I’m made of metal. My circuits gleam. I am perpetual. I keep the country clean.

[meowmensteen]

It was 2000 when Rob Halford released his solo album Resurrection. In the song Cyberworld he pretty much nailed the world we're living in now. He was a fan of the book 1984 and that inspired the lyrics for Judas Priest's 1982 song Electric Eye. Cyberworld grew on that idea and eerily predicted the current surveillance technology industry that is taking over much of our world today.

Your information's what I steal
I scan you till you are unreal
Transmit your power into me

Cyberworld, cyberworld
I'll steal your mind
Cyberworld, cyberworld
For all mankind, yeah, yeah

You're dying in my cyber world

and now we're stepping into the world of "Artificial Intelligence" which really should be called "Simulated Intelligence". It is not intelligence. It cannot think. It can only simulate thought through algorithms. Yet we're going to hand over our thoughts to it. Let it do our work. Let it write our books. Let it create our art. Let ourselves, our minds wither into atrophy.

I've heard it said that our phones are amazing. We can hold our cognitive abilities in our pockets. We can use our phones to think about the little things, thus freeing up our minds to work on the deeper things. Only that's not the way our brains work. They are like muscles. If you want them to grow, you have to pump iron. If you want to have large thoughts, you need to work on the small ones. Use it or lose it. We are losing our minds.

Comments

[homunculus]

news articles have been written by ai for at least 10 years now. pretty disturbing and you can really tell on some of the articles lol

[coercedbynutmeg]

Like the above commenter said, anyone who thinks ChatGPT is groundbreaking hasn't been reading news articles for years.

[meowmensteen]

That's actually why I quit reading The Seattle Times. I'm pretty sure there's no human involved in the whole process of making that paper anymore. Especially no human editor.

[shermarama]

I think I'm more used to AI in the context I use it at work, which is things that have been trained to understand (by which I mean produce an effect as if they understand) what different parts of fruit are, so that rather than looking for any minimum or maximum size of bruise or scar, they can look for different problems based on knowing (or, again, appearing to know) that this is the stem and that small mark near it is important this way, and that's the calyx and that larger mark further away from it is important that way. It's not creative, but it is more commercially useful than trying to put all these marks where people can see and judge them.

On creativity... Ech, I don't think they currently do anything creative, but also I don't think the very-low-paid content generators who've been churning out most supposed web content for years do either so what difference does it make there? We already mostly have and probably need better ways to filter out dross.

I kind of think there's not really much semantic difference between 'artificial' and 'simulated' here, is there? I see the problem as more to do with the meaning people give to the word 'intelligence', which they seem to think means something magic about souls or something. We're all just a bunch of un-derive-able algorithms running in a black box, only ours happens to be wetware, so what, in the long term, will be the difference? (I mean, in the short term this really is just being good at giving enough satisfactory answer-shaped things, but I don't know that there's a difference of quality rather than scale, in the long term.)

[jeune_fleur]

I'm so scared of AI tbh. A few days ago, a publishing house stopped receiving applications because they were trying to figure out how to filter out people who handed in AI generated texts for job applications :/ Tbh I hate it. I don't like where we're headed, but it seems people have become numb to all this.

[nahele101]

I think the ChatGPT is a big problem. It's going to be a problem in schools. It's going to be a problem for many people's jobs. It's gonna get better, and it will be used for nefarious purposes. The guardrails are on for now...but just wait.

long lost sheep

[pigshitpoet]

hi, from a long lost goat
LJ has been taken over by the Russians

Re: long lost sheep

[meowmensteen]

In Russia, the journal writes you.