Schrodinger’s husband .. lawdy lawdy!

Woman marries AI chatbot
A mother of two, Rosanna Ramos says her virtual partner doesn’t “come with baggage”

https://www.rt.com/news/577525-woman-marries-ai-chatbot/

From the days that I lived in the South.  I quite enjoyed this stuff!  It drives the madness away somehow.

Yes, that was the idea but two things … our area is poor and someone else grabs the used one before I can get there – there is not such a ready-used market as in the richer countries.  People use their stuff until it literally falls apart.  Secondly, tropics – our stuff rusts out after a while and that is just the way things go.  The old one just rusted out to the extent that repair was not the right way to go any longer.

But you are right … this is utter crap!

We have a guy that comes around every few days for donations of broken household stuff.  They take it away, repair what they can and use parts or so on.  But he is regular, a friendly fellow and he took the old machine away – he said they could still make use of parts of it.

Household stuff for me today.  It is looking a little grimy around the edges and I have a fight with a washing machine.

So frustrating.  So, the old washing machine died, in its time and it died well.  I have a problem with buying what they call electro-domesticos in our world, as I am fussy.  It needs be simple, I do not want it to be able to fly to the moon, and it must just do a good uncomplicated job with one knob or button preferably.  If there is more than one, more than one can break is my philosophy – set it, start it, walk away.  So, with much scrolling and searching and looking, I found what I wanted and the dearly beloved one went off to buy this.  He changed his mind and bought what I did not want because he thought it had a good brand name.  Came back with this machine, I grumbled but nevertheless it got unpacked and connected and has never worked properly since.  Got a technician out and he replaced a goody-majig – and it has never worked properly since.  It does not obey a cycle, not even one, and it sounds like a young sick white elephant bellowing.  It is gen-Z and does not want to work at its task whatsoever.

Back to paperwork to find the necessaries for the warranty and now we are awaiting a new technician.  Meanwhile, the laundry is piling up, adding to the general feeling of the absence of shininess round the edges.   How can one buy a new electro-domestico and it does not work?

I’ll take the day off for scrubbing and shining.

Back to AI – luckily, this was only a virtual exercise.

At the military summit ” Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities ” in Britain, the head of the US Air Force AI department, Tucker Hamilton, reported on an unusual situation. During the virtual mission of the Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie drone (assassin drone and nuclear-capable cruise missile ), the AI was ordered to search for and destroy enemy air defense systems under the control of the operator.

The system began to realize that although it identified the SAMs, the operator often commanded “do not destroy”. But the AI got points for every successful attack! As a result, the AI returned to the base, destroyed the control van with the operator and … returned to the mission.

Gossip-rumor says it is Modi that would not appear with China and Pakistan after the Chinese boycott of the G20 in Kashmir and Pakistan because of the rallies against the G20 in Pakistan.

“If Woe is mine cup, let me drink the full bitter Portion!”

Mind if I pour some coffee into my cup, instead of woe?  Just some silly joking here …

Funny!  rough satire.

Let me pick up on AI.  It is only software, but clever software.  The only way to really understand it, is to go and take a ride on one of the public and open ones.  ChatGPT or OpenArt.ai.

The language model ones takes a set of criteria (it prompts you for it), goes away and searches the databases that it is designed to search, and comes back with an answer that is human speak.  People have unending fun with models such as What would Donald Trump respond if he is asked about x y z .. and then the same set of criteria is given to Putin or Xi or someone else.  My sister sent me a AI piece about an attorney – he ran out of time for preparation, asked a legal AI to write his case for him, it went away and came back with a very snazzy looking legal case, exepting the referenced previous cases did not exist.  He had no other hope but to ask the court for forgiveness.

I do love and hate the art AI’s.  They present art that looks like the most amazing artist slaved for months to paint that piece of art and it is the best ever, but it is perfect – a real artist is not perfect.  But it shaves off a lot of time for computer art or art for big business.  Excepting, it is kinda empty of meaning.  Yet, you can program in meaning, by saying that the work has to be emotional or some human feeling .. and it will do that.  I’ve heard about people now falling in love with their AI’s and having torrid affairs.  Comes to mind that old old song .. You’ve lost that Lovin’ Feeling – AI can give you it back or make you think you’ve got it back ..

Programming?  Sure, AI’s can program.  But they have not ethics and morals.  So, you can ask them to program a software desk to destroy all farms, and that is what they’ll give you.

Here is a human being that may as well be an AI.  https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-climate-agriculture-idINL1N3771SC

Is this whole industry dangerous?  Exceedingly so and in a big way.  Human extinction level dangerous?  Yeah.  Imagine the unwashed masses getting high degrees via AI and moving on to go and build a nuclear power station, or an airplane or an exceedingly complicated high rise building or a bridge.  I mean they have the design – AI designed it.

Just a little explanation here of how things work.  Sometimes they work and sometimes not.

But generally, they work by agreement.  For example, I may have an agreement with someone that I may cross-post everything, except maybe something that they keep for themselves.

Michael is open like a book.  I post what I want and sometimes he jokes.  With their work, Michael and Radhika, Ben does the work, so Ben gets the scoop.  One morning, I get this hilarious mail from Michael.  It says something like … Amarynth, Ben is slow with this one.  Here it is.  Wanna scoop him?.   I laughed a lot, but Ben does the work, so Ben gets the scoop.   I think I am very honest with these things, because I respect all of us in this work.

Back in Saker days I generally and for years worked with all the guest posters, up to editing and so on, sending stuff back, asking for changes, rejecting, whatever.  And I generally remained friends with most.  One time I had to edit someone that I am totally in awe of.  It did not feel good to simply edit, so, I asked for permission – imagine that .. the editor asking for permission to edit!  What I got back was … You may edit, you may change, you may do whatever your heart desires and you may even write it for me and put my name under that!  

So, this gives you a flavor of the inside story.  Many are snooty, and one has to play editor with them.  I don’t like it and would rather work as colleagues.  Some want me to be editor, so that I can be of help and seriously look at the material and seriously give feedback.

So, there are agreements.   One time I wrote to Ollie Vargas, asking for permission to post something from him.  He came back and said to use whatever I want as he has no time to mess with agreements and it is bourgeois as well.  Done, end of story!  And this kind of agreement then filters throughout all of his groupings.

Godfree frequently cross-posts something that I wrote, in his newsletter.  We sorted this thing out long ago.  He takes what he wants, he does not need to ask, and the same for me.  I find my stuff in his newsletter and he finds his stuff here.  No troubles.

So, these are long-term agreements or newly formed ones.  But usually, there is a good and warm relationship.   I truly enjoy the inside story which is a story that few people actually get to see.

Good enough emersonreturn?  Behind these sites are a group of very committed and very good journalists, commentators and colleagues.  If there is something you would like to see, it is only for the asking.

That is fully 50% of my work.