The content of this website, words, photographs, html, etc. was authored by a human, the human writing this very post. (One way to assert ‘your commitment to avoid AI-generated content’ is to follow the human.json protocol. I have done so. If you have the same commitment and we know each other, email me and I'll vouch for your site.) A month ago I gave a presentation on GenAI to a local group. Below are the notes I wrote to accompany that presentation. These highlights some concerns about GenAI. AI, WHAT IS THIS? These notes explain briefly what current AI is and why Generative AI is environmentally damaging, economically harmful, and socially dangerous. Furthermore, why long-term Artificial General Intelligence fantasies distract from present-day accountability. The expression Artificial Intelligence, or AI, was coined by computer scientist John McCarthy in 1956 to get some money: ‘I invented the term artificial intelligence. I invented it because we had to do something when we were…
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