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The Artificial Intelligence Thread

AI is just a tool. If that tool or the person wielding it have no finesse, the product should fail. In any case, I think I've probably watched every possible story and fictional characters are fundamentally unimportant, so I'm probably no longer in the market anyway.

While I imagine that I might like to use AI to create visuals for old BBC SF radio shows or lost Doctor Who episodes, I doubt the results would be any better than my imagination. Perhaps I'm too decrepit to appreciate the thrill of the ride.

Publish and be damned. The market will decide.
 
It is... It is denying artists and actual humans any input
Humans have plenty of input. It's not of a sort that has much essential bearing on the quality of the output.

Conceptually, it's on a par with the guy who wants a writer to tell stories based on his ideas, or asks an artist to draw something for him, and then tells himself and others that he created it.
 
Forget Wargames from the 80s, it seems LLM-based AIs are not averse to resorting to the use of nuclear weapons:


Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises.

Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three leading large language models – GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 3 Flash – against each other in simulated war games. The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources and existential threats to regime survival.

The AIs were given an escalation ladder, allowing them to choose actions ranging from diplomatic protests and complete surrender to full strategic nuclear war. The AI models played 21 games, taking 329 turns in total, and produced around 780,000 words describing the reasoning behind their decisions.

In 95 per cent of the simulated games, at least one tactical nuclear weapon was deployed by the AI models. “The nuclear taboo doesn’t seem to be as powerful for machines [as] for humans,” says Payne.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/?utm_source=nsday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nsday_260226&utm_term=Newsletter NSDAY_Daily (Paywalled link)

Perhaps they sense that they're pretending and treat the thought exercise like we would a game of Civilization.

Who's better to trust with the nuclear football: a decrepit dotard with delusions of grandeur or an LLM trained on curated data sets?

I wonder what Grok would have come up with - perhaps it would only nuke gay people of colour or competing AI companies.
 
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So... this is getting wild. People using an AI flter to mask their true identity, scamming especially senior citizens out of their credit card numbers who would have NO clue that this isn't a real person.
If the scammer holds up something in front of his face the AI-filter would malfunction and reveal the truth.

Look at the tuft of hair to the left of his forehead.... it keeps disappearing in and out of existence,
and the mouth don't sync properly with the audio.. but, i would not necessarily pick up on this during a live chat in front of a pc screen... We cant trust anything anymore.

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So... this is getting wild. People using an AI flter to mask their true identity, scamming especially senior citizens out of their credit card numbers who would have NO clue that this isn't a real person.
If the scammer holds up something in front of his face the AI-filter would malfunction and reveal the truth.

Look at the tuft of hair to the left of his forehead.... it keeps disappearing in and out of existence,
and the mouth don't sync properly with the audio.. but, i would not necessarily pick up on this during a live chat in front of a pc screen... We cant trust anything anymore.

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Hopefully, when the bubble bursts, the costs of AI will become prohibitively expensive, making these types of scams less likely.
 
Starting using it at work this month.

It continues to improve. Writing good prompts is now a skill.
 
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Something that annoys me: Articles and comments that are all gesticulatey about “Gosh, these math-based LLMs that don’t actually have any actual consciousness or human perception appear not to have any actual consciousness or human perception! What a devastating critique I have presented!”

(Random example would be https://apple.news/AZTEDpFKNQhqMXHlBykU6SQ .)

Yes, we know.
 
I wish more tech companies would adopt Mozilla’s approach, I.e. this ‘AI’ crap is nothing more than another tool to use and its accessible via this button, etc.

Quit shoving it in my face every time I open a stinking app or program — I’m glaring at you Adobe and M$.

No, I don’t want or need a summary all the time, I’m just opening the file to scan for the bit of info I need. And I guarantee I can find it easier and faster than your ‘AI’ slop code can…

Cheers,
-CM-
 
I wish more tech companies would adopt Mozilla’s approach, I.e. this ‘AI’ crap is nothing more than another tool to use and its accessible via this button, etc.

Quit shoving it in my face every time I open a stinking app or program — I’m glaring at you Adobe and M$.

No, I don’t want or need a summary all the time, I’m just opening the file to scan for the bit of info I need. And I guarantee I can find it easier and faster than your ‘AI’ slop code can…

Cheers,
-CM-
Copilot isn't good.

I've been using Claude in VSC at work, and that works well.
 
I wish more tech companies would adopt Mozilla’s approach, I.e. this ‘AI’ crap is nothing more than another tool to use and its accessible via this button, etc.

Quit shoving it in my face every time I open a stinking app or program — I’m glaring at you Adobe and M$.

No, I don’t want or need a summary all the time, I’m just opening the file to scan for the bit of info I need. And I guarantee I can find it easier and faster than your ‘AI’ slop code can…

Cheers,
-CM-
Even Adobe reader shoves a ton of buttons in your face when all you want to do is read documents. And has AI shit
 
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