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Erik Tracy said:
I think this is a very bad thing and a sign post for a very wrong path.

Just my deflated 2cents worth.
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I agree with you 100%.

I don’t follow the main stream media so I am not sure how much coverage this story has received.

At the very least, it’s a story of a business person saying that the product they are selling is good and not harmful. Like what used to be said about cigarettes.

I would hope that society would reach some kind of tipping point and say no to the machine brain.

Human civilization can survive without AI, but AI cannot survive without human civilization.


Here is a quote from that Wall Street Journal article a little further in:

“The very platforms that have led to our social isolation and being chronically online are now posing a solution to the loneliness epidemic,” said Meghana Dhar, a former Instagram executive who thinks AI friends will only make such problems worse. “It almost seems like the arsonist coming back and being the fireman.”

Interesting times we live in.
 
You are supposed to get rid of your future nasty boss/over lord while you still have the chance and ya gotta do it with a smile.
Doing that now is always easier than waiting for them to get stronger and meaner.
Ummm, I mean that’s what I heard 🤷‍♂️.
 
To me, AI is something like the genie in the bottle, or toothpaste when it's out of the tube...once it's out there, there is no going back, and if you don't develop it quickly, someone else surely will. You can't stop progress, because the world marches on, with or without you. It's just the way it is.
 
Time for a bit of cold water thrown on things.

The term "A.I" as being thrown around this days is nothing more than marketing <BEEEEP>it.

What is happening are Large Language Models getting loaded with mammoth data sets, also with some fairly impressive programming. These systems can tabulate and index vast amounts of data, and at best (IMNSHO,) are pulling out potential correlations. They are NOT capable of truly original thought.

I don't think that we'll have true Artificial Intelligence with the current state of electronics. I do believe that it'll take a fundamental change in the way we build information processing systems.

Having said all of that...... I have no use for Zuckerberg.
 
My wife uses an AI program at work that will write letters/proposals if she gives it the basics that need to be covered.
Sometimes she will type something up, be unhappy with her tone and tell it to make it sound a little warmer or friendlier.

I imagine that AI will collect things and implement them where they think they will best fit.
I’ve seen some cool/funny AI pictures.
I’ve even asked for and received cool tee shirt advertising designs for my oyster garden thing.
There is lots of AI run YouTube channels currently. They rather obvious because they suck.

In a short while AI will get better at writing, graffics, math/problem solving.
While I don’t see it more than a cool tool, its potential ability to pick investments and run business is scary to me.
 
And now for something completely different…it’s

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Apple is looking forward to a day, still some years away, when implants developed by Elon Musk’s Neuralink and its rivals receive approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Such implants, known as brain computer interfaces, have already been safely placed in a handful of patients.

Historically, humans interacted with their computers mechanically, using keyboards and mice. Smartphones introduced touch, a behavioral input, but still an observable physical movement. The new capability means Apple devices won’t need to see the user make specific movements, the devices can detect user intentions from decoded brain signals.
 
Hello everyone. Been absent again for a while. Just been too busy. However, last weekend I smoked a brisket in the smoke fire and I learned a new thing. The bark was solid. Everything underneath the bark you could eat with a spoon. I was having trouble cutting burn ends from the brisket because the knife was squishing the meat. Until last weekend I didn't know you could make brisket spoon ready and juicy and good.

The smoke fire performed great. We've all seen the results. Everyone loved it and said best brisket they've ever had.

I also wonder if it's because of the wagyu brisket from smoke River farms or if I've just been lucky. I think it's both. If you don't mess up. Good ingredients than. You've done all right 😎



Also, winning🏆😎
 
Our travels have brought us back to the Carolina’s
Last week we were in a very small (10 sites) campground just south of Mount Airy
This was our view from our campsite
IMG_6506.jpegThis in Pilot Mountain, also known as Mount Pilot on the Andy Griffith show!
These next 2 weeks we’re back in Charlotte for doctors appointments and to see my mom and the grands.
For the next couple days we’re at Camp Wilderness right next to Carowinds. Thursday, our favorite campground is opening back up after a year and a half of renovations! Ebenezer Park is right on Lake Wylie and is a great campground!
 
When we owned a regular home, we had birds that would nest every year. Either in a hanging basket on our porch or on our deck/pergola
Now that we’ve returned to “home base”, the tradition continues!
A Carolina wren is making a nest in our camper home tongue!
Unfortunately, we’re going to evict it tomorrow!
I’d hate to transplant the family north against its wishes!
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