This is worrying:
All those data centres, and all that computing power, and why? So that people can confront their loneliness on their own.
No wonder we need a politics of care.
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This is relevant, Richard. Tim Harford is right, too. AI Data Centers Are Not the Railroads of Today
There is a backlash from communities facing the construction of these huge data centres. This is one of many
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BTr6PDwXe/?mibextid=wwXIfr
I notice that ‘Fun and Nonsense’ has risen from #7 to #3. I do my best to avoid all visual expressions of AI, but can’t escape some exposure to stupid memes and videos which can all so easily be ‘created’ now, without any need for skill, conventional animation techniques or thought. Is this the apogee of the exploitation of all mankind’s creativity, learning, literature, art, science – to produce a momentary snicker of amusement?
Apparently so
Pretty desperate I think
And the evidence from YouTube is people hate AI generated content – and they are trying to rid the site of it
I regularly tell the Gemini app on my phone to eff off if I activate by mistake.
Might a submerged, but principal, purpose of AI be the tight control of regular citizens, and their children, irrespective of their feelings and other forms of care?
Bizzare. Why not speak to a human?
That said, I had a very useful session with A.I. today (all to do with fault levels). I don’t use it to give me ideas – I do that. I use it to help with formalisation/structure. Often it misses elements in docs – but once pointed out it “picks up the ball” quite quickly. I put a complex business proposal this morning – 6 pages – mostly written by me – with the A.I. doing background research.
Fun fact, it picked up a National Grid document – which contained some useful quotes (which were used). I then asked it (without saying anything) to read the Nat Grid document very carefully. It did. OK analysis. I then followed up with two words. “Unit protection”. I was impressed as it suddenly realised just how skewed the Nat Grid doc was. A.I. is a great tool, but as with all tools, you need to know its strengths and weaknesses. Where are we with A.I.? Steam power, +/-150 years from Newcomen to Parsons, data processing based on ICs, we are less than 60 years in. I wonder what the future holds.
You use it as I do, Mike.