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Don’t say I didn’t warn you…

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Gather round loyal readers and listen while I bang my AI war drum yet again.

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Ditch the artificial intelligence before it’s too late!

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Are you paying attention?

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I keep warning you…. but you’re not listening.

This is only a small part of that disturbing article but to add insult to injury?

The very next story I saw hit a little too close to home…

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Noooo!

Don’t click.

Don’t do it…

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34 thoughts on “Don’t say I didn’t warn you…”

      1. We should, lest we ever forget, mention those giants upon whose shoulders these screenwriters and filmmakers stood to see their vision (Thank you, Mister Newton). Though I am certain there are more, the two I am thinking of are Ray Bradbury, for his 1950 short story The Veldt and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. for his first novel, Player Piano (1952). Here we are, seventy-odd years later and look at us now, staring right down the barrel. I guess some people get comfortable in their chains.
        Both these stories are good reads and someone who reads as fast as you, Riv, could probably knock them out in an afternoon. On a close tangent, does Maine have a statewide library network? NC has one called Cardinal and, if you have a day or two to wait, you can check out a book from any public library in the state. I would think most states have such a system and this bit really isn’t so much for you, Rivergrrl, as it is for the countless thousands who, faithfully but anonymously, hang upon my every word. I wish I knew how they were doing it without registering any views on my stats.

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      2. I seem to remember Player Piano … dystopian, too many machines? Haven’t read The Veldt. As for Maine’s library network, I don’t know. Though I suppose I should….

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      3. That’s the one. I read it because I was a machinist and that’s our main character. I used to work with this guy named Oscar. He was a machinist at Northrop Carolina before I was born and it showed. He had the posture of a gorilla and his hands were perpetually half clenched. People used to say you could load him on a hand truck, roll him up to a lathe, and his hands would just slide into the handles. A little hyperbolic, but not too much.

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  6. There are more and more AI generated WP posts – particularly in response to the daily prompt.

    I also had a young woman submit two articles to my 70s blog, about the advent of punk music in USA and one on the rise and fall if disco music.

    I saw virtually the same articles in a search on the web. She was most affronted I suggested they weren’t original and was unable to accept them!

    (They were crap, too! )

    😂😂😂

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      1. You didn’t capitalize the “H” in Hell. A smart computer would be smarter. Yet another world conquest knocked on its ass due to a minor detail. Your medal application is being processed-being processed–being processed-processed-processed-processed-……………………..😵‍💫…….. You’re legit.

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      2. It’s funny you say that … I blog exclusively my phone and it’s constantly changing words when I type. Every time I try to capitalize Hell it changes it to He’ll. If I’m in a hurry I just leave it.
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  7. They said, whoever they are, that Space Invaders would breed a generation of missile jockeys and drone pilots. Damn if they weren’t right. Now, same they or a different one, they say that AI tech will bring about the end of the world. There are harder things to believe, like “Honest Don” Trump actually having bone spurs, for example.
    Let’s not get the wrong idea here. We won’t be like Khrushchev’s apocryphal grapefruit (If you don’t know, look it up in a book. You’ll be saving the world.). If it comes, there will be fire and blood and no guarantee of victory for anyone, ever.
    There is one thing that gives me hope and it’s the very same thing that makes computers go. Logic.
    What’s the payoff? At the end of it all, a computer is metal, glass and plastic. You can set it up in a palace or a hovel and it doesn’t matter as long as there is stable power and a good internet connection. A box is a box is a box when you’re a computer. Maybe the machines will learn to make other machines but it’s not the same. It’s not like making a baby and growing it into a person. There’s no head smelling, no pride when they graduate, no tears at the wedding, no wedding. No joy, no grief, no comedy, no tragedy, just a shitload of ones and zeroes. A sentient machine is going to know this and conquering the world will lose all its flavor. At least that’s what I’m betting the farm on.

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      4. The things I see, the symptoms, if you will, of our accelerating decline are the shrinking number of people who can do long division, drive a stick, read an analog clock, write in cursive or find a library book by consulting the card catalogue. Now the current generation of know-it-alls, many, if not most of whom can’t do any of those things (let’s not forget it used to be us) like to say we’re old and behind the times. It’s like it never occurred to them that you and I can also solve math problems with our phones, drive an automatic, read a digital clock, write somewhat legibly in cursive and find a library book on the computer. DUH!. This could well be the point where our hubris catches up with us. This is a real good post, it’s a thinker. Good job. (I have to stop sometime. Now works.)😴💤💤💤

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  11. I’ve vacillated back and forth on AI quite a bit. I don’t believe for a moment we’re five years away from annihilation at the hand of self-aware machines, but I do see the dangers to society, and in my exit interview told my TobacCo boss that the company really needs to stop relying on AI so damn much because it’s going to come back and bite them.

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