Radiology, like other medical specialties is more akin to a medieval guild.
If it really was a free market, we'd already be sending all our scan off to India for reading, instead of importing their doctors.
A radiology nurse can go into business using AI to read scans.
Who controls the market? Who grants entry? The radiologist guild. They have incredible political power.
OTOH, the future does not look so bright for Uber drivers.
I feel like we are still living in the golden age of AI. Like USENET in 1993 or Netflix in 2020.
AI isn't perfect, but is incredibly helpful in many areas such a tech and education, though not all, and at least tries to be helpful.
Future problems:
- The trillion-dollar market caps of the infrastructure companies (like NVIDIA) and the multi-billion dollar private valuations of the pure-play AI models (like OpenAI and Anthropic) are only justifiable if the ultimate revenue stream is measured in trillions per annum. There will be pressure to generate revenue by any means possible.
- Content creators, SEO firms, and malicious actors know that LLMs are trained on public internet data. They will flood the web with AI-generated, manipulative, or false content specifically designed to influence future models.
- If Generative AI content dominates the internet, the models will start training on their own output, creating a feedback loop of consensus bias without grounding in real-world facts
The ultimate risk is that the fundamental utility of the AI assistant—its ability to be an objective, reliable source of information and help—is compromised by a shift in its primary allegiance from the user to the corporate bottom line.
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In 2025 it's hard to consider Africa more corrupt than the USA.
Ha, I guess it you've never been there! The corruption is endemic at every level, not just the presidential palace.
But I take your point. Trevor Noah was comparing Trump to an African dictator seven years ago.
He's probably like one of those people who knows that Africa has been fucked over by other nations as long as there have been other nations to fuck them over. Everyone's had a turn abusing Africa.
That not even close to true, that Africa is somehow more a "victim" than anywhere else.
It is a rationalisation, or as the kids say these days, "cope", where observed reality does not match up with ideology.
Like anywhere else in the world, historically most of the "fucking over" was by your own rulers and neighbours, not distant nations until very recently.
Sure, living on the coast might get you raided by Arabs in East Africa, or Viking in Europe. But perhaps the most unique aspect of sub-Saharan Africa's collective (pre)history has been its isolation from the bulk of humanity, who lived in North Africa, Europe and Asia - all connected.
Sub-Saharan Africa, like Australia or the Pacific Islands, remained primitive because of lack of connection, quite the opposite to your assertion.
Can you do September 1993? Well
Whatever happened to IPv6 ?
Adoption is well ahead of IPv5. IPv6 is an LTS version.
Where there are people, there is corruption.
So are you are like one of those people who say "All Lives matter", when you hear "BLM" ?
Well, my local council fined NASA $400 for littering in 1979.
Bloody tons of rubbish strewn all over the place. But they just never paid it. Whats a bloke gonna do?
Yeah. Its like here in Australia where somebody claims to have the greatest XXX in the southern hemisphere. Not a lot of competition. Not even Mexico.
We have like Brazil and South Africa. The only other developed nation is New Zealand. To be fair, they have the toothbrush fence.
Considering that Apple has never actually made any phones.
Apple used to make computers, but closed the last factory in 1996.
When China takes, or isolates, Taiwan, what will become of Apple?
humanity? The response is neither from humans nor LLMs. It is from their lawyers.
and why we are not more impressed with what AI *can* do. But notice the responses!
Most answers are ignoring the actual question, and want to talk about the AI, instead of the people.
I think this is really a question for a psychology forum. Its like you bring a talking dog to a party, expecting to amaze people. And they just criticise his poor grammar.
if anything it's too good; too fast; too well-informed. But the longer the session goes, the more the illusion of intelligence evaporates.
We associate knowledge with intelligence. Ask a person about their favourite topic, and they will sound smarter.
An LLM knows far more than any human, so we tend to over-estimate their "IQ". The intelligence is still very real, the problem is just that we initially over-estimated it.
This is why credibility drops the longer a session runs. You start with a nice empty context, and you bring in some internet search results and run them through the model and it all makes sense. When you start throwing out parts of the context, the context turns into inconsistent mush.
And how is that any different for humans? I can read them a ten-digit number and their context overflows. Dumb as hammers.
Why do you think a bunch of wet machinery with membranes and chemical messengers is intrinsically superior to linear algebra and calculus? Right now each is better at some tasks.
Saying AI is not real intelligence is like arguing that a submarine cannot really swim, or an aeroplane cannot really fly because the wings don't flap.
Well, yes. LLMs do not "feel anything" by design
What is a "feeling"? Is it like a "mood"? In humans, they are short-term states that affect behaviour.
No doubt an AI could be trained using rewards when it modified output in response to praise or insults. It could be trained to get impatient with poorly worded or dumb questions. You could also get such behaviour by modifying the system prompt, but that would be more like humans faking an emotion. What is the difference between a real and fake emotion? Self awareness and conscious control. System prompt is more analogous to acting.
Yes, we could in theory build AIs like the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, with "Genuine People Personalities". But should we?
It could be argued that current LLMs with flattery, and a desire to give helpful answers leading to hallucinations, already resemble the Nutri-Matic Drink Dispenser.
If they would just stop playing with nuclear centrifuges and build some pumps and pipelines instead.
Iran's military spending isn't actually that much. Less than the US on a per-GDP basis even. Tiny compared to Saudi or Israel.
The reason they are so impoverished is the Mullahs isolating them from the global economy.
The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude.
