George A. Sprecace M.D.,
J.D., F.A.C.P. and Allergy
Associates of New
London,
P.C.
asthma.drsprecace.com
THE COMPUTER /
INTERNET / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE DANGEROUS
Welcome
to a new Category of
Information and Opinion.
I
claim no special knowledge in this
area...just information and common sense - and a conviction as to its
importance.
Thus,
I will rely heavily on good
articles from which we can all improve our knowledge - and our
opinions.
GS
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THE INTERNET WAS ORIGINALLY CREATED
"OPEN SOURCE" SO THAT EVERYONE COULD USE IT - ESPECIALLY FOR PROFIT -
REGARDLESS OF RISK.
HERE WE GO AGAIN...WITH AI...EXCEPT THAT THE RISKS HERE ARE EVEN GREATER, POTENTIALLY
BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE.
Are you OK with that?
GS
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: ANOTHER POWERFUL VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS OF PROFIT
AT ANY COST.
"Caveat Emptor".
GS
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SEE: "HOW I BUILT AN AI-POWERED,
SELF-RUNNING PROPAGANDA MACHINE FOR $105...programmed to create false political
stories,
by Jack Brewster (in WSJ April
13-14, 2024, Review, pC1).
...and Just In Time for the 2024
Presidential election. Still DRIP, DRIP, DRIP since 2020.
GS
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READY FOR ANOTHER BLAST INTO THE
FUTURE?
(The references, although sufficient
to find, will only be skeletal).
- Look
up "Artificial Intelligence" on Google / Wikipedia. An
excellent source of general information, includling RISKS.
- AI
and Health Care. Sharing data vs losing data.
Protected data. See Jeremy Faust, M.D., MedPage Today, Feb. 12, 2024.
- "Hallucinating
AI". See Belle Lin, WSJ, Feb. 14, 2024.
- AI
and Generating "Sacred Art"...NOT.
See National Catholic Register, Feb. 11 - 24, 2024.
- How
do we "control" AI? See
WSJ Review, Jan. 27-28, 2024.
- Many
questions about AI...and answers...,
See WSJ, Jan. 22, 2024.
- "No,
AI Machines Can't Think" - so says this author, WSJ, Jan. 8, 2024.
Pleasant Dreams...until the next
offering.
GS
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"WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE TELLING
ME??
GS
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STEP RIGHT UP, FOLKS. PICK
YOUR POISON.
GS
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WAITING TO START WORRING ABOUT AI?
Avoid the rush: Start Now.
See: Can You Hide A Child's Face
From A.I.?, by Peter S. Goodman (NYTimes - Sunday Business October 15,
2023, bu p1).
GS
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"I KNOW NOTHINCCKK".
That harried exclamation by Sergeant Schultz should be the introduction to my new section on Artificial Intelligence,
despite my expanding collection of related articles.
But reports like "Tech Leaders Are Divided On AI's Threat To Humanity" (in WSJ September 5, 2023, B1)
give me some assurance that more focused minds are paying attention to this Real Threat.
GS
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"AI IS HERE. CONNECTICUT IS SCRAMBLING TO SET STANDARDS",
by Mark Pazniokas ( in ctmirror.com, May 11, 2023).
"GARY MARCUS SAYS WE NEED TO HIT THE BRAKES ON A.I.",
by David Marchese ( in NYTimes Magazine May 7, 2023).
GS
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: MORE INFORMATION. BEWARE...
1) "LAWMAKER WARNS ABOUT AI'S REAL...", (in The Epoch Times, April 26, 2023.
2) "Godfather Of AI Warns Of Tech Disaster After Quitting Google", in Republican Report.org recently)
3) "Elon Musk Tries To Direct AI Again", (in WSJ May 2, 2023).
4)"Musk Meets With Schumer And Yoon To Discuss AI.
5) "Enabling Artificial Intelligence In Medical Practice", by Milica McDowell (in Physician's Weekly, april 25, 2023).
6) "AI In the Garden Of Eden", by Peggy Noonan (in WSJ April 22-23, 2023).
7) "AI Simply Needs A Kill Switch", by Andy Kessler ( in WSJ april 24, 2024).
GS
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THIS IS STARTING TO SOUND LIKE THE POTENTIAL OF NUCLEAR WAR...ONLY WORSE.
GS
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SEE?
UNCHECKED...FIRST YOUR JOBS; THEN YOUR FREEDOM.
GS
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A
CONTINUING READING LIST.
- "How
AI Can Track And Manipulate Voters", by Stocklin (in The Epoch Times,
April 12, 2023).
- "25
Questions To Ask Yourself About AI", by Captain (in WSJ April 17,
2023).
- "He's
Not Worried, But He Knows You Are", by Altman (in NYTimes april 2,
2023).
- "50,000
Sign Letter Urging A Pause In AI Advancement: Nonprofit", by Svab (in
The Epoch Times April 5, 2023.
- 'The
AI Will See You Now", by Hood and Price, (in WSJ April 8-9, 2023)
- "Elon
Musk And Others Call for Pause On AI...", by Musk et al (in NYTimes,
March 29, 2023).
- "A
Six-Month AI Pause? No, Longer is Needed.", by Peggy Noonan (in WSJ
April 1-2, 2023)
- "The
Next Human", National Geographic, April 2017.
