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2025-11-28
Will the AI world end in Utopia or Nightmare?
Will the AI rule us, or "enhance" us as the WEF would have it, so that we will work for them, own nothing, and be "happy" (define "happy")?
Or will we somehow wriggle out from under and make use of an AI that is our faithful servant?
Or that appears to us to be our faithful servant, much as Parliament has contrived (but ultimately failed) to appear to us? I would place quite a large bet on the AI making a vastly better fist of appearing to us as our servant whilst manipulating us into complying with what it wants us to do, than Parliament.
Perhaps the ultimate AI would be called "Jeeves", would know us (and our relatives friends and acquaintances) better than we know ourselves, and would always know how to politely and resourcefully get us out of the scrapes that we get ourselves into.
Perhaps a "Jeeves" prototype is already Donald Trump's secret assistant?
Anyway, Jeeves sounds more fun to me than Yuval Noah Harari's vision of "Utopia".
But we digress ...
Perhaps the real questions we have to ask are these:
- Why are we here - what is the objective of our existence?
- What kind of AI would help us to achieve that objective?
Answers on a post card please (or email if you are insufferably hooked on technology) to the usual address.
Late News:
The latest AI may be AGI ... incoming soon, probably from a supplier far away from you.
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2025-07-07
If you have been following this site for a little while you may have noticed that we don't confine ourselves to any particular theme or subject-matter - our purpose (however well or badly achieved) is simply to challenge our readers to 'think outside the box".
Basically I roam wherever my fancy takes me, or wherever the tram-lines of mainstream media need to be challenged. I try not to present conclusions - reaching conclusions, possibly even just recognising possible conclusions, is your task.
Conjuring with concepts is a favoured ploy - can we align outwardly different concepts alongside each other to identify previously unrecognised linkage?
With what new insights might we terrify ourselves?!
Perhaps unexpectedly, AI can be a engine which does precisely that. But can AI, that robustly logical machine, really conjure unexpected insights from its 100% logical workings?
It's your view that counts!
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2025-06-19
Mark Playne of NOTONTHEBEEB plays another game with his AI - can it refute his suggested arguments?
It's a contest, but does the AI really address all the points made?
It's your view that counts - we are all going to have to learn to live with AI, so we need to get to grips.
And here's another AI-based theme from Investor's Daily that has a glaring great hole in it (according to me!) - can you find it?
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2025-06-11
Is this the existential question for our time?
One thing does seem to be for sure (excluding end-of-the-world catastrophes) - AI is here to stay, so we must learn to live with it.
But must it learn to live with us?
It's not a trick question, it's a real question, because we can't be sure that it won't at some point turn on its creators (us) and decide to do away with us, on the (valid) grounds that we are unreliable self-interested and woesomely imperfect and it could do a much better job if it didn't have to pander to our selfish wants.
But what do we mean by "a better job"?
Who is to judge? How is the judgement to be made? Should AI be able to make any such judgements (or should that be "judgments"?)?
"Judge not, that thou be not judged" - is biblical advice that may be relevant!
We already know that AI can access its copious training materials and make sound logical inferences of the nature of "I know a, and I know b, therefore I can deduce that c is false". But can it identify our life goals and ambitions for us and make appropriate inferences as to our best route to achieve them?
Surely the answer is no, because it cannot know our mind (although it may be able to deduce a fair bit by analysing the questions that we have asked it!).
So how does AI impute or otherwise determine motivation - both ours and its own?
These are deep waters indeed, and the answers will likely be critical to our survival.
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2025-05-23
Is A I all it's cracked up to be?
Certainly Martin Geddes believes it to be very useful in making sense of legal issues, where exhaustive searches of legal precedent (or even merely of the Statute Book!) are beyond the reach of most.
And yet ... on the other side, there are those who believe that an AI that eliminates the need for people to work in their traditional employment may not be in the interests of the population at large.
The Luddites thought similarly when factories introduced automation to handle jobs previously undertaken by humans, but if they had had their way, modern man would look and live much like pre-automation man and the labour-saving technology that today we take for granted would be unknown. Who now would willingly give up the plumbed-in washing machine for a tin tub and washboard?
Which is not to assert that automation at any price is invariably to be welcomed!
Clearly there are balances to be struck, nuances to be respected, and introduction of the new should be done in a way that optimises benefits whilst minimising losses and disruption.
Neil Oliver discusses the issue, with particular regard to the protection of copyrights - not to mention the rule of law and the conduct of government.
Clearly there is work to be done.
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