OK, I'll be THAT guy. AI is a fraud. [View all]

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AI is a fraud in the same sense that all the big buzzwords have always been massively deceptive and massively exaggerated. Think of "the Internet" in 1997. Everybody made wild claims about "the Internet", but very few knew what they were talking about. At the time, I worked in Silicon Valley, which was just crawling with people blathering about this.

In the end, 95% of those people and ideas were wrong. But the 5% went forward and, over the next 25 years, the Internet did become transformational. But none of what the Internet is today was predicted by the buzzword champs.

And that's where we are with AI today. There indeed are some apps where AI is doing some useful things. But in most cases, the best we get is a system that is completely unreliable, but may be able to occasionally present some "Gee whiz" results. A perfect example of this is Musk and his Swastikars. He has been promising fully self-driving "in a few months" for an entire decade now, yet the system is still at the primitive level-2 stage. It might eventually work, but it is not close today. Meanwhile others who have used different technologies, not nearly as dependent on AI, are much closer to the goal.

Another example is in the field of music. There are AI engines now that can take a pop song (e.g. from an MP3) and break that into separate rMP3s of drums, guitar, bass, piano and vocal. That is dazzling even though it is only about 90% accurate. That is to say, a trained human musician can identify 100% of the content from each instrument, but it would take a human many hours to create the separated streams, whereas AI can do it in a few minutes -- at a level that is useful, if not commercial-grade.

How much venture capital is being dumped into AI things? How much electricity is it burning? Some say AI will soon consume more than 10% of our total electricity generation.

That brings us to Musk and what he is doing to our government agencies. The big lie is that he is stealing the data because he can turn our government agencies into AI factories that need almost no people to handle everything government does. That is the fraud. So far, Musk hasn't produced a single AI solution that actually does what he promised. And this will be no different.

We have seen what health insurance companies can do with their computer systems. They can train them to deny claims faster than any human can. But it really doesn't take any AI to do that. And that is the same thing Musk is aiming for. Most of government is there to PROTECT the people. From air crashes. From pollution. From poisons. From ignorance. From rotten food. From financial scams. What the billionaires call "oppressive regulations" are actually simply consumer protections.

The game plan is to use the fraud of AI to break government completely. And you can believe that Elon intends to bill the government many billions of dollars for these fraudulent AI systems. The new systems will deny workers compensation for injuries. They will deny veteran benefits. They will send all the education money to charters. And so on. It really doesn't take AI to do all these things. And that's good for Musk because he, and AI, are frauds.