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As a young teenager we were all taught to make explosives in the school chemistry lessons in Rugby, after a few bangs we all were a lot more careful children with no more bangs in the class again. An environment where kids learn that seems to never exist with all politicians.
I agree but seeing how AI works these days reminds me of being trained 50 years ago to process collected data, we were all told never to just assume that data was 100% accurate, we were told to always "Think Twice" to check that what we saw was acutely showing was happening. In those days so many people were over-fishing by throwing an explosive into the the water and then just sweeping up everything that floated after the big bang.
That's a good question but I think there's little evidence, given the size of Jupiter sending anything there it would be difficult to get anything back again. But I think it would be fascinating for everyone on our planet to learn more about every other world in our galaxy. We are life and we can see nothing else related to life in our galaxy or even anywhere else ... very depressing, but the possibility of life in the universe is wonderful ... that's this comment icon and my thinking about our evolution from fish originally!
I'm so happy to think about how life expanded to created fish and then us, monkeys, dogs, cats, cows, and everything!
People processing everything have a chance to learn, machines and other processing methods show how much people have learnt to sent them up originally and then applied them to the situation. People think, but machines and coding only process the environment, and make money but never think.
As kids we all learn for years a lot to think reasonably well - machines and everything else are only updated to look like they have a good result (hopefully).
My company’s major failure was that we created software that could not be hacked, so users didn’t keep paying us for new versions to solve problems because they never saw any problems or any hacking. My company is dead because no money kept coming in.
I was inspired by Microsoft having the same problem with early software days originally, but now Microsoft is completely redesigned and getting hacked, and they are making a lot more money.
AI always gives you an answer to a question ... whatever it says is internally recorded as an accurate answer.
But talking with people normally gives you an answer and says, "I think this might be what caused the problem." So you can reply "No, I didn't do that" and then you can discuss the problem, often fixing it after fully discussing everything.
I never saw anything like this when I started flying, giving the officials a sheet of paper details to get on the plane and then smoking with everyone once the plane took off, OK that was years ago when it was not a problem to have anything sharp in your bag - I never saw problems flying around for years - these days everyone is having to work to do "Lets fix this problem and we need to start looking for the next problem!"
I was sent to the US from the UK in the 70's to keep the British company medical equipment working, Initially I had to fly from the US to the UK regularly every year to renew my visa. The company paid that every time for years and then saved money by paying the cost of getting my permanent US working residency so with a US passport as well as my UK passport I had no problems living in the US. This year I've quit the US and returned to the UK (icon) so I'm happier now.
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up." - Oscar Wilde ...
A very old quote, so I'm just saying that we're not seeing anything new these days. I'm not complaining, I worked for unrelated but similar upsets years ago in the medical environments.
I don't work in a bank but in the early cyber-crime days my company was hacked, I reset everything and spent a month learning to hack my entire company, just becoming my own cyber-criminal and after learning how to hack everything and then preventing it, we were never hacked again. Every company could be protected if they employed someone in the same environment to prevent hacking after initially learning how to do it in the local environment - and then creating protections after learning the abilities to hack all local hardware and software access.
I'm getting half a dozen spam calls every days that say that Medicare has been enhanced by Trump and wanting me to sign up with a new medical support company, I suspect the calls are all AI talking with a female voice.
So I reply each time, "I'm a vegetarian so I can't eat politicians but I'm too fucking healthy so I don't have any medical issues and I'm drinking Guinness to keep me healthy" - I see my potentially stupid reply as matching the spam calls and keeping me laughing.
I've worked fixing humans with a few problems in the technical medical world for about 40 years now. I don't see AI as making very different decisions to peoples' decisions, but when people make a decision in virtually all technical worlds then the human experts review their decision and verify that it's accurate and correct, not just assuming that they are correct - but AI seems to normally just assume that it's correct. When people do that then we see it as a frequent issue ... for example being told "Take these pills to make you feel better" and an expert saying the next day in hospital, "Oh he took 20 pills, but you only need one to fix the problem!"
AI errors often match people errors.
A wonderful Microsoft world is the old Windows versions, I've been using them originally when Windows appeared and now have several laptops running Windows 7, all working perfectly with no problems and working with the old Office versions everything is easy with no problems.
The only problems I've seen for years now have been Microsoft updates, so I've stopped all updates to continue keeping everything working so much better than the current world.
It's the current world, not much different from the past ... the story only makes me think of an old quote that I've always respected ...
"When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence." - Brendan Behan
I don't use AI but I expect that AI coding is designed to be good (icon) but it's the original environment before AI appeared.
That was the situation in my early medical analysis programming days, programs were created and expected to work but never verified that they were always working in every situation. My experience as Windows XP appeared and started to be extended was that creating code that used Windows XP DLL features eventually resulted in some issues, so I made everyone create code that never accessed and used external Windows DLL's. After a few minor updates originally every program is still fully functional with so many users updated to all the new Windows releases - the programmers were always verifying and checking everything, never just assuming that it would work.
