The Federal Government Is Too Broke and Stupid for the AI Revolution
The Federal Government Is Too Broke and Stupid for the AI Revolution
A series of reports from multiple federal agencies has outlined the challenges it faces in the rush to adopt AI.
“AI revolution”. Don’t you mean “bubble”?
Well, that's a lousy article, but at least they brought up the 'nukes used floppy disks!' canard again.
I want the things in charge of world-ending devices to be reliable, understood, stable, tested, tried and boring as shit.
I do not want NukeGPT in charge of shit like that, I want some guy with a 8" floppy disk doing it instead.
Progress for the sake of progress is not always useful progress. It's motion, not movement.
Government should be slow to react, boring, stodgy, infested with well understood rules and regulation and only move to add new shit when someone can actually explain to a boring-ass career bureaucrat what the benefit to the new shit is.
Which, frankly, is probably the real issue: nobody can come up with a good use case that's not ungodly more expensive than the current solution is for limited or no actual improvement.
Not to say there's not room for improvement, though. The IRS comes to mind: I bet 99 times out of 100 the issues you've got a human dealing with COULD be dealt with by a reasonable chatbot, thus freeing up people to handle the things that are actually complicated.
You could also, for example, replace most of Congress with ChatGPT. It wouldn't be generating more gibberish responses and hallucinations than the current meat-puppets that are infesting it are coming up with now, and could even lead to a substantial savings!
The IRS comes to mind
Yep. The IRS has sold us up the river many times.
There's only one reason that your tax refund and mine don't just appear like magic in our accounts on February 15th, every year.
And that reason is bribes by TurboTax.
I want the things in charge of world-ending devices to be reliable, understood, stable, tested, tried and boring as shit.
Amen.
an executive order that called on tech companies to develop the tech responsibly.
I predict that our billionaire tech bro CEOs will defend themselves in court by arguing that they don't have the faintest idea what the word "responsibly" means.
Doesn't matter. AI will take control of the nukes before we finish making the decision to NOT give it to them.
I'm waiting for the singularity to happen and blow up catastrophically in everyone's faces.
Old man Hubris is sharpening The Reaper's Scythe for him. Give it time. Trust the process.
I just wonder if we're gonna get Datakrash or Geth Rebellions.
I just wonder if we're gonna get Datakrash or Geth Rebellions.
My money is on ED 209s just blowing through us randomly with stockpiles of ammunition, using an AI recognizer that sees every one of us as a terrorist.
Neither.
This wave of AI will die with a whimper like every previous wave of AI. Or "web3" (whatever its proponents are defining it as this week). Or a long Highway of Death of bad ideas that litter the pile of grifts that is late-stage capitalism in action.