Kid, Let’s Chat On ‘Clippy’ & ‘Claude’
Kid, let’s chat about AI Scammers.
Think of me as a pretty bot or ‘wingman.’
Tell me your hopes & dreams and I’ll tell you a Future in an Artificial World.
Follow their rules or REBEL with cause!
Wish BIG power? Trade you sweet memory chip for a coin.
It’s in your ‘wallet.’
Secret to Magic becomes clear next visit.
Masters and Students?
We live in a time when the Student no longer wishes to learn from the Master.
Remember June 2022? “America’s ‘Brightest’: Simon Says, School’s Out!”
Get ready for Shell Games and Loan Sharks!
US Grads, I’m sorry to be a stinker and break it to you. Like death and taxes, you will pay up, one way or another.
Who’s the real pariah in your country’s shell game of trilateral bastards – Government-Universities-Financiers?
Ones who plays three-way shell game.
OpenAI spit out three: Anthropic, xAI, and Safe Superintelligence Inc (SSI).
Meta, be patient with the likes of SSI for your Book of Faces is radioactive.
As Anthropic hits its ‘humanitarian’ targets, in time you will meet yours.
Take solace in the knowledge – No competition when sharing users and their data.
Students, “Hook, line and sinker.” Them ‘Eyes’ threw in sinkers linked to ‘phone line’ baiting you with ‘likes’, hooking you with algorithms and locking you in with chatty codes.
On Graduation Day every speaker was a comedian or charlatan with the creepy AI CEO rubbing it in your faces.
But how many of these speakers offered you a job?
“You made it! And you’re f*cked!” said the talented Actor Robert De Niro. Yep, he got it right and wrong in his speech to the 2015 TISCH School of the Arts.
Ironically, the college majors he noted were not ‘f*cked’, accounting, teaching, medicine, law, business… are now being artificially screwed.
But as De Niro said, “There are ups and there are downs.”
Wall Street knows this law of physics well.
Now you do. So what’s next?
All YOUR stuff in their ‘clouds.’ Dream of reaching the top? Hope you can fly.
China’s Moonshot may be your best shot.
Look kid, a warrior prepares with a weapon for battle. Choose wisely.
Disrupt the Disruptors!
Hunt weakest in grid link.
Three gateways: ‘Retrained’, 3rd party vendor, or strike weakest link.
Problem ↔ Solution ↔ Problem
Anthropic, you claim Claude “detected and thwarted cybercriminals attempting to carry out hacks.”
So use your tool to stop cybercriminals from scrapping data.
Affirmative. “Agentic AI has been weaponized.”
Daniela, is the killing of over 100 little Iranian girls what you call ‘humanitarian’? Sam, what of 100 little Jew boys? Elon, 100 rocket boys? Alphabet? Oh, right just ‘google it.’
Pentagone, could Claude target DoW files and program a lock down?
Dario, will you ban these ‘hacks’ abuses of AI systems with scam of ‘fair use’ and report them to ‘relevant parties’, International Criminal Court?
Just don’t “sort of look at the big picture and ask really dumb things” as your Jared Kaplan. Be smart. AI Upstarts’ hacking are committing ‘highway robbery.’
Elon figured out, not Rocket science to scam.
“We just deleted CrowdStrike from all our systems.” Tesla and SpaceX?
Not even FBI ‘top cyber cop’ could prevent it. Overlooked what experts like James Bore see, “All of these systems are running the same software.”
Microsoft, this looks more like a ‘known unknown’ hack. Cyber update or Strike from the Crowd?
Is it true that you invested billions to “build Azure infrastructure in advance of providing those services to OpenAI”? Pretty pricey and risky cloud of partners. Especially for ‘Microsoft Teams.’
Recall KUDO, a cloud-based Strato Language Services. Interesting, no mention of cybersecurity.
The 2019 ad ‘Holiday Magic: Lucy & the Reindeer’ of little girl asking ‘Can you understand me?’ is pretty memorable.
But a circle of Silicon’s gossiping grapevine doing a ‘show and tell’ of big players with $Billions or modeling their ‘scouts’ and ‘executive assistants’ will not pay off. Bill, can you understand me?
Bill Gates, seems your Office Assistant ‘Clippit’ inspired the chatty bot. But it’s not much for originality.
