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Back in the days I reckon people presumed the same thing with the introduction of computers.
Reality is different to what people think.
Would you trust AI to not make a single mistake?
Looking at the bigger picture.
Who is held accountable when the AI system incorrectly prints or uploads a test result that leads to failure or not being compliant?
And last question, why are we trusting a AI with a documentation/test result when it lacks the qualifications, oversight and the judgment of a certified electrician?
Reality is different to what people think.
Would you trust AI to not make a single mistake?
Looking at the bigger picture.
Who is held accountable when the AI system incorrectly prints or uploads a test result that leads to failure or not being compliant?
And last question, why are we trusting a AI with a documentation/test result when it lacks the qualifications, oversight and the judgment of a certified electrician?
Why is that classed as "AI" and not just another computer programme?
Because markets better
In commercial builds yes, but house bashing will take longer. The trades are extremely conservative (with a small c) to change
As I recently observed, that's a very good question.
Suddenly, everything complicated or large-scale being done by computers is seemingly being called "AI", yet I have not yet come across an example where I am at all convinced that the computer is exhibiting anything that I would regard as autonomous 'intelligence' (whatever 'intelligence'may be, even in humans).
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I usually call it (highly justifiably IMO) Artificial Stupidity.
It's not autonomous intelligence which concerns me, but the ease with which AI tools make it possible to automate or carry out tasks which would be impractical to be done "by hand" and for that facility to be used by bad actors, like deep-fake images and video and voice recordings, social media chatbots, and so on, and the disruption which the knowledge that such tools exist brings. For example, from what I've read a big (possibly the biggest) problem with AI in the environment of college/uni student essay writing is not the use of AI, but of students being falsely accused of using it. Sometimes after (oh, the irony), analysis of their work by AI. Students are advised now to keep timestamped histories of every version/revision they write, but for those determined to cheat how long would it take to get ChatGPT to produce simulacra of those?
A quick example of the technical capability of AI:
I re-visited this site out of interest, a few years after I first saw it. I remember that back then there was often something not quite right about the images. But now, after s/w and h/w upgrades.... blimey
The images are all produced in real time. Nobody who visits the site will see the same as anybody else, or what they or anybody else has seen before, or will ever see again.
It's not autonomous intelligence which concerns me, but the ease with which AI tools make it possible to automate or carry out tasks which would be impractical to be done "by hand" and for that facility to be used by bad actors, like deep-fake images and video and voice recordings, social media chatbots, and so on, and the disruption which the knowledge that such tools exist brings. For example, from what I've read a big (possibly the biggest) problem with AI in the environment of college/uni student essay writing is not the use of AI, but of students being falsely accused of using it. Sometimes after (oh, the irony), analysis of their work by AI. Students are advised now to keep timestamped histories of every version/revision they write, but for those determined to cheat how long would it take to get ChatGPT to produce simulacra of those?
A quick example of the technical capability of AI:
I re-visited this site out of interest, a few years after I first saw it. I remember that back then there was often something not quite right about the images. But now, after s/w and h/w upgrades.... blimey
The images are all produced in real time. Nobody who visits the site will see the same as anybody else, or what they or anybody else has seen before, or will ever see again.
Probably wise!
Fair enough, but as I was effectively asking, where is the "I" in that "AI" or AI tools"? .... your concerns seem to be about what modern computers can be programmed to do, rather than anything to do with 'intelligence', aren't they?
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Returning to autostereograms, I remember that when they were popular I had no problems at all in making the 3D images appear and my wife could not do it at all. She has astigmatism, which may be relevant. Sort-of the same here, except that I have always had 'some problems', probably 'failing'...
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I've never really understood how the Turing Test (at least, one of the more common variants) can reliably work - since I would have thought that most reasonably intelligent human beings would be able to 'act' at least as 'machine-like' than could an actual machine?
In the context we're talking about, for something to justify the "I" of "AI", I think I would want to see clear evidence that it had done, or was able to do, something beyond what it had been programmed to do.
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