Subj : Re: AI
To   : Nightfox
From : Boraxman
Date : Fri May 30 2025 07:05:00

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 Ni>   Re: Re: AI
 Ni>   By: Boraxman to MRO on Thu
 Ni> May 29 2025 05:16 pm

 MR>> i saw this guy on facebook tell a guy 'gemini says' and blew my mind.

 Bo> This is my second biggest concern about AI, that people would just treat
 Bo> it like it is some oracle, and what it spews out MUST be correct. People
 Bo> already make this mistake though, with web searches.  They search on
 Bo> google, find a comment and think this is the definitive answer.  So its
 Bo> already a problem, but yeah, AI will just double it.

 Ni> I know you said you aren't a Star Trek fan, but there have been
 Ni> episodes sort of about this (at least one that I recall).  I'm
 Ni> paraphrasing here, but I remember an episode of The Next Generation
 Ni> where they visited a planet where the people were using a computer to
 Ni> guide their actions.  The computer had something that wasn't working
 Ni> anymore, and since the computer had been created generations before,
 Ni> the people currently living there didn't know how to repair it, as
 Ni> apparently that knowledge had been lost since the later generations
 Ni> didn't bother to study it well enough.

The Bronze Age collapse is interesting to delve into.  It could happen
again, for sure.  I think it already is in process.
 
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