I have this morning published my guide to AI (artificial intelligence) and how it might be used by someone who wishes to campaign for a better world in which we all might live.
The 50-page guide was written as a training guide. As a result, my son James contributed to it. My intention in writing it was to improve the Funding the Future team's use of AI, and that has already worked. I am seeing the results.
I know many have ethical concerns about AI, but if we have not, in our time, also had doubts about printed material, television, the internet and more besides, then I would be surprised. We have to face the reality that such things, once they arrive, are here to stay. Our job is to learn how to use them well, and not wastefully. That is the goal of this guide.
The guide is available as a download here. It is free, as all our downloads are. You will be asked for your email address, and you will be signed up for our newsletter as a result. You can unsubscribe at any time. You will also be asked whether you want to donate, but feel free not to. There is no obligation, and we will never know. I would rather you have the guide than receive your donation, though I will be grateful if you decide to do so.
Give it a go. I think it should be useful. It's certainly working here.
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Very good – obvs we were thinking along the same lines.
I find it useful for hypothesis testing and crunching large data sets with a view to speeding up hypotheses testing. Spot checks on some of the data set, makes sure the A.I. is not “hung -over after a hard night on the town” – style of. It is also very useful for fast analysis of reports & generating a counter-blast (but it usually needs training). Just saying.
Much to agree with.
Driving to Meeting today, I listened to part of Desert Island Discs. The guest was Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web. I hadn’t realised -or had forgotten- he insisted that the knowledge been given to all without patents or royalties.
We haven’t always used it well but on the whole it has been a benefit.
( and I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t contribute to your work. )
Agreed
And I do not expect anyone to contribute to my work – although I am grateful if they do. We cover costs right now, but that’s it.
Between us
I wish I was in a position to make a good contribution but I have other calls which have to come first.
No problem at all, and thank you.
Thanks very much for do this and making it available.
It’s going to be very useful.
Thanks
asking AI
Q1
how much is a coffee when a blogger asks for a donation?
A1
Excellent question. Blah…blah…blah
500 words later
around $3
Q2
in pounds sterling please
A2
Of course. Blah…blah…blah
500 words later
around £3 to £4
Q3
summarize in a tweet
A3
Of course! Tweet..tweet
£3 to £5
Q4
where did the other £ come from?
A4
Ah, sharp eye? Blah…blah…blah
500 words later
ffs …
Thank you. I will read and absorb over the coming days
Is this enough to make a difference?
Take the Daily Telegraph. Every day they peddle the worst of neoliberal economics, plot the shutting down of the BBC, dismiss anything to do with climate change or pollution, offer a market solution to any and all problems, divert attention with dross about Trump, Royals, Farage, Reeves, punch down on poor people & minorities etc.
Now, it’s easy to say it’s crap that can be safely ignored but they have over 1m subscribers being spoon fed this stuff on a daily basis who delight in the pile on and happy to air their own off-topic pet gripes. When the pile on slows down the DT recycles the articles and the pantomime continues.
Thankfully most of the cesspit that forms the online DT’s articles and comments is hidden behind a paywall but, for example, in Asda every customer will need to walk past the newspapers which today regale people with stories about, guess what, small boats, benefit claimants, Andrew, immigration, how being rich isn’t what it used to be, climate change anxiety causes increases in drug taking, Trump’s (ever more bizarre) Epstein problems, BBC, Labour and so on. None of these stories are necessarily unimportant but the worldview is narrowing, it’s all so depressingly negative and they are being spread whether or not a paper is purchased.
Clearly (or is it?) an exercise in futility commenting on the DT site; whenever there’s an article which causes frenzy any dissenting comment disappears to page two in seconds to be replaced by many ‘on-message’ comments. It’s not a small problem, per above, the DT has 1m subscribers, the FT (which DT readers consider left wing!) 1.4m, Daily Mail 336k. That’s a lot of people putting their hands in their pockets to be persuaded that the right wing agenda is just perfect for them when, in almost all cases, it’s counter to their best interests.
Is sending letters to my MP etc. really going to cut it? I sometimes think I’d make more of an impact shouting out my bathroom window.
Sorry for the negativity – I’ve taken the first step and stopped using chrome incognito mode to read DT comments!
My YouTube has 300,000 subscribers.
This blog is read nearly a million times a month.
And our trajectory is uowarfds: theirs is down.
Have faith