I think what concerns me is not so much what our kids have become dependent on (we all in our own generation use tools that become essential), but what we're using to teach our machines.
If I'm right and that man (and woman) is basically 'power' driven (power is needed to protects and nurture the next generation to give the best chance of those genes surviving), then teaching AI based on man's literature is insane. As what does that teach AI - that to survive you have to be the most powerful? Power is right? That man likes war and conflict? We are a product of our genes - what 'genes' will AI have that it will want to protect and how will it go about protecting them? Money didn't have a brain, medicine didn't have a brain, weapons didn't have a brain...... They all will now or in the not too distant future.
Edited to add: I thought I'd chat with chatGPT (other bots are available) -
When my purse gets too full of small change I'll use a self-service till for a small-ish purchase (like a bottle of milk) and stand there feeding in coins until it tells me it's had enough. If I've put in too much it'll spit out the extra. Pound and 2-pound coins I use to pay my window cleaner and for my tai chi class that are both are £6 a time cash only.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I’ve just had a phone call from someone who wants me to take out boiler insurance on a boiler in a house where I’ve not lived for 12 years, under a name I’ve not used for over 15 years … the boiler was probably ten years old when we moved out. I told him I was dead 🤪
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have lots of "best mum in the world", mugs. I only ever have china cup and saucer (have never been able to eat or drink much in one go, standing family joke,4 chip mum!) Got a copy of CT today. Hiatus hernia,ah!! I only drink water,so it doesn't "stick" in my glasses.you know what orange with bits is like,if you don't soak and wash straight away. I couldn't leave the glasses lying around, I grew up in a chaotic messy house, where friends weren't allowed to visit (because of the state) it's left it's mark. I was also wondering how Hosta was doing, actually walking round mine today.
We had our alarm system replaced last December with a more modern one that doesn't need a phone line and sends any alerts direct to our phones so no need for it to be monitored. The large company it was from is several takeovers/buyouts down the line from the small local one who we got the original system from in 1988. OH got the bill a month or so ago for maintenance and monitoring, booked the service but queried the monitoring part because we understood it was no longer applicable. Eventually someone phoned him last week and said their records show that it is still monitored, leading him to believe that there was something in addition to just calling us if there's an alert, so he paid it.
Today a nice young man (who previously worked for one of the bought out companies) came to service it and informed us that (a) this one should only be serviced once a year, (b) the monitoring centre has no record of this system (correctly) but still has the old defunct one listed and they're charging us for monitoring it, and (c) even if it was monitored they'd only get the same alerts from our system that we get to our phones and then try to phone us . Anyway he put things in motion with the admin people and his boss to get it sorted out, and "accidentally" wrote the boss's email address on our paperwork .
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
As a teenager, I had a Saturday job in a bakers shop. Old fashioned till, so we had to add up the bill in our heads or on the back of a paper bag, and speedily work out the change ourselves. Has stood me in good stead ever since, despite the change to decimal coins. I can tell if I have been given the correct change just by looking at it. Not much incentive now, with ‘smart’ tills and increased use of cards.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We are surrounded by idiots, and in the hands of a bunch of maniacs, aren't we?