It may come as a small surprise to some of you that I, an Information Technology savant (perhaps), would be unwilling to accept teh new hotness which is AI.
How is it that you work in IT, and yet, you're unwilling to accept the inevitability of AI being force-fed into every aspect of your life? Don't you know AI can emulate your voice, likeness, and show you the sex life you wish you were having (via deep fakes)?
No, I do not want AI to paint me like one its French girls; nor do I want it to create a movie based upon a one-sentence prompt; nor do I want it to generate a track of Michael Jackson doing Gangster Rap; nor do I want it to write a track in the style of Eminem; nor do I want a chatbot in the style of Marilyn Monroe.
I do not want it to be creative.
And yet, that is, perhaps, its biggest draw card. It is only as good as the resources at its disposal, and that, my friends, is where things get a little sticky. For we are the resource. Everything which is accessible on the internet has either been legally or illegally scraped for their AI models. Even this blog could easily be used to generate a surly and apathetic perspective of humanity ... but I digress.
Perhaps, if the breadth of its current uses were limited to generating things I despise, perhaps the rest of the world could live with that. But, no, its use is far more nefarious than merely exuming and forcing dead creatives to do the latest in tiktok dances on a whim. The amount of energy used by AI pales in comparison to the toe-dip of crypto - especially as every glue-eating CEO wants to get in on the latest in tech bubble schtick and is pushing AI into every crevice of your devices.
At this point, I'm through caring about society. They're such complete and utter sociopathic morons that I have given up hope of any of them taking a moment to think; let alone care about anyone else. Perhaps there are others in this world who feel like me - but not in the seats which matter. The cost to house all the data required by AI has moved into the ExaBytes (billion GigaBytes); the energy required to train these models requires Terawatts (more than 1.21 gigawatts) and, as usage increases, signficantly more than before the 'AI age.'
To
make matters worse, AI is not really AI. It's just a heuristic model
which uses weighted gates to determine its next choice. It really is
very stupid. The fact that you get anything coherent out of it at all is
probably the more impressive aspect of it all. But, as they say, if you
throw enough monkeys at the problem, eventually you get Shakespeare. Or at least some kind of facsimile.
