Tag: AI point-missing
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What “democratize” means
A 1960s training film, aimed at store clerks, says “To the criminally inclined, free enterprise means freedom to take anything without paying for it.” Nothing has changed. To the criminally inclined, democratize means trillionaires are free to take anything without paying for it. Via NiemanLab, several publishers have blocked Archive.org from scraping their material. They’ve…
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They should be worrying
The big tech companies who are rushing to replace their employees with Altman’s Holy Spirit should be worrying more about plain old computers instead of AI. I’m seeing a trend toward basic errors of the type that computers formerly ELIMINATED, not ENHANCED. A couple days ago CenturyLink sent me a notice that my service was…
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Dammit, it’s not the output.
Online folks are obsessed with the wrong end of AI. They worry that the supposed Chatbot prose style is taking over, and they bash and block people who “sound like AI”. This is classic witch hunting, and unquestionably helps Altman. Now his coders can just change the style to sound “creative”, whatever the hell that…
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Constants and variables on libel
Quick take… A fairly obscure Canadian musician named Ashley MacIsaac lost money, and will likely lose a lot more, because Google’s explainer AI told people that he was a sex offender. Apparently there is a known sex offender with the same name. Constants and variables show that AI itself isn’t the main factor here. Constant:…
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More silliness
Continuing the Not New theme. Silly people constantly misunderstand the origin of the web. The origin was not mysterious or secret. It was started by Deepstate for its own purposes. It didn’t suddenly switch from a grand festival of freedom to a surveillance monster when Trump was elected. Like every data web, it was meant…
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Simple cure
The AI missionaries are doing a great job, drawing people in with respect and courtesy. Apparently the bot itself does an even better job, though I haven’t tried it and won’t try it. Predictably the anti-AI people are missing the bet again. The same thing happened 20 years ago with pornography, and the same thing…
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Booker T said it best
China is the stork. Citing Aesop: = = = = = START FABLE: The Fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the Stork. “You must come and dine with me today,” he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The…
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Imagination, not Intelligence part 2
The silliest point-missers think the I in AI stands for Intelligence, and bash it for “hallucinations” instead of logic. Nope, the I stands for Imagination. Altman knows what he’s doing and knows who he’s destroying. There’s no need for a new kind of intelligence. COMPUTERS BEAT RATIONAL INTELLIGENCE CENTURIES AGO. The first mechanical adders were…
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Carver and AI
Seen in the anti-AI department of Substack: = = = = = START QUOTE: When everyone has an advantage, it is no longer an advantage. When everyone can learn and create anything at the click of a button, your advantage comes from slowing down, focusing on your craft, doing the right things manually, and acquiring…
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Unexpected wisdom
JuicyEcumenism summarizes how various churches are responding to Altman. Most are fucking stupid and self-destructive. The smart one surprised me! Dumb #1: Catholic. The new pope sounded good until he backslid into the same old shit. Here’s the official doctrine at the moment: = = = = = START DUMB: AI’s intelligence is understood functionally…
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Shovels
The Genesis Mission is touted as a new A-bomb project. Not a good comparison in either direction. On the destructive side: We used the actual bomb twice on Japan, where it did less damage than our old-fashioned firebombing. Thermite destroyed far more of Japan than uranium. The Tech Tyrants want us to see AI in…
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Stop the shibboleths
Following on this recognition that the I in AI is Imagination, not Intelligence. People are saying that text with typos is more likely to be human instead of AI. First, specific shibboleths are doing more damage than good. The witch hunters are unfairly shaming or blocking real people. This gives the advantage to AI, as…
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This is ridiculous!!!!
Several years ago I paid for a subscription to Academia.edu, an online clearing house for academic papers. Most of my own publications are there, but I was using the service to do tech history pieces on Islamic astronomy and such. After I used up those sources I stopped paying and tried to unsubscribe. Academia.edu won’t…
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Reprint from 2021
After a long dry spell, somebody is reading through this blog with a purpose. The pattern of one read per source seems bot-like but the pieces have a theme, so it’s ambiguous. Bots usually pick my most meaningless clickbaity items. This reminds me of the Las Vegas reader who ran through the best stuff in…
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Thresholds
It’s suddenly fashionable to say that AI now makes all truth impossible. ABSOLUTE RAW STINKING BULLSHIT. Visual “news” has ALWAYS been fake because “NEWS” HAS ALWAYS BEEN FAKE. The whole purpose of adding photos and engravings to “news” was to make fakery more credible. The first movie newsreel by Pathe in 1895 was faked in…
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