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AI
Feb 22, 2024 16:00:19 GMT
Post by althea on Feb 22, 2024 16:00:19 GMT
I am really worried about how quickly and readily people are welcoming AI into their lives.
Despite warnings from some of the best brains in the land, people welcome something that will think for them.
I think the old adage of: use it or lose it, applies to our brains as much as to our muscles.
My son and I sometimes buy art supplies from a great art shop in Manchester. They have large pictures and quotes of Aldous Huxley
in the windows and in the shop itself.
One quote seems apposite to me, in relation to AI.
"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."
I wonder what the future holds for our descendants. It's looking bleak to me.
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Post by ARENA on Feb 22, 2024 16:19:59 GMT
I am really worried about how quickly and readily people are welcoming AI into their lives. Despite warnings from some of the best brains in the land, people welcome something that will think for them. I think the old adage of: use it or lose it, applies to our brains as much as to our muscles. My son and I sometimes buy art supplies from a great art shop in Manchester. They have large pictures and quotes of Aldous Huxley in the windows and in the shop itself. One quote seems apposite to me, in relation to AI. "People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." I wonder what the future holds for our descendants. It's looking bleak to me. Lack of intelligence seems almost a virtue in this day ,A. Job titles are ridiculous whilst actual ability in many cases is minimal. When we were young jobs like sales executive (shop assistant) e.g. required numerate skills and a pleasing manner. |
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AI
Feb 22, 2024 18:17:45 GMT
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Post by marispiper on Feb 22, 2024 18:17:45 GMT
It's a great concern I think - particularly for creative people, because their work can be plagiarised so easily...not to mention individual's own image stolen and used falsely.
However, in the medical field, diagnoses by AI is so much more accurate than that of a human looking at images or samples.
Further, my son tells me that AI saves him so much time in teaching. If he wants to compile assessment questions on, say Macbeth, he only has to input the criteria and AI can give him this in seconds.
AI - good and evil.
However, what is clear is that AI will affect employment. It's yet another layer where human employees will bit by bit, no longer be required.
What kind of work will a larger world population do?
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AI
Feb 23, 2024 11:57:21 GMT
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Post by hild1066 on Feb 23, 2024 11:57:21 GMT
Probably manage the AI breakdowns - like programme this week that just started to spew out random facts on Apple!
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Post by althea on Feb 27, 2024 11:50:04 GMT
I see those of us who are worried about AI are being dubbed Luddites on the internet.
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AI
Mar 1, 2024 20:55:10 GMT
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Post by hild1066 on Mar 1, 2024 20:55:10 GMT
I think it's very reasonable to be wary of technology moving faster than regulation.
AI has some massive positives but some massive problems.
I heard that lecturers for instance are inputting their students module essays to see if the students are using AI. The students are then being accused of plagiarising work or cheating.
Now why wouldn't the students use it to find out about academic questions. I suppose what they shouldn't do is simply copy the answer or at least have the sense to reword it. Apparently lecturers can check what they've written against AI. I'm sure they can, but is that any different from quoting from books and papers. As long as it's referenced. I think some will be using it to cheat and most will just be using it to help with difficult questions.
So all of this has to be sorted out. Let's be honest at degree level they don't want your opinion anyway, they want you to research and present other people's opinions and if those are available via AI is it cheating.
The whole faking IDs etc really needs criminal sanction right now.
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Mar 3, 2024 11:46:16 GMT
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Post by skylark on Mar 3, 2024 11:46:16 GMT
It isn’t plagiarising to rephrase or even quote something you found online, but of course you must acknowledge the source (or reference’ as you put it. But there is a whole well established industry writing students dissertations for them, adapting to their style. A viva should sort that out, but a thorough grilling of every student probably wouldn’t be practical.
Back in the 70s a friend was singled out for a viva, and at the end was told to publish it!
What worries me is what happens if IT just fails. I heard a horror story of a ‘virus’ that spreads through copper and could be used by an enemy to effectively destroy a whole country.
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Mar 4, 2024 16:59:20 GMT
Post by althea on Mar 4, 2024 16:59:20 GMT
The long term effects of AI, seems to me, that everyone will let AI do their thinking for them wherever possible. It's not just students who can be lazy. In no time at all the whole world will be dumbed down by people who don't remember how to think.
That's aside from all the rubbish AI is churning out in the name of art, literature, poetry and music.
It's no wonder the most intelligent minds on the planet are worried about AI.
Sadly, the genie is now out of the bottle.
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AI
Mar 7, 2024 18:59:14 GMT
Post by rikiiboy on Mar 7, 2024 18:59:14 GMT
It isn’t plagiarising to rephrase or even quote something you found online, but of course you must acknowledge the source (or reference’ as you put it. But there is a whole well established industry writing students dissertations for them, adapting to their style. A viva should sort that out, but a thorough grilling of every student probably wouldn’t be practical. Back in the 70s a friend was singled out for a viva, and at the end was told to publish it! What worries me is what happens if IT just fails. I heard a horror story of a ‘virus’ that spreads through copper and could be used by an enemy to effectively destroy a whole country. [Russia is developing a weapon that has the potential to threaten satellites but has not yet deployed it, the White House said Thursday, explaining that the development was troubling, but that there was no immediate safety risk.15 Feb 2024] |
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Mar 8, 2024 11:36:21 GMT
Post by althea on Mar 8, 2024 11:36:21 GMT
It's hard to be optimistic about the future when we know the catastrophe that Covid caused and the potential weaponry available which could destroy the Earth altogether. All we can do is live our lives as best we can.
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AI
Oct 22, 2024 8:31:46 GMT
Post by rikiiboy on Oct 22, 2024 8:31:46 GMT
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