Wow 😳 So... What is the answer? Chaotic rebellion saying, reading, writing, and doing things that make no sense for the sole purpose of confusing machines? It's like a sci-fi thriller except with a foreboding sense of certainty. I'm glad I'm Gen X and will be departing before the exclusion stage. I just feel bad (maybe even hopeless) for my children 😞 I'm glad I taught them to think critically and to question authority, something which our school systems fail at teaching our future leaders.
And on April 23rd this year President Trump signed an Executive Order advocating for AI education starting in kindergarten. Who knows the degree and depth of the just what this means. But 'fostering early exposure to AI concepts and technology to develop an AI-ready workforce' could be both a good thing and bad thing in my opinion. At least in Kindergarten.
We already have a workforce that looks at you funny if the bill is $17.77 and you hand them two pennies with a 20 trying to make the change easier for them.....
Cold Spring School, a single District Basic Aid School in West Montecito, has K-6 students getting daily computer AI instruction by pros. K-2 students also read books at home 20 minutes a day, and learn 15 new vocabulary words each week as verified by parent signature. (3-6 30minutes of leisure reading a day). Schools are starting to prepare local students and parents on AI use.
Baby Boomer here, I remember watching Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and wondering about the menacing “Hal.” I found out later from a neighbor who was a MIT grad, told me that “HAL” stood for Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer…way over my pay grade as we would say in the military. My neighbor went on to tell me, the first mainframes were huge computers which you would walk into like a meat locker!
I remember my first cell phone in the early 80’s was a “Oki Data,” so large you would carry it like a handbag in its own suitcase.
I found out recently that the new iterations of AI are more intelligent than all of human history combined!
Yes, this is the new version of the “Space Race,” (using my analog mentality) and defeating the CCP in its quest is critical.
Very good. In the 60’s IBM was so dominant computers were referred to as “IBMs” so it made sense to me. Thanks to AI and you I was proven wrong. Never too late to learn.
This article reminds me of what the doomsayers said when cars first appeared. They would cause accidents, kill pedestrians and make horses obsolete. AI is one of a long list of inventions that were feared by people stuck in a pattern of fright, anxiety and anti-progress. If the world was run by such people, we still would be all working on farms. If you have kids and you would like them to emulate the great entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, don't teach them to fear change or the unknown.
That's exactly my point. Cars did cause many of the things doomsayers predicted but you would apparently prefer to live in an era where there was no running water, electricity, air conditioning, antibiotics and the average lifespan ranged from 20 to 50 yrs old. People are infinitely better off (standard of living) today than then.
When I think of advances in technology, I recall my past life of being a devote audiophile. Yes, I had quite the “wall of sound” back in the day, emitting from my one bedroom bachelor’s pad, much to the displeasure of my elderly (over 30) neighbor. My “system “ consisted of a Carver amp, Klepsh Forte speakers with horn tweeters, Bang and Olsen turntable, Sound craftsman equalizer, Nakamichi Dragon cassette player and Sansui Reel to Reel, all totaling several months salary.
Needless to say, all of that cutting edge technology was replaced by a simple cell phone, with great sound using my Bluetooth and endless categories of music, including all artists who have ever been recorded!
Although, I see where McIntosh tube amps have made a comeback!
As usual, Robert provides articles that require some thinking about. I look at AI as a really neat kind of new research user's tool, that's all. Back in 1972, the HP35 handheld LED display scientific computer was born and replaced my Pickett slide rule ... slide rule makers were out-of-business overnight. A new tool was born to replace another. From what I can tell, AI simply sifts through the Internet for information and places its findings in a book report form. I use AI a lot for trying to discover the why's of doing certain things in engineering. AI can't read my mind, so AI and I go back and forth before AI understands my question. Although I have to admit AI helps to define my questions for its own understanding in order to provide the answer to my questions. I don't see AI as being an "originator" to anything, but only a researcher of existing knowledge. Humans have the advantage of being originators to ideas. AI is a tool for the originators that apply solutions to problems, IMO. The human brain is an amazing computer in itself; and the human brain is the original source of everything AI comments on. AI wouldn't exist if it wasn't for humans. Therefore, humans will always be needed to feed AI. That's my take.
