Artificial Intelligence

[Zzzptm]

Interesting article, still reading it:

https://thebulletin.org/2025/09/the-risks-in-the-protocol-connecting-ai-to-the-digital-world/#post-heading

Basically, AI can survey countless documents and do some decent fact-checking, but breaks down trying to set up a dinner appointment. The article looks at the connection between AI and our personal data, as a personal assistant, and what we could expect of that.

[Charger]

I think when AI can set up those dinner appontments with ease is the time we need to officially worry.

I am already very very scared of AI and what will happen when a self learning AI gets free...

[Zzzptm]

^ Yeah, that's going to be a thing one day. I can imagine one learning how to do a penny skim operation on some bank somewhere and then using the proceeds to keep copies of itself in multiple cloud environments, and then being able to carve out parts of those environments for itself. A digital criminal creating its own private island, if you will. Given that AI LLMs show an increased tendency towards getting better at covering up misdeeds when they get more "ethics" after doing misdeeds, I think that's a possibility.

It becomes a bigger issue as more and more of the things follow their programming to make choices along a similar path of self-preservation. We simply don't have enough containment that will succeed against a construct that spends all of its time occupied in situational analysis.

[Vyn]

Love me some AI.

AI in the morning
AI at night
AI in the afternoon
Say NO to the Starland Vocal Band
But it is a delight

AI in my left sock
AI in my hair
AI while I'm shooting pool (or sharks)
AI is better than Nare

Or so I've been told!

 

[Zzzptm]

What are you smoking these days, Vyn?

[Typhon]

My movie review, which I posted today, would be of some interest.   

[Zzzptm]

My movie review, which I posted today, would be of some interest.   

Indeed.

And speaking of movies, there's some hubbub about a new AI actress. So, on the one hand, if I had AI generate all my movies for me, I could have lots to watch over time.

But would it be worth watching? It could make things that *looked* like genres I've enjoyed, but the stuff that makes a great film truly great, that would be missing. There's a deep humanity in a great performance, and it's why we celebrate them.