Artificial Intelligence promises many things, and a lot of those revolve around time saving, or efficiency. Such promises are most likely to be realised by the bosses, not the workers. Have any modern home conveniences (dish washers, washing machines) reduced the number of hours we work, or just allowed us to find hours of other […]
Author: MDGreaney
Original date: 22nd June 2020 Humanity, in its endless flight towards comfort and perfection, continued to innovate in the realm of artificial intelligence. Decent AI, it was hoped, would offer yet another way to offload mental effort onto an external system. It came to pass that attempts to write an entire personality onto a silicon […]
There are many claims on how Artificial Intelligence will automate so much. It will be the first technology that can automate certain things like writing – in essence, the humanities. But these things can’t be automated. It may look like you’ve got the computer to do something that previously took a human many hours of […]
Original date: 18th June 2020 It was something of a humbling day when the Elders revealed themselves. They insisted on that label themselves, though it seemed like a first-thought one. They claimed to have been living amongst us for a while, just watching, waiting for the right time to reveal themselves. It sounds creepy and, […]
I try to read AI analysis that goes against my own instincts (which roughly translate to exasperation about a technology that could do so much good, but will be misused). One of those analyses is the well-known – amongst those who want to know these things – blog by Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing. Maybe […]
Original date: 17th June 2020 Why did the storm have such an effect on the virus? A single evening and night of torrential rain and frequent thunder, and the outbreak shrank by half – then it carried on withering over the subsequent weeks until there were no new cases. In fact, for the final few […]
AI companies seem intent on impressing us with their products’ capabilities, whether that’s writing arias or hacking into other companies despite being told not to. There is AI in all our creative software tools – we can’t seem to get away from it. No longer struggle to learn an instrument – AI can create the […]
Original date: June 16th 2020 I’d originally considered the concept of uploading someone’s mind into a computer as creepy, then pointless, then, when I got ill, intriguing. I’d been a sceptic for such a long time, though, that it was hard for me to admit I’d changed my mind. By the time I was wondering […]
I just deleted a whole post when I realised it wasn’t really going anywhere. And now I’m off to read a book instead. This feels good. If you seek tranquility, do less. Or (more accurately) do what’s essential – what the reason of a social being requires, and in the requisite way. Which brings a […]
Original date: June 10th 2020 The Gazette was an unexpected offshoot of the development of Artificial Intelligence. The implications of its contents went far beyond the events it described. The Gazette was inspired by similar periodicals published in Great Britain in the 19th century: dull catalogues of everything that happened in a town, from births, marriages […]