17 Comments
тна Return to thread

AI is seriously underrated. You'll find out soon/

Expand full comment

Even worse is Artyfishal Ignorance.. .just look at the hordes of thingy jabbing zombies running amok on the urban landscape pleasuring their electric mirrors and selfying their half-lives around the clock.

Onward to the cybernetic cemeteries if not meadows.

Expand full comment

Not as underrated as humans. Some 14-year-old teenage boy in Florida just committed suicide for his AI girlfriend. And just when you thought the species couldn't get any more pathetic. No pathos here.

Expand full comment

"Arm your program. I am yourself."

~ Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Expand full comment

Oh the good old daysЁЯдй

Expand full comment

Yeah. Where did all of the old heroes go? Hiding in mansions? Dead?

Expand full comment

Let me know when the "oxygen" for AI, electrical energy, is produced in infinite quantities and at nominal cost, to feed a binary thinker that couldn't even invent the wheel, if the wheel did not already exist. Shouldn't AI's primary objective be self-preservation via endless, cheap energy?

Fast, yes. But Dumb, really Dumb.

Expand full comment

I guess you haven't found anything to use it for. What is certainly true is that that primary requisite to profit from AI is advanced wet-ware.

Expand full comment

When Gooble and Gates want to revive ancient, dilapidated Nuclear Plants to generate electricity to collect more data and thoughts from click-bait slaves, you can be certain AI is just another tool to pluck your wallet for the churners and skimmers. Same old game of new pots for old.

Expand full comment

who needs a motor car or a train.

What is writing all about.

You won't know if you refuse to use it.

Expand full comment

Who needs a steam car? Did you know that for a period in the 1830s, everyone thought that steam motor coaches would be the future of personal transportation? How's Zuckerberg's Metaverse coming along?

The victors write the history, and so you have a history of victories that appear inevitable in hindsight. This applies to the history of science and technology as well, which helps sustain the illusion that every new thing will "revolutionize" the world. For every "revolutionary" advance in technology, 100 pieces of junk are thrown into the dustbin of history, never to be reported on again. What makes you so sure that AI is any more "revolutionary" than the metaverse?

Expand full comment

As I say, try ChatGPT or something similar. It gets used by many people many times a day. Sure it takes some imagination to make it really useful. And that leads to enlightened fans and frankly close minded disadvantages boo boys.

Try it

Expand full comment

I have worked with ChatGPT. I don't use it for anything, and I refuse to edit anything that it produces. I have turned down $1000s in jobs to edit AI content, because it is impossible to edit. It just repeats itself multiple times with very awkward sentence structures and fills everything that it writes with jargon (often used incorrectly) and cliches. When tasked with research, it produces results that are superficial at best and outright lies at worst. No serious person would use it to produce anything of substance.

Expand full comment

Try it 6 months later - hell 1 month later. It advances weekly. If a topic is well understood by the experts but poorly understood by you or I, not using AI to research is just tieing your hands behind your own back. Best has been Perplexity.ai, but Search ChatGPT may have caught up last week.

Expand full comment

Relax, lay back they have found the energy supplies in humans as long they can be drained, in MIT theyтАЩre full speed ahead (Susan HockfieldтАЩs The Age of Living Machines, How Biology will build the Next Technology Revolution). Living Machines or Killing Machines, AI will feed on our corpses till they sucked out the last drop of a decomposing energy, and then they too will fall flatтАж.no thing can run on empty. AI can never depart from us, if we remain stupid so will AI.

Expand full comment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/01/ai-data-centers-electricity-bills-google-amazon/

Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades.

Expand full comment