Theory About AI

[baddog]

9 hours ago, LumRaiderFan said:

Can’t blame Anthropic for their position, I would be skeptical of promises coming from the Pentagon that their product won’t be misused.

I see your point, and none of us want mass surveillance, but the way I feel, we are already being mass surveilled. Tvs and phones already spy on us, and that’s AI. If they don’t want their AI to be used autonomously, why are they talking with the pentagon. Trump claims they’re a far left company so maybe it’s a trust factor. Maybe I don’t know enough about AI to make a decision.

[Reagan]

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[UT alum]

On 5/13/2025 at 2:36 PM, baddog said:

I know I will catch some flack for my beliefs, but I don’t care. I’ve seen it questioned before and I had already thought about it. I worry about AI developing into something that completely takes over….ie…….Terminator or I Robot. To me that’s not weird at all. When you create something that can think for itself, getting smarter in the process, and we have all experienced ‘glitches’ with our electronics, it’s a very conceivable concept. I’m sure there are very useful applications for AI, but at what point do we lose control over technology? I’d like to hear other’s thought on the subject. 
This is an interesting theory on AI. They are already trying to phase out cash to be replaced with chip loaded cards. Our phones track our every move, calls, searches, browsing history, etc….This hasn’t crossed my mind, but I find it interesting.

 

“2001 A Space Odyssey” by Arthur C. Clarke was written in 1968.  HAL is the name of the AI operating system in control of a deep space expedition. Move each letter up one in the alphabet and what do you get? IBM. I don’t know if machines will take over the world. I do know that much of what was science fiction, back to Jules Verne, has become reality. The processing power of AI is mind boggling. The more it knows the deeper it can go. As Ol Dawg said, Pandora’s thrown away the key. I don’t see it ever getting sufficiently controlled so as not to pose as a continuous potential threat to individual privacy or national security. The scope is scary. Call me crazy, but I don’t use the voice controls on my phone, and it aggravates the hell out of my wife that I won’t use Alexa to search the tv. My phone has never told me out of the blue “I didn’t get that”. Hers has. I use ad blockers but they can still get at you. The power of the algorithm to guide us only to sites it thinks we like because of our searches is terrifying. That in itself is an example of how AI can influence us. It behooves us all to think twice (at least) before we believe whatever our devices are sending us.  Thank you, Baddog, for bringing up a topic that a diverse political group can discuss together seriously.

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34 minutes ago, Reagan said:

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My point on the power of the algorithm is made. Do you have any idea why Trump is even talking about Anthropic? Because they won’t give the Pentagon full access to their proprietary operating systems like the idiot Hegseth demanded. Does the President try to clarify the government's position? No, he attacks the company as “woke” so all his supporters will think they should be kicked out. The computer sent you a piece of junk reporting. The algorithm is stalking you…

[Reagan]

18 minutes ago, UT alum said:

My point on the power of the algorithm is made. Do you have any idea why Trump is even talking about Anthropic? Because they won’t give the Pentagon full access to their proprietary operating systems like the idiot Hegseth demanded. Does the President try to clarify the government's position? No, he attacks the company as “woke” so all his supporters will think they should be kicked out. The computer sent you a piece of junk reporting. The algorithm is stalking you…

I appreciate your opinion!

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1 minute ago, Reagan said:

I appreciate your opinion!

The part about Anthropic and the Pentagon is not opinion.

[LumRaiderFan]

1 hour ago, baddog said:

I see your point, and none of us want mass surveillance, but the way I feel, we are already being mass surveilled. Tvs and phones already spy on us, and that’s AI. If they don’t want their AI to be used autonomously, why are they talking with the pentagon. Trump claims they’re a far left company so maybe it’s a trust factor. Maybe I don’t know enough about AI to make a decision.

I thought it was strange as well that they got this far down the road and just now began to question application.  

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[baddog]

3 hours ago, LumRaiderFan said:

I thought it was strange as well that they got this far down the road and just now began to question application.  

While we have to live with being spied on, hopefully it won’t get as bad as “Enemy of the State” with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. As for Anthropic and our military, we don’t know what went on behind closed doors. That has to be some top secret talks and really not for our ears. Trump has to be very careful because of the leakage. He will also take the heat for the decision. Some people will call it falling in lockstep, but that’s because they’re not used to a leader with cods. There has to be more to it because all I hear is that we have to win the AI “race”.