I too see it that way. But…. while some humans are born with a significant dose of imagination, that has to be exercised and honed into a top-notch perpetually curious brain. Those who are spoon fed in a highly co trolled “safe” World may never find that joy. Or survival
Great comment Cathy, the producing problem solving "Indians" last forever and are much better off than a manager "Chief" that doesn't produce anything. Well, unless the manager is a CEO.
I think we are very close to the Singularity right now. Two years ago, I didn’t have an iPhone. Today, I can’t live without one; I feel like I’m carrying an Einstein in my pocket, ready to answer any of my stupid questions. Will there be problems? Sure. Progress always brings new problems. Still, most of us don’t want to go back.
I have an iPhone but don't carry it around with me. Probably because I see other people at restaurants spending more time on their iPhones than eating or talking to someone at their table. I can be a messy eater, too. An iPhone is sort of a delicate instrument that shouldn't be around drinks and food.
I never understood chemistry that well, such as balancing equations. If something appears I'll never use it, then I don't care to expend the effort learning about it. But I'll learn something later if I need to. Never had to balance an equation and still don't know how. The early calculator guys had a belt carrying case. But an HP35 cost $395, over $3,000 in today's money! I couldn't afford the 1972 HP, so I started out using the cheap four-function calculators for $30 and later a $60 Commodore scientific calculator in 1974. My favorite calculator I use to this day is a 24-digit LCD display, Sharp EL-5150 (or the earlier EL-5100 launched in 1979), and I have a spare one. But I laughed like you did with engineers carrying their calculators in their holsters. Some had the larger printing HP65's which cost about $700 carried in a larger belt holster.
Yeah, maybe. But I'm willing to bet a beer that this much-fretted AI apocalypse -- aka "singularity" -- comes and goes with as little upheaval as Y2K did. The real cause for concern the future circa 2070 poses for us is the two billion more humans added to our heap that will be gobbling up our increasingly scarce resources, IMHO.
Perhaps if someone had the idea of a non profit real estate business which justified non profit status by donating solar panels to schools we could save some precious resources? No, that is just too ridiculous to believe.
▫️How AI agents are already replacing millions of jobs and how to use them to your advantage. ▫️How AI will disrupt creative industries and hijack human consciousness.
▫️The critical skills that will matter most in the AI-powered future.
▫️What parents must teach their kids now to survive the AI age.
▫️How to harness AI’s power ethically.AI-video....AI agents debate future of jobs........
This has been foretold since the Jetsons. Since Jesus, since Daniel.
But are we headed towards Terminator style control by computers?
Perhaps if the human race lasts that long.
Revelations foretells a world wide dominating government that will control what and when you can buy groceries, etc..,
And everyone laughed, said it’s ridiculous.
Yet every Christian nation acted similarly during Covid.
Remember the Canadian truckers whose bank accounts were frozen? They didn’t break any laws.
China & India use biometric scanning to buy goods.
Amazon has a palm reader to buy goods, no more Apple Pay or credit card.
You cannot use your HOA Card to buy gum or cold medicine at a CVS, it will only allow you to buy prescription drugs. Even when you pay at the same register. It knows the difference.
The government pushes 15 min smart cities.
They suspended social media accts they do not agree with.
AI is not just taking over, AI is programmed by Radical Left to steer people in the direction they want you to go.
AI is a tool controlled by man.
People today have no sense of privacy or what their constitutional rights mean.
They say they’d trade their rights to maintain their standard of living.
We saw this with Covid. How many got the jab so things could go back to “normal or not to lose their jobs.
The cattle are headed to slaughter and have been for decades.
The future has been written.
But most ignore the Bible despite the number of prophecies that have been verified.
Most ignore that they will die, even though it’s guaranteed.
Most choose to not think about what happens after they die.
I'm not sure if I completely agree with this outcome, mostly because I don't have a lot of faith in technology and humans are unpredictable, as you said, and actually very special creations, but this is very well written and a huge possibility. I do not deny this possible outcome, at least temporarily. A terrible mistake in human history, and not much more. The book "The Age of Spiritual Machines" is worth reading if you are able to stay objective and think critically of its contents.