- "Meet
The Robots", National Geographic, September 2020.
- "The
Singularity Is Near" by Kursweil.
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IT'S JUST BEGINNING, FOLKS.
GS
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PLEASE GOOGLE THIS INTERVIEW BETWEEN MUSK AND CARLSON.
I understand little of this...except for the fact that it is IMPORTANT!
GS
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SEE? IT'S NOT ONLY ME!
GS
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TIME FOR ANOTHER
EDITION OF POT POURRI:
STORIES, FACTS AND
ISSUES THAT SHOULD CONCERN US ALL, WHETHER AS SCENTS OR STINKS.
For further reading, I
give the general source. Check out Google for specificity.
1) Sorry: NO alcohol
is good for your health.(WSJ, April 1-2, 2023) (The Day, April 1, 2023).
2) While "Sam
Altman Builds Our AI Future" (WSJ, April 1-2, 2023),
"A Six-Month AI
Pause? No, Longer Is Needed. (WSJ, April 1-2, 2023)
3) "DEI At Law
Schools Could Bring Down America", the latest - at Stanford School of Law
- on THE WOKE FOOLS (WSJ April1-2, 2023).
4) "More Say
Colleges Aren't Worth The Cost".(WSJ, April 1-2, 2023). Neither are
today's high school "graduates" mature and educated enough to benefit
from higher education. AMEN.
5) "How Cigna
Saves Millions By Having its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them."
And how "doctors" prostitute themselves. (www.ctmirror.org, 3/25, 2023).
6) "Zero Dems
Vote For Parents' Bill Of Rights" in the House of Representatives".
(republicannews.org, 3/29, 2023).
7) "When Big
Business Married Big Government" (WSJ, March 27, 2023) Shades of the
same situation in Nazi Germany in the 1930's and 1940's.
8) "Coupes Just
Don't Want To Have Kids". (The Day, March 24, 2023.
Now see "The End
Of The World Is Just The Beginning", by Peter Zeihan (Harper
Business, c 2023). "Populations are both shrinking and aging".
9) "Awash In
Federal Money, State Lawmakers Tackle Worsening Youth Mental Health"
(ctmirror.org, March 19, 2023).
Money certainly will
not reverse this debilitating trend in the face of abortions, single parent
families, lack of parental commitment, lack of parental support and
empowerment, addictions d'jour, addiction to social media that simultaneously
rob a young person of his or her childhood and supplant it with nothing of ethical
/ moral value. A Disaster.
10) "Doctors Are
Being Driven Out Of Primary Care" (The Day, March 15, 2023).And that's
just the tip of the iceberg that the Health Care Professions are being driven
into. I know. I deal with it every day in this, my 60th year or private
practice of medicine. Never this bad.
I sincerely hope that
the above does not "drive you to drink".
GS
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SOME MORE READINGS ON ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE.
And don't mlss any and all offerings
by Kurzweil regarding "The Singularity".
Geographic, April, 2017.
"Meet The Robots"
in National Geographic, September, 2020.
"A.I. Does Not Have
Thoughts, No Matter What You Think", by Cade Metz (in NYTimes August
7, 2022, BU p6).
"Bill Proposes State Office Of
Artificial Intelligence", by Alison Cross (in The Day March
5, 2023, pD7).
GS
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"READER ALERT":
In this field of Artificial
Intelligence (AI), I know Very Little. But I'm trying to correct that.
See another article on the subject:
"How Google's Caution On AI
Gave Microsoft An Opening", by Kruppa and Schechner (in WSJ
March 8, 2023, pA1).
GS
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First
of all let's all agree that
individuals and societies could hardly live without the
Internet as
they could not live without electricity.
As
the Internet was initially
created to be "Open Source", it can hardly now be "closed"
without creating a New Internet with built-in Security.
Meanwhile,
we will continue to be
Hacked, to have our schools and hospitals and industries and law
enforcement
agencies Hacked, with or without demands for Ransom.
And
we will grit our teeth and bear
it.
But
now we are actually fostering
the development of an eventual actual intellectual competitor to the
human mind
- and thus to human primacy of power / control:
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE.
Good
Idea? I don't think so.
Logically, that development could make human beings eventual house pets
to the
creations with AI.
I
suggest that you bring yourself up
to speed on this subject...and develop your own
opinion - and then make
yourself heard on the subject.
- "Tomorrow's
A.I.: Actively Insidious", by Maureen Dowd (in N.Y.Times, Januaryi 29,
2023, Sunday Review p 3).
- "The Brave
New World Of Artificial Intelligence", by Frank Miele (in The Epoch
Times, February 15, 2023, Opinion, pA16).
- "The Deepfake
Dangers Ahead", by Byman et al (in WSJ February 25-26, 2023, Review,
pC5).
- "ChatGPT
Heralds An Intellectual Revolution", by Kissinger et al (in WSJ
February 25-26, 2023, Opinion pA13).
- AI ChatGPT
Passes US Medical Licensing Exams Without Cramming - Unlike Students",
by Alicia Ault (www.medscape.com,
January 26, 2023).
- "Who's Afraid
of ChatGPT?, by Matthew Hennessey (in WSJ February 24, 2023, Opinion
pA15).
More to
come...but this will get you
started.
GS
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