Two of my children are high school teachers. They now need training, to spot Ai produced work. Quite ironic, the teachers needing lessons to understand if it’s Ai or students. Their lesson its self is probably developed by Ai.
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They are introducing a finance system at work that has an AI component. We have been told that when we fix the mistakes it makes it will “learn” and eventually do better. I don’t think our jobs are at risk just yet…but it’s super creepy.
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Creepy is a good adjective !
The paraadox/irony of all of this, is that nowadays we often hear and read about how important it is for older generations to continue keeping their brains active by doing word games, participating in social activities, reading, chatting to other humans, in order to avoid or at least try to minimise cognitive decline in the future.
On the contrary , A1 is “shutting off” the brains of younger generations. 
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Some very good and informative posts here. Some points I had not considered, but why would I?
After spending most of my life working with my hands and gaining information from books or my predecessors, at 75 I’m finding it difficult to adapt to this new world of bots, algorithms and AI.
I thought I was doing well in the late nineties adapting to computers and designing spread sheets and data bases, even doing complex electronics drawings, but the world of IT, smartphones and robotics is leaving me behind, and I have let go of the need to keep up. I find myself withdrawing into a world that I can partially (due to age) understand with facts that I can trust (mostly from memory) and doing things the old fashioned way…
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As a technophobe I’ve always pretty much felt obsolete compared to a computer anyway … but that presupposes I also trust the computer …
This AI is a whole new ball game.
Humans are on their way out.
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I’m the same in preferring the old way. You only have to have a day when the banking networks are down to see the carnage that is created.
But rather than ‘assistive’, AI technlogy is now developing into a whole new type of beast. I find it quite scary if I let my imagination go.
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Yep, carnage is right.
Wars are now being fought by targeting electronic systems, and in traditional British style we have ignored this and are only now thinking about it.
Other countries are well ahead of us in protecting their critical infrastructure, we are miles behind.
Water, gas, electricity, money, electronic payments, all crucial things which can have a devasting effect on a Country and all not properly defended against hacking.
A lot of our systems can be easily overwhelmed by using AI hacking programmes, and this, to me, is the most critical danger.
We had one small electricity sub station go down at Heathrow which stopped the biggest airport in Europe working for a day.
They had two other substations big enough to take over, but neither was programmed to take over immediately.
It is quite possible that an AI attack could stop our Internet operating, leaving us without a functioning society.
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Hear hear @OldGreyFox and @Morticia!
I’ve started watching Zero Day, I hate to imagine our world if there really was a cybertattack to that extent? 
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Surely AI is the internet?
Certainly it is challenging what is actually true and real … but photo shopping, plagiarism and fakes have always been around. Loss of grammar or even basic knowledge - that has been around for decades. Students cheating or job candidates cheating - there is a bigger issue at hand.
For me AI will cause massive social disruption very soon. AI is already speeding up the routine work for many and completely replacing jobs for some. This is low cost computing to replace people’s paid work. There is much political buzz about AI improving productivity. Not much noise about how to address the drop off in hiring people and the increase in lay offs. Already in the US, graduates are struggling to get on the job ladder at tech companies. Those entry level data and programming jobs are now done by AI. There is still need for human judgement but that is for people already progressing up the career ladder.
So we risk a generation without access to certain jobs and industries. We will have companies across all industries cutting their work force as productivity increases. This glut of experienced workers will suppress salaries for everyone. At the same time we will have companies increasing their profits so the shareholders and directors will get even richer.
This is not a happy outlook. And that’s before you consider the possible misguided use of AI (or AI guiding its own use in its own best interest).
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Yes, and because we are so clever, it will be our own undoing. 
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Do you reckon the human race has just become plain lazy?
Did it all start with the innocuous TV remote control.
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I actually wonder if our inherent laziness has been the source of much invention. However, here with AI, I suspect its a bunch of tech blokes with high IQ (and low EQ) and an insatiable appetite for wealth. And a massive disregard for ordinary people. I read that Oracle alone is burning $1 billion a year on gas turbines to power their data centres - which are required for AI. Graduate hiring by US tech companies is down 50%.
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A movie before it’s time was War Games when AI takes over and considers launching nuclear missiles .
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Good post Lincs except I don’t think I agree with your statement ‘AI is the internet’…I believe the internet is merely the conduit for data, AI is part of that data. It’s like saying ‘Pornography is the internet’ but it’s only data that uses the conduit of the Internet.
Yes, Photo shopping, plagiarism, fakes and exam cheating have always been present but with AI they have been taken to a whole new level never been seen before, and very difficult to recognise and stop or block for anyone who uses the Internet.
I would say that the internet is split into good and bad, perhaps at 80 to 20 in favour of good and reliable. A decent source of knowledge and good for things like secure banking and shopping, not to mention a good distributor of news. Not all of it unbiased though…
But AI is adding a new dimension, a dimension where not everything that you see is true, and there comes a point where, can you actually believe anything you see?
So everything becomes invalid…
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One theory is in time AI will look so realistic that we will have politicians running for office , audiences at interviews , etc which do not even exist and all run by a few corporate big shots .
Being a movie buff it reminds me of Rollerball .
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I feel it’s a good time to resurrect this thread. I’ve been finding a lot of retails sites are having an AI makeover. I recognise the “AI is thinking” mode from work. They are linking all our payment cards up with all the other stuff we browse and suddenly your information is no longer your private business. I reckon that they will be getting rid of checkout as guest too.
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Well, we have hip replacements and knee replacements nowadays, plus many internal organs, maybe it is a sort of natural progression to have “Intelligence” replacement on the cards?
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How about this?
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Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally altering the internet, driving what many experts and platforms call a transition into a “dead internet” where automated activity outnumbers humans. According to data from firms like Cloudflare, bot traffic has officially surpassed human traffic, making up over 57% of all web requests.
Not good.
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the open internet was only an interim phase to hook humans into a seductive dopamine-enhancing system that will ultimately control them.
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