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I’m more worried about AI taking my job at the moment, but I don’t like any of this much either. Maybe I should switch careers and become a forensic something or other. I can’t remember the term for it but there are people who investigate hard drives to find out whether you really looked at kiddie porn or someone hid it on your hard drive. With deep fakes, there should be an increased demand for people who can do that kind of thing.

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What you are referring to in police work is generally called the forensic science division. When I got my master of science in systems management I chose a security focus, and got to explore a lot of the tools used by that profession. I also got to look into a lot of pretty gross criminal minds. There is a demand in that field; it is not for everyone.

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by Penfist

I suppose that I'm in a category of one, but I feel neutral about AI. It strikes me as neither the end of times, nor the brave new world.

Perhaps I'm at my limit of confronting existential crises, or I'm more right (than not) that AI will be a useful tool for some and largely irrelevant for others, but ultimately embedded in most techologies.

I just wish that half the time, energy and resources being poured into AI were devoted to even one of the earth-shattering problems facing this country.

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Microsoft is already embedding AI in its search engine (Bing) and in its keyboard app for phones (Swiftkey).

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Yes, Google with search and gmail.

It will be interesting to see how the copyright lawsuits are determined, how bias in results is addressed, the climate impact of the enormous amounts of energy used to run ChatGPT and other AI models.

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This is a lot. Damn.

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It only speeds up from here.

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Well ... I’ve been struck speechless... my social media presence has been scattered from the beginning. I have changed places where I’m social and completely left other places, or they changed and weren’t enjoyable anymore. I haven’t tried any of the AI chats or sites, of course I know it’s happening and read the warnings... still I find it hard to believe AI could be worse than this version of humanity... but what do I know? Is it art? Is it sinister? Time will tell...

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AI won't be worse than humanity; it will reflect humanity. Therefore I believe that AI will follow the same behavior spectrum as humans. I also suspect various AI entities will start competing at some point. That ought to be interesting.

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