https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes

 

Well, I think this is quite an old outlook. For quite some time there has been almost no place that Greek characters, diacritics, and ligatures could not be used. It is ignorance or laziness that keep then out of text.

Thanks to UTF-8 and pervasive availability of the glyphs for all of these we've been able to include then for decades. Previously, the typewriter drove "special" characters out of text. They were special because they didn't appear on the typewriter. Even the use of underline rather than italic text is a typewriter artifact.

So, it wasn't for a lack of glyphs representing these things but because of ignorance (literally, not a value judgment) or laziness (again not a value judgment, people just didn't see a value in bothering with it, even if they knew how) that they weren't there.

And yes I have been involved in both publishing and the extensive use of fonts.

Surely AI should be able to figure out the problem with fonts?
(and don't call me Shirley)

 

Surely AI should be able to figure out the problem with fonts?
(and don't call me Shirley)

Hello,

What do you mean here, how and why would AI be doing that?

 

Hello there,

According to Elon Musk artificial intelligence will become smarter than humans by 2025. That's only two more years.
Even if that is not true and it takes longer, imagine what this will mean for society and social interactions and jobs and everything human. We could look at some examples to get a feel for this.

Imagine if you wanted to design a circuit to do some unique thing that has not been done before, and assume that it is possible for now. You could ask the chat bot, and the chat bot would give you the circuit, no matter how complicated, and the explanations and formulas and parts lists. Where does that put people who design circuits?
Imagine if you wanted a building or bridge to be built somewhere and you could ask a chat bot how to design it and parts lists and equipment needed and so on. Where would this put architects.

What some people believe is that this will never happen because AI can not handle novelties too well, and that is what i have seen too, as well as they make some big mistakes. For example one chat bot claimed that a very low input offset op amp was laser trimmed to provide a "50mv" input offset. Really, 50mv? Gee i guess their lasers were off that day (ha ha). The right value was 50uv of course and i had to explain that to the thing.

But some day it could happen, or at least get close enough to almost take over all the calculations and figuring out of everything.
The question is, what do we do then. What does everyone do then.
No need for libraries, technical books. Many things will become obsolete like the slide rule.

What is kind of funny right now though is that some of them get their information from chat rooms on the web. Thus, when Barney tells Fred that the sun revolves around the earth, it may get reported to you as fact.

Nothing to worry about. Artificial Intelligence is no match for Authentic Idiocy.

 

Nothing to worry about. Artificial Intelligence is no match for Authentic Idiocy.

Hi,

From what I read the US military is planning on making a lot of war planes that can work on Ai. Once they get hacked, they will be fighting themselves.

Another thing Ai makes very clear. The upper case "i" looks too much like the lower case "L" in "AI" in many fonts used on the web. You can usually tell by the context, but that's "usually" not "always". Can AI, or Ai, or ai, or aI, fix that.

 

Let's see if this pic can freak you out...

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I found it laughable. The tired plot devices, unimaginative dialog and cartoon characters overrode any freakin’ that might have occurred.

 

I found it laughable. The tired plot devices, unimaginative dialog and cartoon characters overrode any freakin’ that might have occurred.

Oh so you watched it?

The only thing I didn't like about it was that the doll somehow gained super human strength, maybe even beyond even that. There's no way a thing that small could gain that much power with whatever kind of battery it had inside it. That was way out of whack.
I kinda liked the dialog because it was something you could believe could happen if AI could ever take over with a physical form as well as computerized intelligence, although the real life takeover by AI may be slower and more subtle than that. First taking over more job tasks, then more jobs, etc. What will make the difference is if corporations push it or not. If they push it, there will most likely be no practical way to fight against it.

If the military is planning on building planes controlled by AI, they may have good information that they will work, so let's hope so.