bobbyjohn wrote:
While AI is an interesting technology in the world of photos, videos, search engines, advertising, etc. etc., and with a myriad of legal and ethical concerns, it is my belief that there is NO SUCH THING as Artificial Intelligence.
I have used AI to produce strange and weird images, and will likely continue to do so...because it's fun!
Before retirement, I was in the IT field for many decades, and back even in the 2000's, the term and delivery of AI was in its infancy. It was the belief then, as now, that AI is produced by humans, humans writing computer programs, and as such takes on the characteristics and leanings of its authors/developers. A computer cannot think, it is just a series of 0's and 1's, created by some human, with a myriad of IF-THEN-ELSE logic. A computer cannot have emotions. When an AI deliverer want his program to react in a certain way, he programs it that way...it is a reflection of the developer. Such it is with AI that has permeated the world today.
While the term and delivery of AI is here to stay, we should always remember that in using AI, we are catering to the whims of the developer(s). We should not assign "intelligence" to a machine that can have no intelligence.
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I always say that AI is neither, it's not Artificial because we made it, and it definitely not Intelligent.
It's just an increasingly powerful search and sort programme.
"AI" has definite advantages in specialized applications, such as X-ray scanning, searching records, inventory.
Even manufacturing, I'm a machinist by trade, 50+ yrs, and the power of the computer for manufacturing is amazing. Systems that weren't even conceived of when I started my apprenticeship in '68.
The down side is you need less people with less skill to do the same job, and with better quality. For instance last week I did a job on a CNC lathe in 2 days what it would have taken me a week to to on a manual lathe. In a civilize society the government would take an active part in helping the work force stay current, and not just relying on large corps many of whom only "train" to job specific, and the smaller companies just don't have the resources to really train somebody. There are exceptions of course
I little story about US job training, about '71 when I was about 3/4 of the way through my apprenticeship I was out boozing with my mates one night and met an engineer from Ford Dearborn. We got to talking and he asked if I was planning on visiting the US, didn't know at the time and said so. He told me the machinists with European stile apprenticeships, which NZ had at the time, could just about name their price, I asked why and was told that his company and most others trained job specific, there people were good machinists but they didn't a basic foundational training, they learnt what was needed for the job, Cheaper that way.
Me, I enjoy learning new things, and basic programming skills needed for where my career has taken me has never been an issue.
So Called "AI" is here to stay, many drudge jobs will disappear, as they should, BUT we shouldn't write off those who did them, WE need to actively help the keep up.