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The Good, Bad & the Ugly

There is a significant amount of reluctance by the general public to using AI and genuine fear of what it portents.
 

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Its tempting to relate the emergence of AI technology to previous historical events. The initial fear the general public had of over head electrical power lines, the speed of locomotive trains and even the bicycle.

Doctors invented a condition called "Bicycle Face." They warned that the intense concentration and physical strain required to balance a bicycle would cause a permanent distortion of the features—leaving riders with a clenched jaw, bulging eyes, and a perpetually strained, exhausted expression.

More recently of microwave ovens and the Y2K Bug.

That's not to say there shouldn't be genuine concern about the impact of AI.
Lets look at some modern day concerns of Artificial Intelligence

There is popular cliche' that has appeared.
"AI may not replace your job but someone using AI will".

We've previously mentioned:

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  • Replacing jobs

    • The first jobs to go will be those of the repetitive intellectual ​nature. Like customer service agents. We are seeing this already. 

    • Customer service is the poster child for this because so much of the job involves navigating a predictable decision tree: resetting passwords, issuing refunds, tracking packages, or answering the same top ten FAQs. Large Language Models (LLMs) excel here because they don't get tired, they translate instantly into dozens of languages, and they can pull data from a company's database in milliseconds. (~ AI)

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consumping huge amounts of electric power

consumping huge amounts of electric power

producing 'deep fakes'

giving wrong answers

further compromising our privacy

future AI Models may have Super Intelligence that will be out of control.

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