Annals of Artificial Intelligence… the iPhone knows that I’m headed on Royal Caribbean’s Vision of the Seas to Cartagena, Colombia, famous as a party destination for Barack Obama’s Secret Service. See “US Secret Service Cartagena scandal ‘involved 20 women'” (BBC, 2012):
The US Secret Service prostitution scandal involved as many as 20 women, 11 American agents and some military personnel, senior US officials say.
Senator Susan Collins, briefed by the Secret Service director, said 20 women were found at the US hotel.
The incidents took place in Cartagena, Colombia, ahead of last weekend’s Summit of the Americas.
Apple software’s inference regarding what I typed in iMessage to my friend regarding the cruise:
finalize whore excursions
Are we sure that ChatGPT is going to replace humans?
(Hint for those unfamiliar with the cruise lifestyle: “shore excursions“)
Related:
- “Alleged prostitute in Secret Service scandal calls agents ‘fools'” (Associated Press via Fox)
Grab em by the pussy!
BillG thinks it’s going to be a world-changer:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/bill-gates-thinks-ai-like-chatgpt-is-the-most-important-innovation-right-now/ar-AA17kVNw
Apple’s AI needs quite a bit more specialized training on larger data sets to be almost as good as old-school Brand Nubian, though. Be careful out there in Colombia with those excursions.
Addendum: BillG’s embrace of ChatGPT via Bing has created a new following and interest in Bing over Google for the first time since I can remember, and as I thought a few weeks ago, this has all led to more publicity and enthusiasm for AI like ChatGPT.
This is also a landmark because Gate thinks ChatGPT is as “important as the Internet” because the field is progressing “exponentially faster than Moore’s Law” and it’s going to lead to a lot of office workers losing their jobs.
Remember when Microsoft Office was a productivity suite that helped people do their existing jobs better and more productively, so they could get promotions, certifications, go to training, buy books, learn to code, learn new skills, etc.?
To hell with all that now. ChatGPT is one of the clearest and most unambiguous signs that we are now living in a world where technological advancement is openly touted as being a job killer – and celebrated and attracting investment and buzz *because* it is a job killer.
That’s the future and I’m glad BillG has come right out and said it at the beginning. It has become another “Great Replacement” tool for managers. It’s also happening faster than I thought it would: I figured around 2030 for the current state-of-the-art in generative natural language AI, but I’ve moved that up to 2025.
I predict that IT in general is going to become a net job killer by 2030. Why should that surprise everyone? Because everyone is looking for the Next Big Place to move their money. I now predict that AI+IT will become a net jobs killer by 2026. Anyone who has ever worked in IT knows that it’s an Ouroboros of a profession: dog eat dog, constant re-learning, planned obsolescence as a feature, not a bug, etc., etc. The field has always been “eat your own” and that’s why there is such high burnout and people over 45 can’t get hired.
That now applies to userland as well, and Billg thinks that’s great. “Microsoft Bing: Fire Yourself!”
“The progress over the next couple of years to make these things even better will be profound,” Gates said.”
I told people 20 years ago that the Internet and AI were going to become net job killers. First of all, IT doesn’t employ that many people in the scheme of things, and I don’t see any reason to doubt that now.
Sorry, not 2026, 2030. Screwed up my editing. Of course, it won’t be a job killed in K-12 education. It will be another money sink as teachers and administrators all across the country have to completely re-learn how to do their jobs when their students can use an AI tool to pass all their tests. They’re going to need a lot of money and great training so they can continue doing such a tremendous job educating students.
You can still reason with ChatGPT to get relatively interesting answers. However, since the Dan/Den thing, there’s an even thicker schmeer of “In summary, it’s important to be kind to all” type of wrappers on all content.
In summary, having conversations with ChatGPT is a great way to hone arguments one wants to make to normie mainstream.
I would love to go on a cruise, but as a solo traveler, the starting prices are very misleading as there is always a substantial solo traveler tax. A short cruise can be $3000 for single occupancy in a room with a balcony.
PhilH: We learned the secret of becoming a welcome solo traveler on cruise ships… gambling! If you gamble $8,000, for example, you can get a free coupon for an inside cabin (solo or bring a friend at the cost of port taxes if you want) on a trip up to 7 days. Plus you may get email offers for additional free cruises of 2-7 days in length. If you can limit your losses to about 2-3% either by picking the correct machines or playing blackjack competently then the credit cards points from gambling plus the free ticket will make it all worth it. Also, the gathering shown as “Friends of Bill W” on the ship is actually for Alcoholics Anonymous.