ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

All good questions, and I don't have a clue as to what the correct answer is or will be in the future. I know this, and I have lived by this and will live by it until the end. "I'm going to trust my gut feeling."

Let's hope that the people in charge of these machines are smart enough to check and make sure the OFF button works.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the ability of machines to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making. AI encompasses a wide range of technologies and approaches, from machine learning to deep learning, and is used in numerous applications, from digital assistants to self-driving cars. 

There is a men's group at the retirement center where I live at and we have topics like AI. We all agreed that was much to learn. We are going to review the adavacmen of the system in 6 months. 

What's more scary is not knowing who you're dealing with online. Catfishers, tinder, etc. it's getting extremely user-friendly in guise. And then the government takes away the net. Good. Technology controlling every aspect. Root of evil that's connected to a big root, 💸. Shut it down while you're young. Perhaps we are beyond that realm of things and like the dependency.  A cyber black out would somehow be a warm welcome when you've been doing this since 1997 and see it getting worse and more unreliable. Artificial Intelligence is a joke. I was never asked if it was okay by me to be a part or it, it's now just being thrown in there, by force.

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@nctarheel wrote:

Hey Folks,

 

How are we going to know what is real?

 

Was what I just wrote…was it written by a machine?

 

Is the movie star on screen real or an image generated by a machine?

 

Will the images on our newscasts be true to reality?

 

Will war be fought through analysis by humans or machine?

 

Scary!!!

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I'm with you on trying to figure out what is a deep fake and what isn't. Currently it's pretty easy to spot, but the capabilities to fool us are advancing very quickly.  I think of my octogenarian mom who believes what she sees yet fears what she can't discern. 

I think the key concern is that it is a powerful tool that can be used for good or harm and we don't know who is behind the controls. 

It reminds a reader of "Committee of the Whole" by Frank Herbert!

So, my choice this year is to use it for good, e.g., to power daily well-being calls for shut-ins  which just wasn't sustainable before (I'll post more about that later), and hopefully 'good' use will outweigh anyone who uses it for harm. 

I use it to take the edge off my emails and to help plan family trips. I use it to research medication side effects for my aging parents.  Hopefully you'll find good uses that counteract the bad and empower us to use the same tools to improve the lives of those around us. 

And no, I used no AI to write this 😊