You can estimate and expect what will happen if you just look at the wind rotations and the overall movement. The Windy app and a lot of other weather apps will help you guess what's likely to happen. But that other side of this is that since "Climate Change" appeared then the original monthly storm environment in the Atlantic has become a lot lower.
Originally hurricanes appeared multiple times every year and the storms moved into the Gulf, but that's only happened a few times for years now.
Climate Change is observable, not predictable for years yet, Climate Change is a lot bigger than government intelligence.
Before Climate Change appeared we would see hurricanes forming in the southern Atlantic and then flow towards and into the Gulf of Mexico so hurricanes were common every year around Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, once the storms arrived in the gulf they would sail north into the states. But that hasn't been happening much since Climate Change arrived, storms are still created but now just tend to move north up the Atlantic and moving north in the Atlantic they seem to be just local storms, not hurricanes so much.
The most deadly thing in the government world is the concept, which always seems to be followed, that voters think they saw the government specify what they were going to do, and that it would be done. And that is where most of our troubles come from when governments are called successful because they have got the votes. But votes are based upon the government’s ignorance before it was elected.
You are describing a typical "bug" problem (you are upvoted, not the bug), a typical "fix" these days would be to get an email suggesting that you to drink the attached Guinness to fix it ... oh wait, that's Guinnessexe ... was it created by a drinker with a programming problem?
We believe that when the Earth appeared it became covered in water, with only small plants evolving from tiny cells that probably also created evolving bugs. So many plants are similar and some much life (animals and us) has a slightly similar structure ... two legs/two arms, four legs and no arms, only one head and two sexual genetics etc, so we all seem to be related to fish after they appears initially, we're not plants. Working to try and understand all life's evolution is fascinating ... the creation of life on our planet might be an example of life existing everywhere in the universe (icon).
Looking at the craters on the moon I feel so happy that they are on the moon, not on the Earth, We've had a lot of strikes in our planet's 4.6 billion years, but even more strikes could have resulted in a different Earth these days.
An asteroid impact about 66 million years ago removed all our big life (dinosaurs) and resulted in fish walking out of the sea to become us, so strikes change things! Another potential strike might result in us looking at strikes again, are we worried that the fish will need to start walking again in the future?
If you were a woman and Microsoft could upgrade you, would you have four arms and one very big leg? All Windows "upgrades" have been changes that were described as great, but it's often a pain to start using the upgraded Microsoft environment with your original personal item working.
We evolved by sharing knowledge ...
A young girl starting to walk on her rear legs and said, "Oh look Dad, let's eat that" ... and then Dad says, "Yes but we have to kill it first, eating a lion is not as easy as eating apples"
Shared knowledge has always helped everyone until recently.
We have AI these days so I'm cautious of a new website appearing that would have AI encouraging everyone to visit and pay their monthly phone fees when they talk on their phone e.g. EightyAndTea.com
After training then people starting in this environment will "evaluate" the data and determine a conclusion. But the problem is that they don't double check their results to verify the conclusion. The experts are always happy to not just believe their conclusion, until they are verified it ... when they only suspect that it's accurate and check everything. The failure to verify an initial estimate is common everywhere but experts make everything work by double checking everything they think is OK.
In the USA we seem to be seeing similar countrywide effects like the UK as a result of the current presidential election. An effect on DEL that the UK has seen for years now after BREXIT, which occurred in the UK as being such a great election result like the USA has recently seen successfully.
The malware world is making a lot of money ... but where?
Look at Microsoft creating malware fixes to help all users and telling everyone that they need to buy a new computer to use the new version of Windows. I suspect the malware folks are making a lot less money than everyone else working to create and sell malware fixes.
Is there any evidence that Windows 11 with AI running 100% doesn't make SPAM phone calls?
I don't have any evidence but I do suspect that the massive number of junk SPAM calls has started to appear once AI became universally distributed. I've seen nobody saying that AI can stop SPAM calls.
When DEC systems appeared I saw everyone using Apple and MSDOS ... the DEC systems were so much better and way more powerful and DEC was always explaining how their systems worked so well, I wonder if their explanations to help their users resulted in a lot of other companies saying, "Oh look if we do that then our systems will be so much better"
The DEC systems were technically complex and physically complex but quite easy to work on them to resolve problems - that kept me employed to fix things around the world for years!
"We told Microsoft but they consider it a UI issue, not a security issue. So it doesn't meet their bar for servicing as a security update ..."
If we just block all email .LNK files, and other infectious attachments, and make every browser block them too then we might have a slightly better environment.
A major "feature" is that the current Windows versions are getting hacking attempts and are busy working to break them. The hackers have abandoned working to attack the older versions of Windows so if you are using Windows 7 etc then you're quite safe and working well without having to worry about updates ... hacking "updates" and Copilot updates etc.
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