{"id":8238,"date":"2024-06-01T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2024-06-01T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:39:47","slug":"twenty-twenty-four-day-one-five-three-con-carolinas-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/01\/twenty-twenty-four-day-one-five-three-con-carolinas-day-two\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty-four day one five three]: con carolinas day two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-600x450.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6052\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-640x480.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back at Con Carolinas for day two (but once again images from the archives while my blog is getting updated in the background). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I was on a lively panel about the &#8220;Trials and Tribulations of AI&#8221; and if there&#8217;s anything I could take away from that, it would be that &#8220;modern AIs do not check their work, so if you use them, you have to.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a whole debate on whether they&#8217;re &#8220;really intelligent&#8221; and you probably can bet where I come down on that &#8211; or maybe you can&#8217;t; here goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yes, modern AI&#8217;s are &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221; &#8211; they literally are what that phrase was invented to describe.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No, modern AI&#8217;s are not artificial general intelligence (AGI) &#8211; yet &#8211; and I can point you to a raft of papers describing either the limitations of these systems or what is needed for a full AGI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yes, they&#8217;re doing things we would normally describe as intelligent, but &#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No, they&#8217;re doing &#8220;thinking on a rocket sled&#8221;, facing backward, tossing words on the track in a reverse of the Wallace and Gromit track-laying meme, unable to check or correct their own work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These systems &#8220;hallucinate&#8221;, just like humans are mistaken and make things up, but do so in ways alien to human thought, so if we use them in areas we can&#8217;t check their work, we must do so with extreme caution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the whole RAFT of ethics issues which I will get to another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up: &#8220;Neurodivergence and Writing&#8221; at 6:30pm, and &#8220;Is THAT even POSSIBLE&#8221; at 9:30pm!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Onward!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured:  NOT Con Carolinas &#8211; I think this was Cafe Intermezzo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Journaling: Today&#8217;s Event: Con Carolinas. 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