“Does current AI represent a dead end? | BCS”

https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/does-current-ai-represent-a-dead-end/

> From the perspective of software engineering, current AI systems are unmanageable, and as a consequence their use in serious contexts is irresponsible.

Been saying this for a long long while and I highly doubt anybody who is still using these systems is ever going to change their mind, but you gotta try.

Also, I’ll bet the original title of the piece was way more forceful and was watered down into a question

The point is not to replace your job with an AI.

The point is to make you afraid of losing your job so you accept worse working conditions.

This is "job terrorism".

#jobterrorism

"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:

On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"

https://medium.com/illumination/ms-word-is-using-you-to-train-ai-86d6a4d87021

#Microsoft #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #MSWord #Privacy #Word

I was today years old when I learned that companies now want to manipulate #LLM datasets to inject ads into them and monitor their brand standing in #ChatGPT and other models live.

I don't think I understood #capitalism enough to work with #futurism .

#ai #brand #advertising

I’m working on a bigger thing about this but…

That “don’t feed the trolls” thing did more harm than good

What happens when you don’t feed the trolls?

The trolls look VICTORIOUS to any newcomers to any site. Dominant. The only argument. So powerful. So alpha.

Like no one could even begin to argue against its majesty.

Because normal
people threw up their hands & walked away

But that’s not what it looks like to newbies.

It just looks like the right…is SO right no one could push back.