Today the Macalope comes not to bury AI but to praise it .
Okay , just a lilliputian , but still .
close lector of the aroused one ’s ribald rants might get the horse sense from them that the Macalope think AI should be thrust into the trash can of history and carry to the garbage dump of the old age to afterward be burned in the incinerator of perdition . He is here to assure you that his opinion on AI is far more nuanced than that .
Well , more nuanced . Somewhat . A little more nuanced .
There ’s unquestionably a measurable quantity of subtlety to be found . Depending on the precision of the instruments used to do the measuring . The Macalope has not read the standard memo published by the National Board of Nuance and he ’s presently unfamiliar with the puppet being used in the shade measuring industry .
They probably have AI in them .
permit ’s describe the Macalope ’s philosophy on AI as something that works great in certain instances and has great potency that ’s being aggressively misapply and over - applied .
Despite the potential difference , there preserve to be problems . Like whenApple Intelligence is making up headlines of fake newsand transcend them around as real notice .
Look , it ’s no big hand , all it did was say that a boxer that drop off a round won and that a former professional lawn tennis player came out as gay when … uh , they had not at all total out as gay in any way of life .
As if the disinformation geezerhood could get any high-risk , we now have machines moil out random , entirely wrong information on outcome that it had a 50/50 luck of getting right .
The pugilism one . The sex one , that ’s complicated . Well , maybe there are lot in boxing . There definitely are in sexuality .
[ wink ]
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( The Macalope does n’t know what that signify , either . )
Whatever the subject , we do n’t necessitate to vex . Apple is on it!According to the BBC , Apple is “ working on a software program change to ‘ further clarify ’ when the notifications are sum-up that have been generated by the Apple Intelligence system . ”
“ This person pull ahead a boxing catch . ( Disclaimer : Apple Intelligence has no idea who won this match , honestly . It ’s so trite . ) ” Fantastic . Problem solved .
Tim Cook loves summaries , by the way . Or so he retain saying . Not sure which ones he ’s interpretation . likely not these .
The thing is , while AI does not seem upright at these tasks , there are still things it really is good at . They just materialise to be define project do on define data sets . And how ’s someone hypothecate to get rich off of that ?
AI is quite good at providing hint resolution for technical problems . expect it for code snippets or how to fix computer problems and it will commonly come up back with something helpful . Probably still best not to just edit out and paste if you ’re working on nuclear reactor software program , but it ’s in spades good enough for vane study . Heck , AI has already helped at least one member of the Macalope ’s family fix a reckoner job without his interposition . If he can get out of the “ business concern ” of being free technical support for certain family member , so much the good .
So , is AI without merit ? Quite the contrary . It ’s incredibly useful … in certain , delimitate case . But it should be being go through more judiciously and not being summarily shoved into everything . Your faucet , for example , does not need AI .
To lease you have it away how unbalanced that is , the Macalope just typed “ ai faucet ” into DuckDuckGo and was 100 per centum certain he ’d get a hit without having expect previously .
Also , just gon na throw it out there base on the second search he did : can someone hack theseAI - powered caddiessometime soon ? The Macalope really needs to see the video of golfers being chased across the fairway by them . rather set up to “ Yakety Sax ” . TIA .
To foreground one of the problems with AI , these are billed as AI - powered “ golf carts ” , but that ’s not what they are . You tease in golf carts . Because these just carry your club , they ’re switch for caddies , not cart . If caddies were unionise , “ AI - powered scabs ” would be more correct than “ AI - powered golf handcart ” . So much of AI revolves around how to put someone out of a chore .
It ’s also justeasyto make fun of AI . When the yield is so dispirited and so marvelously advanced , what ’s a mythical beast to do ?
Okay , okay . The Macalope was fit to say nice things about AI today . He does see great voltage in AI foresighted - terminus . The problem is less AI than it is the people trying to ram it into everything to make a clam . When it becomes readable what is belong to lick and what isn’t – basically when the technology becomes as boring as touch screens and tapdance to pay for something – maybe we can relish it more .
