I'll likely be gone by 2045, but hopefully some loving A/i robot dude will occasionally put a few weeds on my grave. As idiots like Gates continue to block the sun, the flowers will wither but you can bet the weeds will still thrive.
Regarding AI: One of the answers to the question in the poll is "Humans will still run the world". Even AI admits it will not dominate segments of the economy that rely on value judgments, unstructured environments, high variability, persuasion, accountability, human interaction and moral responsibility. In other words, leadership and decision making.
A former colleague of mine works with a major automaker developing self-driving vehicle technology. An example of why AI cannot make moral decisions is a scenario he presented to me. Here goes: You are driving alone in the middle lane of a three-lane highway. In front of you is a large box truck. To your right is a minivan with a family in it. To your left is a motorcyclist. The box truck suddenly slams on its brakes to avoid an obstacle. You have three choices -- hit the box truck and take your chances, hit the minivan with the potential of multiple fatalities, or hit the motorcycle with the potential of one fatality. The challenge is to select the "least worst" option. The problem is, AI decision engine optimization logic cannot substitute for human moral interaction and judgment.
I believe that Trump and Miller have figured this out and that there will only remain some the rich who control everything unless we re-engineer how wealth is redistributed, Denmark style. This may be why Trump has it against Denmark, they are living proof of a social solution that would really limit billionaires. This also explain all the terrible health policies and the push to remove immigrants, all people who will need to be supported by a social security system.
What they don't think of is that they still need consumers because that is the basis of the american economy. It's not paranoia when it is reality.
The Greenland issue is a huge distraction. New retribution tariffs are another distraction. Americans failure to understand that tariffs are paid by someone and it is not the supplier (hint: it is us) is yet another distraction. What’s are we being distracted from?
1. The Epstein files. The soonest we might see the real material is mid-November, you know, right after the mid-terms - assuming we even have an election.
2. ICE. Martial law. Active duty regular military in the streets of Minneapolis. ICE murdering Ms. Goode. ICE breaking into the home of an American citizen with NO warrant, taking the man they found outside in his underwear in the cold. A American citizen. Lies from Noem, etc.
3. RFK Jr. and all his eat red meat, no vaccines nonsense.
4. Investigations of Senator Mark Kelly.
5. Investigation of the veterans who made a video encouraging military personnel to obey the law.
6. Investigation of the independent (at least for now) Federal Reserve chairman - and - a board of governor’s member.
7. Renaming the Kennedy Center even though trump has zero authority to do so after naming allies to the board position and himself as chairman.
8. Packing ballroom building approval board with allies.
9. The whole Lindsey Halligan debacle that is still unresolved.
I could go on as these are off the top of my head.
Oh, and Greenland anyone? Telling Denmark it is because he didn’t receive a peace prize and now he doesn’t have to focus on peace?
I own a data & analytics software company that makes use of multiple forms of AI. This is one of the best written perspectives on the long-term realities of AI I've seen. Well done.
My own antiquated thinking about AI is that because it is a human construct, it has within it the seeds of its own destruction. It’s currently in the “learning” stage; scraping up everything that humans have done, written or created to date. That means it’s injested the good, the bad and the ugly-evidence Grok and its creation of porn using misappropriated faces of actual humans. We already know it produces schlock because such has already been caught by judges, teachers and college professors; most likely in other places as well. Your CHAT GPT is probably right in its assessment about time being the determining factor in its ability to survive but unless AI can weed out the bad stuff it’s taken in, it will only increase the chaos in an already chaotic world. It sees itself as a tool but will it turn out to be one that enhances the human experience or one that dominates it? Thank goodness I won’t be around to find out.
As for the Politico article, it needed a good editor! Being “woke” is way too scary for the right wing, monied elements to handle so they create a safe space to promote their dismal thoughts. But why bother going to all that trouble when all you have to do is subvert your state colleges and universities by purging their mor liberally minded boards and professors. Look at what DeSantis did to New College in Florida. Same has happened in the once highly regarded NC university system in my state. Just seeing the word LIBERAL freaks them out. Dumb down, dumb down and stay down.
I like Crixcyon will likely be gone - and while I am current watching as Trump is destroying America - maybe AI could step in and save us - doubtfully - but a thought
I live in a neighborhood of Los Angeles in which Waymo is omnipresent. The other day, while stopped at a red light, I saw at least 6 Waymo cars cross the intersection. What startled me was how ordinary it seemed. Get ready!
I recently listened to some AI generated music. The sound was great, the lyrics were heartfelt, but I still wished it was sung by a person who actually created it from the human experience, who empathized with those who listened. The AI generated music was built from compiling what it learned from humans. It owes its very existence to those whose art and skill it replaces.
Have you not seen the movie I Robot? That’s all I have to say about AI. It may be able to create the words but will never create the emotions behind them. It can’t experience love, heartbreak, anger or the other things that make humans human.
And I swear that Trump is just trying to start a war, not sure who it will be against. It’s time for citizens to revolt against the machine and take back their country. Not saying the Democrats are any better, but somewhere along the path, politics has stopped being about serving the country and become about how much money you can make. And not just federal, but state/provincial and even municipal. There are so many special interest groups now that the original purpose of government has been lost to the loudest voices with the most money or voters.
