Impatient Drivers While Towing on Two-Lane Roads

[Brad Buchanan]

No, not really.

Do you dispute any of the results?

Almost all of them.

For any critical system it can save time.

However all results must be checked by a human.

Any person charged with making decisions on critical events that blindly accepts ai guesses is putting actual humans at risk.

 

[UTTransplant]

But artificial intelligence, as I expect you know, is so much more than just typing a prompt into a chatbot, or messing up a perfectly good forum application. It's put to use in virtually all aspects of life these days-- whether we're aware of it or not.

If anyone doubts that, just as "it":

Artificial intelligence is transforming society by solving complex global challenges, focusing primarily on revolutionizing healthcare, mitigating climate change, optimizing food systems, and advancing accessibility. These innovations directly save lives, reduce waste, and improve the quality of human life.

Key Societal Benefits

• Advanced Healthcare & Diagnostics: AI analyzes medical imagery to screen for and identify cancers (like breast cancer) earlier and more accurately than traditional methods. It predicts the onset of diseases across patient networks and assists in developing life-saving drugs and treatments in a fraction of standard times.

The very well trained AI that is used for imaging has been around for quite a few years. My mammograms have had this for years. But I would NOT want an AI program to diagnose without the concurrence of a board certified radiologist.

• Climate & Disaster Prediction: AI models track complex weather patterns to predict natural disasters, map deforestation, and manage energy grids to minimize waste. It is also used to help individual households optimize energy consumption.

This isn’t really AI, just normal modeling.

• Sustainable Agriculture: AI algorithms improve crop yields, monitor soil health, and detect pest outbreaks or diseases early. This maximizes food production while utilizing fewer resources.

I am in a heavy ag state, and I haven’t see this. There has been a lot of just regular analysis to do this, again for many years.

• Accessibility & Assistive Tech: Tools like natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision power real-time translation, speech-to-text, and navigation for visually impaired individuals.

This one I might actually agree with.

• Logistics & Aid Distribution: During natural disasters or global crises, AI can analyze data to evaluate needs for food and supplies, coordinate distribution, and optimize delivery routes for emergency responders.

Again, I don’t see this as an AI issue. It is just normal analysis and data modeling.

I think AI in general is getting credit for a lot of just normal ordinary algorithmic analysis. The difference over the last few years is due more to increased computing power, just like it has for many years. I started when business computers were operating on a tens of thousands RAM bits and a few hundred thousands of ROM either on hard platters or even magnetic tape. And there really is no denying how terrible the AI data centers are on the environment. They use almost unbelievable amounts of energy, and the amount of water used for cooling makes them a major contributor to issues for human water use. My community turned down one recently when we unexpectedly found out a current small one was using 50% of the total output of our community owned electrical utility.

 

[Firstime RVer]

I thought we were talking about impatient drivers on 2 lane roads!!

 

[jymbee]

Any person charged with making decisions on critical events that blindly accepts ai guesses is putting actual humans at risk.

I really doubt scientists and engineers working with advanced AI tools "blindly accept ai guesses". Like any tool, in the hands of people that understand it's strengths and limitations, it can be an amazing asset.

At the same time, I think that concerns about what we might be in for in the long haul are well founded.

 

[tlmgcamp1]

As an old fart and licensed professional engineer, I can go on for more time than anybody wants to invest on the concept of "Garbage in - Garbage out". I have no issue accepting AI as a tool but nobody can sue AI when something goes horrendously wrong. It comes down to the human in responsible charge to decide if the AI determination is appropriate. My experience in dealing with "the youngins" who insist that if that computer says it, it must be right, gives me great concern.

 

[Derby6]

I thought we were talking about impatient drivers on 2 lane roads!!

We are for real.
But artificially we are talking AI...

I just asked google "is AI stupid" -- It answered LMAO

AI is not conventionally "stupid," but it lacks common sense, critical thinking, and true consciousness. It is essentially a sophisticated pattern-recognition machine. It can write complex computer code or summarize massive documents, yet it can easily fail at basic, everyday tasks (like figuring out if you should drive or walk to a car wash 50 meters away)

 

[RayIN]

Why is it most everyone who leaves home too late for an appt. always seems to blame others for their failing?

 

[Firstime RVer]

Just try not to upset the impatient driver. Just read about a guy who was shot with a stun gun by an angry impatient driver. Be smart, pull over, if at all possible, and let them pass..
There is no known cure for stupid..
Safe travels and all the best.

 

[tlmgcamp1]

Why is it most everyone who leaves home too late for an appt. always seems to blame others for their failing?

Ahhh the memories:

"If you got your little pointy heads out of them pajamas, you wouldn't be late for work" The Man with the Golden Gun 1974

 

[Gary RV_Wizard]

I think AI in general is getting credit for a lot of just normal ordinary algorithmic analysis. The difference over the last few years is due more to increased computing power, just like it has for many years.

Agree strongly. We've been gaining in analytic capability and the computing power to do it quickly & easily, and now we've coupled it with the ability to give directions to the computer in our "natural language", which itself thrives because of the ability to analyze free-style language in the computer and figure out what it means. What we really have is very fast imitation of intelligence.

 

[Larry N.]

What we really have is very fast imitation of intelligence.

And a poor imitaiton, at that, except in certain specific situations, AND it's poorly named, which gives a wrong impression to so many people. It's clever programming, but. . .

 

[garyb1st]

I'll buy into AI when it develops a sense of humor.

 

[RayIN]

Agree strongly. We've been gaining in analytic capability and the computing power to do it quickly & easily, and now we've coupled it with the ability to give directions to the computer in our "natural language", which itself thrives because of the ability to analyze free-style language in the computer and figure out what it means. What we really have is very fast imitation of intelligence.

In 1972 I was in the Army. I was assigned to a computer unit that had one computer. It filled an entire 30'x30' room and used punch-cards and packs of discs for storage.
That was the latest computer the army had at that time. Today, your cell phone has hundreds of times the computing power of that huge computer, AND no punch cards!!!