John Deering for November 25, 2023

“It decided our fate in a microsecond..” – Kyle Reese in ‘The Terminator’.

Of course they do.

I saw the other day that the UK is using AI to help discover new drugs, since each drug costs over $1 billion to develop. Worse, the failure rate is north of 96%. That’s a lot of billions wasted.

AI is BS

NOW, — because of increasing AI usage — truth/honesty/integrity/reliability are considered important again!

Ah , The Frankenstein/Hal 9000 / Terminator fear complex ! Oooooo boogeyman under the bed ! /s

Klaatu barada nikto.

AI is popular because there is so little of the real thing.

“I’m sorry Dave. I can’t do that” — HAL 9000 [2001: A Space Oddity]

And here is an interesting tidbit. HAL was named from the alphabet letters preceding IBM.

AI has existed for over fifty years. Someone (Feigenbaum?) created a checkers program that would learn by replacing failed strategies with winning ones. He beat it regularly, then it started beating him, and at the end there was one checkers champion who could beat it.

Another program solved geometry problems and it solved one (I forget ~ it had something to do with bi- or tri-secting sides of a triangle) in fewer steps than a human ever had.

That’s AI. What we have now is AAI. (Artificial Artificial Intelligence.)

This AI concern reminds me of the Y2K scare, and nothing happened with that either. AI programs of sorts have been in use for years.