Poll Comp: "Don't make me choose!" or "No contest"

[MoeFOH]

Simple comp: Two questions (sometimes about cigars but mostly not). 

First question will ask you for your choice between two or more things. 

Second will be to ask you if that was a "don't make me choose!" or "No contest" question for you. 

Vote in the poll, discuss below if you wish . 

All participants go into the random draw for a 5-pack of MOFOH Robusto Trinity . 

(drawn Friday morning 17th Apr AEST)

[Lucas Buck]

We will work it out. I’m old enough to remember so many huge advances in technology. No contest for this cynic. 

[Capn_Jackson]

I don’t have a clue how to use it, but Skynet it ain’t. Might come in handy for something down the line, who knows?

[TheDonTX]

I think we need to tread lightly. It can spiral out of control quickly. AI models already tend to lie, cheat and hide things in testing. 

With that being said Chat GPT is an incredible tool. I use it all the time for many different things. Totally blown away by how amazing it is. 

[WestCoastSmokin]

I stay away from AI as much as possible. I just don’t agree with what it does to the environment. 

[Mr. DD]

AI is fascinating, increasingly useful, and highly unregulated. Just saying. 😉

[Li Bai]

Things will get bad before it gets better I believe.

Neurosciences have been driven for decades by an underlying belief/assumption: human brains=computer, so replacing it with a more efficient computer is an obvious step forward. 

But it's not, brains≠mind and mind≠computer, I wouldn't dare try to define it because I believe it can't be, but that materialistic point of view cannot, in any way, sum up the whole depth of Human experience of Life. Anyone who's been in love or who's seen his child's face enlighten after learning a new thing knows that no words could describe a feeling like this. 

I believe AI, in the end, will be very useful in most scientific fields and it will even help people wake up when they finally realise that there's a lot more to life than cold and reasonable thinking.

[Ford2112]

This is what I envision. 

[Joeyjojo]

I'm not convinced AI is real.

AI just stands for "Always Indians" and is just a call centre in Hyderabad full of people who type really fast. 

[Deeg]

We’re f*ck*d. 😂

[Ruggerpgh99]

3 hours ago, Deeg said:

We’re f*ck*d. 😂

This is the answer, without significant guardrails put on this technology. I don't think we have the backbone to do what needs to be done. 

[JohnS]

Artificial Intelligence? I don't know...I've been wary ever since I first saw that HAL 9000 computer go nuts in Stanley Kubrick's, '2001: A Space Odyssey'!

[ayedfy]

The poll sums up the two major views of generative AI: it will make everything we do better and that's good, or it will make everything we do worse and that's bad. Let me offer a third perspective. It will make everything we do worse, and that's good.

To consider some examples, business communication used to only happen in a spoken manner. Even when writing became available via letters, telegrams etc. it was costly and difficult, these did not replace conversation but merely stepped in when it wasn't possible. Before learning could be assessed through the written word, educators would judge a student's knowledge through probing dialogue (just as many PhD defences are still done). 

AI has only been allowed to threaten these domains once they've degraded to a level of impersonal meaninglessness that allows AI to step in and become the final straw on the camel's back. As AI infects our world with its banality, might we take it as an invitation to return to a more personal way of life that AI cannot touch?

Face-to-face meetings are becoming more valuable. Schools and colleges that are stripping back the digital teaching aids are increasing in popularity and commanding higher tuition fees. As streaming services flood their services with films and music largely created by AI to generate broad appeal over the expression of a genuine artistic vision, might I find myself switching off my subscriptions and going out to hear live music or see live theatre performances? Even the most hammy chaotic high school play is likely to enliven me with a deeper connection to the human experience than whatever Netflix thinks it's doing these days.

Like a controlled Australian bushfire clearing the dying undergrowth so that new life can be born, maybe we can reclaim a better world from the ashes of the one AI burns down.

[Nevrknow]

After hearing "Claude"" blackmailing an engineer to not get cut off, I'm done.

[BrightonCorgi]

Both answers can be in parallel for the first question.

[Chibearsv]

I don't think of the technology attempting a 'coup'-type takeover as much as I see HG Wells' vision of Eloi and Morlock type of socio-economic division. How will (or can) society deal with and pay for a larger unemployed and unskilled population? Will it be with empathy or apathy? Is morality a growing notion or a shrinking notion? I'm cynical. No Contest.

[Puros Y Vino]

RIght now the most robust AI systems are driven by massive parallel processing cards(GPU's from Nvidia and AMD). Once Quantum computing is made more accessible and mainstream and then mated with AI, then, we are getting Skynet. 😬 Musk already has a contract with the Pentagon to integrate AI with weapons systems. And when more civilians are targeted in these "wars", they'll just blame "the computer". I've been reading a bit into Quantum computing. Very scary stuff in there. Most of the researchers can't explain how most of it works (similar to AI). They surmise that the multiple states they support give them a window into different dimensions and they pull data from there. 😵‍💫 One freaky aspect to the quantum chips is that they are cooled to limits beyond what is known in the universe. Even the most far reaches of space, with very distant stars, are "warmer" than the cooled area of a quantum chip.

Right now, AI is the scapegoat for all these insane layoff numbers you're seeing by huge corporations. It is not a panacea. It's as smart and as dumb as humanity, given that it has learned from our collective data and works. Results can't be trusted and must be proofed by humans.

The generative AI is impressive. Very realistic but it has an uncanny valley feel to it. This is the kind of stuff of I do like thus far. 😁 There's been some cool fake movie trailers made with existing actors, who I bet are going to make a stink about their likenesses and voices being used without their consent. And rightly so. One cool application by Hollywood would be to fix or add incomplete, damaged scenes back into a movie. Train an AI on a specific movie, give it all the video, sound, pictures, scripts, notes, etc and have it learn the look and feel of the film and spit out the content. It could generate the lost scene from the original King Kong, the spider pit scene. Or more recently, the unfilmed sequences from Alien which were ditched mostly due to budget constraints and logistics.

AI is in the toy stage. Access is given to the commoners to play around with it, which is just part of its' learning, being subsidized by users. There are many practical applications that may see the light of day. My gut tells me we'll get the more negative uses of it. Surveillance, subjugation and war. Before we see the positive applications of it. At least, available to the general populace.  

[BrightonCorgi]

Quantum Computing is where it all comes together. I know someone who's CEO of a Quantum Computing business. They rent computing capacity. It's worth picking up a few QC stocks.

[Gubbins]

Given enough time, something will go wrong at some point.

[Puros Y Vino]

Just saw this on reddit. Very topical. 😁

[MoeFOH]

Skynet's on the way according to the poll. 

The random draw winner is @Ford2112!!

Congrats!! 

Please PM your details (name, address, and email) to me, and we'll arrange dispatch of your prize 

Thanks once again to all participants. Next comp details will be up soon - stay tuned! 

[Chibearsv]

Congratulations!

[Ford2112]

Holy cow!! Unexpected! Thank you kind sir!

[Chas.Alpha]

6 hours ago, Ford2112 said:

Holy cow!! Unexpected! Thank you kind sir!

You cannot win a random draw by suggesting that it wasn’t random. Trust me, I won several of these draws that were random. They only seemed that way.

The machine will then ask you to become a “Moderator.”  Only then will you begin to understand its insidious nature. My dying hope is that you find this message in time…

😳
 

[riderpride]

Congrats @Ford2112!