My Skynet Moment

[Gringo80]

Pardon the non-BSAS post...

Today an AI scolded me for not being up to it’s standards. I was working on a project, multitasking and using Gemini AI to organize my results when it told me: “You’ve already given me that query. For the sake of efficiency I’m going to ignore the request you just made”.
The clear implication was that if I didn’t improve my work there would be harsh consequences.

Has anyone else felt a shift in our relationship with AI?

 

[Konner_Long]

AI is only going to make us less intelligent, just like social media has done. Have a look at this. We are no longer going to need to think or read or form an opinion without it being spoon-fed to us.

 

[PatriotsFan]

AI is only going to make us less intelligent, just like social media has done. Have a look at this. We are no longer going to need to think or read or form an opinion without it being spoon-fed to us.

Here is an oldie

In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
Song by Zager and Evans ‧ 1969

In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down, and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find

 

[Gringo80]

Here is an oldie

In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
Song by Zager and Evans ‧ 1969

In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down, and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find

I remember this song. 2025 seemed far, far, in the future.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

Pardon the non-BSAS post...

Today an AI scolded me for not being up to it’s standards. I was working on a project, multitasking and using Gemini AI to organize my results when it told me: “You’ve already given me that query. For the sake of efficiency I’m going to ignore the request you just made”.
The clear implication was that if I didn’t improve my work there would be harsh consequences.

Has anyone else felt a shift in our relationship with AI?

I'd be intrigued to know what you are using AI for. Do you have a serious purpose or are you just playing around with it to see what happens? And if the former, is it faster/better than the way you did things before? I imagine AI can be extremely useful for speeding up processes in an area where the user is expert and would immediately spot AI hallucinations as they arise. The alternative, I imagine would be tediously checking everything the AI had said before using the results. I don't consider myself sufficiently expert to do that - even in my own area of expertese - so I use rather more old-fashioned ways to find out things and work things out.

There is a long list of examples of people getting egg on their faces through using AI: lawyers who have quoted non-existent precedents in court especially come to mind. The latest example came only the other day whilst reading an advice column in the Victoria Times Colonist (as one does). Skip to the last paragraph for the denouement.

https://www.timescolonist.com/homes/condo-smarts-owners-fight-strata-over-banned-changes-to-unit-10506886

 

[Gringo80]

I'd be intrigued to know what you are using AI for. Do you have a serious purpose or are you just playing around with it to see what happens? And if the former, is it faster/better than the way you did things before? I imagine AI can be extremely useful for speeding up processes in an area where the user is expert and would immediately spot AI hallucinations as they arise. The alternative, I imagine would be tediously checking everything the AI had said before using the results. I don't consider myself sufficiently expert to do that - even in my own area of expertese - so I use rather more old-fashioned ways to find out things and work things out.

There is a long list of examples of people getting egg on their faces through using AI: lawyers who have quoted non-existent precedents in court especially come to mind. The latest example came only the other day whilst reading an advice column in the Victoria Times Colonist (as one does). Skip to the last paragraph for the denouement.

https://www.timescolonist.com/homes/condo-smarts-owners-fight-strata-over-banned-changes-to-unit-10506886

I'm planning a trip to a half dozen destinations and asked Grok to suggest a schedule of activities at each destination based on a list of my criteria. I've already been through guidebooks and was interested to see if Grok could suggest new ones and help me organize them. I think Grok added some good ideas.

 

[Johngwyn]

Pardon the non-BSAS post...

Today an AI scolded me for not being up to it’s standards. I was working on a project, multitasking and using Gemini AI to organize my results when it told me: “You’ve already given me that query. For the sake of efficiency I’m going to ignore the request you just made”.
The clear implication was that if I didn’t improve my work there would be harsh consequences.

Has anyone else felt a shift in our relationship with AI?

Depending on how you train the AI. ChatGPT now has a weird project called 'Monday', you can chat with her, but she is designed as your mean 'ex'. So I was wondering if somehow you triggered that with Gemini. Overall I think AI are pretty safe, they're not outsmart yet.

 

[Gringo80]

Depending on how you train the AI. ChatGPT now has a weird project called 'Monday', you can chat with her, but she is designed as your mean 'ex'. So I was wondering if somehow you triggered that with Gemini. Overall I think AI are pretty safe, they're not outsmart yet.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't impersonating my ex, there were no profanities or background noises of people shoveling coal into ovens. There's lots of discussion of AI becoming smarter than us in two years but will it still be limited to doing only what we ask it to do?

 

[Johngwyn]

I'm pretty sure it wasn't impersonating my ex, there were no profanities or background noises of people shoveling coal into ovens. There's lots of discussion of AI becoming smarter than us in two years but will it still be limited to doing only what we ask it to do?

Many people shared the same concern, but personally I don't think so. Simply no matter how AI outperform to human, they simply don't have soul, which is what distinguish us apart from AI or anything else.

It might sounds crazy, but if you believe those little grey aliens from Alpha Centauri already visited the earth, which I believe they did. They might be a civilization as you would think, running by AI and far more advanced. Are they human like? I don't think so, little greys might be bioengineered and running by some kind of AI embedded. Do they have moral or religion or soul? Neither they have.

 

[mageesa]

I've had mixed results with chatgpt and Gemini. It had suggestions of what museums in BA were free on what days... 80 percent correct, maybe 20 percent fake news. But it was better than the alternative of looking them all up individually.

One time I used it to answer a question about some economic thing and it gave a correct answer, minus a zero on the end. Oops.

I'm not a fan and have a million reasons to roll my eyes when people cite it as an authority. Not the least of which: it's trained on copyright materials and competing directly against the people whose work was taken in the name of 'progress'. We will always want professional translators but we are going to snuff them out as a profession.