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Old 12-03-2024, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by skarra View Post
I was listening to a recent Youtube interview where Bill Gates was talking about the effects that AI is going to have on our education system. Most of it will be good thankfully.

What seems more doubtful is how it will be leveraged in society in general. The bad actors (Cyber Crime) are already all over it, and a lot of white collar jobs are being impacted already.

Does anyone have any stories about how it's impacting them? I know CoPilot, ChatGPT etc is already available to the masses, and I use it for so many things with great effect. I'm really looking forward to seeing it being applied to the healthcare industry. But my biggest concern is that without proper governance it will be abused - are our governments up to the task?

Interesting times.
Let me take that in sections -

1) I wouldn't listen to Gates, he's long been out of it as well as being his own orchestra, and by the way he's not all that technical either. (yes I've spent time with him in Seattle) he is a saleman and a real good one.

2) AI is still new, and being jumped on much like cloud was in IT. The problem is power in 2 ways. AI having more power (not good), and power to run AI (aka Nvidia's new chip).

The thing to watch out for is what we said back in the 80's when AI was tossed around (for those in the business - this is back when Prolog was introduced). Artificial Intelligence will only be as intelligent as the idiot that programmed it. This still holds true today. Let's take Watson (IBM) this was the first entry in an "AI Like" platform and for the most part it failed. Reason I said that was it's primary intention was to use in the Medical arena. It in turn wasn't fed all that accurate information....which leads me to..

3) Using AI for health services. I'd consider this to be quite dangerous in many ways, much like Watson failed, so will AI. The reason is that every human is different which means with every human the 'basis' changes, including the unknown. Do you know if you are not allergic to everything produced by Pharma? Actually you don't, because there are so many different drugs, antibiotics, dose levels, etc out there you could never know 100%. Currently the public expects AI to work at 100%, in IT "it works" is 100% until we want the public to consume something for our own good (cloud). Face is 99.9% is termed "it doesn't work" from a true strict software testing perspective...and the shoe drops - IT doesn't really test software like they used to. They would rather shove it into your hands and let you find the problems - it's less expensive (enter India, Brazil, Philippines) for the company. IT has been doing it for decades. Why does Windows 11 stil have issues? easy answer Microsoft doesn't really test it, you do.

So when you end up in the ER because of AI.... WHO will take that call? India? LOL how ridiculous (as it already is).

Bottom line - don't run to it, crawl very cautiously. Cloud still sucks, costs more than having the equipment in house, and isn't 100% uptime like they promised. So what do you want from AI? You will get the same result. IMHO I don't want to accept mediocre at 'perfect' pricing like the rest of corporate america has sucked into.

That's what almost 50 years of IT does to you - welcome to reality. and no the government isn't even close to keeping anything safe or managed properly they are still "working on it"
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