How could Artificial Intelligence become dangerous?

[JasperFrank]

AI=Artificial Inanity, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Inability, - and so on. Many of us, including yours truly, never knew technology would turn out to be used against us like it is, in obvious and in sneaky ways.

The sneaky ways, is how everyone's monthly electrical service cost is going to go up. AI farms use 10 times the energy, that even Bit-mining used. You are going to pay for that.

 

[bigtiller]

We just watched the movie M3gan.
Now we look forward to seeing M3gan 2 and 3 to see how the world survives AI.

 

[lman]

The sneaky ways, is how everyone's monthly electrical service cost is going to go up. AI farms use 10 times the energy, that even Bit-mining used. You are going to pay for that.

A couple more solar panels should cover it.

 

[paulsharvey]

Printing press put scribes out of work too, but it also was a net good to humanity...

Yall remember when secretary was a job, not to say there are None anymore, but id bet its 10% or less of what it was in early 90s.


Edit: according to Google AI, I'm wrong; 4m in 1986 vs 3.4m in 2024...

 

[paulsharvey]

Anyways, point is, AI is here, its not going away, so the smart thing is to try to find a way to use it for your benefit.

 

[MossRoad]

I recently had my first experience with unexpected AI in place of a clerk. I phoned a small lawn-sprinkler install/repair service and AI asked some routine questions instead of the conversation with a clerk that I expected. That ended with 'Now I'll transfer you to Lucille'. A real person who had all the information on her screen to intelligently, and quickly, discuss alternatives for what I needed and dispatch the tech, that same day.

When the guy arrived he said this was one of several small businesses he has started. His business plan is build up clientele using mostly AI for a dispatch office then sell the going business and start another. Because his real objective was he could make a lot more money developing and selling small owner-operated businesses that couldn't exist without local labor - like this lawn sprinkler repair service.

I wouldn't be surprised if while Lucille is a real person, she might be in another city serving as dispatcher for many small businesses. There's your 4:1 efficiency. In this case maybe 10:1.

May you live in interesting times. ...

Several of my doctors used to employ Scribes... someone that would come in the room with the Dr. and record the conversation and fill out the forms as we go along. Now the Dr.s use a device that records the conversation and AI fills in the fields on all the forms and notes. A quick review at the end of the visit to make sure it's all accurate, and wha la.... no more scribe jobs. No more folks that works as transcribers either.

My son in-law is a Veterinarian. He uses a similar device to record his animal examinations. AI fills in all the fields on the fly. He reviews it at the end of the appointment, and boom. Done. Doesn't have to stick around at the end of the day and update everything as in the past.

 

[MossRoad]

Printing press put scribes out of work too, but it also was a net good to humanity...

Yall remember when secretary was a job, not to say there are None anymore, but id bet its 10% or less of what it was in early 90s.


Edit: according to Google AI, I'm wrong; 4m in 1986 vs 3.4m in 2024...

Hey, hey..... that's Executive Assistant buddy.

 

[Runner]

Printing press put scribes out of work too, but it also was a net good to humanity...

Yall remember when secretary was a job, not to say there are None anymore, but id bet its 10% or less of what it was in early 90s.


Edit: according to Google AI, I'm wrong; 4m in 1986 vs 3.4m in 2024...

My recollection is that ALL secretaries disappeared by about 1980. They all became "Clerical Specialists" and "Administrative Assistants", quit typing and filing and only answered the phone.

 

[EscapedSuburbia]

I'm more worried about water than electricity. There's a data center going in about 5 miles from my place and their water requirements are incredible. They won't be able to pipe in enough from reservoirs so over a million gallons a day will come from ground water. Most of the water isn't recirculated - it's sprayed over cooling towers and lost to evaporation. That's a scary thought for those of us on wells.

 

[MossRoad]

My employer has someone going to every property and taking a digital photo of every electrical panel schedule. Then they run the photo through AI and it is really good at pulling out the old hand-written descriptions and formatting it into a spreadsheet that is going to be the standard panel schedule across all properties. That's going to save quite a bit of hunting by electricians in the future, and, anytime someone takes a panel schedule and doesn't put it back, a new one can be printed off fairly rapidly to replace it.

How's that dangerous? Other than cutting some hours for electricians that hate to go breaker hunting anyway, I don't see a downside.