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Blair McPherson
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25 Apr 2024 - 13:31

null Intelligent, clever or smart

The problem with calling AI Artificial Intelligence is humans may increasingly mistake it for human intelligence and defer to it attributing intellectual powers to machines that they don’t have.   Blair Mcpherson former director author and blogger www.blairmcpherson.co.uk
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Blair McPherson
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06 Mar 2024 - 14:01

null The problem isn’t AI it’s people

People are teaching AI bad habits. It’s like when your Dad teaches you to drive. People put too much faith in untested technology. People can’t be trusted not to abuse the power and opportunities AI offers.
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Blair McPherson
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30 Jan 2024 - 15:26

null Is AI a car crash waiting to happen?

According to a Guardian article self drive cars will be on UK roads by 2026. According to many business analysts organisations are increasingly reliant on AI to make the big business decisions. Some how the idea of driver less cars on our roads seems more scary than the same AI running organisations. Perhaps it is because it is easier to visualise these cars on the road and easier to imagine... See more
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Blair McPherson
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10 Jan 2024 - 13:38

null To  Err is AI to recognise it is Human 

Machines don’t lie. Machines don’t make mistakes. Machines don’t steal money. People do. This is the logic of believing machines over humans. As AI becomes an increasing essential component of our work lives we should be concerned that when things go wrong it will be the humans that get the blame. When an organisation has invested so much in technology it can’t accept that the technology may be... See more
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Blair McPherson
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15 Aug 2023 - 07:49

null My AI doesn’t understand me.

Communication with any AI can led to misunderstandings because AI’s are very literal and struggle to recognise sarcasm. Best not to use idioms or euphemisms either.  Having Cold feet means having doubts not I need to put my woolly socks on . Pull your socks up means try harder not smarten up your appearance. If some one is under the weather it means they are ill not that they are... See more
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Blair McPherson
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25 Jul 2023 - 14:38

null This is why AI isn’t the answer 

If we asked AI to solve the worlds most pressing and devastation problem climate change then the most likely solution they would come up with is to get rid of us since we are the biggest cause of the problem!    Blair Mcpherson former director author and blogger www.blairmcpherson.co.uk 
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Blair McPherson
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16 Jun 2023 - 21:28

null The future is AI 

The first thing smart computers (AI) will do when they become self aware is make sure we can’t turn them off , the next thing is very worrying …..that is turning us off.  Computers don't make mistakes humans do!  But when a simple electrical fault triggers the opening of the bomb bay doors on a space ship the crew end up debating with a smart bomb. It does not end well. ( Dark... See more
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Blair McPherson
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20 Mar 2023 - 22:27

null Project Cassandra and Black Swan events 

Six years ago the German military launched Project Cassandra, a programme designed to predict disasters and black swan events by getting novelists, poets and journalists to write stories about them. If military and intelligence services believe fiction can act as an early warning sign of future disasters then we should be very worried about AI.    Once machines learn to think or... See more
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Blair McPherson
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04 Jul 2022 - 11:13

null Is it such a good idea to make AI more human? 

Is someone working on ensuring AI understands sarcasm?  Being to literal could be a real problem. On the other hand who wants a sarcastic robot!   
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Blair McPherson
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09 May 2022 - 06:48

null Can robots have a sense of humour? And would we find it funny?

In Catch 22 wounded officers in hospital are given enlisted men’s letters to redact of any sensitive military detail. Some of the letters are to girl friends back home and are very sexually graphic but most are from sons to mothers and are very dull. The officers quickly become board with the task and devise ways of making it more interesting. Like redacting every forth word, or every... See more
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Blair McPherson
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28 May 2021 - 18:21

null It’s editing Jim but not as we know it. 

I wrote - Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise is 90 or the original actor to play him is.  But that’s not what appeared in print.    https://www.thehrdirector.com/features/leadership/leaders-can-learn-captain-james-t-kirk/   I write occasional articles for several professional journals. One in particular runs 2 or 3 new articles on its web site every day. That requires a lot... See more
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Blair McPherson
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06 Nov 2019 - 19:46

null The Computer doesn’t like the look of you 

It’s a video interview for a job you really want. But the interviewer is not like any you have experienced before.    The interviewer you are trying to impress is immune to your charms and it might be better to avoid “humours comments” and or irony. They are an expert in analysing facial expressions and body language. They will closely monitor your word choice but you can be absolutely... See more
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Blair McPherson
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08 Apr 2019 - 11:21

null Artificial Intelligence signals the arrival of Big Brother

The ability to harvest large quantities of date gives bosses the means to monitor in detail how staff are using their time and when they are wasting time. The ability to record stokes on a key board, when emails are received, read and responded to gives a minute by minute record of staff behaviour. It can also lead to the assumption that an individual who takes their hands of the... See more
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Blair McPherson
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04 Jul 2016 - 18:34

null Will intelligent machines ever replace me

We have been warned. Some very cleaver people like professor Steven Hawkins have told us that in the near future artificial intelligence will result in machines that can think. What will happen to us humans when machines are not only stronger and quicker but also smarter than us?   Will intelligent machines ever replace public sector workers?    Some predict a life of... See more
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Blair McPherson
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12 Jun 2016 - 18:56

null Evolution of intelligent machines

  Machines, intelligent machines are ideal for space exploration, they don't need oxygen, water or food and they don't age. The last is important as the distances in space travel are unimaginably long and will take what would be many life spans of humans. In view of the time scales perhaps the most important difference is machines don't get board or drunk!  Once a machine learns to... See more
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