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Statistician. She/her. Old for a Zoomer.

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futurebird , to random
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If you see a new youTube channel with a plain sounding name like "NatureView" or "BrightScience" etc. and there is what looks like a tempting video on a specific education topic "Most Active Volcanoes" or "Incredible Carnivorous Plants"

There is a 50/50 chance it will be a generated voice with stock footage and a script written by GPT.

I am now avoiding videos if I don't recognize the creator, or don't see signs it was made by a person.

So much spam!

broccoliccoli ,
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@llewelly @futurebird @nottrobin @shiri A big factor is also that if you promise people a solution to their problems they will want to believe it.

Until recently, I worked in a nonprofit in health and I encountered sooo many good people that talk about AI as a way out of personnel shortage with genuine hope in their eyes. You can tell them about the problems all day long, but accepting that we can't trust ChatGPT with our health would mean that their vision of the future goes back to bleak, so they will dismiss anything but optimism.

There are definitely plenty of executives knowingly selling bullshit for profit, but far more people just want to believe that the miracle machine actually works.

futurebird , to random
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I've largely dismissed the strain of AI alarmism based on the notion the a computer will be so smart that the danger it poses to humanity is outsmarting us.

There are real dangers in AI, most of them relate to people using these technologies in improper ways due to having a poor understanding of what they really are... and most important the exploitation & degradation of the human body of knowledge creativity represented by publicly available digital information. 1/

broccoliccoli ,
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@futurebird Yeah, what everyone is calling AI really doesn't feel like something that can grow into our idea of crazy Sci-Fi AIs. But I still think that at some point we will have some kind of thinking computer - which will still be called AI despite having nothing in common with our current stuff - that is more genuinely thinking just because if our weird wet headmeat can pull it off, it should be possible for silicon too.

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