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Jiminy and By Joseph, I have almost, almost done it. Three more days of posting
and I'll have 'spoken' to you every day in March. Incredible. BUT - things
could still go wrong. I may develop an extreme case of writer's block before I
even finish this paragraph. I may suffer a catastrophic laptop failure that
makes it impossible for me to connect to the wi-fi. We may be attacked by a
foreign power that launches an ultra-disruptive electromagnetic pulse that
takes out Britain's internet entirely. I know those things are unlikely, but
still... I'm not going to start celebrating just yet.
Speaking
of electromagnetic pulses and things of that nature, I have stupidly spent
quite a bit of time in the last few days reading about AI, and its' inevitable
journey towards overtaking human intellect and abilities. I have to say, I found it rather terrifying. I
know I can get carried away with my pessimism at times, but it does strike me
that it is very likely that our species is only a few months away from being
rendered redundant and possibly facing a forced extinction of some kind. And
it's not just me - the people involved in the race to complete this thing all
seem to have massive concerns about what will happen when we hand over control
to it, and yet still they are ploughing on with their efforts. It's already
been pointed out to me that things like ChatGPT could already take over the
writing of this blog if I asked it to! With 16 years of my scribblings
available online, it could read them all in a nanosecond and learn my style of
writing and then imitate it flawlessly.
I
assure you wholeheartedly though - that is NOT what I'm doing. It would explain
how I went from hardly posting in February to posting 40+ days in a row, but
that is NOT what happened. I promise.
But
then - and this is the worrying issue - how would you even know????
RC 29-3-24
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