The elephant in the room: AI

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 4, 2024 at 07:29 AM

So, AI seems to be making its way into/onto pretty much all software platforms. And this is not necessarily a good thing.

There are many reasons for this, which I won’t discuss in detail here (although I could). I will sum them up very simply by saying: AI is incapable of distinguishing fact from fantasy, reality from fiction. This applies despite (or precisely because of) the way AI is trained – on the vast quantities of text published on the web. Algorithms have no way of judging this text, nor indeed are they designed to judge anything (“weighting” does not equal “judgement”).

So MacStories have taken an interesting initiative here: https://www.macstories.net/stories/ai-companies-need-to-be-regulated-an-open-letter-to-the-u-s-congress-and-european-parliament/

Personally, I have no wish to see great software marred by the rushed addition of ill-conceived AI features. But maybe I’m alone in this?

Cheers,
Bill