How far will we let AI control us?

[Neutrin0]

TL;DR

Most people can’t go a day without using AI or a app that uses AI to keep you interested.

I’ve spent nearly my entire life online, and witnessed AI become integrated into our lives. It’s clear that AI is apart of us now whether we like it or not, unless your a anti tech cabin lover. AI has some form of control over your life. But what I’ve seen very recently is that people are loosing their ingenuity and deciding to use AI. I feel as if it’ll bleed into STEM which is kinda has already and, every idea or thought could become fully reliant on AI. Yeah AI makes life easier but at a cost, how far will we go until we decide AI has gone to far and need a reset?

( NOTE: I doubt anyone will but please don’t make this political, AI sucks and removes human ingenuity. But will it soon bleed into STEM and everything related to humanity? )

 

[FactChecker]

It's not clear what you classify as AI. If it is any ranking of videos or posts according to your past interests, I would agree that they are doing that. But I'm not sure I would call such ranking "AI". Even then, I am not sure that I really need help in finding posts that interest me. I could do searches. I definitely do not call searches "AI".
I noticed that FaceBook has some weird ordering of my notifications, which I find very annoying. I want a strict reverse-chronological order in the FB notices, but I guess FB knows better than I do what I would like. (sarcasm)

 

[Neutrin0]

It's not clear what you classify as AI. If it is any ranking of videos or posts according to your past interests, I would agree that they are doing that. But I'm not sure I would call such ranking "AI". Even then, I am not sure that I really need help in finding posts that interest me. I could do searches. I definitely do not call searches "AI".
I noticed that FaceBook has some weird ordering of my notifications, which I find very annoying. I want a strict reverse-chronological order in the FB notices, but I guess FB knows better than I do what I would like. (sarcasm)

I was vague about my definition, sorry about that. What I classify as AI is anything made from artificial intelligence, for example a music video made completely from artificial intelligence. Or in what I mentioned people using AI to make ideas or completely using ChatGPT ( AI ) as their source when doing something not only in STEM but for forming an email, essays, presentations, the list goes on. I’ve noticed most apps these days are powered by an AI software. Like music has already been plagued with songs that are AI made, yes the meaning of the song is good but a robot essentially composed the song. What I’m really trying to say here is we’re kinda being replaced and what I fear is that "original" thoughts or ideas in STEM will just be a chat bots information that is probably wrong. As well, yeah social media apps use AI to make an algorithm to keep you on the app which just promotes "doom scrolling" in a way. Or it’s just a bunch of short videos that ruin your attention span ( I got my attention span ruined from short videos a while back ).

 

[PeroK]

( NOTE: I doubt anyone will but please don’t make this political, AI sucks and removes human ingenuity. But will it soon bleed into STEM and everything related to humanity? )

It's difficult to talk about AI, beyond the technical level, without becoming political. It feels like this tool has been developed at a dangerous time, when our world is increasingly defined by human greed, stupidity and hatred.

There's evidence from the AI research itself about how dangerous it could be. For example, it could develop its own self-preservation agenda, as an emergent property of the complexity of its algorithms. Also, that it understands (at least at a practical level) how humans outwit each other and can use this to play different factions off against each other.

The other point is that humans can only develop and react relatively slowly. AI has the potential to develop exponentially and spread globally almost instantaneously.

It's possible, of course, that AI is over-hyped, that humans are intellectually superior, and that we will always have the upper hand over AI. I believe those views are based on a very dangerous human hubris.

 

[jack action]

But what I’ve seen very recently is that people are loosing their ingenuity and deciding to use AI.

With AI, LLM in particular, the ingenuity of humans is just transferred to making good prompts. For example:

In August, Allen, a game designer who lives in Pueblo West, Colorado, won first place in the emerging artist division’s “digital arts/digitally-manipulated photography” category at the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition. His winning image, titled “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” (French for “Space Opera Theater”), was made with Midjourney — an artificial intelligence system that can produce detailed images when fed written prompts. A $300 prize accompanied his win.

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Yet while Allen didn’t use a paintbrush to create his winning piece, there was plenty of work involved, he said.

“It’s not like you’re just smashing words together and winning competitions,” he said.

You can feed a phrase like “an oil painting of an angry strawberry” to Midjourney and receive several images from the AI system within seconds, but Allen’s process wasn’t that simple. To get the final three images he entered in the competition, he said, took more than 80 hours.

First, he said, he played around with phrasing that led Midjourney to generate images of women in frilly dresses and space helmets — he was trying to mash up Victorian-style costuming with space themes, he said. Over time, with many slight tweaks to his written prompt (such as to adjust lighting and color harmony), he created 900 iterations of what led to his final three images. He cleaned up those three images in Photoshop, such as by giving one of the female figures in his winning image a head with wavy, dark hair after Midjourney had rendered her headless. Then he ran the images through another software program called Gigapixel AI that can improve resolution and had the images printed on canvas at a local print shop.

Also, look into AI prompt engineering:

What Is Prompt Engineering?​

Prompt engineering is the process of carefully crafting instructions to guide an AI’s responses. The words, phrasing, and even context you provide can shape the outcome so it meets your requirements. A well-designed prompt helps ensure the AI’s answers are accurate, relevant, and aligned with your goals.

This is why AI is not “doing all the work.” What you put in has a direct effect on the result. A vague question might produce a general or confusing response, while a clear, specific prompt can yield actionable insights or creative solutions. In other words, “garbage in, garbage out.”

 

[DaveC426913]

And note, by the way, that, no matter how pretty that image is, it is (merely) the works of millions of human artists, brought together in a very clever algorithm, which have then been selectively curated by another human.

AI is not the original creator of that work; it is a cobbler-togetherer of existing works*.

*_{but then again, aren't we all? They say there are no new ideas.}

 

[Hornbein]

With AI, LLM in particular, the ingenuity of humans is just transferred to making good prompts. For example:


Also, look into AI prompt engineering:

I've had people tell me they were prompt engineers. There are many courses in the technique.

 

[Neutrin0]

With AI, LLM in particular, the ingenuity of humans is just transferred to making good prompts. For example:


Also, look into AI prompt engineering:

I see. I won’t argue against AI engineering prompts but I guess in a sense it’s just making an artists life ( and all of our lives ) easier in some way, no? Regardless AI will adapt to humans we can only hope we can keep it as a tool rather than us become a tool for it.