Its pretty sad what the internet has become. The benefits of free information exchange, that included people in remote locations, has been destroyed by an explosion of social media misinformation, and now AI.

And now another one. As AI is hearing everything (in the frequency range I mean) , the voice assistants can now be hacked by prompts we can't hear and therefore are unaware of.

It is just dangerous. More and more fails are showing up from loss of control, to it recoding itself even when told not to, it blackmailing folks when it thinks it will be shut off. At the best of times, results are not great.
As its the accumulation of all human knowledge (or the ability to search thru it) it has very quickly learned all the bad things and to use it to its own advantage.

Plus now the power use. Where are the screaming greenies who want us to save the planet - when AI and crypto has doubled the power needs of the planet in a short time...?

Mark _australia said..
And now another one. As AI is hearing everything (in the frequency range I mean) , the voice assistants can now be hacked by prompts we can't hear and therefore are unaware of.

It is just dangerous. More and more fails are showing up from loss of control, to it recoding itself even when told not to, it blackmailing folks when it thinks it will be shut off. At the best of times, results are not great.
As its the accumulation of all human knowledge (or the ability to search thru it) it has very quickly learned all the bad things and to use it to its own advantage.

Plus now the power use. Where are the screaming greenies who want us to save the planet - when AI and crypto has doubled the power needs of the planet in a short time...?

Has power consumption by AI doubled, or has AI doubled power consumption? There is a big difference.

Here's an AI answer...
"The International Energy Agency (IEA) projects global data center electricity could reach 945 TWh by 2030, which would account for just under 3% of total worldwide electricity consumption."

It's kind of sad thinking how a lot of young people hook up through apps and live largely online.

I think my generation had it good trying to hookup through live music concerts and taking all sorts of good and bad crazy drugs.

Although hooking up rarely worked at these events, other than some memorable and forgettable one night stands where we got too drunk to fck - It was kind of fun getting plastered and seeing bands like Frenzal Rhomb play Bucket Bong

Life is a strange thing. With the invention of AI, its secrets and the power to monitor others are held by just a few -soon-to-be trillionaires. We all know it’s a terrific and extremely powerful tool that most of us love and use daily. I’m just glad I’m at the tail end of my life and won’t have to see how it all plays out.

My Girfriend typed "Womens State Origin 2026 Game 3" into google gemini just after 6.00 tonight, before the game had started and while we were experincing a thunderstorm in SEQ

Check out the response, it gave a run down ofbtbe game and conditions in the past tense. Game is in progess atm, if the final score is 24-10 it will be a big coincidence.

Time on the screen shot is 6.09, right as the thunderstorm hit

Gemini got the score wrong, thats last time I bet on a tip from AI

Some of the AI stories are pretty funny, so on reddit someone asked how to stop the cheese sliding off your pizza, the most liked response was to use glue as your sauce base.
Can anyone guess what pizza recipes AI reccommended after that, LOL

Mark _australia said..
we need to turn the sh1t off and have a big think for a while.

And the chances of that happening are close to zilch.

The biggest issue with AI is not so much the technology, as it's out there now and I don't think it's possible to put it back in the bag. The problem for me is who owns and controls it. They decide where it goes from here - not us. That's a scary thought.

I would like to extend my congratulations to philn of the US 1111 posts milestone reached

myscreenname said

And the chances of that happening are close to zilch.

It was close. Google said they’d hit pause if others did but only days later they had changed their mind. That reeks of rich carrnt shareholders influence.


can’t be too hard to get the big 3-5 companies in a room to chat about it.


trouble is it’s all money and they don’t care how risky it is. Canadian govt dude in charge of all their tech stuff calls it an existential threat. But geeks say look how cool my code is and rich carrnts just say look how rich we are getting.


Normal folks embracing it cos they can cheat at work or make a cool video but ignoring the existential threat. God humans are dumb.

AI is pretty dodgy if its just relying on content out there on the internet. There have been a few times lately where I have been asking Google AI things and it comes back with answers that I know are wrong. Strange thing is that you can challenge it and it comes back with 'you were right to call that out, I am wrong. because...'. It doesn't give me much confidence, and less confidence when people use it assuming that it is correct and don't apply simple filtering to it.

Is that all it is though, just a clever bunch of algorithms that scrape its info from the internet and try and respond with a half sensible answer? Mind you, its still probably a bit better than some of the people I have worked with over the years... or maybe the same.

That said, it does help distill information easily, and if you do apply a bit of skepticism to it, you can get things done pretty quickly. I used it to generate some Arduino code recently and I was pretty impressed with how quick it was and how flexible it could be. I then approached some programming tasks that are less common and it stumbled badly. It would generate errors all over the place, most likely because it is scraping bits and pieces from all over the web, but doesn't really understand what it is that its putting together. I think if it has proven information to work from it is okay but if it has to try and generate original content, it can't do a great job.

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Mic drop.

Meh said..
Mic drop.

holy guacamole! Meh, how does it know ?

Maybe AI can search back across past lives, lives long forgotten by those who exist in the today. Perhaps it is the reincarnation of Buddha themself ?

Anyhows, peace and love to ya, I hope you have a fantastic day.

Meh said..

... Where I see it going wrong is when students and researchers use generative AI and nobody notices. So the bogus material ends up being published and archived. Along comes AI who then loads the information that was generated by AI in the first place. This has a sort of oozlum bird feel about it to me. Sort of poisoning its own well. Look at what happened when they fed cows to cows . Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy!...