AI, A1 or A Con?

We Are AI l Doomed?

It was way back in 1961 that a youthfull fbb watched a BBC SciFi serial. Cosmologists using a radio telscope received a message in binary (dot-dash) code from somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy. The clever people built a machine which successfully interpreted the code and ultimately "built" a human being.

It was Julie Christie!

It's very clever of the "message" to create such a dishy girl rather than some boring old technology expert.

fbb will not bore you with the end of the story (because the end was a very feeble "deus ex machina") but on the wall adjacent to the humah-creator machine, they hung a huge axe.

"If IT starts to take us over," one scientist said, " we smash it to bits!"

Such are the fears for "AI"!

Apart from the concept of being served by robots, the worry is whether the technology will take over and destroy humanity. We humans are, sadly, rather inefficient in things technological, within our pea-like brains!

But let fbb de-monsterise the current situation. 

Artificial Intelligence is not intelligent!

Here's how it works. You send little bits of computer program out into the world wide web (internet) to collect information and store it in a multi-dimensional database. If it were an old fashioned filing cabinet it might be the size of planet Earth!

A basic AI program might have access to, say, tens of gigabytes of information. A gigabyte is 1,000.000.000 (one thousand million) bytes of computer information storage. A monster system could access hundreds of gigabytes

A human being then trains the system to search this huge heap of stuff and glue the bytes back together based on some clever recipes that a human being has created.

So, using "ChatGBT" (a relatively simple set-up with a mere 40 gigabytes of data to grovel around in) and No 3 Son (who understands these things), fbb gave it a simple task based on this news item, already reported in these blogs.

According to No 3 son, the above was generated by "AI" meaning that the author of the piece did not have to pay any copyright fees!
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So fbb said, "Draw a picture of a Piccadilly line train." And it did!

Not a bad effort for a beginner but the train was old, the colour at the front was wrong and there was no driver or cab wherein he might drive! Notice the roundel replacing one of the headlights.

Next: "Draw a picture of a Piccadilly line train with bats." And it did!

Showing the full force of its "intelligence", ChatGBT complied, intelligently (?). The train now has a blue front plus red panel; there is a roundel in one of the front windows and still no driver or cab. The text on signs and roundels is becoming unstable.

Next: "Draw a picture of a Piccadilly line train with bats and fat bus bloke." And it did!

The likeness is remarkable - NOT!

The train now has a grey front and the station has skylights, added "intelligently". Note also that its intelligence has failed with a couple of the  roundels ...

... noting particularly this bizarre nonsense.

Clearly this version of AI is suffering from the onset of dementia.

And finally: "Draw a picture of a Piccadilly line train with bats and fat bus bloke juggling timetables." And it did!

We have a further proliferation of roundels, one on a lamppost suspended magically above the platform and one floating in the London evening sky. The front of the train is now all blue but still lacking driver or cab but we now have a stylised London skyline. fbb has also just noticed a couple of floating roundels against the mountains of Uxbridge in the far background.

The interested blog reader, whilst guffawing loudly, may amuse him or her self by postulating how the intelligent trains fit on the rails of the intelligent track in each different illustration.

Incidentally, ChatGBT also supplies helpful text describing the pictures it has intelligently created.

Here is the example for the last of the above pictures.

Here is the whimsical and entertaining image of the Piccadilly Line train, complete with bats and the humorous 'fatbusbloke' juggling colorful bus timetables. It blends modern transport with a touch of playful surrealism.

Using its database and NOT its intelligence, ChatGBT has decided that the image it has been asked to create is unreal, is "whimsical", so clever ChatGBT for working that out!

Obviously, it will do better with less "whimsical" requests, but it will still NOT be intelligent.

We won't need the axe yet awhile.

Maybe it will be like this!

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"NOT the Advent Calendar", but ...

     The      

  CHRIST -mas 

  Criss-muss  

   Confusion  

 Critique  12 

Virgin Birth - Documented!

Without CHRIST,   CHRISTmas is meaningless. It becomes Criss-muss, a pointless period of spending, celebrating nothing except a pointless period of spending.

By the standards of historic documents, the Gospel accounts are astoundingly reliable. They were written by people who were remarkably close to the action. Unlike tales of Alfred burning cakes ...

... and Walt throwing down his cloak for QE1 ...

... both of which are utterly unreliable and were written some 80 plus years after the supposed event with no corroborating witnesses.

Here is Matthew's Gospel.

Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they were married, she found out that she was going to have a baby by the Holy Spirit. 

Joseph was a man who always did what was right, but he did not want to disgrace Mary publicly; so he made plans to break the engagement privately.

Under the social  conventions of the day, a less caring potential husband would have rejected his fiancee outright and her family would have expelled her from their home. She may well have ended up begging on the streets.

But Joseph didn't.

While he was thinking about this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary to be your wife. For it is by the Holy Spirit that she has conceived.She will have a son, and you will name him Jesus - because he will save his people from their sins.”

Then came the journey to Bethlehem!

But where's the donkey?

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