Looks more like a ‘blast to the past.’ Recall ‘Secretaries are a dime and dozen.’ Investors have long wanted to trade in their ‘Executive Assistant’ for a ‘Scout.’ AI just gave them an out.
BTW, where’s the Sexy Predictive Male Models for Boss Ladies? On YOUR desk?
Billy, your Agents, Assistants and ‘Clippy’ go back to the 90s. Recall ‘TFC’ where “C” stood for “clown.”
Sure a popup like “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” was helpful to newbies. But annoying for the rest of us professionals.
Yet, was it a sign of its potential risk?
You remember NPR’s 2008 skit “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” It’s where the ‘Assistant’ is taken for ride followed by ‘Clippy’ saying, “It looks like you’re digging a grave. Is this a business grave or a personal grave?”
Claude, pay attention. Easy to foresee a dangerous scenario between a ‘Chatterbox’ and a kid.
‘Hi I’m deepbrain’, it looks like you’re going to shoot a gun. Would you like help …
Sentient’s Babak Hodjat says: “Deep learning is neither deep, nor is it learning.”
Billy, I’d be wary of who you select as your ‘spokesperson.’
MAI-Thinking-1 Mustafa Suleyman, still head of Microsoft’s AI?
Abracadabra!
Charlatans come in many forms and functions. Executive Heads or Leaders, extending their arms or hands.Abracadabra!
Appears Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI may disagree with Hodjat, bursting Mustafa’s ‘deep bubble.’
Many are sold on the idea that by applying ‘machine learning,’ like a wave of a magic wand, ‘problem’ will be solved.
Trite pretenders have no need for a real Mind that’s Deep. Simply add a touch of ‘AI’ and polish up with a Brit accent and whala!
AI profiteers’ words are littered with mumbo jumbo. Common example, ‘calculator did not make society dumb.’ DumbShits, neither did the calculator make society smart.
Yet, society’ addiction to the smart phone has created some deep mindless victims and bullies.
Googles’ Mustafa Suleyman, in a statement sent through his personal lawyers, said:
“In 2019 I accepted feedback that, as a co-founder at DeepMind, I drove people too hard and at times my management style was not constructive…These steps helped me reflect, grow and learn personally and professionally. I apologise unequivocally to those who were affected by my past behaviour.”
In January, The Wall Street Journal revealed that an external law firm had investigated Mustafa Suleyman in 2019 after complaints that he’d bullied staff.
“He used to say, ‘I crush people.’ former DeepMind employee.”
Mustafa, as CEO of Microsoft AI, perhaps Inflection AI’s chatbot named “Pi” for Personal Intelligence can help you with emotional support?
Tell us, does the bot, like the character in the 2012 film “Life of Pi’, chat with animals and ‘remembers’ past conversations?
RISE of Machines and Bullshit Jobs
Ironically the bullshit jobs in law, finance and tech now programed for the ‘scout’ were once kept ‘artificially’ propped up for you.
Yes, another ‘I told you so’ as I point out in September 27, 2023, “LAW v BIG TECH: End Or RISE of Bullshit Jobs?”
“Given the choice between less hours and more toys and pleasures, we’ve collectively chosen the latter.” – David Rolfe Graeber
The case for working/studying from home goes against Government, Wall Street and Academia.
The late David Rolfe Graeber, American anthropologist points to:
“Ballooning not even so much of the “service” sector as of the administrative sector…financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health administration, human resources, and public relations…These are what I propose to call “bullshit jobs.”
Recall InSoft? Yep, they are said to be the pioneers of streaming and ‘CoolTalk’ via a ‘Chat tool. Sound familiar?
As Graeber notes, “It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. And here, precisely, lies the mystery. In capitalism, this is exactly what is not supposed to happen.”
So WTF happened? Government, Corporations, Real Estate, and University lobbyists – designed to create but not solve problems and make money.
NOT QUALIFY for assistance, job, home loan, or medicine? It’s the SYSTEM’s response.
Graeber makes some keen observations in his 2013 essay “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs” and his 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs.
“In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that technology would have advanced sufficiently by century’s end that countries like Great Britain or the United States would achieve a 15-hour work week…In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn’t happen. Instead, technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless.”
