Skip to main content

Book: What Is AI by Mike Loukides and Ben Lorica

 


I can open any email in 2024 and have it mention AI. Today, I've opened one from NameCheap and every bit of copy is mentioning some other AI ('clever captions'...captions should be understandable first and foremost) .

I'm not in the business of being against AI, more so against companies who use it as an excuse to cut staff and leave users with an inferior product. Less people being paid means less money you get as a company. Keep that in mind.

 The book released in 2016, but the foundations haven't changed. Quotes from the book are italicized, and my comments follow.


Any general AI, and most narrow AIs, will probably combine many algorithms 

So the joke is on people who think they have to fight a singular algorithm to get their content seen. You have to fight multiple, like a hydra, more likely. Good luck fighting that algorithm you speak of!

 

Mark Zuckerberg recently said that AI will be better than humans at most basic tasks in 5 to 10 years


Remember that this book came out in 2016. We have reached the point where people are being laid off in favor of AI that is still not quite up to replacing all of us snuff. Hence how fear of AI is really fear of how our fellow man will use it to screw us over feed it biased data, etc.



but we do want machines that can solve different kinds of problems without being programmed with domain-specific knowledge

 Do we? The authors proceed to use self-driving cars and the amount of on the fly decisions it has to make to get us from point A to point B as an example.

 

our current AIs provide narrow solutions to specific problems; they aren’t general problem solvers.  

The most commercial AI interactions are rather general from the pool of data they pull from; At least in late 2022, ChatGPT outright said that the data it gets its answers and learning from is at least 6 months "behind". Does this mean they're taking care to comb through the data and clean it up? Who - or what - is doing that behind the scenes? 

Don't misunderstand me, I appreciate that they aren't actively searching the internet,and Microsoft's Copilot is using a Bing search data set.

 

over the next decade, we’ll see AI steadily creep into one product after another

Companies have been using AI for years (and not likely in the ATS), and it was in tandem to working with people. That seems to have changed quite recently, as with constant change and the maw of capitalism saying to grow at all reasonable cost, people are being let go and AI is being leaned on more.



You can read or download it over here on O'Reilly's website.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Connecting IoT Devices to a Registration Server (Packet Tracer, Cisco)

In Packet Tracer, a demo software made by Cisco Systems. It certainly has changed a lot since 2016. It's almost an Olympic feat to even get started with it now, but it does look snazzy. This is for the new CCNA, that integrates, among other things, IoT and Automation, which I've worked on here before. Instructions here . I don't know if this is an aspect of "Let's make sure people are paying attention and not simply following blindly", or an oversight - The instructions indicate a Meraki Server, when a regular one is the working option here. I have to enable the IoT service on this server. Also, we assign the server an IPv4 address from a DHCP pool instead of giving it a static one. For something that handles our IoT business, perhaps that's safer; Getting a new IPv4 address every week or so is a minimal step against an intruder, but it is a step. There are no devices associated with this new server; In an earlier lab (not shown), I attached them to 'H
Post a Comment
Read more

Securing Terraform and You Part 1 -- rego, Tfsec, and Terrascan

9/20: The open source version of Terraform is now  OpenTofu     Sometimes, I write articles even when things don't work. It's about showing a learning process.  Using IaC means consistency, and one thing you don't want to do is have 5 open S3 buckets on AWS that anyone on the internet can reach.  That's where tools such as Terrascan and Tfsec come in, where we can make our own policies and rules to be checked against our code before we init.  As this was contract work, I can't show you the exact code used, but I can tell you that this blog post by Cesar Rodriguez of Cloud Security Musings was quite helpful, as well as this one by Chris Ayers . The issue is using Rego; I found a cool VS Code Extension; Terrascan Rego Editor , as well as several courses on Styra Academy; Policy Authoring and Policy Essentials . The big issue was figuring out how to tell Terrascan to follow a certain policy; I made it, put it in a directory, and ran the program while in that directory
Post a Comment
Read more

Create a Simple Network (Packet Tracer) + A Walkthrough

Again; I've done this, but now there's so many new things, I'm doing it again. The truly new portions were...everything on the right side of this diagram; The cloud needed a coax connector and a copper Ethernet connector. It's all easy to install, turn off the cloud (Weird), install the modules. Getting the Cable section of Connections was an unusual struggle - The other drop down menu had nothing within. It required going into the Ethernet options and setting the Provider Network to 'cable', which is the next step AFTER the drop-downs. The rest was typical DHCP and DNS setups, mainly on the Cisco server down there. The post is rather short - How about adding a video to it? Find out what A Record means - This site says 'Maps a name to an IP address', which is DNS. So it's another name for DNS? You can change them (presumably in a local context) to associate an IP address to another name.
Post a Comment
Read more