End of Life?

Buiilt dozens of websites and ended up with a 1/2 dozen that I had to keep alive and over course of two decades they became near inoperable due to bugs and lack of updates.

But I recently paid $22 a month to Claude Code and over the course of one weekend it cleaned out every bug. All the updates got done too.

Another example is my successful tech executive friend used to raise millions to hire code experts and now he uses Claude code and tells me he'll never have to findraise again.

As in we live in a new era and Danny needs to spend $22 and get Claude Code and debug the site and run all the updates and then gift the website to all of us who have spent the most time on it so we can take it to a whole new level.

 

Claude is AI, and here we read about one of its beneficial applications.

 

Then we would have a flakey lithium charged version with signal soothers to hide the downtime.

 

Hoping that PriusChat is not at end of life, so we can chat about highs and lows of artificial intelligence as it is now implemented.

 

Yep... It's both a threat: in how the one time I tried it for Prius diagnosis it told me that Priuschat servers were blocking its access..

And an asset: in how all the most important websites I created over my life were about to die and in one weekend AI fixed all known problems.

Is it possible a friend of one of our friends knows Danny and can get through to Danny?

 

I suppose AI at its worst advises people to eat poisonous mushrooms. If humans trust, it is one of their last acts. AI expansion also requires lotsa water and pushed electrons; that can impinge on resource availability to innocents.

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In science, I have seen good and lamentably bad results from AI.

 

Sometimes, artificial intelligence is a great thing, it's way ahead of no intelligence at all most of the time ...... I wonder if it will put itself on the next ballot paper ..... Can you picture the political campaign ...... One of a billion images out there with the caption "I certainly couldn't do worse, could I " and "AI for President, even releasing skynet would be better than what we have now"

T1 Terry

 

"Sometimes?"
I'm guessing this means that you never read I, Robot....

Calvin, indeed.....

 

When a robot can operate consuming only vegetation then they have something. That a robot can see something is impossible, even operating from only vegetation. It never sees anything. So far only an organic brain can see an image.

 

What does it mean to "see" an image?

To be able to describe it? Tell you what is in it? Draw inferences about what it is showing or what may be about to happen?

The silicon brains seem not incapable of doing such things.

 

You are only seeing this screen because of your brain. You don’t need to describe or tell what’s in it, it’s there formed in your brain to see. It’s the most remarkable thing. A machine brain sees nothing at all, it’s dead, and any descriptions it is programmed to present to you requires your brain to read or see, or feel if the machine types braille.

 

That's what they want you to think.

 

Since the beginning of human intellect, various human exclusivities and superiorities have been claimed, then eventually refuted. Read this a few years back, ostensibly a collection of employee interviews, on a far away spaceship, some human, some android, and neither clearly identified:

The Employees - Wikipedia

Gotta says Artificial Intelligence has been very helpful to me of late. It trips up occasionally, but usually very helpful. If I were to fault it on anything, it'd be it's unwavering, assured tone, regardless of accuracy or lack thereof....

 

AI is helping me with a current project of installing a whole house generator.
I have used it to research NEC (National Electric Code) items for grounding, bonding and sizing wires for whole home service.
It gives me answers and then references the NEC code subsections so I can research and double check the information myself...very helpful..
it also helps me ask informed questions of our Electric Code Inspection Department people before the project is physically started.

I am not a big fan of AI but there is no denying how helpful it can be...probably very helpful to medical professionals in many situations also.

 

The only images seen anywhere are by a biological living brain, be it a human or an ant. The screen image you look at now is made by your brain. Machines don’t see anything. I don’t know who they are that you say want me to think this. This is part of the reason I came to believe in God in 1994, nothing is new about the subject.

 

I have a DJI drone that has the ability to follow a designated object (me.) This allows video of me moving around the yard doing chores.

There are credible facial recognition systems. Combined with a lock, an automated door becomes practical.

Bob Wilson

 

Interesting concepts.

 

Ironically (in this context) machines are absolutely fantastic at taking and storing high resolution images with minimal distortions, and they can go on to process these in very complex ways, all the way up to classifying it as "this is a woman holding a dog". Conversely, while the image captured by a mammalian eye starts at the level of the photosensors is very image like (other than being both upside down and left/right reversed, as well as somewhat distorted by the eye's squishy optics) the subsequent neural levels in the retina convert those light and color levels to something very strange indeed, with edge detection, spot detection, and all sorts of other preprocessing, and this is what it sends to the brain, which takes that mess and turns it back into an image that we perceive. We aren't great at storing images though. What we remember is more an impression of the image rather than the image itself. People with "photographic memories" perhaps being an exception.