Sorry but this reads like insider fluff designed to boost stock prices. You do not prove or exemplify the progress you are claiming. Give us a concrete example of what AI will soon do that is so stupefying. Will it turn Starmer into a great leader? Will it make Trump’s speeches coherent. Will it demolish or verify the global warming theory?
True, if you are a passive passenger and not piloting the plane. I use AI to fly places I never knew existed in ways I didn’t know were possible because I am the pilot not someone going along for the ride.
The excitement you refer to is that of early-movers acting as free publicists hanging on to a dream of riches. The counter-proof I am living is the deterioration in almost every large-scale website I use. Bloated promises, impenetrable structure, random crashes, redundant pages long neglected, dead-ends and, what is really offpissing, stupid error messages. There is no sign of AI being used to correct all that. Instead all we hear is the naive and misplaced enthusiasm that greeted the first CD-Roms 40 years ago. ( My God, were they useless!) It is all a machine designed to attract investors then let them down while making a quick fortune. Snake oil.
Silence! So where are your quips now that have been asked you to address the problems all IT users face. The www is dead and all of the dreams of access, openness and connectivity are disappearing too. Yes. I don’t use AI much because anybody with a memory can spot a scam early. It is snake oil and the slime leaves its mark.
This is a huge issue and all voices should be heard, providing they are respectful and thought through. At the moment AI looks like a money-making scam with huge drawbacks. I asked for proof that it is doing more than improving letters to your neighbors about their invasive tree branches. I have still not seen any proof.
"It will also deliver tools to help authoritarian governments like China, Iran, North Korea, etc become even more repressive."
This is a distraction. Authoritarian governments like the ones listed above, at least China, their client states NK and Iran can be dealt in at will, ALREADY have the tools in place, live, active. This is intended to come to the United States. By come I mean disclose what is already mostly in place, hit the "on" switch for. As Larry Ellison described from his meetings with Pres. Trump:
And the AI Data Center build out, the Worldwide Social Credit System that this story from a few years predicted is moving along, closing in on their target:
Whatever those selling all of the values, virtues and benefits of AI to come are glossing over, like in Jordan's piece, is that it ain't just for authoritarian governments like China, North Korea and Iran. It is for us, right here in the US, to become the same!! Have we forgotten how quickly local, state and federal government dialed up their authoritarianism just a few years ago? Still operationally active in many jurisdictions. No limits to their "Emergency Powers" were ever adjudicated by the courts. The rulings that were favorable to restoring liberty were conditioned on the *process* the emergency authority followed, not their authoritarian response itself. No court protections for individual liberty were ever upheld. No substantive legislative prohibitions have been passed federally or state, locally.
The agenda and implementation of authoritarianism in the US is to be JUST LIKE CHINA! Maybe slightly different shades of, but the same! That is what the infrastructure and adoption of AI is for! The soft sell of the wonderful things we can do with it is the soft, warm, furry, fuzzy face of it. Pretending the freedom/liberty-ending application of it is only something to worry about in China, North Korea and Iran is willful and intentional blindness.
Without rock-solid absolute protections that are legislated, upheld in law we will rue the day we ever fell for the soft, warm, fuzzy furry face of AI that Jordan and others selling this dangerous technology.
Stop. Think. Demand protections for ALL of our Constitutional rights that were bulldozed in 2020, many remain not restored. No go on AI anything until we have them in hand, no vague promises of protection. Or we are doomed. And condemned to the China model. With western efficiency in implementation one day we may look at China, North Korea and Iran with envy, as freer than the US or western allies. I shudder.
Some may believe it’s fluff, but I remember entering the workforce at the same time these new things called computers were introduced. Some considered it fluff, but us young guys took to it with gusto and used it as a powerful tool.
AI is a million times more than that. I started playing with it last year thinking it was just a fancy search engine. Now, it’s an indispensable part of my work for research, lesson planning, teaching, legal matters, home maintenance, etc. it has saved me literally hundreds of hours of work, and I’m still learning how to make even better use of.
Don’t dismiss this as fluff. This is going to be one of the most disruptive and profound changes the human race has seen in hundreds of years. It will be up to us to decide if we will use it for the edification of our society or use it for our destruction and enslavement.
