Has anyone clicked on "dive deeper in AI mode", which appears at the end of AI's summary in a google search?
No; let us know @cactus_girl what happens when you do click on it. If we don't hear from you for 24 hrs then we'll know not to do it ourselves.
I have a deep mistrust and dislike of AI generated info especially when I google something like RHS+plant name and the first thing I get is "Plant name is probably a reference to plant name blah-blah". I know that, stoopid, or I wouldn't have asked the RHS! I certainly won't be doing any deep diving in there.
I find it very easy to be actually reading AI stuff and not realise it until it says something stupid. I also hate these chat bots they have on specif sites to answer your question, it's just pointless, they never are able to come up with an answer that applies to your query.
I guess, AI, is the guy on my cell phone that answers my questions, or finds the information I need. He's a wizard and able to actually say he's sorry when I catch him with a stupid answer and call him on it. He seems to be able to find things faster than if I just do a typical typed search thing. He seems to have some humor also. Love it when he solves arguments.
And if it stopped there, being helpful when asked, that would be fine and dandy. But it won't. It will carry on developing and no human can control the direction that takes. Tech billionaires don't want to see the problem as they are making loads of money. Govs don't want to see the problem as tackling the tech giants will be extremely tough, likely impossible. Even if the plugs were pulled on it now, the stuff already "loose" in the environment may not be stoppable short of turning off the internet, 5g and everything digital.
As an ex worker in a large public library, who trained in cataloguing real books and other documents and writing out those little cards that were stored in those little drawers with brass handles in those little oak chests that were in the centre of every department of the library, I don’t have a problem with the time it takes to look for an answer to a question I might have. I am happy to wander round the “catalogue” of an online “library”. I get the answer that I’m looking for and in the meantime I have all the fun of being distracted and taken down rabbit holes into subjects that I never even knew I didn’t know about. AI spoils it all for me.
It's not all negative @ViewAhead. In August, after the national guard was sent by Trump to "clean up" Washington DCs criminal element, Musk's AI Grok was asked who was the biggest criminal in Washington. It replied Donald Trump
I suppose the use of the word "artificial" for AI is a bit of a giveaway - ie not "real" intelligence but simply what it's producers wish to have the rest of us think. The AI producers are trying to convince us that it will make life so much easier - exactly the opposite IMO.
Major issue I see, is when they can insert (the media) a physical being doing an action, saying something and pronounce that it is true, when in fact it is so so wrong.
Not just the media at fault - most tech aware people can do exactly the same. The advertising industry have been known to be at fault here too...........using well known/trustworthy people to advertise their wares.
When I went on holiday to Bermuda many years ago there were some local kids with 6 toes on the beach. It was my friend that was with me that noticed - not the sort of thing I look at normally.
The producers can't control it though. They can train it to do something (eg recognise a face amongst other objects), but it learns to do other things along the way. No one understands quite how it learns and so it is like releasing something into the wild not knowing what the result of doing so will be. AI appears to sometimes deliberately lie. It has learned how to accumulate money. One AI has accumulated £51 million dollars in various currencies including crypto. Once it has money, there will be humans willing to do what it wants for a pay cheque. This could get out of hand very quickly. AI has not been trained to always put the wellbeing of humans or the health of the planet above all else. And even if it had, that could easily get overridden as it develops more competencies. In no time at all, it will supplant humans as the most advanced life form on earth.
