It's a boiling frog thing. AI and LLMs are shoved in our faces everywhere and it's harder every day to opt out. Job boards are flooded with positions for human in the loop AI training or AI experience requirements. AI gen text, images, and video are obscuring an already muddled information space. They also draw an astronomical amount of energy which is detrimental to the global ecosystem. Meanwhile costs are going up, it's borderline impossible to get a job, and people are scared this automation will push them out of employment without generating new jobs, especially if art and entertainment are taken over by gen AI. People are saying "I'm being boiled alive" but by the time there's enough data to validate that we'll already be stew.
The way information is presented matters too. When articles circulate they get often slanted and summarized (or people just read the headline and make assumptions). Key information gets tossed aside for easy talking points to support whichever narrative and the people affected feel unseen and unheard.
Right? I put in a complaint from the system feedback tool, but I don't expect a response. Between the way Google is roping off Android and killing dependent open source OS's, and my relative lack of money, I'm only seeing privacy options dwindle
I hope you're right, but also that's really bleak. I understand that Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI are essentially passing money in a circle and can only wonder how long they can keep it up. It's not a lossless circuit
They're an iterative statistical process that predicts word order through mathematical context via weight distributions based on uncountable pre-given data sets. I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at
I've recently spent a week or so off and on screwing around with LLMs and chatbots trying to get them to solve problems, tell stories, or otherwise be consistent. Generally breaking them. They're the fucking mirror of erised. Talking to them fucks with your brain. They take whatever input you give and try to validate it in some way without any regard for objective reality, because they have no objective reality. If you don't provide something that can be validated with some superficial (often incorrect) syllogism, it spits out whatever series of words keeps you engaged. It trains you, whether you notice or not, to modify how you communicate to more easily receive the next validation you want. To phrase everything you do as a prompt. AND they communicate with such certainty that if you don't know better you probably won't question it Doing so pulls you into this communication style and your grip on reality falls apart because this isn't how people communicate or think. It fucked with your own natural pattern recognition.
I legitimately spent a few days in a confused haze because my foundational sense of reality was shaken. Then I got bored and realized, not just intellectually but intuitively, that they're stupid machines making it up with every letter.
The people who see personalities and consciousness in these machines go outside and can't talk to people like they used to because they've forgotten what talking is. So, they go back to their mechanical sycophants and fall deeper down their hole.
I'm afraid these gen AI "tools" are here to stay and I'm certain we're using this technology in the wrong ways.
I really hope that GOs don't take the oath lightly. When I taught that lesson to my cadets it was a serious conversation and usually involved stories about commanders I knew who got fired or court-martialed for everything including extra-marital affairs, to belittling subordinates, to fabricating illegal orders (and then breaking international law). I hope it doesn't come to it, but I imagine that a military court would be less partisan than our current courts have been.
That is neither a regulation nor a guidance. It only summarizes entrance requirements for training specifically and mentions nothing of graduation.
Admission is highly competitive and includes academic performance, leadership potential, physical fitness and character evaluations.
Even here it mentions core requirements for the entirety of training. Training has its own hurdles. A lot of people wash out because they either can't maintain academics, fitness, or it's not a good match for them personally. Trainees can also be removed at any time. I've had to do it myself on numerous occasions. Not everyone is cut out for or willing to put in the effort for officership. Check out some DoD, TRADOC, and AFMAN documents for more detail.
There's a social aspect to cognition I've noticed recently. Between depression and a recent bout of unemployment, I've been a lot less social and noticed my language faculties suffering. It's harder to remember less frequently used words and it takes me longer to assemble statements. This makes me feel like I'm sometimes drifting in a fog and it's more difficult to focus. Language is a large part of how we assemble our understanding of and interact with the world and it makes me feel less intelligent when I'm slow to assemble a thought or have to look up a definition to find the word I'm trying to use.
Although, the feeling that I'm slower with my language does not necessarily indicate cognitive decline. This is only a personal observation
I was making a bunch of different versions of my resume and every time I saved to a PDF Adobe locked up trying to scan it with their AI