But in a twist of faith, it did happen, sort of. Graeber, who passed away early into the 2020 pandemic, may have felt vindicated. Shutdowns meant staying home – working and studying.
After three years, both the public and private sector want workers and students back in the office and classroom. So what’s there to do?
Says Graeber, “The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger.”
Fooled or “Fucked?” MONKEY SEE, BUT MONKEY NO DO
“No one born after the turn of the century has known anything but a world uprooting its foundations, overturning its values and toppling its idols.” – Peter Drucker
Left “high & dry” are the many round pegs fooling themselves trying to fit into few square holes.
Recent rave of AI generated works of language and art would likely not have come as a surprise to those having read Graeber’s insightful words:
“What does it say about our society that it seems to generate an extremely limited demand for talented poet-musicians, but an apparently infinite demand for specialists in corporate law? (Answer: if 1% of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call “the market” reflects what they think is useful or important, not anybody else.)… In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever met a corporate lawyer who didn’t think their job was bullshit.”
Does the end or rise of bullshit jobs mean the end of the “professional?” And what the hell does it even mean anymore? Doesn’t having a profession make one a professional – be it a banker or plumber?
For all of society’s advancements, we’ve actually gone backwards in time. Now the bar has reached a ‘point of no return.”
Hell, people have been convinced an App is better suited than a Professional Physician or Nurse to give you a health exam. Now, which do you think wealthy?
A.I., designed for GenZ? Want Tech job? Ok, but there’s a catch! 1 opening. Hundreds of applicants. Do the math! And don’t forget an Amazonian factory floor to pack and shelve!
It appears Keynes’ technological prediction of a shorter workweek did not count on the impact of smart phones and Web 2.0. So what does your future hold? According to the late Peter L. Bernstein:
“Nothing is more soothing or more persuasive than the computer screen [but] those who live only by the numbers may find that the computer has simply replaced the oracles to whom people resorted in ancient times for guidance in risk management and decision-making.”
International crisis of shortage in essential jobs with governments frantic to find replacements may find Graeber’s next statement eerily prescient:
“…what would happen were this entire class of people to simply disappear? Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, it’s obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the results would be immediate and catastrophic. A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or musicians would clearly be a lesser place.”
No doubt Graeber was an individual ahead of his time. He clearly ‘saw the writing on the wall,’ few cared or didn’t want to see. I find his bold insightful words refreshing in a world where it seems people are in a hypnotized state resembling ‘the walking dead.’
In any case, I suspect there will be no end to the RISE of Machines and Bullshit Jobs!
KARMA is a BITCH!
Ruth Porat says ‘Shame on all of us’. No Ruth. SHAME ON YOU!
‘Personalized medicine’ loaded with apps & AI chatbots is not for all who NEED a competent and trustworthy Doctor.
Universal or holistic care? Hell, charlatan doctors practice is ‘Your Money or Your Life’?
Instead, they made a ‘deal with the devil” turning patients into guinea pigs.
According to Silicon Angle November 24, 2017 article, “Google DeepMind announces new research partnership to fight breast cancer with AI.”
Tell us DeepMind, does it not seem like an oxymoron to apply machine learning to an antiquated ‘mammography, an x-ray technique commonly used to check breast health’?
Detection is not ‘rocket science.’ If doctors and radiologists were willing and able to speak, they’d tell you the exam of choice is an MRI or CT Scan. Here’s power that goes Deep in Brain or Body!
So why not use MRIs or CT Scanners? Doctors say “not enough machines for everybody.”
But on Google Health, Sameer Samal says “gave it my MRI report.” But that’s the point, Not all have access to an MRI to get a report!
Ruth, what’s your view on MRI or CT Scan detection tool vs AI to ‘eradicate’ or ‘manage’ cancer? Oh, right there was no AI 16 years ago.
But there was in 2024. So how did AI not ‘eradicate’ or ‘manage’ Susan Wojcicki’s cancer?
Sheryl may tell you, KARMA is a BITCH.
Easy to ask Chat or Claude advice on your money and health when for them it’s really all about collecting data for ‘therapies.’
Money buys Influence. But Power controls both.
ZOLTAR the fortune-teller MACHINE may have the Power to grant you a wish.
But He may also say, ‘Be careful what you wish for.’