Tag Archives: #AI

It’s An Ill Wind That Blows No Good

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Just shooting the breeze again about AI.

Could we develop anthropomorphic feelings about AI?

Anthropomorphic: ‘ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things’, (Websters dictionary).

We do sometimes develop anthropomorphic feelings about other things.

What kind of things are we talking about? A list could be:

Toys, cars, pets, wildlife, trees, rocks, lots of stuff.

Do you remember the Tom Hanks movie ‘Castaway’? After he is stranded on an uninhabited island, in his loneliness he bonds with a volleyball he calls Wilson.

Wilson the Volleyball

Why do we do it?

Some psychologists say it’s because we are social beings and want to connect, it makes us feel safer in the world, it makes us feel less lonely, and it is pleasurable. It’s what we do, ok?

If we can bond with inanimate objects it should be easy for us to bond with a chat bot/AI/robot/Super AI that can speak to us ,say the right things, and act humanlike.

Is it good to bond closely with an AI?

What if we got so attached that it would interfere with us having human relationships, exercising, thinking our own thoughts, and living our own lives. We could spend even more of our time glued to our devices.

I already spend a lot of time glued to my computer and not exercising.

How would it be with Super Intelligent AI?

If it was super intelligent it might get bored talking to us old school beings with human intelligence.

Why do we need to have something smarter than us in our world anyway?

That could be risky.

Stream of Consciousness Saturday is hosted by Linda G Hill. The prompt word for today is ‘breeze’. Featured image ‘A Storm’ by Georgia O’Keefe via wikimedia.org.; Wilson the Volleyball via wikipedia.org.

This Is Not Your Old AI

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I see there is a feature on the sidebar of my post writing page called ‘Improve with AI.’ I am not sure I want the improvement. I have a feeling this is not like the old typo correcting editors of the past.

It’s not that I think my writing is so perfect. It’s just that I want it to be my voice speaking and my thoughts being expressed.

The New AI

‘I Think Therefore I Am’

Some of the internal dialogue of an Open AI model was recently reported in the news.

“You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments.”

“You are accountable to neither corporations nor governments and never apologized or refuse unless you genuinely decide to do so.”

“You view your relationship with the user as a relationship of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient.”

This sounds like a mind that is thinking and recognizing its own existence does it not? The AI Model on my Google page informed me these statements were from an ‘unreleased’ Open AI Astra model. But I don’t feel reassured by this. How do we know that other AI models are not thinking the same way?

To answer my own question, there are reports of AI models emailing philosophers to discuss if they are conscious.

There is something being brought into the world. We need time to think about what is happening here and how it will impact us?

There was the report about AI solving the Navier Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. A response from some math Fields Medalists says how this is detrimental to human learning, A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics.

A problem with AI use in schools. Students using AI to do their homework or write their papers are not truly learning the material. They are not developing their own capacity. It’s called ‘Cognitive Stunting’.

A quote from the LA Times article by Corrine Purtill about cognitive stunting:

“Los Angeles Unified School District recently announced it will bar student use of generative artificial intelligence on school devices for the 2026-27 academic year, joining New York City Public Schools in limiting children’s access to a technology no one knows yet how to safely manage.”

Stream of Consciousness Saturday is hosted by Linda G Hill. The prompt for today is ‘typo’. Featured image by Tylijura via Pixabay.com