I'll likely be gone by 2045, but hopefully some loving A/i robot dude will occasionally put a few weeds on my grave. As idiots like Gates continue to block the sun, the flowers will wither but you can bet the weeds will still thrive.
Chilling.
Regarding AI: One of the answers to the question in the poll is "Humans will still run the world". Even AI admits it will not dominate segments of the economy that rely on value judgments, unstructured environments, high variability, persuasion, accountability, human interaction and moral responsibility. In other words, leadership and decision making.
A former colleague of mine works with a major automaker developing self-driving vehicle technology. An example of why AI cannot make moral decisions is a scenario he presented to me. Here goes: You are driving alone in the middle lane of a three-lane highway. In front of you is a large box truck. To your right is a minivan with a family in it. To your left is a motorcyclist. The box truck suddenly slams on its brakes to avoid an obstacle. You have three choices -- hit the box truck and take your chances, hit the minivan with the potential of multiple fatalities, or hit the motorcycle with the potential of one fatality. The challenge is to select the "least worst" option. The problem is, AI decision engine optimization logic cannot substitute for human moral interaction and judgment.
I believe that Trump and Miller have figured this out and that there will only remain some the rich who control everything unless we re-engineer how wealth is redistributed, Denmark style. This may be why Trump has it against Denmark, they are living proof of a social solution that would really limit billionaires. This also explain all the terrible health policies and the push to remove immigrants, all people who will need to be supported by a social security system.
What they don't think of is that they still need consumers because that is the basis of the american economy. It's not paranoia when it is reality.
Great comment. My response:
The Greenland issue is a huge distraction. New retribution tariffs are another distraction. Americans failure to understand that tariffs are paid by someone and it is not the supplier (hint: it is us) is yet another distraction. What’s are we being distracted from?
1. The Epstein files. The soonest we might see the real material is mid-November, you know, right after the mid-terms - assuming we even have an election.
2. ICE. Martial law. Active duty regular military in the streets of Minneapolis. ICE murdering Ms. Goode. ICE breaking into the home of an American citizen with NO warrant, taking the man they found outside in his underwear in the cold. A American citizen. Lies from Noem, etc.
3. RFK Jr. and all his eat red meat, no vaccines nonsense.
4. Investigations of Senator Mark Kelly.
5. Investigation of the veterans who made a video encouraging military personnel to obey the law.
6. Investigation of the independent (at least for now) Federal Reserve chairman - and - a board of governor’s member.
7. Renaming the Kennedy Center even though trump has zero authority to do so after naming allies to the board position and himself as chairman.
8. Packing ballroom building approval board with allies.
9. The whole Lindsey Halligan debacle that is still unresolved.
I could go on as these are off the top of my head.
Oh, and Greenland anyone? Telling Denmark it is because he didn’t receive a peace prize and now he doesn’t have to focus on peace?
I own a data & analytics software company that makes use of multiple forms of AI. This is one of the best written perspectives on the long-term realities of AI I've seen. Well done.
My own antiquated thinking about AI is that because it is a human construct, it has within it the seeds of its own destruction. It’s currently in the “learning” stage; scraping up everything that humans have done, written or created to date. That means it’s injested the good, the bad and the ugly-evidence Grok and its creation of porn using misappropriated faces of actual humans. We already know it produces schlock because such has already been caught by judges, teachers and college professors; most likely in other places as well. Your CHAT GPT is probably right in its assessment about time being the determining factor in its ability to survive but unless AI can weed out the bad stuff it’s taken in, it will only increase the chaos in an already chaotic world. It sees itself as a tool but will it turn out to be one that enhances the human experience or one that dominates it? Thank goodness I won’t be around to find out.
As for the Politico article, it needed a good editor! Being “woke” is way too scary for the right wing, monied elements to handle so they create a safe space to promote their dismal thoughts. But why bother going to all that trouble when all you have to do is subvert your state colleges and universities by purging their mor liberally minded boards and professors. Look at what DeSantis did to New College in Florida. Same has happened in the once highly regarded NC university system in my state. Just seeing the word LIBERAL freaks them out. Dumb down, dumb down and stay down.
I like Crixcyon will likely be gone - and while I am current watching as Trump is destroying America - maybe AI could step in and save us - doubtfully - but a thought
I live in a neighborhood of Los Angeles in which Waymo is omnipresent. The other day, while stopped at a red light, I saw at least 6 Waymo cars cross the intersection. What startled me was how ordinary it seemed. Get ready!
Assuming your newsletter content today was mostly ai-generated, did your ai tool also generate ‘other things worth knowing …’?
No!
I recently listened to some AI generated music. The sound was great, the lyrics were heartfelt, but I still wished it was sung by a person who actually created it from the human experience, who empathized with those who listened. The AI generated music was built from compiling what it learned from humans. It owes its very existence to those whose art and skill it replaces.
Have you not seen the movie I Robot? That’s all I have to say about AI. It may be able to create the words but will never create the emotions behind them. It can’t experience love, heartbreak, anger or the other things that make humans human.
And I swear that Trump is just trying to start a war, not sure who it will be against. It’s time for citizens to revolt against the machine and take back their country. Not saying the Democrats are any better, but somewhere along the path, politics has stopped being about serving the country and become about how much money you can make. And not just federal, but state/provincial and even municipal. There are so many special interest groups now that the original purpose of government has been lost to the loudest voices with the most money or voters.