A local young man wanted to do a pilates class but it was booked out so he asked AI to do something and it got him a spot by dropping someone else off the list. A bit of luck, or AI hacking a system, or just a test run for our future masters? It sounds silly but so did planes, cars and probably trains at some stage.
The technology could go wrong, the basis of many movies, it could affect the share prices, for the few that can afford batches of shares, or it could help me.
I could use it to get me better seats at a show, to adjust the traffic light sequences so I always get green, or a real achievement would be to get my numbers to be the lottery numbers but only once every month so it doesn’t look suspicious.
AI isn’t the real problem, it’s AI on the loose being used by a maniac with ‘a few screws loose up top’, in the same way that a gun isn’t dangerous, it’s the person holding the gun.
Make sure the ‘off’ switch is big and easy to access.
Dennis Fitzgerald
Melbourne, Australia