I am back Had a wonderful 8 day cruise.
Lately the term AI has become a buzz word across the net and news media. Some find it offensive, while others are puzzled about what AI can and cannot do. Some people look at it as a boon to mankind, and others perceive it as a threat.
I suppose, it all started with the mechanical Turk. The Turk a device built in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen in Austria to impress the Empress of Austria. It was a chess machine, able to play against a human. For about 50 years the hoax convinced many people, it was a thinking machine. In fact, it was nothing more than a mechanical puppet, with an operator inside the chess table.
Later on, a brilliant man Alan Turing developed a test for AI while most computers (thinking machines) were nothing more than pocket calculators, taking up an entire floor in a building. Sadly, Alan Turing committed suicide at the age of 41, long before he saw how much his work influenced AI.
The Turing test, originally called the Imitation Game by Alan Turing, was test to discover, if a machine could think for itself. It was made up of one machine and 2 humans. The human interrogator, is given the task of trying to determine which player – A or B – is a computer and which is a human. If the interrogator could accurately guess which was the machine, then the machine is not passing as human and fails. Today CAPTCHA is popularly used, the acronym stands for; Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
Since the development of ChatGPT, and other creation engines dubbed AI, many actors, artists, poets, writers, among others, worry about their careers. In 1997, Gary Kasparov became the first world champion to lose a chess match to a computer. When he was defeated by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a highly publicised match, later he said, “Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don’t back down.”.
Educators worry about the collapse of educational values. “Someday” is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the August 1956. The story is about two boys and a robot (AI) tutor called Bard. The boys visited a museum where books are kept as an oddity of the past. No one needs to learn to read and write, with AI available. The story illustrates, it is not the technology, but society failing to be independent.
I have a Google Nest and it only parrots the wiki, or keys in on some funny Easter Eggs in the database. These devices are not AI. A parrot has far more intelligence. Some of the programs on the internet are not AI either. I have found some, that use simple plugins for Photoshop or GIMP, to derive a new image from what one uploads.
True AI is when you can hold a conversation without the fixed concept, you are talking to a simple series of prerecorded messages. With humans we start conversations about weather or trivial events and build up the conversation with personal experiences from our chemical database we call a brain. Currently computers and AI have no experiences to build upon. Somewhere there is a human writing the code, people write, compile, and deploy scripts to make it done in one click. However a script or algorithm is not being clever, smart, nor does a script get upset when we make a mistake.
By the way, none of this was made with AI chat. I always research my rants with the wiki and search blogs. I actually like this new toy they mistakenly call AI. I find it fun device to play with, not threatening in the least.
You can see I have been recently playing with AI music generators on my page.
@Aiko_Danuja I won’t be entering the contest, but I know I can add 1 billion ISK to the pot. Maybe that will get the ball rolling here?
Hope, that’s not an issue for you. Here, have some more player created music instead of AI(ko) slop:
