Should we be afraid of Artificial Intelligence?

7 of 9 still looks fine.
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And then there are autonomous driving vehicles sharing public roads and irregular circumstances.
Now autonomous Ubers are small and less concerning but how do you all feel about sharing the road with 100 thousand pound autonomous Truck & Trailers
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I drive trucks already laden with some technology which will decide on its own to brake so hard the tires slide if the truck sees something.
The truck cannot think and does not know what the driver is seeing.
On one off ramp traveled regularly at speed 55 mph, one day the sunshine must have highlighted the adjacent 35mph speed sign for the right lane (not my lane) the truck locked up the brakes completely unexpectedly.
It let go and gave me back control seconds later but that was a WTH ! Experience.
Autonomous trucking is no where close to safe yet. Or even functional in my opinion.
 
There has been a lot of discussion around the auto industry and AI chat.
Here is another take on the emotional affecting the influencer, only fans fenominen and the grey areas of pediophiles and how humans are getting attached to internet personalities. If an AI personality can b created, generating followers then abruptly stopped, the social impact can lead to anxiety at best and suicide at worst.
Bad enough when it is a real person but getting that invested in an AI inflencer???? Some of these AI influencers are generating tremendous wealth for their creators, guess that is the point, but where is that leading us emotionally and socially.

Heck I might create an AI generated bike build and have all you guys give me advice.
Would, or if done properly how long could a forum b strung along.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08...ram-porn-social-media-relationships/104071876
 
I was a cultural anthropologist working for a museum at one point in my life. Every single thing human kind has ever invented can be used as a weapon and in some point in history has been used as a weapon. This has been true since we were vining sharp rocks to sticks, (Yes, I know that is grammatically incorrect.)

AI is going to be as dynamic and influential to human kind as learning to control fire, long term food storage, electricity, etc.

AI is like an assault rifle. Clear the chamber, dry fire, slap in a magazine and place it on a table. It is both powerful and harmless until someone picks it up and jacks a round into the chamber.

Take "AI" and add it to an amalgamation of Replika, Second Life (?NSFW) and Fallen Doll (NSFW). A large part of the population would not move as long as their device had power. It is bad enough now with social media and people constantly staring at screens. Tweak the fun parts of the brain and it is all over.

Long story short: I had to take "communications" as a requirement in school. Syllabus read "Into to Propaganda." "Bring snacks" was where the reading list was usual found. Went into class that day and there was a movie projector set up with one of those up-side-down-windowshade-screens in the front of the class room. Class started by the TA turning on the projector, and we watched "Rocky & Bulwinkle" for the whole class. When class ended, the TA went up to put the screen down and in a very demented"Mr. Rogers" voice said "Today boys and girls we learned that American might and American ingenuity will always triumph over incompetent KGB agents and their inept fearless leaders back in the Kremlin. Have a nice day."

AI does not scare me. What I fear are the morals and ethics of the people who will ventually control it because AI will generate money and power like nothing which has come before it, and I have very little faith in human kind.
 
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What do you mean eventually🤣🤣🤣🤣control it.

Musk, Zuckerburg, (meta,Instagram,messenger, threads, whatsap), google, microsoft, Amazon.

Of course these guys are doing it for you and me, you know the small guy, they just want to spread good will and help us climb up to a better standard of living and share their....... wealth........of experience taking everything from us from our money to our very existence.

But that's ok because I can say I share/contributed in their accomplishment of being the wealthiest person/people in the world☠️☠️☠️
 
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We are just at the very beginning - like before their were movies with sound.

Today we have mostly adolescent algorithms and infant AI. They are different things, mostly and both are being abused.

What gets me is why they started working on artificial intelligence when they haven't found a cure for human stupidity first.
 
I thought I’d comment on something our new “smart car” safety features did while we were driving the other day. We were driving on a road that had a curve that made it difficult to see very far down the road. Photo below just for illustration,
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There was a parking lot on the left side of the road that we wanted to enter, so we pulled into a left turn lane and waited for a break in traffic. There were cars coming from the opposite direction and when we thought we had a suitable gap, we started to turn. This is when trouble began……
My wife was driving at the time and as soon as she let her foot off the brake the car began to roll, but when she put her foot on the gas…..nothing! As most new cars are, the throttle is by wire, not mechanical linkage, the forward sensors must have identified oncoming traffic as a threat and it momentarily disabled the throttle. So here we were doing a slow roll across oncoming traffic. It only lasted a few seconds but it sure scared my wife! :yikes:
Fortunately we were on a neighborhood street with a slower speed limit. I might be telling a different story if it had happened on a major road , in a big intersection with fast moving cars!
That was weeks ago, it has never happened before or since.
 
