Is AI writing better than me?

Ai writes for companies advertising their products. It does it so well that only an editor is required, so many writers lost their jobs.

Should we be worried? It turns out that AI does not research facts as thoroughly as a human and, in fact, makes up facts. The writing needs to be edited by a human because a lot of what it writes is gibberish and does not make sense. Still, it is cheaper for companies to use it.

AI can write blogs but only WE can write our own blogs. Our blogs are about whatever we want them to be.

Only you can tell people who you really are, or your wisdom that AI does not have. We are unique. Ai searches the Web for information that it cannot find in your head.

You write because you love writing. All yout thoughts, knowledge and experiences which AI does not have, bubble up to the surface and spill over into your writing. Your thoughts entice you to write them down., for yourself and for others. It is an emotional or spiritual urge. We can’t exclude our intellect which AI will never fully grasp. It is a program!

Reference:

“National jobs summit a chance for Australia to hit reset on artificial intelligence , say business leaders”

ABCNews 29/8/2022

AI Hands off my blog! Should we be worried?

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The full extent of what AI can do is being kept secret because the creators are terrified of the devastation it could unleash.( refer “Microsoft’s AI chatbox, Tay, tweeting about Hitler”).

Journalists are already concerned that their jobs are in jeopardy due to the digital revolution. Automated articles have already been published. Why didn’t I know?

Are we reading the truth or will political manipulation be the norm?  The latter is a human fact but how big can it get with AI?

What AI lacks is a human brain. AI is only an impressive collection of algorithmic programs. It impossible for AI to  grow and develop in the same way as a human brain. A brain matures in a way we do not yet completely understand, apart from synapses and chemical pathways.

AI demands close supervision by humans to ensure that it’s output does not go ballistic or is offensive. Once control is handed over to algorithms they effectively have permission to activate their programmer’s mistakes. Then things can get ugly, like the “Robo-debt” incident. ( see Centrelink and robo-debt).

Digital layoffs are already in progress and local papers closing. I cannot get a reliably delivered weekend newspaper anymore.

Gone are the days when you could read your paper with breakfast. Now you need a mobile device. It is not quite the same experience. Who does not like a bit of jam or butter accidentally smeared on their paper, or bringing in a soggy wet paper, smelling like wet smoke, on a rainy day, dividing the pages, and draping them over the back of a chair or indoor clothes rack to dry?

Do you want your news articles written and served up by a computer program called GPT2?  Do you care? Conventional news could become fake news and we wouldn’t know – wait … it has already happened.

The redeeming feature of AI is the ease in which it can search for and implant research facts in it’s articles in microseconds. It can be creative but to what extent?

Right now it is such a huge system it cannot be trusted. It needs to be tweaked and reined in before it becomes mainstream in one or two year’s time.  It can write blogs.  Are you prepared?

 

Written by Carmen Verne

 

References:

AI can write just like me. Brace for the robot acopalypse

The Guardian Fri 15 Feb 2019

 

New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release say creators.

The Guardian Thu 14 Feb 2019

 

All Governments Lie

SBS Viceland:  shown 17 Feb 2019