#441 – ARE YOU @ RISK OF LOSING YOUR JOB – CAPERS JONES

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The author is retired from IBM and owns a research company that uses artificial intelligence to examine economic and technical issues.   Unless people use computers for research, they may be unaware of two growing economic threats:  1) job losses caused by artificial intelligence; 2) Sea level rises due to global warming.

The author queried the Google Bard artificial intelligence tool about the calendar year that these two problems would become serious threats to the Florida economy, and the year 2050 was the answer to both questions. Continue reading

#440 – FLORIDA’S UNDER WATER RISKS – CAPERS JONES

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Readers are urged to do their own research on sea level changes.   The Google Bard tool said that many coastal Florida locations would be under water by 2050.  The next set of pictures hopefully will not occur.  However, the Google Bard artificial intelligence tool answered my question of “when will parts of Florida be underwater due to global warming?” with the year 2050, so I am including the next illustrations of sinking Florida cities: Continue reading

#439 – SOFTWARE RISK REDUCTION – CAPERS JONES

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Some years ago the chairman of the ITT Corporation was troubled by several major software failures of projects that were terminated without being completed.  He was also troubled by the dissatisfaction expressed by customers in the quality of the software the corporation produced.  He was further dissatisfied by the inability of software executives to explain why the problems occurred, and what might be done to eliminate them. Continue reading

#434 – AI DISRUPTION IN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT – CAPERS JONES

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most rapidly expanding technologies in human history.  It is also a disruptive technology that can do harm as well as good.  An emerging use of artificial intelligence will be for politics and government operations. Continue reading

#425 – BENEFITS AND RISKS OF AI – CAPERS JONES

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most rapidly expanding technologies in human history.  It is also a disruptive technology that can do harm as well as good.   On the beneficial side are new methods or robotic surgery and improved citations in medical and scientific papers.

On the harmful and dangerous side, if a person’s voice has been recorded on the Web, criminals using AI can imitate the voice and send a message to the person’s family such as “help I’m being held for ransom.”   Continue reading