Artificial Intelligence

Jake:

Pick your pathogen.

Pick your path.

Doomsday equation aint funny math.

In the hands of lefties/Islamists/Dictators…

How shit unfolds nobody knows. A grim and dire outcome however it flows. Reminds me of negligence law in torts and one of the elements is of course causation. Duty, breach, causation and damages if memory serves/today i…

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Beth Mole of Ars Technica got a second opinion of Bobby Brainworm’s views on masks, social distancing, and vaccines from both Google’s GeminiAI and ChatGPT. Both contradict him:

RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the “tyranny” of medical facts, expertise
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate les…[Read more]

PopeBeanie and Fellow Unbelievers:

Speaking of Bad Actors, Bobby Brainworm is now saying that AI is more reliable than the medical expertise of Doctors and that AIs can be trusted to give valid second medical opinions:

I say not until AI reaches Superintelligence and not until it absorbs all that is taught in…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Yesterday, I encountered a man with an AI made T-Shirt that had a set of praying hands with the glow and radiance that you see in a lot of AI portrayals and the words around the hands said, and I quote:

“Only God Can Me Judge Me!”

Without intending an argument on theology, I simply pointed out to the man that the T-Shirt…[Read more]

Pick your pathogen.

Pick your path.

Doomsday equation aint funny math.

In the hands of lefties/Islamists/Dictators…

How shit unfolds nobody knows. A grim and dire outcome however it flows. Reminds me of negligence law in torts and one of the elements is of course causation. Duty, breach, causation and damages if memory serves/today i learned…[Read more]

I’ve said a few times now, I believe the problem will be “bad actors”. It’s increasingly easy for bad actors to use AI to benefit themselves or promote an idealism, with potentially horrible consequences.

AI is already able to design human gene-editing processes, with abilities to edit any other species on the way, including pandemic-enhanced…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

An interesting article pitting one flavor of Doomers vs. another Flavor of Doomers:

How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of d…[Read more]

Jake:

100 percent analogy is not analogy. Just is not.

This is precisely what I’ve been saying. To use a simile of my own, looking for a 100 percent analogy is like sending some on a prank errand to buy a Non-Genetically Modified Seedless Watermelon. Doesn’t exist. (Nor for that matter does any Non-Genetically Modified food since the time…[Read more]

Woops,

I think i see now what i missed then. Reg is using 100%/analogy as a tautology thus enabling an identity. Ok.

100 percent analogy is not analogy. Just is not. Identical twins are comparable and analogizable. (new word is like a neologism.) Yet they’re not identical and thus proper subjects. Once identity is evident it is properly tautology time. Never the twain shall meet..

“As for similes, what are they like?” If we can only answer a simile with a…[Read more]

Jake:

100 percent analogy is a contradiction in terms. If there is no line of demarcation, no variation and no way to distinguish things being compared then it is not an analogy.

Recall, I said: “Obviously, no analogy is 100 percent perfect, otherwise, it would be a tautology.”. So we are saying the same thing, only differently.

By the way, my…

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Reg:

I would like to quibble…I might be wrong so won’t swear on the holey bibble….but would a 100% analogy not be an ‘identity’? A tautology is a statement true by its logical form. An analogy that matched in every respect would simply describe the same thing twice?

You are right on all counts, Reg. A 100 percent perfect analogy is an “identity…[Read more]

100 percent analogy is a contradiction in terms. If there is no line of demarcation, no variation and no way to distinguish things being compared then it is not an analogy.

Seems to me speaker’s typically convey something negative when they point out a tautology. It is a needless repetition. Pointing out a tautology is a way to rebuke a speaker…[Read more]

I would like to quibble…I might be wrong so won’t swear on the holey bibble….but would a 100% analogy not be an ‘identity’? A tautology is a statement true by its logical form. An analogy that matched in every respect would simply describe the same thing twice?

When it comes to tautologies, either I’m being pedantic, or I’m not being ped…[Read more]

Enco,

“Obviously, no analogy is 100 percent perfect, otherwise it would be a tautology.” That’s a good line. One i won’t quibble or refine.

“Anyway, my main point is, technology doesn’t spring from the head of Zeus fully developed…

True and billions are being poured into AI. Pace of progress in its evolution is wild and analagous to e…[Read more]

Jake:

Enco,

It is kind of unreal that you adduce Speed Racer as a model for the assimilation of technology. But there ya go. Loved that show when i was a little’n.

Obviously, no analogy is 100 percent perfect, otherwise it would be a tautology. And we would be driving on OpenAIs and Anthropics as well.

(My preference is the Rolls Royce o…[Read more]

Enco,

It is kind of unreal that you adduce Speed Racer as a model for the assimilation of technology. But there ya go. Loved that show when i was a little’n. Unfortunately the march of progress in technology is not probative of what is coming if’n the prognosticators of superintelligence are super correct. I am not sure how many experts. If the…[Read more]

Jake:

<3blockquote>Therefore i am in no position to assess the possibility of AGI or superintelligence. If the prognosticators are correct and its a comin i absolutely foresee doom as a strong candidate.

As much as I have grumbled about some of my own interactions with AI, I also have got some thoughtful answers to serious questions on the…[Read more]

Enco

I don’t know the first thing about computer science. Nada. Zilch

Therefore i am in no position to assess the possibility of AGI or superintelligence. If the prognosticators are correct and its a comin i absolutely foresee doom as a strong candidate.

Not fan of Bannon or Sandy? Can’t see why. Such amiable guys.

In terms of regulating AI…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

These headlines make their own gravy, or in this case make their own slurry:

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon at Pro-Human Assembly call for AI regulation: “We’re not going to let you run wild”
Story by Tim Hains • 1…[Read more]