Renton

Better a ball hits Jesus's ribs rather than a spear? Amirite? [\catholic joke]

First time you'll be below the median age in a few years I bet. I'll keep an eye out opposite with my x100 lens.

Whereabouts? The omens were looking shite for this one as it was. 0-4

Agreed AI looks like a huge bubble, especially when you look at someone of the cash flows happening which are circular. The market value of nVidia is insane. And unlike the dot.com crash, these companies have to invest massively in infrastructure and energy. I also can't see where the profit is, especially if it does cause unemployment and wage depreciation so no fucker can afford it.

Must have a very fast connection for that price, mind still less than £2 a day for unlimited use. I mean you're paying a small fee for the infrastructure needed but 90% of the content is free. The true value of the internet is not realised imo.

Virtually, compared with its true value anyway. I mean, I remember the days when telephone calls were charged. Talking to someone like you in NZ would cost a fortune. I once spent £30 phoning my gf in America, maybe 15 min call. Now it's free on any number of video calling systems, nobody has managed to monetise it.

Its on my phone, probably as part of a deal, I'm not paying when it expires. I assumed it was standard on most work PCs? The application outside of work is currently minimal. Got me thinking mind, how much would you pay for the internet if it wasn't free? Got to be worth hundreds of not thousands pa. Thankfully nobody has been able to fully commercialise it. Suspect AI will be similar.

Mi neva realise dem can still qualify man.

Tbf it's headlining the news at 6. Let's see if they can drag Farage out for an interview though....

Steady on with that language young Rayvin.

Aye. This, and the renewed allegations about Farage's nazi shit at school. Makes no difference, lucky if the BBC even mention it. Trumpism in the UK.

Am the one obsessed by the generational divide am I? I'm a lot closer to being retired than I am to a graduate myself man. I just recognise generational unfairness when I see it and speak as I think. I want everyone to live as long and prosperous lives as possible whatever the age they are. But I don't want young families to struggle whilst a large proportion of pensioners have capital wealth locked up they are not taxed on, and recieve non means tested benefits and triple locked state pensions. Everything is commercial in a capitalist society, I don't get your point here. You said you wanted all AI binned. This is neither possible nor desirable imo. It needs regulating, but that highlights deeper problems with democracy.

Its clearly not worthless though, Ive literally just given you an example of how it has personally benefited my own learning. Outside of the usual suspects for everyday applications, ChatGPT, copilot etc, it has immense potential. I'm assessing several applications of AI used in medical diagnostics where it can out perform very experienced operators in fractions of the time. In pharmacology, it will lead to a huge revolution where drug discovery will be increased by magnitudes and lives will be saved. The possibilities are endless, the risks are great. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Worse than the grey man that.

So I was demonstrating a positive application of AI for balance. Rayvin has done this too, it's not all necessarily negative. In this instance AI has helped me understand some concepts I otherwise would probably have not bothered with. I've learnt something which might become important for me. Am not sure what the point of your post is. Loneliness is horrible, AI is not the solution to this clearly, whatever that cunt Zuckerberg says.

Thought you'd not like it. Kind of missed the point, but never mind. You continue thinking it's a conspiracy if you like. 👍

You'll not like this but the boomer generation, 90% of whom never experienced further education, is probably the worst for this so it doesnt back your theory. There is no conspiracy.

So I've just had a fairly long "conversation" with copilot about using receiver operator curves for dichotomous diagnostic tests which I didn't understand (I understood how they are used for tests with continuous thresholds). We "discussed" probability functions and it directed me to several peer reviewed papers on the subject (I always insist on this). I now understand. Reckon it's saved me quite a lot of time. I do this type of learning quite a bit. I have some background knowledge, but there are aspects I don't fully understand or have forgotten. I feel more educated, less ignorant now. Most my peers wouldn't give a shit about this, would just report whatever the paper says without questioning, but in this instance I find AI really useful. Does it just depend how you use it?

It might be the outcome but I doubt it's planned. We're already there for 90% of people anyway.

Great post and it's definitely the educational impact that worries me most. In case there is any doubt, I am not a fan of a lot of what AI does and would love to see it's use heavily restricted? But how?

The EU are at least trying to regulate it. The US and China, not so much.

Well that's the point of AI. History will no longer be written by the victors, it'll be written by Musk's bots.

Just last year companies were willing to pay my consultancy 40k per 3000 word manuscript, with me as the ghost writer. Maybe 2 weeks work. I offered a lot more than just prose, but AI can certainly make the process much more efficient and let lower skilled staff undertake more straight forward projects. I'm now avoiding anything to do with medical writing, forgive the pun but the writing is on the wall.

You Boldon blood brothers are as one.