Saturday, 9 August 2025

Should I be worried?

I recently googled Record of a Baffled Spirit to access a previous post. 





To my surprise, I discovered a whole new world: deep AI. I’ve been reading how AI is about to take over the world, at best make us all stupid, at worst terminate us one and all. I considered the options, considered I was fairly stupid anyway and clicked on the AI overview. My mind boggled. The amount of stuff it had dredged up on me—no dental records as yet—and all in semi-readable prose. 






The world and its wife now belongs to AI—largely to our benefit though others may argue. But as AI becomes ever more powerful, where will it all end? At present, it has access to our past, but why stop there? Quantum AI will no doubt predict our future as well: a boon for Insurance Companies, care homes filling vacancies with maximum efficiency, and the euthanasia business looming on the horizon. All very  gloomy for the likes of me who clicks out of idle curiosity and discovers he’s going to die next Tuesday- and no doubt being able to read a pre-written obituary 






2 comments:

Maria Zannini said...

Don't get me started on AI. Greg gets irritated with me because I research every article he shares with me. 8 times out of 10 it's some crap AI has cobbled together.
I can't fight AI, so I isolate it as much as I can.

It's a lost cause, of course.

Mike Keyton said...

I’ve noticed Facebook is now full of AI pap. And now there are AI bands on Spotify and AI written novels — makes you feel sorry for all those Celebrity authors 😎