I empathize with "luddites" but at the same time feel obligated to stay up to date with technology to stay relevant and aware of what's going on in the world - whether I like it or not.
I was born in 1981. My entire life has been introductions to "new technology" pretty much since the mid 80s... I remember when we had a set up that included a record player, a double tape deck, AND a CD player. I remember going to The Warehouse as a family and we all got to pick out two CDs. I was around 6, maybe 7 years old... and I chose a Tina Turner album and Michael Jackson's "Bad" album. I remembering when things were more simple. I remember when "call waiting" was a new feature, and *69 to call back someone who didn't leave a voicemail...
I had my own phone line and answering machine in high school. I had a pager in high school, not a cell phone. I got my first cell phone in college, that nokia "brick" that everyone had. I remember not liking the touch screens when I first made the switch to an iPhone. I could no longer just count out the number of times I pushed a number on the keypad to type a text without looking. I miss buttons and feeling what I was pressing - same is true with remote controls. Apple TV incidentally has made their remote very well. It is natural and you can feel without looking what you want to do.
I don't like voice to text at ALL. It's terrible. It gets significant things wrong every single time you use it. Boomers, please just make the text bigger on your phones and type out your messages like an adult. You are driving your kids nuts with the weird texts that makes absolutely no sense. We have to decipher what you were probably saying every single time. If you don't like texting, leave a voicemail. I always have to go back and manually edit the mistakes if I voice text - and I prefer not to use it at all. Same with auto-correct. It sucks and changes the meaning of what I am saying to someone with something as simple as changing when I intentionally typed "can" and changing it to "can't" or the reverse of that for NO REASON. It just decided that what I typed was wrong and if I did not actually reread things before sending them it would cause a lot of confusion.
All these automations don't work very well and make things take longer and there are more mistakes if you aren't closely paying attention to the entire process. This is why I am VERY skeptical of Ai being as good as everyone says it will be. The tech we use NOW sucks!!! It's NOT an improvement on anything except corporations paying less humans to do less work; and when they do actually work it is usually less efficient, with less knowledge, and still with more mistakes.
Humans are very good in unpredictable environments. Machines are only as good as their algorithms and the person who programmed them in the first place. They always have the bias of their creator ingrained as well as the bias of the content they sift through online. Humans are good at making off the cuff "judgement calls" when a scenario doesn't neatly fit into a preprogrammed category... and I don't think Ai will be able to match that - ever. I really don't. I am NOT impressed with things that seem to amaze Boomers. These programs and algorithms are shitty. Life is not more convenient because of them. And if there is a problem that is not programmed into Ai responses, good luck finding an actual human to talk to. I think the revival of small businesses under Trump could bypass the bullsh*t these giant corporation want to inflict on humanity. I sure hope so. We will soon know which one of us is right.
I long for the slower paced, lower tech days but I don't think it behooves me to ignore the world we actually live in. I sometimes miss having a flip phone, I am mad that we have no privacy thanks to the Patriot Act after 9/11, but I still use a smartphone. I don't know what the future of Ai and new tech is going to bring us next but I think humanity is constantly underestimated for our resilience and other things not easily replicated by a computer program that is just copying what we've already done. I think that a fully Ai world will not lead to more innovation - quite the opposite in fact. I don't think Ai is capable of being "creative" but I think it's getting better and better at imitating artwork that humans prompt it to create or have created in the past. It's still our ideas. I highly doubt these stupid machines will ever be the same as us. Go read or watch Brave New World and take one guess which world I would prefer living in - NOT the one where they're constantly popping somas and checking their levels!
I personally think Ai will underperform in the future. It will never have the same thing that a God-breathed human is born with. It's not possible. Ai will never replace God and neither will Transhumanists for that matter. It is a dead end and the longer this tedious glorification of technology being "better" than humans goes on the more people are going to see it for what it is: utter bull sh*t.
I feel sorry for atheists, Gnostics, and Transhumanists though. The future is doomed in their eyes and their only option to stay competitive is to "merge" with this garbage technology. What a sad outlook to be living with. They really have a low opinion of themselves and the beauty and resilience of God's favorite creation: us.
