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Pirate Studebaker's avatar

I don't even like using power tools. They take all the fun out of building.

I like sitting around and talking with people who aren't slaves to little rectangles. I like seeing the sparkle in their eyes.

I used to like looking at the skies...

Automation and AI don't increase convenience. Ask any cashier, if you can find a living one, and they will tell you it's much faster and simpler to take cash and count change back.

Really beyond stupid. Thank you for your article.

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epimetheus's avatar

Well, as someone living on a farmstead (and renovating/upgrading everything since we moved here), I do appreciate power tools, although I really like working with my hands.

I also like the night skies here in Norway: we live at the edge of cellphone reception and where there are no street lamps, and in winter, this is exceptionally nice.

Automation and AI will do nothing but turbo-charge environmental degradation; we've even had some legacy media coverage of this last week with 'experts™' calling for limits on everyman's AI use because…of the climate crisis impacts.

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Ingo E. Moltzen's avatar

Hmm, why not simplify bureaucracy instead of using AI? This would also make the work of the government slaves more interesting and fun.

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epimetheus's avatar

Because it might require bureaucrats to do some work?

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Ingo E. Moltzen's avatar

Well they are already doing a lot of work, its the non-thinking about their work that is the problem. Its not problem oriented as it should be, but paragraph oriented.

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epimetheus's avatar

Well, if it's comparing paragraphs, there's actually a kind of justification for the use if 'AI', isn't it?

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Ingo E. Moltzen's avatar

It is. We should advise the AI (we, the people) to browse through all the paragraphs and delete all useless stuff. Make bureaucracy small again!

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epimetheus's avatar

Hear, hear!

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Oscar's avatar

I think governments employing AI need to consider their own natural stupidity first.

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Kazimir Malevitch's avatar

Txs Prof!

But I must inform you that AI is "dead", the AI used by that Government is from the "past".

OpenAI founder and Ceo discussed the matter recently. Now they are focusing on AGI or Artificial General Intelligence that in other words is a self learning general system, so getting closer to SCI-FI literature but for real.

AI is based on specific trained models, so you can use it to get info or formulate complex tasks but limited to what was stored in that model, called "trained model". So it doesn't learn from you, your thoughts or your discussion or interaction with it.

The AGI instead learn from you, from your behaviors and content you share while interacting...

Recent tests have shown that the AGI can solve complex mathematical problems humans can't.

But the actual obstacle is hardware, so now many are working on designing chips made for AGI and integrated systems that can store that memory required to self learning.

So say Hello to Mr.Robot era coming soon in a near future close to your home!

Happy new Year Prof,

and peace and freedom for Palestine even if I believe Israel Nazi Jews have reached a so high level of criminality and psychopathy that only some nuke bombs can stop them once for all! Raping Palestinian children systematically (as a recent UN Report) is much worse than any German Nazi crime!

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epimetheus's avatar

Sure, like the massive data breach with electronic patient data of 70+ million Germans these days…

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You're right, it's a stunningly beautiful part of the country with extra-nice people--it's awful to see this happening…

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