Many of us thought the 21st century would be the Age of Aquarius, not evolution’s tipping point:
The older generation knows the “The Age of Aquarius”, as a song by the 5th Dimension in 1969. This is exactly what they were telling years before us we were coming into this new age. They got this information from old writings and prophecies. They knew these kids would come to us to help us heal. From (Spring Rayne)
The dictionary’s definition of tipping point is:
“the point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger, more important change”.
Life-saving abilities, honed by evolution to foster survival, are being short-circuited in many areas. A look at various AI entries on Google just today is alarming. Do see for yourself…
Tech giants are heralding ChatGPT as revolutionary…. With millions of users, the chatbot has started an A.I. arms race. Companies are rushing to release their own chatbots, and some seem eerily human.
Beyond the excitement, the technology’s possibilities can feel scary — as if science fiction has become reality. ChatGPT has already inspired many people to ask: Will A.I. take my job? It’s a familiar panic, one that resurfaces every time a groundbreaking innovation emerges, like the car or the internet. Still, questioning how A.I. could replace jobs in the future misses a more urgent point: The platform is changing how people work right now.
No longer the future….NOW:
<https://www.forbes.com:
Between them, some of the world’s biggest tech companies have [already] collectively laid off more than 150,000 workers in recent months.
The Real Reasons For Big Tech Layoffs At Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon: In truth, it isn’t likely to be because the companies involved need money. Microsoft MSFT +1.7%, which is reported to have laid off around 10,000 employees, practically simultaneously announced that it plans to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, the creators of the viral application ChatGPT. It seems likely that there is a business reason at the heart of the decision to invest a sum that would equate to $1 million per laid-off employee in an AI company.
Likewise, Google’s parent company Alphabet GOOGLE announced plans to reduce its global headcount by 12,000 – a cut of around 6%. CEO Sundar Pichai has previously described AI as the most transformational technology of all time, and in making the layoffs, stated that the strategy will be to “direct our talent and capital to our highest priorities.” It’s widely thought that Google is working on its own AI-powered answer to ChatGPT that will be announced soon.
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Folks are asking a machine what the weather outside is like; depending on a GPS to guide them to their destination;and apparently enjoying the auxiliary help. They’ve even made progress in robot tv anchors. And my college graduate granddaughter cannot read cursive handwriting.
I’ll eat my words if AI succeeds in killing Climate Change, but with a decrease in smarts, manners, education and brotherly love, our much earlier and more primitive underpinning of kinship selection makes a happy Aquarious future less likely.
AND MANY STATES WANT, ARE GETTING, AND REWARDING MORE BABIES. Poor babies, poor mothers and poor us.
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It makes Climate Change less scary by comparison, maybe our time’s up…but I wish it was…were…otherwise.
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It makes Climate Change less scary by comparison, maybe our time’s up…but I wish it was…were…otherwise.
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I think we will come to rue the day that Artificial Intelligence was created. Surely there are some very excellent uses for such programs, however as with all technology, the potential for it to be used for harm is overwhelming. I think it will be used to ‘dummify’ the populace, to make them more reliant that ever on political rhetoric, for they will no longer know how to think for themselves. I played with AI a bit a month or so ago and decided I have no use for it. If I’m not going to write my own views in my own voice, why bother? However some will grab onto it and get even lazier, forget how to write, how to research, how to even use a library. Yes, the day will come when we regret that AI is becoming dominant.
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Thanks for your thoughts. And I agree with every statement. We can already observe how limited they are making school students who have regressed back to printing with the help of “education.” Assuming the internet cannot be wiped out overnight in a real attack. Or that AI won’t reach the logical conclusion that oldies must be wiped out for the good of the youngies.
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Actually, the internet could quite easily be brought down within a matter of seconds in an EMP attack, and at that point, AI would be as useless as feathers on a pig. But, that aside, it has potential for great good, or great evil.
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Many of us thought the 21st century would be the Age of Aquarius, not evolution’s tipping point:
The older generation knows the “The Age of Aquarius”, as a song by the 5th Dimension in 1969. This is exactly what they were telling years before us we were coming into this new age. They got this information from old writings and prophecies. They knew these kids would come to us to help us heal.
From (Spring Rayne)
The dictionary’s definition of tipping point is:
“the point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger, more important change”.
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Interesting post, Nan. AI is a fascinating tool but could it also be a threat? Education has “dumbed down” already, we don’t need to go further in that direction! But I believe babies born (authentic intelligence) are our best resource 🙂
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Oh Lynn…What can I say? Thanks for commenting and glad you can see the possible threat in AI. But…are you saying more babies are the solution, as in outlawing abortions? Maybe I’m reading too much into your comment? Smile.
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