Loved reading about the heroism of Ahmed al Ahmed and that people are stepping up to help with his medical expenses. Would that there were more Ahmeds in the world.
I suspect there are many more like Ahmed that are overshadowed by the “others” that do not share his spirit of treating others - even those that do not share his religious beliefs - as human. We only notice the good guys when there is a situation such as this.
I wonder how I would react in his situation….
I read first on my iPad (no app) and then later on iPad or iPhone (via the app).
AI is really good at connecting dots and recognizing patterns. In doing so it is also absolutely influenced by the dots it has available, and the objectives it has been programmed for. Garbage in, garbage out. Bias in, bias out.
Like everything, it can be used for the personal good or the greater good. Sometimes those equate to good and good, but also sometimes to good and evil, sometimes to evil and good respectively. IT DEPENDS.
Deciding what to depend on takes judgement. Judgement is a very personal contextual thing.
AI is useful, especially for connecting the dots, but what worries me is it’s getting harder to figure out what’s fact or fiction. For me, it means I trust results even less than a year ago and feel I must do more due diligence than before. The slop is real.
I have no problem reading the AI overview when I Google something, but I dont use it to help me create anything. I know many people who use AI to write everything instead of opening a word document and typing. That drives me nuts. And no, I don't want my whole house automated. Heck, I don't even have wifi at my house to connect all those "smart" devices to!! 🤣
What timing! I encourage our employees to use AI regularly for “research” as a beginning, however, just yesterday 2 of us were collaborating on a proposal and looked to AI for a specific sentence verbiage and my coworker said ‘I’m going to forget how to write if I keep doing this’. We laughed and completed our sentence using the AI words…
I will say this comment resonated with both of us. I am almost 70 so not as concerned about my generation as much as my younger employees. I encourage the use of AI to be sure they are keeping up with changes but also remind them to always backcheck the info. This article reminds me to collaborate more often with everyone at work so we can keep our brains fresh.
Thanks Bill as always. Additionally, I read on both my phone and my desktop depending on timing.
I disagree. I write. I publish. I use AI as it’s intended. It is a tool, not a stand in, and I remember what I write.
We didn’t lose our minds when we moved from manual Royal typewriters to word processors, then computers, and we won’t lose them now. Tools change how we work, not whether we think.
Used actively, AI sharpens thinking. Used passively, it dulls it. That distinction has always mattered and always will.
David Corn had written a piece in his newsletter about Ahmed al Ahmed and how he did what he saw had to be done, no matter the cost. My thought at the time and a subsequent comment was, “Ahmed was that good guy who showed up without a gun and still got the job done”.
My techie son uses AI for all sorts of different tech related things but not for writing. He’s got that skill down pat. Personally, I like bouncing ideas off of real people. The few times I ever interacted with Chat GPT for instance, the answers to my queries weren’t accurate. That turned me off right there. And then, we got a healthy dose of AI generated pictures that turned humans into semi aliens. Now, it it ever gets perfected, I’ll use it but only if it will come out with a Scottish accent.
This is kind of a lat minute thing but if there are any NASCAR fans here, there apparently has been a bad plane crash at the Statesville, NC Regional Airport just north of Charlotte that involved the plane owned by Greg Biffle. There have been casualties but no names have yet been released however.
All 3 original Godfathers of AI are now speaking out about the clear and present danger of this runaway train. Plenty of visionary SciFi movies and series present the potential nightmares we may face, with the most recent Mission Impossible movie diving head first into just one of several potential threats to ALL life on Earth. Battlestar Galactica explored another similar scenario that pushed the last surviving humans into space while the world explodes..
While the unconcerned and ignorant continue to fall to the enslavement technologies, AI will provide the final blow to Truth, Freedom, and Free Will. Those who wish to rule in darkness need only continue to unleash the full measure and capability of deception that AI will deliver, until, as stated in the Bible, Man Will Destroy Man.
I am NOT a "Bible Thumper", nor am I a Luddite, rather, I have always been a truth seeker, a keen observer, and often disappointed. AI may have advantageous uses for now in limited domains, but, even more than the catastrophic loss of jobs ahead, the obvious danger lies in the current headlong race among countries and companies to "reach the moon first" with all the perceived power and control within grasp for the winners.
All three of the men responsible have grave concerns with the lack of resources dedicated toward securing this technology, sighting numerous examples of aberrant, threatening, and dangerous AI "behavior". Yep, we can just stick our heads in the sand and be sufficiently awed by the ease of being awed and lazy, or pull our heads up just long enough to do some homework and see the train coming before it hits us, or maybe even break away from the screens long enough to invest in that thing called Faith.
I sometimes read the articles in email. I've been trying to get used to substance, but there's so much noise and notifications that have nothing to do with your content.
Finally getting around to reading all of my email.
Every time we talk about what Ai does to our brains, and how it is changing lifestyles, I think about the movie "Wall-E". It's scary when fiction starts to cross over into reality. Who knew, when we were kids watching The Jetsons, that we'd one day have robots clean the house, self driving cars and video calls? It's all a good argument to continue reading books, doing puzzles and exercising regularly; so we don't turn into mindless lumps.
Thoughts on AI - a welcome article and constructive observations regarding the way that use I made of a tool. Perhaps the principal threat is that there are people substituting AI to overcome their shortcomings and the outcome is a further deterioration in the quality of understanding and decision making.
Thoughts on A/i? Why? It never thinks about me.
Thanks for the morning humor! 😂
Loved reading about the heroism of Ahmed al Ahmed and that people are stepping up to help with his medical expenses. Would that there were more Ahmeds in the world.
