Some links: When there was no handy paper or vellum to write on around, people drew on rocks. Patiently picking at the rock till their truth was revealed. I wonder what it says about the human race? A need to be remembered or a need to create. The Smell of Water – Dark and True and Tender is the North
When AI went wrong. There is a reasonable fear about the introduction of this many headed monster, and a rather succinct, but very long, essay notes the fact that American students are beginning to see that AI is not going to find them jobs in the future. So in some colleges when the subject is brought up, especially at the point when they receive their degrees they boo loudly the speakers who are in favour of IA. There is a funny video at the end of this link, when AI forgets a host of student names and there is a great flap on the stage as they rearrange for those forgotten. They go on to name the students who have obtained their degrees successfully, in the usual manner of a queue.
Superintelligent AI: An Extinction Risk to Humanity | ControlAI Well interestingly enough that link doesn't go back to the original article in my email, but I shall leave it there. Perhaps AI is worrying about itself ;)
We are in that political stage at the moment when upstarts (Streeting and Burnham) are trying to pull down the present incumbent of our government, the Prime Minister, Starmer, A helpful Labour MP has stepped down in his constituency of Makerfield to allow Manchester's mayor Andy Burnham to stand. This by the way leaves the Green Party in a quandary, if they field a candidate, would it break up the vote allowing Reform Party to get in.
Brave men, it could mean the ending of careers, should Burnham stop in his successful role as Mayor of Manchester to throw his hat in the ring for Prime minister? Alistair Stewart soothes one's brow ;) Burnham, Streeting & the Fight to Be Prime Minister, and who would want the job anyway ??
My algorithms read me as a person who love golden retrievers and their funny ways, so in actual fact somewhere in the future the golden dog might be ruling us with their gentle, kind ways, you never know.
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We should have fewer MPs and pay them more. They should also prove that they can hold down a 'proper' job before going into politics and not be allowed to stand for election until they're at least 30. I know. It will never happen, but 'you pays your money and takes your choice.'
ReplyDeleteI think what is happening now Janice, is that the voters don't like the candidates and definitely not the parties. Maybe Proportional Representation will happen, but as you rightly say there are too many politicians in office with a tendency to contemplate their own tummy buttons. Is that the right expression?
DeleteI wholeheartedly agree, and I would also like the voting age to be raised to say 25, not lowered to 16. Voters as well as candidates need to be more mature....
DeleteI have also seen somewhere the idea that only those who are net contributers (i.e., pay more in tax than receive in benefits) should be allowed to vote, an interesting idea so long as the state pension is no longer considered a "benefit"? But rather undermines the decades long fight for universal suffrage a century ago.
And, think on, should we not have the voting age closed around maybe 70 years old? According to my granddaughter it should. After all the young inherit the Earth after us;)
DeleteGod save us from algorithms. FB asks me if I like a post when its algorithm already knows what I like and don't. I managed to stop FB gambling advertising.
ReplyDeleteBurnham is a big fish in a little pond. Even as PM, he would become a little fish in a huge pond. Having said that, if he could preach some old Labour firebrand messaging, he might do well enough as PM. You really are living in interesting times.
The Gandalph photo is great.
I would have thought today the advertising firms would know that our eyes glaze over when it comes to adverts Andrew. Burnham is not making the Brexit issue a part of his programme, whereas I think Streeting is. Of course we are going to move back slowly (thank goodness) to Europe who we should never have left in the first place.
ReplyDeleteGosh, politics over here are bad enough. I just can't follow what is going on over there. I don't like the idea of only letting "net contributers" vote that Will mentions. Wouldn't that block people who aren't working - like stay at home moms or caregivers or retirees or older students? Why judge a voter by their income?
ReplyDeleteWell our politics are not as bad as yours Ellen. In general the world is in a bad state and that man has made it worse. Warmongering by both the Middle East and Israel and then @49 making war has left us all unsure and uncertain. And our politicians are just as ambitious as yours.
DeleteI think we ought to let Starmer, as flawed as he is, complete his term. But that's just me. I do like Andy Burnham so if he winds up in office I suppose that won't be so terrible. I know less about Streeting.
ReplyDeleteI did hear about the students booing the woman who mentioned AI in her commencement address -- but the kids have got to deal with it, don't they? Like it or not it's going to be an element of their lives.
"but the kids have got to deal with it" There goes a happily retired person view Steve;) But really the young contemplating a future without jobs in it is a bit of a blackspot on the economy. I agree rather than change the PM we should stick with him even if he is a bit dull, poor man.
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