Allergy Associates - The Computer / Internet / Artificial Intelligence

George A. Sprecace M.D., J.D., F.A.C.P. and Allergy Associates of New London, P.C.
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THE COMPUTER / INTERNET / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE DANGEROUS

Welcome to a new Category of Information and Opinion.
I claim no special knowledge in this area...just information and common sense - and a conviction as to its importance.
Thus, I will rely heavily on good articles from which we can all improve our knowledge - and our opinions.

GS

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SEE: "HOW I BUILT AN AI-POWERED, SELF-RUNNING PROPAGANDA MACHINE FOR $105...programmed to create false political stories,
by Jack Brewster (in WSJ April 13-14, 2024, Review, pC1).

...and Just In Time for the 2024 Presidential election. Still DRIP, DRIP, DRIP since 2020.

GS

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READY FOR ANOTHER BLAST INTO THE FUTURE?
(The references, although sufficient to find, will only be skeletal).

Look up "Artificial Intelligence" on Google / Wikipedia. An excellent source of general information, includling RISKS.
AI and Health Care. Sharing data vs losing data. Protected data. See Jeremy Faust, M.D., MedPage Today, Feb. 12, 2024.
"Hallucinating AI". See Belle Lin, WSJ, Feb. 14, 2024.
AI and Generating "Sacred Art"...NOT. See National Catholic Register, Feb. 11 - 24, 2024.
How do we "control" AI? See WSJ Review, Jan. 27-28, 2024.
Many questions about AI...and answers..., See WSJ, Jan. 22, 2024.
"No, AI Machines Can't Think" - so says this author, WSJ, Jan. 8, 2024.

Pleasant Dreams...until the next offering.

GS

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"WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE TELLING ME??

GS

New AI Bot Set To DISRUPT The Market

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STEP RIGHT UP, FOLKS. PICK YOUR POISON.

GS

AI Apocalypse? Discover the 5 Ways AI Could WIPE OUT Humanity!

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WAITING TO START WORRING ABOUT AI?
Avoid the rush: Start Now.
See: Can You Hide A Child's Face From A.I.?, by Peter S. Goodman (NYTimes - Sunday Business October 15, 2023, bu p1).

GS

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"I KNOW NOTHINCCKK".

That harried exclamation by Sergeant Schultz should be the introduction to my new section on Artificial Intelligence,
despite my expanding collection of related articles.
But reports like "Tech Leaders Are Divided On AI's Threat To Humanity" (in WSJ September 5, 2023, B1)
give me some assurance that more focused minds are paying attention to this Real Threat.

GS

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WARNING: We're Being WATCHED - AI in Email!

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"AI IS HERE. CONNECTICUT IS SCRAMBLING TO SET STANDARDS",
by Mark Pazniokas ( in ctmirror.com, May 11, 2023).

"GARY MARCUS SAYS WE NEED TO HIT THE BRAKES ON A.I.",
by David Marchese ( in NYTimes Magazine May 7, 2023).

GS

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: MORE INFORMATION. BEWARE...

1) "LAWMAKER WARNS ABOUT AI'S REAL...", (in The Epoch Times, April 26, 2023.

2) "Godfather Of AI Warns Of Tech Disaster After Quitting Google", in Republican Report.org recently)

3) "Elon Musk Tries To Direct AI Again", (in WSJ May 2, 2023).

4)"Musk Meets With Schumer And Yoon To Discuss AI.

5) "Enabling Artificial Intelligence In Medical Practice", by Milica McDowell (in Physician's Weekly, april 25, 2023).

6) "AI In the Garden Of Eden", by Peggy Noonan (in WSJ April 22-23, 2023).

7) "AI Simply Needs A Kill Switch", by Andy Kessler ( in WSJ april 24, 2024).

GS

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THIS IS STARTING TO SOUND LIKE THE POTENTIAL OF NUCLEAR WAR...ONLY WORSE.

GS

Godfather Of AI QUITS Suddenly

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SEE?
UNCHECKED...FIRST YOUR JOBS; THEN YOUR FREEDOM.

GS

AI REPLACES 8,000 Jobs

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A CONTINUING READING LIST.

"How AI Can Track And Manipulate Voters", by Stocklin (in The Epoch Times, April 12, 2023).
"25 Questions To Ask Yourself About AI", by Captain (in WSJ April 17, 2023).
"He's Not Worried, But He Knows You Are", by Altman (in NYTimes april 2, 2023).
"50,000 Sign Letter Urging A Pause In AI Advancement: Nonprofit", by Svab (in The Epoch Times April 5, 2023.
'The AI Will See You Now", by Hood and Price, (in WSJ April 8-9, 2023)
"Elon Musk And Others Call for Pause On AI...", by Musk et al (in NYTimes, March 29, 2023).
"A Six-Month AI Pause? No, Longer is Needed.", by Peggy Noonan (in WSJ April 1-2, 2023)
"The Next Human", National Geographic, April 2017.
"Meet The Robots", National Geographic, September 2020.
"The Singularity Is Near" by Kursweil.

