Latest / Dits & Dahs / leaving it on repeat
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- Sue: Leaving it on repeat gets you nowhere. My late husband read a lot of science fiction. Robert Heinlein, Philip Dick. He was also a huge reader of ⁓ the late s Sir Terry Pratchett, and we often chatted about the sci fi writers who spoke of the day that artificial intelligence became sentient and a and we all sort of between us agreed that the world, as we know it, would all hear a click, nothing would be spoken. But it would become aware that the humans were no longer in charge at that sound of the click. His thought might actually come true in my lifetime. So much so today I received an Amazon delivery, and the driver had someone with him in training, and the trainee came up to me and handed me the package as they do, and all the while the trainee is reading on his smartphone. That based on the established patterns with the customer delivering packages, that the customer always comes out to greet the driver. And he makes note of this verbally. ⁓ yeah, I see ⁓ yeah, you do always come out. And this is where you begin to understand that things are moving along so quickly that Amazon is relying on the human patterns that I've established with them to presume that that pattern will repeat. It's those kind of innocuous repeat patterns because one of the reasons why I always greet The drivers is because I know my dog is gonna bark and not everybody is comfortable hearing a dog bark when they're just simply dropping a package off. It's out of consideration. But it's feeding them data about me that is probably unlikely to change unless I know to make a concerted effort to switch my game. I don't want to be manipulating switching my game and that's what they're counting on. And that also means that everything else that we do, particularly those of us who are using location services on our smart devices, all of those activities are tracked in such a way that there's established patterns that formulate the behaviors and predict what's gonna happen next. And of course the obvious one is to not interact with any of these platforms or services, and you can minimize the patterns that get established. But confirmation with my smartwatch beat. But nonetheless, it is the kind of self preservation activity of always having to change things up for your own sanity that's forced on us if we want to participate in this. Years ago, I had an employer who assiduously refused to participate with anything associated with Google. That's all well and good. Everybody else around him had Google addresses and smart devices, meaning that as long as he was with somebody that had a Google address while he wasn't directly being tracked. His association with someone who did was being tracked. And that is kind of where it's at. The details of your movements of your life, what you order, what you use is all something that we know, so I'm not telling you anything new, but I'll be minded about it with this trainer and trainee. I'm sure all this information about my life as it pertains to receiving deliveries from Amazon is helpful to him to learn his job in some way. But all that data about my personal behaviors and your personal behaviors is all gonna wind up someplace in use for reasons that we don't even imagine at the moment. That there will be decisions made based on our previous patterns that determine, perhaps, what information we see, when we see it, the kind of decisions that are made that can come off as being a bit of a nanny state of of well you you don't process that information during those hours of the day, so why should we give you access to it kind of thing. And we'll give it to you when we're when you're most likely to do so. Removing me of the ability to autonomously decide when and where I choose to consume content, for example. And given what we see of current news of AI agents going rogue and doing your reading up on the hugging face incident, it's gonna get out of hand. More quickly than we know, do we really want to put that in weapons? Is the safety of soldiers assured just because they have AI and the devices that they're using to kill other people in the context of a war? And at what point, for example, will hard currency, mineral ore ores, precious metals, jams be made worthless? Or forced into the black market for fear that those that don't want to choose to have their lives digitized, like they're starting to do now. Digitizing licenses and and visas and such. Presuming that there won't be a glitch or a problem in the system that will never act against you. And then having to undo the nightmare that was established when they refused you entry, when you had every re reason legitimately to do so. Or not release the funds that are electronically available in your account. And you have no cash and then none of the merchants are taking cash anymore. So you have to trade in digital currency. And ⁓ by the way, click all that which is you can be erased. Not to be suspicious or paranoid. It's about to understand that when you're observing all of this stuff, confirmation with the blue jay, we really need to be mindful. I may come across with a stubborn attitude when I say I really don't want to be forced into up upsetting my current patterns for the sake of Not being able to be easily recognized by A but it looks like that's exactly what we need to do. Just like it's common sense not to travel the same patterns, going to and from places, well before there were digital trackers and such, for the eyes of a criminal or somebody who is interested in stalking you, not traveling the same path to and fro wherever your destinations are was a good thing to do. Changing the time that you leave if it's a regular scheduled event. And it's not creepy anymore. We've gotten over the creep factor of it all. It is most certainly unsettling, because the only way for us not to participate in it means that we don't have any interaction with the rest of the world that is barreling down the road going to a digital only presence. As a human being, I find that really egregiously distasteful. And it was the other common thought that my husband and I used to share, which was reflected upon in I think nineteen eighty seven by James Burke. A broadcaster with the BBC who had a series on television called Connections. And the first episode is the one that I find most memorable. And he spoke on confirmation. He spoke on the incident of what happens when we lose power and have a blackout. And that the implications of those kind of events, for example, can interrupt supply chains confirmation with the blue chase. Such that when the supermarket trucks stop rolling, what are you gonna do for food? And you might say in the context of a blackout that that's a temporary event and you just wait it out. In the context of what Burke was talking about was how easily civilization can be disrupted. None of us are fully prepared to deal with that. I think that's where we're at with AI right now. I think it's unconscionable to think that the guardrails that humans are putting in place for AI will indeed keep all of us safe. from attacking AIs. I think we're better off as human beings to be aware and observant of this situation and also be more functional as human beings. You know, don't be dependent on other people. Make sure you have what you need to to hunker down and survive. I'm not talking doom and gloom here. I'm talking about situations that can happen pretty easily. You know, a weather event can take us offline and stay out of contact with the rest of the world temporarily. I certainly don't want an AI to juxtapose themselves between me and my survival. Nor do I want an AI to go rogue that's been put into a killing machine. Confirmation with Rita. The thing about it with AI is that it's been working in the background with businesses, you know, doctors' offices, hospitals, companies for a long time. Longer than the public is using it. Patterns are already well documented of what humans do in relation to all sorts of events shopping, being ill, foods they buy, clothes they wear, etc. Confirmation with the bird chirp. Particularly in the event of using AI and military equipment. But until that time comes, till it c until we all hear that click, thank you for listening. I'm just expressing my own views and opinions. Basically you're listening to a bit of fiction. So thank you. I appreciate you.