I suspect there are many more like Ahmed that are overshadowed by the “others” that do not share his spirit of treating others - even those that do not share his religious beliefs - as human. We only notice the good guys when there is a situation such as this.
I wonder how I would react in his situation….
I read first on my iPad (no app) and then later on iPad or iPhone (via the app).
I was wondering the same thing about myself, Darrell. Time for some self-reflection on this end.
AI is really good at connecting dots and recognizing patterns. In doing so it is also absolutely influenced by the dots it has available, and the objectives it has been programmed for. Garbage in, garbage out. Bias in, bias out.
Like everything, it can be used for the personal good or the greater good. Sometimes those equate to good and good, but also sometimes to good and evil, sometimes to evil and good respectively. IT DEPENDS.
Deciding what to depend on takes judgement. Judgement is a very personal contextual thing.
I am definitely worried about AI.
AI is useful, especially for connecting the dots, but what worries me is it’s getting harder to figure out what’s fact or fiction. For me, it means I trust results even less than a year ago and feel I must do more due diligence than before. The slop is real.
I have no problem reading the AI overview when I Google something, but I dont use it to help me create anything. I know many people who use AI to write everything instead of opening a word document and typing. That drives me nuts. And no, I don't want my whole house automated. Heck, I don't even have wifi at my house to connect all those "smart" devices to!! 🤣
And I'm only 35!!!
What timing! I encourage our employees to use AI regularly for “research” as a beginning, however, just yesterday 2 of us were collaborating on a proposal and looked to AI for a specific sentence verbiage and my coworker said ‘I’m going to forget how to write if I keep doing this’. We laughed and completed our sentence using the AI words…
I will say this comment resonated with both of us. I am almost 70 so not as concerned about my generation as much as my younger employees. I encourage the use of AI to be sure they are keeping up with changes but also remind them to always backcheck the info. This article reminds me to collaborate more often with everyone at work so we can keep our brains fresh.
Thanks Bill as always. Additionally, I read on both my phone and my desktop depending on timing.
I disagree. I write. I publish. I use AI as it’s intended. It is a tool, not a stand in, and I remember what I write.
We didn’t lose our minds when we moved from manual Royal typewriters to word processors, then computers, and we won’t lose them now. Tools change how we work, not whether we think.
Used actively, AI sharpens thinking. Used passively, it dulls it. That distinction has always mattered and always will.
The real issue isn’t AI, it’s ownership.
I am concerned that some will rely on AI and forget that AI is depending on our thoughts and actions in order to exist.
David Corn had written a piece in his newsletter about Ahmed al Ahmed and how he did what he saw had to be done, no matter the cost. My thought at the time and a subsequent comment was, “Ahmed was that good guy who showed up without a gun and still got the job done”.
My techie son uses AI for all sorts of different tech related things but not for writing. He’s got that skill down pat. Personally, I like bouncing ideas off of real people. The few times I ever interacted with Chat GPT for instance, the answers to my queries weren’t accurate. That turned me off right there. And then, we got a healthy dose of AI generated pictures that turned humans into semi aliens. Now, it it ever gets perfected, I’ll use it but only if it will come out with a Scottish accent.
This is kind of a lat minute thing but if there are any NASCAR fans here, there apparently has been a bad plane crash at the Statesville, NC Regional Airport just north of Charlotte that involved the plane owned by Greg Biffle. There have been casualties but no names have yet been released however.
All 3 original Godfathers of AI are now speaking out about the clear and present danger of this runaway train. Plenty of visionary SciFi movies and series present the potential nightmares we may face, with the most recent Mission Impossible movie diving head first into just one of several potential threats to ALL life on Earth. Battlestar Galactica explored another similar scenario that pushed the last surviving humans into space while the world explodes..
While the unconcerned and ignorant continue to fall to the enslavement technologies, AI will provide the final blow to Truth, Freedom, and Free Will. Those who wish to rule in darkness need only continue to unleash the full measure and capability of deception that AI will deliver, until, as stated in the Bible, Man Will Destroy Man.
I am NOT a "Bible Thumper", nor am I a Luddite, rather, I have always been a truth seeker, a keen observer, and often disappointed. AI may have advantageous uses for now in limited domains, but, even more than the catastrophic loss of jobs ahead, the obvious danger lies in the current headlong race among countries and companies to "reach the moon first" with all the perceived power and control within grasp for the winners.
All three of the men responsible have grave concerns with the lack of resources dedicated toward securing this technology, sighting numerous examples of aberrant, threatening, and dangerous AI "behavior". Yep, we can just stick our heads in the sand and be sufficiently awed by the ease of being awed and lazy, or pull our heads up just long enough to do some homework and see the train coming before it hits us, or maybe even break away from the screens long enough to invest in that thing called Faith.
I sometimes read the articles in email. I've been trying to get used to substance, but there's so much noise and notifications that have nothing to do with your content.
Finally getting around to reading all of my email.
Every time we talk about what Ai does to our brains, and how it is changing lifestyles, I think about the movie "Wall-E". It's scary when fiction starts to cross over into reality. Who knew, when we were kids watching The Jetsons, that we'd one day have robots clean the house, self driving cars and video calls? It's all a good argument to continue reading books, doing puzzles and exercising regularly; so we don't turn into mindless lumps.
Thoughts on AI - a welcome article and constructive observations regarding the way that use I made of a tool. Perhaps the principal threat is that there are people substituting AI to overcome their shortcomings and the outcome is a further deterioration in the quality of understanding and decision making.