Colossus, now that is a series of books from the past… Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 18, 2025, at 7:07 PM, KJ7SOY via Elecraft <[email protected]> > wrote: > > D.F. Jones wrote at length about a religion predicated on an AI as God in > the “Colossus” trilogy in the 1960’s, as have many other authors. Mrs. Davis > is nothing new. Just the latest in a long line. > > 73, Adrian > K7RJS > > >> On Oct 18, 2025, at 3:39 PM, David Gilbert via Elecraft >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> "It’s not taking over, we’ve invited it." >> >> >> That's already happening too. I recently saw the results of a poll that >> said roughly 30% ... of those polled ... believe that the AI Chatbots are an >> appropriate partner for a relationship, and some take that as far as the >> relationship being romantic. I don't think it is too far away that somebody >> tries to build a religion around AI, and in fact the series "Mrs. Davis" >> (which is actually a really fun show to watch ... streaming on Peacock) >> already uses that as its major premise. >> >> I'm a big supporter of AI, but the problem with AI is humans, not AI itself >> ... at least not so far since AI is yet to become sentient. By the way, my >> own "Turing" criteria for when AI becomes sentient to the level of humans is >> when it intentionally causes harm on its own just because it can. >> >> Dave AB7E >> >> >> >> On 10/18/2025 3:06 PM, Jeff KQ4CMA wrote: >>>>>> On Oct 18, 2025, at 4:17 PM, David Gilbert via Elecraft >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> I think I could argue that there is some evidence of that already ... AI >>>>> notwithstanding. >>> Exactly. It fits the trend so cleanly that it’s a natural, even invisible >>> transition. It’s not taking over, we’ve invited it. >>> >>> Jeff KQ4CMA >>> >>> >>> >>>>> On 10/18/2025 12:39 PM, Michael Carter via Elecraft wrote: >>>>> This article describing studies of the influence of AI tools on human >>>>> learning begs the question: if humans rein in their independent, creative >>>>> thought processes for the expedience/speed of AI, and future AI models >>>>> are trained on the corpus of collective human wisdom, is there a death >>>>> spiral of societal knowledge into whirlpools of utter ignorance? >>>>> >>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology >>>>> >>>>> 73, >>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>> Elecraft mailing list >>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>>> Post: mailto:[email protected] >>>> >>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>>> Message delivered to [email protected] >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
