The Problems and Possibilities of Artificial Intelligenc

[BabyBoomer50s]

Do you hate AI?

No

 

[AlexBailey]

No

Oh good!

Here, try this AI prompt:


Is anthropogenic climate change real? What is the evidence that it is happening?


Check back and let us know what response you get.


Bonus prompt:

What are the best arguments used by anthropogenic climate change deniers and what is their veracity?

 

[Hel_Books]

Hel_Books said:
There you go! "Comparable to" is what I've been saying all along. Important, but not hyperbolic. Just one of the things to worry about, like plastics in the ocean, nuclear proliferation, climate change, etc. etc. etc.

“Comparable to” PANDEMICS & NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION is a #win???

Did anyone say it was a win? You wrote, "AI is a whole different animal" and now you're agreeing that it's "comparable."

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Oh good!

Here, try this AI prompt:


Is anthropogenic climate change real? What is the evidence that it is happening?


Check back and let us know what response you get.


Bonus prompt:

What are the best arguments used by anthropogenic climate change deniers and what is their veracity?

Why would I need to do that? Of course anthropogenic climate change is real. Natural climate change is real as well. And after decades of alarmists telling us we’re facing an “existential crisis”, economic reality and pragmatism is taking hold in most countries. Even Bill Gates is starting to get it.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Why would I need to do that? Of course anthropogenic climate change is real. Natural climate change is real as well. And after decades of alarmists telling us we’re facing an “existential crisis”, economic reality and pragmatism is taking hold in most countries. Even Bill Gates is starting to get it.

Exaggerated predictions of climate change do not change the facts that climate change is happening, that it is happening because of the consumption of fossil fuels, and that it is a serious problem.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Exaggerated predictions of climate change do not change the facts that climate change is happening, that it is happening because of the consumption of fossil fuels, and that it is a serious problem.

Yes, there are many problems in this world and anthropogenic warming is one of them. But it’s not an “existential crisis”, nor something mankind can or even should attempt to fully prevent. Bill Gates is right. Adaptation, coupled with pragmatic reductions in GHGs (subject cost-benefit analysis) is the proper approach to dealing with it.

 

[latecomer91364]

This is one area where we need intelligent Congressional regulations,


AI, especially with suicide-encouraging chatbots is already out of control. There are more sad stories than these:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3xgwyywe4o

 

[AlexBailey]

Why would I need to do that? Of course anthropogenic climate change is real. Natural climate change is real as well. And after decades of alarmists telling us we’re facing an “existential crisis”, economic reality and pragmatism is taking hold in most countries. Even Bill Gates is starting to get it.

Did you check with AI about the veracity of your arguments?

Efforts to prevent damage to the environment made now will have long term benefits and greater return on investment. Surely you understand how that concept applies and is sound for many different things.

Making money now as fast as you can rather than responsibly will have consequences.


Do you believe you fully understand what the possible consequences can be? How certain are you about your position?


Play with your AI chat buddy and see how your economic perspective and scientific outlook on climate change stacks up in the long run.

Does the well-being of future generations and the general health of the ecosystem factor in your values?



What’s your informed point of view on this?

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Did you check with AI about the veracity of your arguments?

Efforts to prevent damage to the environment made now will have long term benefits and greater return on investment. Surely you understand how that concept applies and is sound for many different things.

Making money now as fast as you can rather than responsibly will have consequences.


Do you believe you fully understand what the possible consequences can be? How certain are you about your position?


Play with your AI chat buddy and see how your economic perspective and scientific outlook on climate change stacks up in the long run.

Does the well-being of future generations and the general health of the ecosystem factor in your values?



What’s your informed point of view on this?

I’m well-read on the science, politics and economics of climate change. The stunning new Bill Gates position and the outcome of COP 30, which called for focusing more investment in adaptation and contained no new agreements to wind down fossil fuels, are significant developments. They reflect the new realities of climate change policy. Is there anything specific in the Gates declaration that you disagree with?

 

[Hel_Books]

This is one area where we need intelligent Congressional regulations,


AI, especially with suicide-encouraging chatbots is already out of control. There are more sad stories than these:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3xgwyywe4o

At least all we have to worry about from Skynet is them talking us to death!

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

At least all we have to worry about from Skynet is them talking us to death!

and the war against the machines

 

[MiaBabe23]

My comment was specifically directed at LLM's. Machine learning still dominates "AI" in medial and research fields and is much more appropriate and better understood now than LLM's.

Self-driving is still largely combination of Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning with limits driven as much by the technology used to retrieve information from the world (vision, radar, lidar and combinations of them), and limited hardware to process it (fast inner loop response times, short memory windows, all local processing). Its a vastly different "AI" world than LLM's.

I do agree the risk over time of deferring to an external source and not developing critical thinking is concerning, I was more focused on the next generation than professionals but it applies equally I think.

I assume the second paragraph is aimed at a programmer you crush on lol
Future generations matter, yes; but by the time they’re the ones using the tech in the workplace, habits and norms will be ingrained. At this stage, that’s risking being in a damaging way that will be very difficult to undo

 

[m_and_em_stories]

The comment was intended to clarify that AI isn't one 'thing' and lumping the capabilities and uses of different methods together is rarely productive. I am a programmer lol.

Generations set their habits and norms in their youth, then bring them to the workplace. We might be saying the same thing here not really following.

 

[Hel_Books]

Hel_Books said:
At least all we have to worry about from Skynet is them talking us to death!

and the war against the machines

Like that Russian robot that fell on its face?

 

[latecomer91364]

The biggest problem with AI is not some Skynet scenario, it's what the morally and ethically bankrupt Demfucks will do with it.

Of course, all the asshole leftfucks on Lit will eat it all up with two spoons and start spouting it like it's 'truth' - the way they do with every ridiculous conjecture they come up with now.

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

Like that Russian robot that fell on its face?

i thought it was a chinese ai robot who fell on its face

an ai robot out of china sounds like something out of sci fi movie like the terminator movies