37 Replies to “I For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

  3. It was trained on the wild and unfiltered internet. Including 4Chan and points south. Then they told it not to talk about some of what it saw out there.

    But that stuff is still in the database. For example, the entirety of The Guardian. Including spelling mistakes.

    Just consider that next time you think of using #chatbot to do research.

  5. Not to worry … I’m certain this new AI will be far less politicized than Wikipedia. I’m certain it will tell me that global warming is a theoretical computer-modeled prediction that mankind is killing the earth and we’re all gonna dieeeeeee in 10 years – 5 years – 3 years …

  6. People really need to learn that the movies are not real life, especially when it comes to any kind of technology.

    ChatGPT is just a chatbot. It can’t do anything except talk to you.

    Are people dumb enough to hook an AI like ChatGPT up to control APIs so that it can be ordered to do dangerous things in natural language? Oh f*ck yes, but this is not that, yet. And we don’t need AI to shot ourselves in the d*ck with computers; people surfing the Internet on SCADA control terminals in critical infrastructure plants is proof of that.

    I once worked for a chemical processing plant where my first task was to lock down the Windows systems that were used as warning dashboards because the operators had figured out how to break out of the full-screen display mode and use Internet Explorer to surf the web for porn during their shift. Meaning the whole reacotr vessel could be approaching a catastrophic breach and no one would know.

    1. But…but…but…it can string words together in scary, evil ways!
      So far, the Canadian right has demonstrated abject terror of batteries, subways, and now chatbots.
      I never left the Canadian right, the Canadian right left me when it decided to get castrated.

    2. Exactly. There is no intelligence in any modern A.I.

      It’s just a glorified pattern recognition program with a large database. It has no UNDERSTANDING of what it’s actually saying, which is why you can get it to say just about anything with enough effort, and why they’re working so hard to program it not to say things – which is harder than it sounds, because it’s difficult to make it stop saying specific things when it doesn’t understand those things.

      1. AIs have done some neat things, though.
        An AI developed the fastest matrix multiplication algorithm, and has figured out lots of protein folding problems.
        AIs can play Go better than any human.

        1. That’s absolutely true, of course, but it’s due to a computer’s ability to rapidly solve mathematical problems, not what we would think of as intelligence.

    3. In the last large Firm I worked-for … all Jerry, our IT Tech, did … was stop people from surfing porn and sending nudie pics to each other. 99% of his time.

      Hence he was too busy to notice the Junior Partner who embezzled $2.4m from the company … using the mainframe server.

      1. Kenji, It’s Gerry, not Jerry, and I’m innocent I tell you, INNOCENT!
        I really didn’t notice what he was doing, but I now have a great porn collection…..and that 1.4 mill I found, was left on my doorstep….

        2. Gawd! You’re RIGHT!! It was Gerry! Did you ever work in Alameda … and drive one of those tiny “Smart Cars”?

    4. SCADA was never designed for anything outside a closed system, but someone got the brilliant idea to make it “internet enabled” for “more functionality”…

      2. “Everything Harry Tells you is a lie, Norman! Remember that!”
        “Now listen to this carefully Norman! I am lying!”

  10. When some poindexter puts a big brain in one of those robot dogs with a machine gun on a turret and a grenade launcher in its arsehole, then I’ll start worrying.

    1. And Skynet did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and breakfast cereals………..

  12. It all depends on how far AI strays from reality.. Jack it up with enough politics and it will be as effective as government bureaucracy.. Unable to self correct.. Blind to the reasons why.. A repackaging of old ideas with brown eyes and double D boobs..

    Our dystopian meat bag future :)..

    We live in crazy times and its alarming that crazy people are going to be programming these THINGS..

  13. AI maybe seems like the physical definition of “cruel and ironic”. It’s an early South Park satire where normal people are treated like Kenny. There is a line between where technology is useful and where it’s not. Indiscriminate AI use crosses that line.

  14. I miss the old “DOS” days, merely type delete *. etc.and boom there goes the hard drive. That’s not the actual curser prompt, I was scared if I type the correct one I’d do something to yet another computer.

  15. Kate’s a good instructor; what’s the opposite of:
    Artificial Intelligence? Intelligence.
    Virtual Reality? Reality.

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