It doesn't have to be either/or. I suspect most likely a mix of the two will evolve as is the case with the whole Digital Revolution. TJ
======================= Tom Johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, New Mexico 505-577-6482 ======================= On Mon, May 8, 2023, 9:43 PM Pieter Steenekamp <piet...@randcontrols.co.za> wrote: > People have different ideas about AI. Naomi Klein thinks that the idea > that AI will solve all our problems is a big joke. She thinks the tech > people are trying to trick us! She thinks AI is not just a tool but also a > creation of the people who made it. Naomi is afraid that if we keep > believing in this lie, we won't fix the real problems we have. > > On the other hand, Sam Altman is excited about AI! He thinks AI can help > us solve things like diseases and climate change, and even drive us around > and cook for us! He doesn't think AI will take over the world or hurt > people. Sam thinks humans will always be in charge of AI. > > So, who's right? I don't know! My magic ball's batteries are dead, so I > can't tell you. But I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens! > > On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 23:42, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > >> He's not lying, he is running his softmax function at a higher >> temperature to collect more samples in the vicinity of the truth. >> >> > On May 8, 2023, at 12:50 PM, glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are. >> > >> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein >> >> Is all of this overly dramatic? A stuffy and reflexive resistance to >> exciting innovation? Why expect the worse? Altman reassures us: “Nobody >> wants to destroy the world.” Perhaps not. But as the ever-worsening climate >> and extinction crises show us every day, plenty of powerful people and >> institutions seem to be just fine knowing that they are helping to destroy >> the stability of the world’s life-support systems, so long as they can keep >> making record profits that they believe will protect them and their >> families from the worst effects. Altman, like many creatures of Silicon >> Valley, is himself a prepper: back in 2016, he boasted: “I have guns, gold, >> potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli >> Defense Force and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.” >> >> I’m pretty sure those facts say a lot more about what Altman actually >> believes about the future he is helping unleash than whatever flowery >> hallucinations he is choosing to share in press interviews. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ >> > >> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> > archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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