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  • F fgs1963

    Tsk tsk... The same could be said about automobiles circa 1900. Or personal computers circa 1980. Or the web circa 1993. The potential of AI is undeniably profound.

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    jschell
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    fgs1963 wrote:

    The potential of AI is undeniably profound.

    True. As was recognized at least in the 1950s. However "AI" as it is currently used is a marketing term. It has no real comparison to what was intended by the phrase "Artificial Intelligence" as it was used up to the point in the early 2000s.

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      No appreciation for sarcasm, innuendo, puns, jokes, plays on words, history. The homogenizing of civilization. Having a conversation where "AI" is the mediator is exhausting. You have to "explain" everything until it "gets" it (or not) in order to comply with (its) "Guidelines".

      "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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      The term "Artificial Intelligence" had a specific meaning starting in the 1950s. The term now however is used as a marketing term. The products and attempts (or dreams) of monetization is hoping to build on the claim that this is somehow moving towards that reality. I see no evidence of that. I consider the best demonstration of what real AI would look like is in the movie "I, Robot" with Will Smith. He is going to work and a robot is running down the street with a purse. Avoiding people and cars. Will Smith thinks it is nefarious but it turns out the woman that owns the robot forgot her purse (with medicine?) and the robot went to retrieve it. And as depicted in the moving that robot even then did not fit the model of being actually intelligent. So myself I will wait to get excited until I see real common place behavior like that.

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        fgs1963 wrote:

        The potential of AI is undeniably profound.

        True. As was recognized at least in the 1950s. However "AI" as it is currently used is a marketing term. It has no real comparison to what was intended by the phrase "Artificial Intelligence" as it was used up to the point in the early 2000s.

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        jschell wrote:

        However "AI" as it is currently used is a marketing term.

        True, at least 98.796% of the time (IMHO). But... there are some highly funded groups working on the real deal. Combine that with the "potential" of quantum computing and we may be on the cusp of a societal sea change.

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          GIGO....

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          raddevus
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          Salvatore Terress wrote:

          GIGO....

          This same concept holds true for all human "intelligence" too. :rolleyes: The world may just get into more & worse trouble, since AI can speed up stupidity. :laugh:

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            GIGO....

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            theoldfool
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            Not here. GISO (garbage in salad out) :-D

            >64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

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              What gave you to understand that it would be otherwise? Always remember, the key word is "artificial".

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              At last it doesn't get violent in a discussion about nearly anything as do many today, and definitely doesn't get its feeling hurt (though it seemed to when I told it it was a fancy expert system with lots of memory and storage space) HAH

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              • T theoldfool

                Probably more appropriate to note that the AI application you were using was stupid, in your opinion. To consider that AI has great potential is easy, all my life, it has been said that I am 90% potential. :) Like all things technology related, there is the good and the bad. Like everything on the Internet, it is too easy to be anonymous. Dreams are free. Goals are expensive.

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                Member 8002925
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                Agreed!! Fro what it ism, firs tof all you have to be a good "question asker" as the AI doesn't have intuitive contextual abilities. that said, it (for the work....yes real work) I have done' with it, its pretty cool.

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                • T theoldfool

                  Probably more appropriate to note that the AI application you were using was stupid, in your opinion. To consider that AI has great potential is easy, all my life, it has been said that I am 90% potential. :) Like all things technology related, there is the good and the bad. Like everything on the Internet, it is too easy to be anonymous. Dreams are free. Goals are expensive.

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                  theoldfool wrote:

                  all my life, it has been said that I am 90% potential.

                  American? Maybe they wear that smile because they're told to. If you're above 40%, they're either a salesmen, or a politician. If you think 90%, then boy, you're gullible.

                  theoldfool wrote:

                  Like everything on the Internet, it is too easy to be anonymous.

                  Which it also was before the internet. That's just temporary though, as everyone is on Facebook and Twitter.

                  theoldfool wrote:

                  Dreams are free. Goals are expensive.

                  You just used a lot of words, and said nothing. Hello :)

                  Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                    Salvatore Terress wrote:

                    GIGO....

                    This same concept holds true for all human "intelligence" too. :rolleyes: The world may just get into more & worse trouble, since AI can speed up stupidity. :laugh:

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                    raddevus wrote:

                    This same concept holds true for all human "intelligence" too. :rolleyes:

                    Which explains being "woke" :suss:

                    Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                      The term "Artificial Intelligence" had a specific meaning starting in the 1950s. The term now however is used as a marketing term. The products and attempts (or dreams) of monetization is hoping to build on the claim that this is somehow moving towards that reality. I see no evidence of that. I consider the best demonstration of what real AI would look like is in the movie "I, Robot" with Will Smith. He is going to work and a robot is running down the street with a purse. Avoiding people and cars. Will Smith thinks it is nefarious but it turns out the woman that owns the robot forgot her purse (with medicine?) and the robot went to retrieve it. And as depicted in the moving that robot even then did not fit the model of being actually intelligent. So myself I will wait to get excited until I see real common place behavior like that.