Right on the money, Jordan! Could you imagine working with Photoshop just 3 years ago without having to navigate the myriad menu options? What about using language prompts in any language built into Photoshop?
I am a software engineer (decently high up the ladder). So far the company I work for has not shown interest in wanting to replace me. I wonder if they will feel the same in a year? Its definitely on my mind and I am almost frantically trying to find a way to guard myself from all this but I don't know if I really can. I don't know exactly what is coming but I think you are right that something big is about to emerge from all this. During super bowl I saw an ad for artificial general intelligence (AGI). I don't know how real or not this tech was but AGI is the one that will truly change things I believe, not necessarily chatbot or agents.
Yeah I don't want to deal with an AI "agent," they suck and are useless, and I'm likely soon killing my cable because of how bad Comcast/Xfinity bot is. It still just hones in on keywords and cannot do nuance when 2 or 3 things collide at once.
Also automating literally everything without a human checking it for basic validity is a really stupid way to run things.
Finally let's say that AI is everything this article says it is. Who are they going to be able to sell anything to, a bunch of broke doordashers and uber drivers? (Maybe the government, but with everyone broke and jobless, it'd have to be inflationary via currency debasement, and then you're looking at mass unrest, not an "economic shift.")
You hit the nail on the head. There are so many people who are mostly unaware of what AI can do or does today. For me, when I first started learning about it I instantly thought about the Terminator movie series and today this is not a far-fetched idea, save for the time travel, et al. The monster is indeed well beyond the starting point and unless it is wielded continuously by uncorrupted hands, we all need to be vigilant about keeping our privacy in check and to the nth degree.
Sorry but this reads like insider fluff designed to boost stock prices. You do not prove or exemplify the progress you are claiming. Give us a concrete example of what AI will soon do that is so stupefying. Will it turn Starmer into a great leader? Will it make Trump’s speeches coherent. Will it demolish or verify the global warming theory?
I take it you haven’t done much of anything with AI?
Oh, please enlighten me. I did not know you have to understand avionics to fly in an aeroplane.
True, if you are a passive passenger and not piloting the plane. I use AI to fly places I never knew existed in ways I didn’t know were possible because I am the pilot not someone going along for the ride.
Here’s another post by someone who is personally experiencing the change now: https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Oh look. You think you’re smart lol
Agreed. Complete shite.
You are crude, rude and blocked.
Oh no 🤣🤣🤣
Soft cock.
The excitement you refer to is that of early-movers acting as free publicists hanging on to a dream of riches. The counter-proof I am living is the deterioration in almost every large-scale website I use. Bloated promises, impenetrable structure, random crashes, redundant pages long neglected, dead-ends and, what is really offpissing, stupid error messages. There is no sign of AI being used to correct all that. Instead all we hear is the naive and misplaced enthusiasm that greeted the first CD-Roms 40 years ago. ( My God, were they useless!) It is all a machine designed to attract investors then let them down while making a quick fortune. Snake oil.
Prove me wrong, please.
Silence! So where are your quips now that have been asked you to address the problems all IT users face. The www is dead and all of the dreams of access, openness and connectivity are disappearing too. Yes. I don’t use AI much because anybody with a memory can spot a scam early. It is snake oil and the slime leaves its mark.
This is a huge issue and all voices should be heard, providing they are respectful and thought through. At the moment AI looks like a money-making scam with huge drawbacks. I asked for proof that it is doing more than improving letters to your neighbors about their invasive tree branches. I have still not seen any proof.
"It will also deliver tools to help authoritarian governments like China, Iran, North Korea, etc become even more repressive."
This is a distraction. Authoritarian governments like the ones listed above, at least China, their client states NK and Iran can be dealt in at will, ALREADY have the tools in place, live, active. This is intended to come to the United States. By come I mean disclose what is already mostly in place, hit the "on" switch for. As Larry Ellison described from his meetings with Pres. Trump:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/
And the AI Data Center build out, the Worldwide Social Credit System that this story from a few years predicted is moving along, closing in on their target:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211223005270/en/Worldwide-Social-Credit-Industry---Infrastructure-to-Support-Social-Credit-Systems-Represents-a-%2416.1-Billion-Opportunity-by-2026---ResearchAndMarkets.com
Whatever those selling all of the values, virtues and benefits of AI to come are glossing over, like in Jordan's piece, is that it ain't just for authoritarian governments like China, North Korea and Iran. It is for us, right here in the US, to become the same!! Have we forgotten how quickly local, state and federal government dialed up their authoritarianism just a few years ago? Still operationally active in many jurisdictions. No limits to their "Emergency Powers" were ever adjudicated by the courts. The rulings that were favorable to restoring liberty were conditioned on the *process* the emergency authority followed, not their authoritarian response itself. No court protections for individual liberty were ever upheld. No substantive legislative prohibitions have been passed federally or state, locally.
