[ExI] An article from an AI-skeptic.

[Darin Sunley]

An economist is walking along the sidewalk and sees a $20 bill. He just
keeps walking, thinking "That's an obvious fake, and only an idiot would
pick it up. Per the efficient market theorem, if that was really a $20 it
would have been picked up already. I'm way too smart for that!"

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 3:18 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 09:44, efc--- via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > Saw this on usenet today and thought that you might enjoy it as a counter
> > balance to everything we read about godlike AI being upon us. Always good
> > to have a look at both sides of the discussion in my opinion.
> >
> > Best regards,  Daniel
> >_______________________________________________
>
>
> Oh, there is definitely a lot of hype involved with AIs!  :)
> Just look at the billions of funding being thrown at it.
> But people and companies are finding good uses for AI, even at the
> present state of development. Companies are replacing people jobs with
> AIs. ¬ (Not always successfully, of course, but they will learn from
> their mistakes).
> See:
> <https://www.wired.com/story/student-papers-generative-ai-turnitin/>
> Quote:
> Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI
> Amanda Hoover    Apr 9, 2024
> Turnitin, a service that checks papers for plagiarism, says its
> detection tool found millions of papers that may have a significant
> amount of AI-generated content.
> Students have submitted more than 22 million papers that may have used
> generative AI in the past year, new data released by plagiarism
> detection company Turnitin shows.
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>
> BillK
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