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Grant from “Grant at Tame Your Book” have written an excellent and well researched post about the dark side of Artificial Intelligence. It has nearly a hundred references and it is very professionally written. It is called Don’t Confuse AI with a Benign Tool. With this post I just wanted to highlight this important post. Please check it out.
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Thank you very much, Thomas. I have many non-benign concerns about AI.
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Thank you so much Lynette and Grant’s article is very interesting.
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Grant’s article is certainly thorough! I don’t know why AI is being pushed into every aspect of life, especially given how much energy it needs.
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I agree, Grant’s article is great and very interesting. About the energy needs of AI, most AI does not use much energy. The AI I created for robots and machines did not use more energy than a few seconds of a laptop battery and the AI on your phone only uses your phones battery a little bit. Not much energy at all. The AI that use a lot of energy are the large LLMs like chatGPT and Claude.
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There is so much to contemplate about the use of artificial intelligence, a lot to read and discern. My only hope is that people, businesses… etc can and will keep its use on the benign side, so to say, as much as possible. Or at least until we, humanity figure out exactly how it can be used in a benign way, mostly if not entirely. I imagine it could be a useful tool, up to a point, or to a certain degree. But then again, people are known for turning a perfectly good tool into a weapon or some kind of master, sadly enough, instead of learning how to better or ideally master the tool. Thank you for the links, Thomas, this truly is a many-faceted topic that seems to need considering and reconsidering, all in all.
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You said it exactly right “people are known for turning a perfectly good tool into a weapon or some kind of master”. As Grant was pointing out in his article, people and businesses are often not using it for good causes. And turning it into a weapon has already happened, autonomous drones, target-identification systems, and automated robotic platforms. AI can bring good and bad and if we use it badly AI can copy us and even turn against us like in the movie Terminator. Like you say “there is so much to contemplate about the use of artificial intelligence”.
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