter of AI-driven physical robots.
Thank you for this. I don’t trust an unregulated AI any further than I could throw a piano. The capitalist class has proved to be interested only in making a buck at everyone else’s expense.
AI will never replace humans. Robots, especially, are cold, ugly, and not at all reliable. Deanna explains the serious shortcomings and dangers of AI in language that even we (two octos) can understand. Thanks!
Thanks- incredibly clear, remarkably concise, smooths out a measure of suspicion with a better understanding of WHY I'm less than sold . . .
Thank you. I'm an old, old woman and I want humans involved in any transactions. I hate to talk with a robot that answers the phone for companies I am seeking help from. So much time and aggravation is wasted trying to connect with a person.
I certainly agree.
Excellent synopsis, thanks
Thank you for this excellent breakdown of AI. I can always trust Hightower for information.
..and/or Deanna
Thank you. Excellently written for this amateur in AI.
Brilliant & clarifying. Thank you
The whole thing is very discouraging to me. Every day we lose more of our humanity.
It can indeed feel very discouraging-- but I don't think we're losing more of our humanity. I think when we understand better how the tools work, we can stake a claim on our humanity and resist the attempts to rob us of it.
Sadly, I feel the same way, and HOPE I'm wrong.
What I believe has many people worried is the accumulative affect of the surveillance gathering that AI is capable of producing. Beyond medical data on each of us, AI can access our banking information (credit cards, accounts, mortgages, loans including titles to houses, cars, and businesses), shopping habits, social media posts, emails, photos, educational records, judicial records, marriages, divorces, etc - basically a person’s entire life. AI says this information is safe - at the moment - but cannot predict if it will be hacked by some future technology that would enable bad actors, foreign or domestic, to steal your identity and/or manipulate some fraudulent claims against you. AI’s compilation of a county’s data is the perfect set up and motivation for cyber war when that data is breached. So, do we trust governments or tech bros to keep the savings we spent a lifetime to earn safe? Does anyone trust the bumbling Trump administration? If so, would you trust the Democrats next?
No, I wouldn't trust the D party elite given their support for corporate economics. Also for reasons explained in my main comment.
Yes, true enough. Also this push of Trump’s for our voting records and histories, along with birth certificates, passports, social security numbers, and driver’s licenses would make it very convenient for his corrupt DOJ to identify, vilify, and prosecute people as domestic terrorists because he doesn’t like their social media posts (like this one.) Someday there could be an even more vengeful autocrat, a smart one, then what will happen with AI technology in those hands?
I live in a red area and there is no one around here who wants a proposed data center nearby because of the problems with utility usage and government surveillance capabilities, and we don’t even have flock patrols!
Whew! Another great one, even if I'm too overwhelmed to read much more today. Thanks!
You probably would find Claude Whitmyer's point of view on AI. He focuses, for example, on how AI can support what he calls augmented thinking
Best info on tech issues by concerned, very savvy humans at EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and Mozilla. Also "Futurism" site seems like good info.
These technologies become political issues because: 1.) They accumulate personal info on us for niche marketing. But also data about non-conforming opinions. 2.) Big Tech, Monster Tech, is controlled by the monstrously wealthy who easily buy political parties. Techno bros almost all libertarians; they want to get rid of hated govt regs. Total liberty for them and the rest of us as disposable technoserfs monitored 24/7. 3.) Flock street cams are found to not increase safety but mostly about control. Data centers as raising local electrical rates and wiping out water resources. Ungrateful techo-illiterates then fight their betters and scare elected officials.
Econ system issues are shaped in law by political decisions. Like the Ds dumping the New Deal, including financial regs, for corporate economic beliefs. Outsourcing manufacturing was a deliberate D policy as was supporting the WTO, etc. not just Rs. "...must constantly show that they are growing, their profits are increasing..." Limitlessness on a finite planet--no prob, right? Easier if de facto econ empire militarily enforced, which explains much of U.S. foreign policy.
The justification of "value to shareholders increasing" is another sham. Why don't the actual producers, the workforce, count? Besides, unless an IPO, buying stock is not investing. Like when you buy a used truck from someone, the $$ don't go to Ford or Toyota. Playing the stock market is basically a form of betting. The rich exchange markers (stocks) among themselves. After '08, why would anyone not among the elite trust Wall St?! Especially when never re-regulated.
So, basically AI legitimizes plagiarism and everyone's okay with that? Geez! How I appreciate the fact that Jim uses his own brain to write sans the AI garbage. America doesn't need freakin' AI. What America needs is RI, Real Intelligence. ARGH!
The Stock Market is really a big gamble but now our living communities are the stakes in the Wall Street game. Watching "A Good Year" with Russell Crowe.
Putting your “faith” in the stock market is seldom a great idea.