Afraid of AI?

My wife has cancer and thus sees a lot of doctors. After a recent EKG she got a text saying she just had a heart attack and needed more tests.

We both panicked. She called the doctor and of course he couldn't TALK to her but followed up a day later with another text.

"Oh you are fine. Don't worry. It was read by AI. When I personally read it, I saw you were OK".

We need to keep a skeptical eye on freaking doctors as well. If they can't take the time to do their job themselves, they should not be allowed to practice.

The devil is at work again.
Exactly what I am talking about. Doc should have checked the AI diagnostic analysis over before allowing the message to be sent to your wife. That's a bad system that allows AI to text diagnostic analysis without oversight.
 
I am not afraid of it, but it is going to cause a lot of changes. Perhaps even a lot more changes than the desk-top computer and the world wide web. Like all new systems it may run a while before we figure out how to make it safe. How long did it take for auto makers to put seat belts in cars?
 
...AI tools are here and have potential, but it's going to force us to stomp through a lot of fuzzy & verbose slop (John Oliver has a humerous video about this posted over on YouTube)....
I gotta find that JO vid. His bad language occas. gets to me but he pulls no punches. I still laugh at the piece he did on Infrastructure a few years ago.

But yes, it's not the technology itself but how we (mis-)use it. I posted an article a couple of days ago about how some nitwit in WA wanted to cut his salt intake and ChatGPT told him to substitute sodium bromide - with no warnings and he ended up in hospital for 3 weeks.

In some ways we are are our own worst enemy.
 
Review of prospective briefs will probably have to be done the old fashioned way, with Shepard's Citations and/or Google Scholar. My old law school still has bound case books in the library.
Which begs the question: wouldn't be just as easy for an actual human write the brief from the beginning rather spending as many or more hours fact-checking AI work?
 
I've seen a lot of chatter recently about the average adult reading and comprehending at a 12 yr old level.This isn't going to help with that 🙄
The literacy rate in the US is said to have been higher in the 1890-1940 period than now, even when so many students in that time period quit after completing the 8th grade to work on the farm, in factories, and other work.
 
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OUCH! I can't imagine ever accompanying my progeny to a job interview. (n)

I have a friend in the acquisition-merger business. He recently started an AI project using his phone, and he would send some of us pictures of ourselves doing things we had not done or wearing clothes we had not worn. The project has grown and it is likely going to make him a considerable amount of money. Anyway, we were on the phone chatting about two of our favorite sports, poker (we play a great deal) and professional bull riding (we watch only :ROFLMAO: ) and, as we spoke, he sent me an AI video he created AS WE SPOKE of President Trump dressed western, with the name"Yoda" on both sides of his vest lapels, riding a bucking bull, and the video even had sound like a bull's hooves hitting the ground. I'd post it here, but I wouldn't want it to get around, and, trust me, it's funny. DJT would probably like it himself! Y'all would be very amused!!!

AI in the right hands is fine; otherwise, be prepared for the Terminator and SkyNet. :oops::oops:
 

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