Thanks but no thanks. I am firmly on the side of "the resistance" but not by reciting poetry in sewers. Through the blood of Jesus Christ. That's the ONLY "resistance" I need when it comes to this crap. I hope you find hope because I remember when I saw the world the way you do and it was a miserable way to see things.
A hobby of mine in the past was restoring old pre- and post-war televisions. My dad had a television he placed on the porch of our Vermont house in 1948 for the neighbors wanting to watch a famous boxing fight. We had the first color TV in our neighborhood in Reading, MA in 1957. My dad, a TV repairman, used it to learn color TV repair. I remember watching Peter Pan and comedy shows, such as Red Skelton ... all in "color." My mother told me my dad got calls from MIT professors wanting to know how televisions operated.
T.A. I can’t ever respond to you because I can’t comprehend what you’re attempting to communicate, to message to readers beyond that our forefathers had a good water filtration system or that the past was better with God dominating to calm fears of the unknown.
BTW: Historian Neal Graffy will be discussing the SB aqueduct and more at an upcoming History Museum speech.
I fully comprehend, understand, and can relate to J.Livingston’s posts. Times have changed. Creative play, bonding forever friendships, reading books, building forts to plot against adults, having 3 TVs to view the only 3 networks — so much from a bygone era. Tech has changed mating, parenting, families, and childhoods: it has overwhelmed me and others. However, there’s no reversing course, we can look back valuing memories while we must adapt to our present day reality. No deflection intended. I’m learning AI slowly.
You’re quite the psychoanalytic! Tech is machanized, machine driven. Your other categories (political, social, religious) are human driven. Yes, they too have changed dating/mating, parenting, families, … so what’s your point beyond bashing?
Wow 😳 So... What is the answer? Chaotic rebellion saying, reading, writing, and doing things that make no sense for the sole purpose of confusing machines? It's like a sci-fi thriller except with a foreboding sense of certainty. I'm glad I'm Gen X and will be departing before the exclusion stage. I just feel bad (maybe even hopeless) for my children 😞 I'm glad I taught them to think critically and to question authority, something which our school systems fail at teaching our future leaders.
The last sentence!
Right?????
And on April 23rd this year President Trump signed an Executive Order advocating for AI education starting in kindergarten. Who knows the degree and depth of the just what this means. But 'fostering early exposure to AI concepts and technology to develop an AI-ready workforce' could be both a good thing and bad thing in my opinion. At least in Kindergarten.
We already have a workforce that looks at you funny if the bill is $17.77 and you hand them two pennies with a 20 trying to make the change easier for them.....
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/advancing-artificial-intelligence-education-for-american-youth/
Cold Spring School, a single District Basic Aid School in West Montecito, has K-6 students getting daily computer AI instruction by pros. K-2 students also read books at home 20 minutes a day, and learn 15 new vocabulary words each week as verified by parent signature. (3-6 30minutes of leisure reading a day). Schools are starting to prepare local students and parents on AI use.
I don't have much faith that the schools, much less parents, are ready for it.
such a bleak outlook…
Baby Boomer here, I remember watching Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and wondering about the menacing “Hal.” I found out later from a neighbor who was a MIT grad, told me that “HAL” stood for Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer…way over my pay grade as we would say in the military. My neighbor went on to tell me, the first mainframes were huge computers which you would walk into like a meat locker!
I remember my first cell phone in the early 80’s was a “Oki Data,” so large you would carry it like a handbag in its own suitcase.
I found out recently that the new iterations of AI are more intelligent than all of human history combined!
Yes, this is the new version of the “Space Race,” (using my analog mentality) and defeating the CCP in its quest is critical.
I heard HAL were the three letters before IBM.
No, that rumor was dispelled by Kubrick, although he did work with NASA who used IBM computers.
Very good. In the 60’s IBM was so dominant computers were referred to as “IBMs” so it made sense to me. Thanks to AI and you I was proven wrong. Never too late to learn.
In the year 2525. Zager and Evans
This article reminds me of what the doomsayers said when cars first appeared. They would cause accidents, kill pedestrians and make horses obsolete. AI is one of a long list of inventions that were feared by people stuck in a pattern of fright, anxiety and anti-progress. If the world was run by such people, we still would be all working on farms. If you have kids and you would like them to emulate the great entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, don't teach them to fear change or the unknown.