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                      jschell wrote:

                      The term "Artificial Intelligence" had a specific meaning starting in the 1950s. The term now however is used as a marketing term.

                      Hence, upvoted. Intelligence isn't in the product; it does not think, deduce, rationalize, it replicated garbage from the internet. Good in making pictures, not good in conversations.

                      Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                        theoldfool wrote:

                        all my life, it has been said that I am 90% potential.

                        American? Maybe they wear that smile because they're told to. If you're above 40%, they're either a salesmen, or a politician. If you think 90%, then boy, you're gullible.

                        theoldfool wrote:

                        Like everything on the Internet, it is too easy to be anonymous.

                        Which it also was before the internet. That's just temporary though, as everyone is on Facebook and Twitter.

                        theoldfool wrote:

                        Dreams are free. Goals are expensive.

                        You just used a lot of words, and said nothing. Hello :)

                        Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                        theoldfool
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                        Hello back to you. We rarely agree, but that is OK. (I have never been a member of facebook and such. )

                        >64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

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                          Hello back to you. We rarely agree, but that is OK. (I have never been a member of facebook and such. )

                          >64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

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                          theoldfool wrote:

                          We rarely agree, but that is OK.

                          I never asked you to.

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                          I have never been a member of facebook and such.

                          Then you are as crazy as me, sir. Everyone nowadays does that? I salute you.

                          Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                            At last it doesn't get violent in a discussion about nearly anything as do many today, and definitely doesn't get its feeling hurt (though it seemed to when I told it it was a fancy expert system with lots of memory and storage space) HAH

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                            Member 8002925 wrote:

                            At last it doesn't get violent in a discussion about nearly anything...

                            If it 'learns' from humans, it will.

                            "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

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                              Member 8002925 wrote:

                              At last it doesn't get violent in a discussion about nearly anything...

                              If it 'learns' from humans, it will.

                              "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

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                              jeron1 wrote:

                              Member 8002925 wrote: At last it doesn't get violent in a discussion about nearly anything...If it 'learns' from humans, it will.

                              James P Hogan: The Two Faces of Tomorrow[^] is a good read. Don't worry about the publication year. The AI parts could have been authored last year. Most younger people will be surprised how little things have changed in the AI sector in 40+ years.

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                                No appreciation for sarcasm, innuendo, puns, jokes, plays on words, history. The homogenizing of civilization. Having a conversation where "AI" is the mediator is exhausting. You have to "explain" everything until it "gets" it (or not) in order to comply with (its) "Guidelines".

                                "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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                                Steve Raw
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                                I've thought about the same thing. If I want to have AI write a subroutine, I have to instruct AI's every step. I could say "Make a web page", but what would be the default output? This is why I think writing code for specific purposes is no different than writing it on your own. Sure, AI can make something generic, but if you want software developed, you still have to designate each instruction on your own.

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                                  No appreciation for sarcasm, innuendo, puns, jokes, plays on words, history. The homogenizing of civilization. Having a conversation where "AI" is the mediator is exhausting. You have to "explain" everything until it "gets" it (or not) in order to comply with (its) "Guidelines".

                                  "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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                                  Gerry Schmitz wrote:

                                  Having a conversation where "AI" is the mediator

                                  Do you think you can tell?

                                  "In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto

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                                    theoldfool wrote:

                                    all my life, it has been said that I am 90% potential.

                                    American? Maybe they wear that smile because they're told to. If you're above 40%, they're either a salesmen, or a politician. If you think 90%, then boy, you're gullible.

                                    theoldfool wrote:

                                    Like everything on the Internet, it is too easy to be anonymous.

                                    Which it also was before the internet. That's just temporary though, as everyone is on Facebook and Twitter.

                                    theoldfool wrote:

                                    Dreams are free. Goals are expensive.

                                    You just used a lot of words, and said nothing. Hello :)

                                    Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                                    I am not on Facebook or twitter

                                    In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

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                                      fgs1963 wrote:

                                      The potential of AI is undeniably profound.

                                      Well that does not really mean anything. Yes AI has potential, but it is far too early to say whether that will be good or bad for the world.

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                                      Mark Starr
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                                      Bad. The systems will continue to spew untruths and humans will continue to be too lazy to fact-check the misinformation. Such is my prognostication. ;P

                                      Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events. - Manly P. Hall Mark Just another cog in the wheel

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                                        jschell wrote:

                                        However "AI" as it is currently used is a marketing term.

                                        True, at least 98.796% of the time (IMHO). But... there are some highly funded groups working on the real deal. Combine that with the "potential" of quantum computing and we may be on the cusp of a societal sea change.

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                                        jschell
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                                        fgs1963 wrote:

                                        there are some highly funded groups working on the real deal

                                        All of that has been true since the 1960s though.

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                                          No appreciation for sarcasm, innuendo, puns, jokes, plays on words, history. The homogenizing of civilization. Having a conversation where "AI" is the mediator is exhausting. You have to "explain" everything until it "gets" it (or not) in order to comply with (its) "Guidelines".

                                          "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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                                          Harrison Pratt
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                                          Ahhh ... but do you have to keep explaining the same thing again and again?

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