Mailman said:
I thought I’d comment on something our new “smart car” safety features did while we were driving the other day. We were driving on a road that had a curve that made it difficult to see very far down the road. Photo below just for illustration,
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There was a parking lot on the left side of the road that we wanted to enter, so we pulled into a left turn lane and waited for a break in traffic. There were cars coming from the opposite direction and when we thought we had a suitable gap, we started to turn. This is when trouble began……
My wife was driving at the time and as soon as she let her foot off the brake the car began to roll, but when she put her foot on the gas…..nothing! As most new cars are, the throttle is by wire, not mechanical linkage, the forward sensors must have identified oncoming traffic as a threat and it momentarily disabled the throttle. So here we were doing a slow roll across oncoming traffic. It only lasted a few seconds but it sure scared my wife! :yikes:
Fortunately we were on a neighborhood street with a slower speed limit. I might be telling a different story if it had happened on a major road , in a big intersection with fast moving cars!
That was weeks ago, it has never happened before or since.
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Yes, I like the new Itchy Boots bike. I’m anxious to see how that goes.
Your wife’s experience is familiar. I was in a driver Ed car 1975. I had a gap for making a left and mashed the gas. The instructor had his foot on the brake. I floored it in a panic. I’m sure I put that Chevy V8 over the redline. I expect it felt the same as the overlord in the new car.
 
Mailman said:
I thought I’d comment on something our new “smart car” safety features did while we were driving the other day. We were driving on a road that had a curve that made it difficult to see very far down the road. Photo below just for illustration,
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There was a parking lot on the left side of the road that we wanted to enter, so we pulled into a left turn lane and waited for a break in traffic. There were cars coming from the opposite direction and when we thought we had a suitable gap, we started to turn. This is when trouble began……
My wife was driving at the time and as soon as she let her foot off the brake the car began to roll, but when she put her foot on the gas…..nothing! As most new cars are, the throttle is by wire, not mechanical linkage, the forward sensors must have identified oncoming traffic as a threat and it momentarily disabled the throttle. So here we were doing a slow roll across oncoming traffic. It only lasted a few seconds but it sure scared my wife! :yikes:
Fortunately we were on a neighborhood street with a slower speed limit. I might be telling a different story if it had happened on a major road , in a big intersection with fast moving cars!
That was weeks ago, it has never happened before or since.
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Time to talk to the dealer ?
 
jetmechmarty said:
Yes, I like the new Itchy Boots bike. I’m anxious to see how that goes.
Your wife’s experience is familiar. I was in a driver Ed car 1975. I had a gap for making a left and mashed the gas. The instructor had his foot on the brake. I floored it in a panic. I’m sure I put that Chevy V8 over the redline. I expect it felt the same as the overlord in the new car.
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1971, for me, one of the Phys Ed coaches was tasked with Drivers Ed, Ex-Marine, Mr Marcinko, wore a big military ring on his left hand which was resting on the bench back behind your head, with the stone turned towards you. Any infraction would get you a knock on the noggin from the ring.
 
My new truck is telling me via the phone app that my car / truck is in a deep sleep mode and needs to be driven so it can hook up with my phone app
They will bring the service truck to check out the small battery ( I assume ) and see what the problem is
I can still drive it but come this winter there will be times when the auto start will come in handy
New vehicle new problems
 
A good video on the development of fighter aircraft AI.
If you take nothing else away from this vid, consider this. If we don't develop AI enabled fighters, at some point in the future we'll be fighting against AI fighters... without AI enabled fighters. In other words... losing.

 
Jim said:
A good video on the development of fighter aircraft AI.
If you take nothing else away from this vid, consider this. If we don't develop AI enabled fighters, at some point in the future we'll be fighting against AI fighters... without AI enabled fighters. In other words... losing.

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I meant to comment on this a couple days ago, just to add a little perspective to what an incredible feat these AI jet fighters are, it was just 20 years ago that DARPA began its annual challenge / competition to build a completely automated self driving car.

https://www.motortrend.com/features/darpa-urban-challange-history/

No Winners at First​

The first event in March 2004, then called the DARPA Grand Challenge (the challenges are considered in some ways to be "Big Bang" type events that many of today's most influential minds in the software-defined vehicle space participated in) had shown how hard it was to build a car that could interpret its environment and navigate an unpredictable course in real time. Every entrant crashed or failed trying to successfully navigate a 150-mile route in California's Mojave Desert.
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