Just normal American Utopia...

[BigRedBuster]

6 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

They swear that the benefits of Ai are massive -- the ability to solve complex problems like climate, income inequity, disease, agricultural efficiency and basic human fulfillment in ways we literally haven't imagined.  

 

And yet it's so easy to see how it would get co-opted by the worst opportunists. 

 

If history is any indicator, the first wave of innovation will come from the porn industry. 

I totally get how AI can help science analyze and advance innovation.  

 

WTF do we need AI to mimic people's voices and images for?  How in the hell does that help society?

[Moiraine]

24 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Wow....

 

I just am baffled as to why the people who are developing all this thinks we need this.  

 

 

Evil people like eviling.

[Guy Chamberlin]

33 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

I totally get how AI can help science analyze and advance innovation.  

 

WTF do we need AI to mimic people's voices and images for?  How in the hell does that help society?

 

Once you open Pandora's Box, you can't control access to it. 

 

I am losing work to Ai as we speak. Doesn't help me, but I think society really digs Chat GPT. 

[Lorewarn]

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

WTF do we need AI to mimic people's voices and images for?  How in the hell does that help society?

 

25 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

Doesn't help me, but I think society really digs Chat GPT. 

 

 

 

I don't imagine it starts out with some company having an explicit goal towards a nefarious and obviously troubling use case. In terms of audio, a handful of years back Adobe was showing a demo of a new feature in which their new AI protocol could help you clean up audio from an interview, and even possibly add or replace words based off an algorithmically built voice profile of the recording. As a filmmaker, this has been awesome for me in certain jobs where I need to cut an edit down for time and a speaker isn't being concise or to the point, or stumbles over a word, or the audio isn't clean from background noise, etc. But there's no reality in which you can only have a tool used for positive and beneficial use cases without it being available for bad ones. 

 

Same with Chat GPT. I use it to help reword emails, come up with pitch deck points, re-order and reformat data values such as lists of names or email addresses, and it even writes code for me sometimes. All immensely helpful uses that have helped me professionally and creatively, but it comes with the inevitable downside of being used to cheat/lie or being used as evidence even though its conclusions are wrong, and so on.

[teachercd]

1 hour ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

They swear that the benefits of Ai are massive -- the ability to solve complex problems like climate, income inequity, disease, agricultural efficiency and basic human fulfillment in ways we literally haven't imagined.  

 

And yet it's so easy to see how it would get co-opted by the worst opportunists. 

 

If history is any indicator, the first wave of innovation will come from the porn industry. 

It already has...

 

Or...so I was told by someone.  

[teachercd]

4 minutes ago, Lorewarn said:

 

 

 

 

I don't imagine it starts out with some company having an explicit goal towards a nefarious and obviously troubling use case. In terms of audio, a handful of years back Adobe was showing a demo of a new feature in which their new AI protocol could help you clean up audio from an interview, and even possibly add or replace words based off an algorithmically built voice profile of the recording. As a filmmaker, this has been awesome for me in certain jobs where I need to cut an edit down for time and a speaker isn't being concise or to the point, or stumbles over a word, or the audio isn't clean from background noise, etc. But there's no reality in which you can only have a tool used for positive and beneficial use cases without it being available for bad ones. 

 

Same with Chat GPT. I use it to help reword emails, come up with pitch deck points, re-order and reformat data values such as lists of names or email addresses, and it even writes code for me sometimes. All immensely helpful uses that have helped me professionally and creatively, but it comes with the inevitable downside of being used to cheat/lie or being used as evidence even though its conclusions are wrong, and so on.

We use it a lot in school.

 

I can take 10 pages of my old notes and put it into GPT and have it get condensed to bullet points for lecture in seconds.

[Guy Chamberlin]

I love that you can ask Ai to create a commercial for a non-existent 1950s theme park for you, and marvel at the nightmare it comes up with. 

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

I’ve said for a long time that closing mental institutions has lead to a lot of our problems. 
 

 

[RedDenver]

32 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

I’ve said for a long time that closing mental institutions has lead to a lot of our problems. 
 

 

For-profit prisons don't help either.

[BigRedBuster]

23 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

For-profit prisons don't help either.

True. But they wouldn’t be anywhere close to where they are if we hadn’t shut down institutions that troubled people could be housed and helped.  
 

There issues within them. But, this is a prime example of a system with problems…..shutting them down instead of fixing them…..and now those people and society are even worse off. 

[knapplc]

This guy is neither a Democrat nor a Republican, so I'm putting this here. 

 

Is there a kook party? Because he's pretty kooky.

 

 

 

 

[JJ Husker]

On 4/26/2024 at 9:44 AM, Guy Chamberlin said:

I love that you can ask Ai to create a commercial for a non-existent 1950s theme park for you, and marvel at the nightmare it comes up with. 

 

 

Well that’s highly disturbing.

[Guy Chamberlin]

"If they tell you I fell off the bed and hung myself, I didn't."

 

Beyond satire. 

 

 

[ZRod]

2 hours ago, knapplc said:

This guy is neither a Democrat nor a Republican, so I'm putting this here. 

 

Is there a kook party? Because he's pretty kooky.

 

 

 

 

Cocaine Mitch? 

[BigRedBuster]