AI is neither a super wonder drug nor snake oil. It is a sharp powerful tool. If you give someone a sharp axe, you may end up with a pile of severed limbs or a work of art. The real question is whether mankind is ready for it. The answer, judging by the recent Anthropic controversy, is NO
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Time to boycott ChatGPT? It’s originator is a major donor to MAGA and unlike the principled stand taken by Anthropic, is happy to have its software used by ICE and to run autonomous military robots:
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I had it boycotted even before it was invented 
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me too! 
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Don’t forget X. X isn’t social media, X is propaganda.
If Trump could develop his own, why can’t the EU do the same, like in a month? It’s not complicated, it’s only messages. Then turn X off on our side of the Pond overnight and selectively hire some of the people subsequently made redundant to run the new one long term, and ultimately float it. Tax payer money straight back. Simples, just needs vision and balls. It’d be a great project 
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Just what we need, more pointless data centres to run it,
No don’t worry corona, an X like application would use very little power, you could run it in your garage once you steer clear of any AI “features”. Processing and storing text message, photos and short videos uses practically nothing.
It’s Nvidia chips, fundamentally graphics processing chips, that push power and cooling requirements through the roof. Just hold your hand against the side of one of those gaming PCs, the general purpose processor is cold and you could toast a sandwich on the graphics processor 
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I tend to use copilot run by Microsoft. It is not a MAGA supporter. I know this because I asked copilot directly and it told me so.
No but did it mention…
MS very involved in identifying “target” people in Gaza and the IDF blowing them and their extended families to bits.
And…
Plus… I have no doubt Copilot is spying on you. To enhance your user experience, of course 
Though that is due to the fact that, for most graphics heavy games, the main CPU is really not doing much.
Exactly. No need for any GPUs in a data centre just hosting a messaging system the little of no graphics processing required can be on the client.
This is really disturbing, if true.
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That reminds me there’s a program on BBC iPlayer about the moral issues with AI that I wanted to watch.
I see someone has already uploaded it to YouTube, useful for those without a VPN…
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Nope I am carefully ignoring that too - I have had an account on Twitter since the early days, but rarely used it, and haven’t touched it since it changed to “X”.
Life imitating art - Michael Connolly’s latest novel “The Proving Ground” covers exactly this subject.
Very disturbing indeed. Another article about this.
That is a REALLY interesting program. Hannah Fry seems to be cropping up everywhere at the moment. (or is it because I clicked on her name once and that is what is being fed to me?)
The part towards the end of the program where she gets emotional about the thought of (apparently) speaking to her dead father is very similar to the Gestalt therapy “empty chair” technique, known as “a last goodbye”, where a person is persuaded to speak to a deceased loved one to help get through the grieving process. It definitely helps people.
Instead of mocking geeks for talking to AI models as if they are real, perhaps there is a real opportunity to use AI for practical therapy sessions.
But then , when technology starts messing with peoples minds, who knows where it will end?
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Beat this one for pointlessness (in a country that already has a major electricity crisis):-
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Don’t worry Mark, all the copper will be nicked from the cables to it
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