That's exactly my point. Cars did cause many of the things doomsayers predicted but you would apparently prefer to live in an era where there was no running water, electricity, air conditioning, antibiotics and the average lifespan ranged from 20 to 50 yrs old. People are infinitely better off (standard of living) today than then.
When I think of advances in technology, I recall my past life of being a devote audiophile. Yes, I had quite the “wall of sound” back in the day, emitting from my one bedroom bachelor’s pad, much to the displeasure of my elderly (over 30) neighbor. My “system “ consisted of a Carver amp, Klepsh Forte speakers with horn tweeters, Bang and Olsen turntable, Sound craftsman equalizer, Nakamichi Dragon cassette player and Sansui Reel to Reel, all totaling several months salary.
Needless to say, all of that cutting edge technology was replaced by a simple cell phone, with great sound using my Bluetooth and endless categories of music, including all artists who have ever been recorded!
Although, I see where McIntosh tube amps have made a comeback!
God,I hope not
As usual, Robert provides articles that require some thinking about. I look at AI as a really neat kind of new research user's tool, that's all. Back in 1972, the HP35 handheld LED display scientific computer was born and replaced my Pickett slide rule ... slide rule makers were out-of-business overnight. A new tool was born to replace another. From what I can tell, AI simply sifts through the Internet for information and places its findings in a book report form. I use AI a lot for trying to discover the why's of doing certain things in engineering. AI can't read my mind, so AI and I go back and forth before AI understands my question. Although I have to admit AI helps to define my questions for its own understanding in order to provide the answer to my questions. I don't see AI as being an "originator" to anything, but only a researcher of existing knowledge. Humans have the advantage of being originators to ideas. AI is a tool for the originators that apply solutions to problems, IMO. The human brain is an amazing computer in itself; and the human brain is the original source of everything AI comments on. AI wouldn't exist if it wasn't for humans. Therefore, humans will always be needed to feed AI. That's my take.
I too see it that way. But…. while some humans are born with a significant dose of imagination, that has to be exercised and honed into a top-notch perpetually curious brain. Those who are spoon fed in a highly co trolled “safe” World may never find that joy. Or survival
Skill
Great comment Cathy, the producing problem solving "Indians" last forever and are much better off than a manager "Chief" that doesn't produce anything. Well, unless the manager is a CEO.
I think we are very close to the Singularity right now. Two years ago, I didn’t have an iPhone. Today, I can’t live without one; I feel like I’m carrying an Einstein in my pocket, ready to answer any of my stupid questions. Will there be problems? Sure. Progress always brings new problems. Still, most of us don’t want to go back.
I have an iPhone but don't carry it around with me. Probably because I see other people at restaurants spending more time on their iPhones than eating or talking to someone at their table. I can be a messy eater, too. An iPhone is sort of a delicate instrument that shouldn't be around drinks and food.
I never understood chemistry that well, such as balancing equations. If something appears I'll never use it, then I don't care to expend the effort learning about it. But I'll learn something later if I need to. Never had to balance an equation and still don't know how. The early calculator guys had a belt carrying case. But an HP35 cost $395, over $3,000 in today's money! I couldn't afford the 1972 HP, so I started out using the cheap four-function calculators for $30 and later a $60 Commodore scientific calculator in 1974. My favorite calculator I use to this day is a 24-digit LCD display, Sharp EL-5150 (or the earlier EL-5100 launched in 1979), and I have a spare one. But I laughed like you did with engineers carrying their calculators in their holsters. Some had the larger printing HP65's which cost about $700 carried in a larger belt holster.
Yeah, maybe. But I'm willing to bet a beer that this much-fretted AI apocalypse -- aka "singularity" -- comes and goes with as little upheaval as Y2K did. The real cause for concern the future circa 2070 poses for us is the two billion more humans added to our heap that will be gobbling up our increasingly scarce resources, IMHO.
Perhaps if someone had the idea of a non profit real estate business which justified non profit status by donating solar panels to schools we could save some precious resources? No, that is just too ridiculous to believe.
▫️Why AI threatens 50% of the global workforce.
