djdefenda

djdefenda t1_jdt1njz wrote

>there exists a conundrum which I feel represents a far greater existential threat to humanity. Trustless information...

This (jokingly) reminds of "fake news" - ie; trustless information = fake news!

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It is an interesting time, reminds me of a time in history when (please correct me if I'm wrong) there was no printing press and most of the religious 'control' was based upon the fact that most of it was in Latin and the everyday person had no way to verify anything.............then of course the printing press came out (other events too) and people no longer had to blindly follow others, they could interpret things themselves and make up their own minds......

Here we are, in the future, and I see history repeating, ie; Computer code/programming/algorthims has become the new latin.

A possible solution, ironically, is to use AI to "explain it like I'm 5" and let coding be as widespread as english....in other words, anyone can build their own server and load up their own "Oracle" and through prompts such as, "give me the answer for 'X' from 20 different sources.....

The biggest threat, I see (for now) is the privatization of AI and tokens becoming too expensive - in a world with economic collapse and food shortages it's not too hard to imagine buying tokens will become a luxury item (without proper housing or food etc)

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djdefenda t1_jbz5gqz wrote

There's potential for this to be abused, for example, I am putting a chatbot in my website, and it has options to set the personality of the chatbot, mostly it is set to "answer in detail being polite, happy and helpful" and also, you can set it to be a "sarcastic smart ass".......so if there was an online resource for teenagers (like an AI version of the Kids Helpline) it also has the potential to be hacked and have new prompts inserted......even if the hack was found and fixed, imagine the potential damage if someone gave it the prompt for something nefarious.

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djdefenda t1_iyyt3pk wrote

I guess all categories too, but I was only referring to AI.

Thanks for adding it, i think it's very important that these tools are available to everyone that can't afford them, I also like to support open source because we can accomplish a great deal when we work together.

While I'm here I'd like to ask if a tool is available for me as a farmer.......in many ways it would be like Siri, I could ask the weather, humidity etc.....I could ask for companion planting recommendations.....but what if I need it to set reminders for me? ie; If I say, Siri, i am planting cherry tomatoes in garden bed 1 today, could it recommend that I plant basil with it, could it give me a reminder around harvest time? 6 months later can I ask, Siri, what kind of tomatoes did I plant in garden bed 1? Can I upload my soil tests to this 'siri' and then out in the field one day can I ask, Siri, what is the calcium to magnesium ratio in the bottom paddock?

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djdefenda t1_iws0c3m wrote

>The issue of getting access to papers and using them for more than just reading them one at a time is something groups have advocated for decades.

I'm going to assume this is all legal issues.

I wonder if you could set up shop in Sweden and let your AI sweep ZLibrary??!!!

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djdefenda t1_iwrzgzc wrote

I would really love to see an integration of science, or at least my fields of interest (agriculture, aquaculture, soil science, chemistry, botany, biology) but I would really like to see it work with something like Siri.....

ie; I want an AI Digital Assistant that can do what Google, GS AND Siri does, combined with some additional basic tasks like reminders, alarms, taking notes etc.

I think a free version of this would take off, , and perhaps a professional paid version would be purchased by people that work in the relevant industries which would support you and your team, as well as the free users.

For example - I have a diary which I use, I always have notepads and pieces of paper here and there, I have whiteboards, my computer and files of course, and then my books, google etc etc - I need to have them all amalgamated and backed up, shared across my devices.....I want a digital assistant to do that!

example continued; - I am in the back paddock of the farm and I am planting a new variety of tomatoes.........

A digital assistant would, at my voice prompt, record the time, date, variety and location of the plant. It would also save any notes that I may mention, let's say soggy ground, or hard clay......

The digital assistant, at any time I asked, could tell me what is planted at any location, and when etc etc

It would remind me when to prune or harvest.....it could give me tips or instructions of prompted.

It could have access to my last soil test and make recommendations.

It could tell me good companion plants, it would know the sun directions, upcoming weather.

It could regularly scan news articles and alert me when anything relevant to this tomato and it's environment appears.

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