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IT'S JUST BEGINNING, FOLKS.

GS

AI Putting Musicians OUT OF BUSINESS?

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PLEASE GOOGLE THIS INTERVIEW BETWEEN MUSK AND CARLSON.
I understand little of this...except for the fact that it is IMPORTANT!

GS

Musk Warns AI Can MANIPULATE SOCIETY

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SEE? IT'S NOT ONLY ME!

GS

AI Will CAUSE ‘Nuclear-Level Catastrophe’?

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TIME FOR ANOTHER EDITION OF POT POURRI:
STORIES, FACTS AND ISSUES THAT SHOULD CONCERN US ALL, WHETHER AS SCENTS OR STINKS.

For further reading, I give the general source. Check out Google for specificity.

1) Sorry: NO alcohol is good for your health.(WSJ, April 1-2, 2023) (The Day, April 1, 2023).

2) While "Sam Altman Builds Our AI Future" (WSJ, April 1-2, 2023),
"A Six-Month AI Pause? No, Longer Is Needed. (WSJ, April 1-2, 2023)

3) "DEI At Law Schools Could Bring Down America", the latest - at Stanford School of Law - on THE WOKE FOOLS (WSJ April1-2, 2023).

4) "More Say Colleges Aren't Worth The Cost".(WSJ, April 1-2, 2023). Neither are today's high school "graduates" mature and educated enough to benefit from higher education. AMEN.

5) "How Cigna Saves Millions By Having its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them." And how "doctors" prostitute themselves. (www.ctmirror.org, 3/25, 2023).

6) "Zero Dems Vote For Parents' Bill Of Rights" in the House of Representatives". (republicannews.org, 3/29, 2023).

7) "When Big Business Married Big Government" (WSJ, March 27, 2023) Shades of the same situation in Nazi Germany in the 1930's and 1940's.

8) "Coupes Just Don't Want To Have Kids". (The Day, March 24, 2023.
Now see "The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning", by Peter Zeihan (Harper Business, c 2023). "Populations are both shrinking and aging".

9) "Awash In Federal Money, State Lawmakers Tackle Worsening Youth Mental Health" (ctmirror.org, March 19, 2023).
Money certainly will not reverse this debilitating trend in the face of abortions, single parent families, lack of parental commitment, lack of parental support and empowerment, addictions d'jour, addiction to social media that simultaneously rob a young person of his or her childhood and supplant it with nothing of ethical / moral value. A Disaster.

10) "Doctors Are Being Driven Out Of Primary Care" (The Day, March 15, 2023).And that's just the tip of the iceberg that the Health Care Professions are being driven into. I know. I deal with it every day in this, my 60th year or private practice of medicine. Never this bad.

I sincerely hope that the above does not "drive you to drink".

GS

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SOME MORE READINGS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

And don't mlss any and all offerings by Kurzweil regarding "The Singularity".
Geographic, April, 2017.
"Meet The Robots" in National Geographic, September, 2020.
"A.I. Does Not Have Thoughts, No Matter What You Think", by Cade Metz (in NYTimes August 7, 2022, BU p6).
"Bill Proposes State Office Of Artificial Intelligence", by Alison Cross (in The Day March 5, 2023, pD7).

GS

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"READER ALERT":

In this field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), I know Very Little. But I'm trying to correct that.
See another article on the subject:

"How Google's Caution On AI Gave Microsoft An Opening", by Kruppa and Schechner (in WSJ March 8, 2023, pA1).

GS

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First of all let's all agree that individuals and societies could hardly live without the Internet as they could not live without electricity.
As the Internet was initially created to be "Open Source", it can hardly now be "closed" without creating a New Internet with built-in Security.
Meanwhile, we will continue to be Hacked, to have our schools and hospitals and industries and law enforcement agencies Hacked, with or without demands for Ransom.
And we will grit our teeth and bear it.

But now we are actually fostering the development of an eventual actual intellectual competitor to the human mind - and thus to human primacy of power / control:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Good Idea? I don't think so. Logically, that development could make human beings eventual house pets to the creations with AI.
I suggest that you bring yourself up to speed on this subject...and develop your own opinion - and then make yourself heard on the subject.

"Tomorrow's A.I.: Actively Insidious", by Maureen Dowd (in N.Y.Times, Januaryi 29, 2023, Sunday Review p 3).
"The Brave New World Of Artificial Intelligence", by Frank Miele (in The Epoch Times, February 15, 2023, Opinion, pA16).
"The Deepfake Dangers Ahead", by Byman et al (in WSJ February 25-26, 2023, Review, pC5).
"ChatGPT Heralds An Intellectual Revolution", by Kissinger et al (in WSJ February 25-26, 2023, Opinion pA13).
AI ChatGPT Passes US Medical Licensing Exams Without Cramming - Unlike Students", by Alicia Ault (www.medscape.com, January 26, 2023).
"Who's Afraid of ChatGPT?, by Matthew Hennessey (in WSJ February 24, 2023, Opinion pA15).

More to come...but this will get you started.

GS