▫️How AI agents are already replacing millions of jobs and how to use them to your advantage. ▫️How AI will disrupt creative industries and hijack human consciousness.
▫️The critical skills that will matter most in the AI-powered future.
▫️What parents must teach their kids now to survive the AI age.
▫️How to harness AI’s power ethically.AI-video....AI agents debate future of jobs........
..https://needtoknow.news/2025/05/ai-agents-debate-these-jobs-wont-exist-in-24-months-we-must-prepare-for-whats-coming/
This has been foretold since the Jetsons. Since Jesus, since Daniel.
But are we headed towards Terminator style control by computers?
Perhaps if the human race lasts that long.
Revelations foretells a world wide dominating government that will control what and when you can buy groceries, etc..,
And everyone laughed, said it’s ridiculous.
Yet every Christian nation acted similarly during Covid.
Remember the Canadian truckers whose bank accounts were frozen? They didn’t break any laws.
China & India use biometric scanning to buy goods.
Amazon has a palm reader to buy goods, no more Apple Pay or credit card.
You cannot use your HOA Card to buy gum or cold medicine at a CVS, it will only allow you to buy prescription drugs. Even when you pay at the same register. It knows the difference.
The government pushes 15 min smart cities.
They suspended social media accts they do not agree with.
AI is not just taking over, AI is programmed by Radical Left to steer people in the direction they want you to go.
AI is a tool controlled by man.
People today have no sense of privacy or what their constitutional rights mean.
They say they’d trade their rights to maintain their standard of living.
We saw this with Covid. How many got the jab so things could go back to “normal or not to lose their jobs.
The cattle are headed to slaughter and have been for decades.
The future has been written.
But most ignore the Bible despite the number of prophecies that have been verified.
Most ignore that they will die, even though it’s guaranteed.
Most choose to not think about what happens after they die.
Morbid? It’s a fact of life.
Do you believe in Heaven?
What will you do?
you cannot stop the world wide progress.
Someone needs to run this by Grok
I think the timeline is way too long🙄
You should share what you learned about eyeliner with J.D. Vance!
AI is not cool...from someone cell phone free since 2018...
I'm not sure if I completely agree with this outcome, mostly because I don't have a lot of faith in technology and humans are unpredictable, as you said, and actually very special creations, but this is very well written and a huge possibility. I do not deny this possible outcome, at least temporarily. A terrible mistake in human history, and not much more. The book "The Age of Spiritual Machines" is worth reading if you are able to stay objective and think critically of its contents.
I empathize with "luddites" but at the same time feel obligated to stay up to date with technology to stay relevant and aware of what's going on in the world - whether I like it or not.
I was born in 1981. My entire life has been introductions to "new technology" pretty much since the mid 80s... I remember when we had a set up that included a record player, a double tape deck, AND a CD player. I remember going to The Warehouse as a family and we all got to pick out two CDs. I was around 6, maybe 7 years old... and I chose a Tina Turner album and Michael Jackson's "Bad" album. I remembering when things were more simple. I remember when "call waiting" was a new feature, and *69 to call back someone who didn't leave a voicemail...
I had my own phone line and answering machine in high school. I had a pager in high school, not a cell phone. I got my first cell phone in college, that nokia "brick" that everyone had. I remember not liking the touch screens when I first made the switch to an iPhone. I could no longer just count out the number of times I pushed a number on the keypad to type a text without looking. I miss buttons and feeling what I was pressing - same is true with remote controls. Apple TV incidentally has made their remote very well. It is natural and you can feel without looking what you want to do.
I don't like voice to text at ALL. It's terrible. It gets significant things wrong every single time you use it. Boomers, please just make the text bigger on your phones and type out your messages like an adult. You are driving your kids nuts with the weird texts that makes absolutely no sense. We have to decipher what you were probably saying every single time. If you don't like texting, leave a voicemail. I always have to go back and manually edit the mistakes if I voice text - and I prefer not to use it at all. Same with auto-correct. It sucks and changes the meaning of what I am saying to someone with something as simple as changing when I intentionally typed "can" and changing it to "can't" or the reverse of that for NO REASON. It just decided that what I typed was wrong and if I did not actually reread things before sending them it would cause a lot of confusion.
