"Last week, The Guardian published an article about Lilie James, a 21-year-old woman who was found dead with serious head injuries at a
school in Sydney, Australia.
James’ murder led to an outpouring of grief and prompted a national conversation in Australia about violence against women.
But when MSN republished The Guardian’s story, it accompanied it with an AI-generated poll asking readers, “What do you think is the reason
behind the woman’s death?” And listed three options: murder, accident,
or suicide.
The poll prompted criticism from Microsoft’s readers, “This has to be
the most pathetic, disgusting poll I’ve ever seen,” one person wrote."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/tech/microsoft-ai-news/index.html
Yikes.
"Last week, The Guardian published an article about Lilie James, a 21-year-old woman who was found dead with serious head injuries at a
school in Sydney, Australia.
James’ murder led to an outpouring of grief and prompted a national conversation in Australia about violence against women.
But when MSN republished The Guardian’s story, it accompanied it with an AI-generated poll asking readers, “What do you think is the reason
behind the woman’s death?” And listed three options: murder, accident,
or suicide.
The poll prompted criticism from Microsoft’s readers, “This has to be
the most pathetic, disgusting poll I’ve ever seen,” one person wrote."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/tech/microsoft-ai-news/index.html
Yikes.
I'll be honest and say that the push for more AI across the board is
truly worrying me. The technology is clearly designed to replace people
at many jobs and the way people are embracing all of it should be some serious concern.
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 18:08:50 -0400, RabidPedagog wrote:
I'll be honest and say that the push for more AI across the board is
truly worrying me. The technology is clearly designed to replace people
at many jobs and the way people are embracing all of it should be some
serious concern.
This too shall pass...
The hype is slowly dying down and the realization
is dawning that LLMs are extremely expensive without a clear way to
monetize them. It's not going away and will serve useful functions
eventually but it's a little oversold in the quest for The Next Big Thing.
I'm interested in ML (machine learning) on edge devices which is a subset. The biggest problem I see so far is you still need big iron to train the model. once you have a model you can pare it down and optimize it so so inference isn't as costly.
RabidPedagog wrote:
I'll be honest and say that the push for more AI across the board is
truly worrying me. The technology is clearly designed to replace people
at many jobs and the way people are embracing all of it should be some
serious concern.
This too shall pass... The hype is slowly dying down and the realization
is dawning that LLMs are extremely expensive without a clear way to
monetize them. It's not going away and will serve useful functions
eventually but it's a little oversold in the quest for The Next Big Thing.
rbowman wrote:
RabidPedagog wrote:
I'll be honest and say that the push for more AI across the board is
truly worrying me. The technology is clearly designed to replace people
at many jobs and the way people are embracing all of it should be some
serious concern.
This too shall pass... The hype is slowly dying down and the realization
is dawning that LLMs are extremely expensive without a clear way to
monetize them. It's not going away and will serve useful functions
eventually but it's a little oversold in the quest for The Next Big Thing.
AI will dispace a *lot* of people from their jobs, though. Humans
simply cannot compete, in *many* situations. Not even close.
To be clear, machine learning is programming the hardware to learn how
to do things on its own? I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that either.
Yeah. Such things happened in the past with industrialization, but never
to this extent. History shows that whatever jobs were obsoleted were
replaced with new kinds of jobs, but AI is threatening to replace people
in jobs as lowly as teaching and as prestigious as medicine.
On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 09:59:16 -0400, RabidPedagog wrote:
Yeah. Such things happened in the past with industrialization, but never
to this extent. History shows that whatever jobs were obsoleted were
replaced with new kinds of jobs, but AI is threatening to replace people
in jobs as lowly as teaching and as prestigious as medicine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)
I probably have mentioned it before. Somehow it found its way into the
high school library, possibly because it was set in the Tri-Cities area of NYS. It doesn't take a major leap to get from Illium to Troy although the fictional town more closely resembles Schenectady.
Since my future was to leave the high school and more or less literally go across the street to RPI to become an engineer, it made me think a lot
about how my future would play out.
My first two jobs involved automating industrial processes. It was a promising time since the capital equipment purchased during WWII was approaching end of life and there was a lot if interest in robotics.
The oil embargo shuffled the deck as corporations decided to ship the existing machinery to third world countries where people were cheaper than investment in automation. That's still playing out. We were told the
future was a service economy, not dirty old manufacturing. Now the
service economy will be the next to go.
And much of this happened because people can't see farther than their
noses and gladly sacrificed their futures for convenience.
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