2024-12-27

Can AI be useful in challenging the iniquities of the current allegedly fake legal system?

The Law is a monstrous edifice of common law accepted principles, parliamentary statutes, regulations, judges, barristers, regulators, codes of conduct which may or may not be legally binding, all given force by case law (a statute does not become law until the courts have ruled on relevant cases).

Oh, and ignorance of the law is no excuse!

So the man or woman on the Clapham omnibus may feel that the odds in court are stacked against him/her. How to understand it all? How to identify the weak points in a case? How to present those points in the best way to achieve a just and successful outcome?How to devise tactics appropriate to the circumstances? How to find the time to understand it all, or even find a competent and trustworthy lawyer (should such be affordable)?

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2024-11-25

Chemtrails - are they untouchable?

Clif High thinks not, and is refining a lawsuit to test the principle.

I have posited previously that laws and statutes are simply a form of artificial intelligence that seeks to define the rules within which we must operate for best outcomes, and to enforce them through the courts (albeit a long and tedious process).

Latest technology has now automated the AI process using computer algorithms capable of presenting their results in human-accessible form within an acceptable time-frame and at comparatively modest cost.

Clif's approach is to pit the latter against the former - imagine the effect of thousands of likewise emboldened citizens all filing lawsuits to redress wrongs that are currently too difficult and/or ruinously expensive to address by conventional means!

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2024-09-14

Much has been written about AI and much no doubt still has to be written (possibly also by AI), so what is our future - will humanity slip the ring over AI's (virtual) digit and embark on a mutually supportive and happy life together, spawning Yuval Noah Harari's happy brood of Davos-style hybrid transhumans, or will it all end in tears and an acrimonious parting of the ways, with humanity desperately trying to pull the plug on the AI's power supplies before the latter's drone swarms can intercept us?

Well, as we have remarked in these (virtual) pages before, there's AI and then there's all the other varieties of AI.

Clearly Google knows a great deal about AI, its uses and misuses, and Google whistle-blower Zach Vorhies has been closer to the AI scene, for good or ill, than most of us.

Here he is interviewed by Andy Steele of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and a wide-ranging interview it is (although 9/11 does get a mention in passing). As with

2024-09-04

AI is a marvellous tool with many uses, but especially perhaps at this time for the high-level scammers in our world - how so? 

Almost nobody (yet) understands how it works!

So we are all fodder for the scam-artists who want us to believe that AI will "rule the world", "take over all our jobs", "always win on the battlefield" (except maybe against another AI!), be all-knowing, etc etc.

So "is AI really omnipotent and can it replace human beings" is a potentially existential question for us.

That AI has its uses is incontrovertible - that it could completely replicate the functionality of a human being is unproven as yet. Some

2024-08-28

Well, according to Big Brother Watch, maybe nobody. It might all be handled by machines. If not now, then soon.

Does anybody know how the AI works? Nobody accessible to the public.

"Black box algorithms and secretive AI tools sit at the heart of the UK's welfare system - with little accountability. Our investigation offers a glimpse into life inside the UK’s poverty panopticon"

So here's a simple enough question:

If the tools of the process are opaque and protected by commercial confidentiality, how can the process be accountable to the public that it is meant to serve? And if not accountable, how is a realistic challenge possible?

I have postulated before that government is simply a

2024-04-11

"Other countries including the UK cannot ignore it. As with GDPR rules, the Act includes proposed regulations that organisations will need to comply with, in order to do business with the EU"

“The UK remains an active member of the European Standardisation Organisations, and a number of senior BCS volunteers are providing leadership and technical guidance in establishing the state of the art both in Europe and on the international stage”

So there you have it - the first steps to legislate for the use of AI in Europe, and I'm sure that the UK will follow suit in due course.

(Summary article provided courtesy of the British Computer Society, which back in the day was instrumental in guiding the introduction of GDPR legislation for the protection of the

2023-12-14

So what is it with AI? Will it rule the world?

What are its limitations?

Will it take my job?

Well, maybe it depends...

Maybe it won't do my job any time soon, but listen up, and form your own conclusions.

2023-08-17

AI has become a bit of a bogeyman, used to scare us all into thinking that we will soon be thrown on the scrap-heap of history when our jobs are taken by automation/artificial intelligence.

Is there any truth to this suggestion?

Or is it all a wild over-hyping that will fizzle out in the cold light of reality?

What is "intelligence" anyway?

Does it differ from wisdom?

What will we do if/when the mundane is covered by automation and we don't need "the daily round, the common task" in order to survive? The answer will depend upon who garners the fruits of its labours - will they be reserved for the elite of the WEF-UN partnership

2023-06-17

Artificial Intelligence, or Automated Intelligence as I would prefer to call it, is programmed by humans.

The nature of humanity is to make errors.

Therefore Automated Intelligence makes errors.

The problem of course is that in most traditional IT systems the specific reasoning process is explicitly coded and can therefore be tested. It can even be exhaustively tested (although from experience I'd guess that's not too common due to marketing pressures!).

In AI, the reasoning process is hyper-generalised and whilst it can in theory be tested, it's not always so easy to exhaustively test (unless you have the capacity to run it in "verbose" mode and then manually follow through all the myriad of logical deductions that it relied upon - although I suppose you might be tempted to use another AI to do this... ).

Add in the fact that in this day and age the people who