All these automations don't work very well and make things take longer and there are more mistakes if you aren't closely paying attention to the entire process. This is why I am VERY skeptical of Ai being as good as everyone says it will be. The tech we use NOW sucks!!! It's NOT an improvement on anything except corporations paying less humans to do less work; and when they do actually work it is usually less efficient, with less knowledge, and still with more mistakes.
Humans are very good in unpredictable environments. Machines are only as good as their algorithms and the person who programmed them in the first place. They always have the bias of their creator ingrained as well as the bias of the content they sift through online. Humans are good at making off the cuff "judgement calls" when a scenario doesn't neatly fit into a preprogrammed category... and I don't think Ai will be able to match that - ever. I really don't. I am NOT impressed with things that seem to amaze Boomers. These programs and algorithms are shitty. Life is not more convenient because of them. And if there is a problem that is not programmed into Ai responses, good luck finding an actual human to talk to. I think the revival of small businesses under Trump could bypass the bullsh*t these giant corporation want to inflict on humanity. I sure hope so. We will soon know which one of us is right.
I long for the slower paced, lower tech days but I don't think it behooves me to ignore the world we actually live in. I sometimes miss having a flip phone, I am mad that we have no privacy thanks to the Patriot Act after 9/11, but I still use a smartphone. I don't know what the future of Ai and new tech is going to bring us next but I think humanity is constantly underestimated for our resilience and other things not easily replicated by a computer program that is just copying what we've already done. I think that a fully Ai world will not lead to more innovation - quite the opposite in fact. I don't think Ai is capable of being "creative" but I think it's getting better and better at imitating artwork that humans prompt it to create or have created in the past. It's still our ideas. I highly doubt these stupid machines will ever be the same as us. Go read or watch Brave New World and take one guess which world I would prefer living in - NOT the one where they're constantly popping somas and checking their levels!
I personally think Ai will underperform in the future. It will never have the same thing that a God-breathed human is born with. It's not possible. Ai will never replace God and neither will Transhumanists for that matter. It is a dead end and the longer this tedious glorification of technology being "better" than humans goes on the more people are going to see it for what it is: utter bull sh*t.
I feel sorry for atheists, Gnostics, and Transhumanists though. The future is doomed in their eyes and their only option to stay competitive is to "merge" with this garbage technology. What a sad outlook to be living with. They really have a low opinion of themselves and the beauty and resilience of God's favorite creation: us.
Thanks but no thanks. I am firmly on the side of "the resistance" but not by reciting poetry in sewers. Through the blood of Jesus Christ. That's the ONLY "resistance" I need when it comes to this crap. I hope you find hope because I remember when I saw the world the way you do and it was a miserable way to see things.
A hobby of mine in the past was restoring old pre- and post-war televisions. My dad had a television he placed on the porch of our Vermont house in 1948 for the neighbors wanting to watch a famous boxing fight. We had the first color TV in our neighborhood in Reading, MA in 1957. My dad, a TV repairman, used it to learn color TV repair. I remember watching Peter Pan and comedy shows, such as Red Skelton ... all in "color." My mother told me my dad got calls from MIT professors wanting to know how televisions operated.
T.A. I can’t ever respond to you because I can’t comprehend what you’re attempting to communicate, to message to readers beyond that our forefathers had a good water filtration system or that the past was better with God dominating to calm fears of the unknown.
BTW: Historian Neal Graffy will be discussing the SB aqueduct and more at an upcoming History Museum speech.
I fully comprehend, understand, and can relate to J.Livingston’s posts. Times have changed. Creative play, bonding forever friendships, reading books, building forts to plot against adults, having 3 TVs to view the only 3 networks — so much from a bygone era. Tech has changed mating, parenting, families, and childhoods: it has overwhelmed me and others. However, there’s no reversing course, we can look back valuing memories while we must adapt to our present day reality. No deflection intended. I’m learning AI slowly.
You’re quite the psychoanalytic! Tech is machanized, machine driven. Your other categories (political, social, religious) are human driven. Yes, they too have changed dating/mating, parenting, families, … so what’s your point beyond bashing?