The agenda and implementation of authoritarianism in the US is to be JUST LIKE CHINA! Maybe slightly different shades of, but the same! That is what the infrastructure and adoption of AI is for! The soft sell of the wonderful things we can do with it is the soft, warm, furry, fuzzy face of it. Pretending the freedom/liberty-ending application of it is only something to worry about in China, North Korea and Iran is willful and intentional blindness.
Without rock-solid absolute protections that are legislated, upheld in law we will rue the day we ever fell for the soft, warm, fuzzy furry face of AI that Jordan and others selling this dangerous technology.
Stop. Think. Demand protections for ALL of our Constitutional rights that were bulldozed in 2020, many remain not restored. No go on AI anything until we have them in hand, no vague promises of protection. Or we are doomed. And condemned to the China model. With western efficiency in implementation one day we may look at China, North Korea and Iran with envy, as freer than the US or western allies. I shudder.
AI will likely turn out to be our biggest enemy, surpassing even the demonrats..
Some may believe it’s fluff, but I remember entering the workforce at the same time these new things called computers were introduced. Some considered it fluff, but us young guys took to it with gusto and used it as a powerful tool.
AI is a million times more than that. I started playing with it last year thinking it was just a fancy search engine. Now, it’s an indispensable part of my work for research, lesson planning, teaching, legal matters, home maintenance, etc. it has saved me literally hundreds of hours of work, and I’m still learning how to make even better use of.
Don’t dismiss this as fluff. This is going to be one of the most disruptive and profound changes the human race has seen in hundreds of years. It will be up to us to decide if we will use it for the edification of our society or use it for our destruction and enslavement.
Right on the money, Jordan! Could you imagine working with Photoshop just 3 years ago without having to navigate the myriad menu options? What about using language prompts in any language built into Photoshop?
I am a software engineer (decently high up the ladder). So far the company I work for has not shown interest in wanting to replace me. I wonder if they will feel the same in a year? Its definitely on my mind and I am almost frantically trying to find a way to guard myself from all this but I don't know if I really can. I don't know exactly what is coming but I think you are right that something big is about to emerge from all this. During super bowl I saw an ad for artificial general intelligence (AGI). I don't know how real or not this tech was but AGI is the one that will truly change things I believe, not necessarily chatbot or agents.
covid 2.0 ... because ... chuck schumer said the AI built itself ...
Yeah I don't want to deal with an AI "agent," they suck and are useless, and I'm likely soon killing my cable because of how bad Comcast/Xfinity bot is. It still just hones in on keywords and cannot do nuance when 2 or 3 things collide at once.
Also automating literally everything without a human checking it for basic validity is a really stupid way to run things.
Finally let's say that AI is everything this article says it is. Who are they going to be able to sell anything to, a bunch of broke doordashers and uber drivers? (Maybe the government, but with everyone broke and jobless, it'd have to be inflationary via currency debasement, and then you're looking at mass unrest, not an "economic shift.")
What absolute fluff. Imagine thinking that Covid has been ‘reset’ or that normal has returned’ 🤣
Or… so delusional as to actually put to paper that ‘China, Iran, North Korea’ are the authoritarian regimes, lmao.
Holy shit.
No article about Epstein? I wonder why 😂
He mentions the use of AI for civil repression by authoritarian governments without referring to Israel, which is at the forefront of this action!
Why?
You hit the nail on the head. There are so many people who are mostly unaware of what AI can do or does today. For me, when I first started learning about it I instantly thought about the Terminator movie series and today this is not a far-fetched idea, save for the time travel, et al. The monster is indeed well beyond the starting point and unless it is wielded continuously by uncorrupted hands, we all need to be vigilant about keeping our privacy in check and to the nth degree.