Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Artificial Inteligence

 I do not have much experience with it. Yet, the artificial generation of nice,  sleek texts  that look professional  is now possible- it was not the case some 10 years ago. There is a lot of excitement about  it.  

As a former scientist, I always had a dislike to smooth flowing  sleek texts and therefore I somehow do not trust  anything associated with the artificial intelligence.  I have two points to make here. 

Say, we place a mathematical, physical, chemical,  or even an engineering problem to AI. How do we know that the answer that is given is actually true?  Whatever the AI tells me,  I can accept  as a brainstorming hypothesis that I  later will need to validate, but not as the final solution. Of course, having hypotheses helps when one has a mental block, so it is not completely useless.

My second point, I never realized how big is the demand for nice looking smooth flowing texts. They flow  like honey or milk and fill many, many pages. There is a big market for it! You can use it as a  high school essay; you can use it as a college essay, you can write a book and add it to your resume, you can write  speeches for  CEOs, you can become a ghost writer for a politician- no end to it. Is it true and insightful? Nobody knows and nobody cares but this is not the point. 

The pages are being filled. This is depressing. 


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