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Thread #174300   Message #4235705
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
12-Feb-26 - 07:11 AM
Thread Name: Artificial Intelligence - what could go wrong?
Subject: RE: Artificial Intelligence - what could go wrong?
You are wrong, Dick. The whole point of AI is that it will go beyond its initial programming by learning from the responses to the answers it gives. Encyclopedias cannot rewrite themselves and Wiki is constantly updated by the general public.

As to being anti-AI, I am far from a luddite and spent most of my working life on huge highly available computor installations - Both maintaining and designing them. As I retired I was working on AI and cloud services to replace the monolithic computor room and it makes a lot of sense to distrubute computing, particularly where you need high availability. AI is a good thing where it helps to keep companies running and the economy flowing. It is also good for coding in machine language and performing many tasks that take us humans far longer and are intrinsically boring!

However, the way many are using AI - to find answers to questions that a standard search can provide or to replace their own language - is both lazy and wasteful of resourses.