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Your AI Therapist?

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2025-02-04

Well, AI seems to be all the rage currently so yet another article on the topic may be in place.

As so often it's Martin Geddes who pushes the buttons to persuade AI into topics new. Far-fetched? Maybe not.

And AI is going to be around until it's uninvented, which "could be a while", so best get used to it.

Heck, I'm coming to accept that I may even have to play with it myself ...

 

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Category: Free Citizen
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2025-02-04

It does seem that we live in a time of great peril to the ordinary man or woman on the Clapham Omnibus.

AI is on the threshold of becoming ubiquitous in many spheres, but in none more so than in matters of government.

The reason of course is that AI tends to be big complex and expensive, and especially reliant on Big Data, and Big Training. It is also largely beyond the reach of those without Big Wallets Big connections and the aforementioned Big Data. 

But it might bring the Big Statute Book within reach of Joe Citizen for specific queries.

So the main customers for AI will be Big Governments and their associated corporate contractors who will provide the interface between us and them. 

It is also currently not so easy to comprehend the veracity of its results for any given sphere of enquiry, whilst being well within the means of the usual corporate suspects to design and deploy - and their customer will not be "us", it will be "them".

Should we trust it? How can we trust it? Is it even practicable to challenge it1? Do we have any  protection at all?

What could possibly go wrong?

1 The EU has begun the process of legislating for it. But unless every AI can, together with its results, provide a supporting list of assumptions and facts upon which it relied in order to come to its conclusions, then the chances of challenging them remain miniscule.

 

The Time of Creative Destruction?

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Category: Free Citizen
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2025-02-04

As always, this is not financial advice - nor is it party-political - but as usual it does throw some interesting observations on the intersection of politics and economics.

In fact I'm more than ever convinced that politics economics and psychology/psychopathy are just three sides of the same triangle. To learn any one or two without the other is simply to remain ignorant of the operation of the whole.

So today the good folk at Fortune and Freedom bring us not one, but two articles for the reading of one. If we have been following the scurrilous end of the social media channels, we may have been puzzled (especially if we've have been following the in-my-view highly dubious "Trump coin" caravan). So this may be of interest. And they don't come any more political than "the Donald".

Today we can see that we live in a time of the creative destruction of politics, economics, and psychopathy as currently practised ... and perhaps much more, since these in turn depend on our understanding of our historical development. Is our accepted history also bunk?

Whatever, our task is to prepare for the rebuilding that will follow. No pressure ...

Check it out.

 

Hot Air Meets Cold Air?

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Category: Free Citizen
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2025-02-04

Can AI help us to understand why when politicians meet engineers, the result is not conducive to high standards and best practice?

It seems that it can, although progress may be dependent upon repeated questioning in order to tease out the full reasoning.

And of course, it depends which AI you choose to use. Fortunately, more AIs seem to be sprouting by the day, some with more specialist emphases. Time to dig in and get familiar?

Fulford White Dragon Report - Monday 3 February 2025

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2025-02-04

Amid all the turmoil unleashed by the first few days of the "Trump Presidency" (I use quotation marks because I still think that there are plenty of grounds for disbelieving appearances), Ben brings us his views about much of the consequences that we have already read elsewhere, interwoven with quite a bit of sauce that we probably have not seen elsewhere or perhaps suspected.

Of course he may just be making educated guesses or he may have sources of information, but this week's report has much to interest us either way.

This onion still has more layers to be exposed ... (modest subscription required for full access).

 

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