To be honest I feel quite ambivalent about AI and largely avoid its use, where I can. I try to ignore the AI information presented within search engines and I don't usually use it to create anything etc etc. I'm worried about copyright issues for instance, and how it's already replacing garden writers who have extensive knowledge gained over many years of experience. Articles can be generated quickly, often with dubious content which is often published without fact checking first. I'm reminded of a central tenet from my time in IT; Garbage In, Garbage Out (aka GIGO), right? However NAH recently benefitted from AI technology when a surgeon assisted by a robot using CT scan data peered deep into his lung and determined the small lump there is benign, thus avoiding him losing around a third of his lung. The latter operation was the preferred approach until the robot technique was developed and often the removed material revealed a benign lump rather than a tumour. We...
I think all this flooding is madness, I don't know what the best solution is, but something has to be done to lessen the extent of the damage which keeps being done. So I have been told, on another blog that the de-lurking week is a week to encourage people that read peoples' blogs to comment and make themselves known, instead of just lurking in the background. It does make sense really! x
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me know Louise - what a good idea. I'm trying to stop lurking too at the moment :)
ReplyDeleteI'm having trouble leaving a comment on your site though - will try again later, but just in case it's still not working, I think Parsnip crisps are yummy!