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More Artificial Stupidity: It’s Getting Dangerous REPRINT

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Maybe the robot doesn’t have the answers!

From May 28, 2024

Mozilla has pleaded with Google to turn off Google AI Overview–turn it off before it does serious damage.

Arstechnica.com goes into more detail (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-can-give-false-misleading-and-dangerous-answers/). As you know, robots are mindless; and they don’t have a sense of humor. So AI Overview sometimes provides “false, misleading, and dangerous answers” to users’ questions.

(Oh, but only sometimes! answer Google bigwigs.)

One of AI Overview’s little foibles is to take jokes (!) as facts: e.g. putting glue on pizza to keep the cheese from falling off, or “add more oil to a cooking fire.” Well, a robot doesn’t know a joke when it sees one, does it?

I’m beginning to wonder: Is there anything some people won’t do, to avoid thinking? How badly do we need this “Artificial Intelligence”? How many “Sorry about that!” moments are we prepared to accept?

What will my toaster-oven advise?

‘Zillionaire to Build Robo-Nanny’ (2016)

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Before Mark Zuckerberg turned his attention to trying to direct the course of our country’s national elections, he was experimenting with his family. I wonder how this little caper turned out: a robot nanny for your baby.

Zillionaire to Build Robo-Nanny

Our civilization has dived head-first into the murky waters of Artificial Intelligence without first finding out what’s waiting for us under the surface.

I study history. Honestly, I can’t think of another era in which there was so much unmerited pride, pure delusion, naked greed, and stark wickedness on the loose… seeking whom they might devour.

God help us.

Jill Who?

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Jill St. John: A Timeless Icon in Hollywood

Jill St. John: the “St.” does not stand for “street.”

My wife last night was listening to some Hollywood thingy on YouTube, and the narrator broke my concentration on my work by talking about “Robert Wagner and Jill Street John.”

Had I heard that right? Well, yeah, I did. He kept saying “Jill Street John” instead of “Jill Saint John.” That’s when I realized it was no “he.” It was a mindless robot that only knew one use–the wrong use, under the circumstances, of the abbreviation “St.” as part of someone’s surname.

So there we are getting, uh, “educated” by machines programmed by careless simpletons… and who are the simpletons now?

Are we evolving into some species of brainless dweedle, taught and nourished by dweedles created and programmed by dweedles? Will our up-to-date version of the Apostles’ Creed include “the communion of streets”? How stupid do we have to get before we threaten our own continued existence?

We do keep God busy, don’t we?

‘You Are What You Tweet?’ (My Newswithviews Column, Feb. 29)

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“It’s only real if we say it’s real!”

I wrote this yesterday, but it kept on bothering me after I sent it in to Newswithviews.com.

You Are What You Tweet?

It’s that “new religion” looming on the far horizon–a fake religion based on techno-slop. What will it be like? “After you die here, you live forever in cyberspace!”

Meanwhile, we’ve got a bunch of new realities. Which is to say “You only think it’s real… because we have made you crazy.”

Another ‘AI’ Caper: Artificial Resurrection

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“I’m baaaaaack…!”

So… your beloved wife/husband/grandma/whoever has died and you are grieving, it’s a loss that really hurts.

Artificial Intelligence to the rescue!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2416079-resurrecting-loved-ones-as-ai-ghosts-could-harm-your-mental-health/

See, they will re-create your loved one digitally–“digital” is always best!–from his or her surviving emails, tweets, blog posts, etc. You die, sure–but you are reborn as the sum total of your tweets!

A critic out there says this is not A-OK for someone’s mental health. He says it makes the recipient unable to move on from a posture of grief; or it could be worse. Maybe it can even birth and sustain a full-blown delusion.

He’s also afraid it might give rise to “a new religion.” (“Ain’t we got enough o’ those in New Yawk?”)

Hot dog. When they’re not erasing white people from history, AI lets you see and talk to dead people.

Google ‘Artificial Intelligence’: A Festival of Ignorance

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[Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip.]

When Henry Ford said “History is bunk,” he never could have imagined how right he was. It just took 100 years to catch up to him.

Google has, uh, “paused” its Gemini AI Image Generation because of  “inaccuracies” (LOL) in historical photos. Which is to say that, according to Google AI, there are no white persons in history. Presidents, scientists, popes, inventors–you name it!–all of history is Woke and everyone who ever played a role in history is anything but white. Only POCs (“Persons of Color”) made any history,

They may not have achieved true Artificial Intelligence, but they’ve got Artificial Stupidity–and just plain lying–down pat.

(Do you wonder why I say that by the time Friday rolls around, I’m pretty much burned out by the nooze? My head is pounding!)

I don’t use Artificial Intelligence. I like the real kind better. Man, they’re always pissing and moaning about “misinformation”–and they’ve made themselves the masters of misinformation! When it comes to talking through your hat, no one can compete with Google.

‘Science’ Strives for Pregnant Males

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[Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip.]

While mere idiots bumble around with “pregnant person,” Scientists are actually trying to do something about it–create pregnant males (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/9/scientists-create-mice-two-males-inching-closer-sa/).

Yowsah! Add a little bit of this, a little bit of that, shake and bake, implant several hundred females, and here we are, success, calloo, callay, o frabjous day! Out of 600 implanted embryos, seven baby mice.

Now all they have to do is figure out how to do it with people.

Ian Malcolm was right:

So preoccupied with seeing if they could do something, they never bothered to ask whether they should do it. And how much of our recent history does that account for?

Yeah, let’s take one male skin cell and grow it into a baby. We can use Artificial Intelligence to help us! With Science, Social Justice, and AI on the scene, nothing can possibly go wrong.

Until the dinosaurs get loose and eat you.

‘AI’ Dumps Lawyer in the Soup

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Why Do A.I. Chatbots Tell Lies and Act Weird? Look in the Mirror. - The New York Times

Just askin’–can the robot pass a lie detector test?

A New York lawyer is in hot water for using “Artificial Intelligence,” aka ChatbotGPT, to write the briefs he would submit to the court. The robot referred to over a dozen other cases. The problem was… all those cases were fictitious (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/29/sweet-little-ai-lies-new-york-lawyer-faces-sanctions-after-using-chatgpt-to-write-brief-filled-with-fake-citations/). They never existed.

Uh-oh.

I don’t know how the robot just makes up stuff like that, or why anybody would need a robot to do it. We used to call it “lying.” The lawyer says he was “unaware of the possibility” that AI might be citing fictitious sources. (I did that once, for a high school term paper. All by myself, without a robot.) Well, boyo, the judge sounds like he means to make you very keenly aware of that.

How badly do we need an Artificial Intelligence that lies to us? Our politicians and educators need absolutely no help in that department. That goes for a lot of our scientists, too.

‘More Artificial Stupidity’ (2019)

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That’d be great if dindles like ourselves could actually create machines with real intelligence and then have them solve all our problems for us.

This is a profoundly stupid notion.

More Artificial Stupidity

Intelligence has to be alive. The works of our hands are not alive. 

But as we can so easily and sadly see, being alive is no guarantee of intelligence.

We haven’t come such a long way from worshiping silly idols made of wood or stone, have we?

‘Cursed! By Alexa’ (2019)

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You might be cursed by an Old Testament prophet or an ancient Welsh bard–but cursed by a stupid plastic robot? That’s taking things a bit far.

Cursed! by Alexa

A man in South Wales cancelled his Amazon Prime subscription, and next thing he knew, his Alexa was calling him a s***-head. Is that worse than being served by a surly waiter, or what? “Want any dessert, you moron?”

Why do I think of Caliban saying, “You taught me to curse”?