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Artificial intelligence misinformation The short-term risks of incorrect information linked to artificial intelligence were recently highlighted by speakers at a world economic forum, while in the long term extreme weather events and imbalances in the global ecosystem are worrying. Geopolitical tensions linked to these factors can corrode the resilience of societies and lead to conflicts and consequently to the contagion of these unhealthy mechanisms and polarizations. Of note changing the subject the controversy over the use of artificial intelligence to identify military targets to hit in recent conflicts; in fact, for time some have been denouncing blunders and inaccuracies of all kinds obtained by querying well-known applications supported by artificial intelligence with a low percentage of reliability and sometimes even absurdity. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 12, 2024 
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 Unfair appreciation of artificial intelligence People who appreciate generative artificial intelligence as a progress that will allow humans to solve many difficult problems do not consider that its use requires considerable energy resources, then in many areas it provides results with a low percentage of reliability and sometimes even absurd. Neural networks do nothing more than try to imitate the functioning of the human brain, but with the advantage to have available a huge amount of data taken from internet servers (entered by human users) and from databases connected to energy plants that have a significant impact on the planet; then being able to make an animated face of a person say anything with the simulation of artificial intelligence and in any language is according to some very dangerous and this technology with images of false alternative realities could be used to influence public opinion. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 08, 2024 n°: 5537 Students using artificial intelligence The professors of a well-known English school seem to have encouraged students to use generative artificial intelligence that would help them better write homework to be discussed with the teacher, some say that perhaps this measure was necessary since students had already been using it for some time even if secretly; but the question remains whether in this way instead of exercising one's personal skills with the study one does not end up becoming dependent on a machine. Discussions then for the dismissal of journalists and in practice entire newsrooms replaced by artificial intelligence which; however, in general it is not very precise and indeed there is no shortage of reports of deviations and inaccuracies of all kinds without considering the falsehoods that can be artfully fabricated by the machine with fake but incredibly misleading images. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 15, 2023 n°: 5519 A European law on artificial intelligence In what is described as the start of a historic path to pass a European law regulating the use of artificial intelligence, a provisional agreement was reportedly reached in a marathon for the approval of proposals that lasted three days. It is a matter of harmonizing artificial intelligence with the fundamental values of the European Union so that they can be respected, on the impact on the future of these computer models, with rules and lists of prohibitions for example regarding the use of biometric identification at a distance in public spaces, then on a clear distinction between normal models and those based on artificial intelligence. Some say that trying to regulate artificial intelligence is like trying to stop an avalanche with the hands, and that should instead pull off plug to all neural networks by turning off their connections. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 09, 2023 n°: 5514 A questionable year of artificial intelligence A year after the launch of a well-known application based on generative artificial intelligence and now widely used, even when it would be possible to continue to use less invasive technologies, the controversy about the risk of human extinction and misinformation on an industrial scale does not cease (for example regarding the use of artificial and incredibly misleading images). There is also a risk of dependence on artificial intelligence as is happening with smartphones; in fact, while once it was pointed out to public ridicule if owned one of the first models of bulky mobile phones, now it seems that people cannot leave the house without having a smartphone in their pocket and if by chance they have forgotten they immediately come back to get it, without considering the kids who spend the day bent over the hypnotic screens of these technological "traps". e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 01, 2023 n°: 5508 Sustainably fuel-powered aerial flight While waiting for planes equipped with electric engines and powered by hydrogen (green and from non-polluting supply chains), a flight powered by one hundred percent sustainable fuel would have departed from London to land in New York, demonstrating the potential for possible reduction of emissions from the aviation sector and achieving zero emissions by 2050. This fuel is made from waste and is already used minimally by airlines in addition to kerosene and allows to reduce emissions by more than seventy percent but is more expensive (some say, however, that jet fuel is often tax-free and many routes covered by air flights economically supported for tourist reasons). Since the entire aviation sector is very polluting the best choice remains to choose if possible other means of locomotion. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 29, 2023 n°: 5506 CO2 capture plants are not at all decisive Thinking that CCS carbon capture plants can be a solution to the global climate crisis would be illusory, at least according to one of the various reports on the subject released recently; then using this type of technology to achieve zero emissions by 2050 hinders the decarbonization process and therefore to achieve the goal of limiting polluting emissions. The amount of energy needed to power these CO2 capture technologies could be greater than the entire world's electricity demand, not to mention the enormous cost of building the plants. Some say that these are just ways to continue to exploit polluting fossil fuels instead of switching to renewables which are now also much cheaper if take into account the relative financing of both. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 24, 2023 n°: 5502 Floating photovoltaic plant in Indonesia A photovoltaic installation capable of powering about fifty thousand users would have been inaugurated in Indonesia, the largest in Southeast Asia and the third in the world since the country tries to find new opportunities for a green transition to renewable energy, built about one hundred and thirty kilometers from the capital Jakarta; but for the time being energy from sun and wind make up less than one percent of the energy mix used to support what is Southeast Asia's largest economy. The authorities do not intend to build any more coal-fired power plants, but amid criticism proceeding with the completion of those already under construction. Indonesia wants also to become a key country for the production of nickel that is used to assemble electric car batteries, but the processing is powered by coal-fired plants. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 09, 2023 n°: 5489 Accelerating the transition to renewables A report on the use of fossil fuels identifies a peak by 2030 in demand followed by a decrease thanks to the shift to renewables, but fossil fuel producers are urging investment in this sector even after this date because demand in their view will remain high. It seems that the demand for renewables has recently increased a lot in a mechanism that some say is unstoppable, although this transition should be accelerated otherwise it will not be possible to contain the rise in global temperatures to one and a half Celsius degrees of increase, then there would also be the risk of destabilizing the security of energy systems that have been designed for a less hot planet and without extreme events that could seriously damage them. Above all a more rational use of energy without waste is needed. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 25, 2023 n°: 5477 Exhibitions with artificial intelligence images Artificial intelligence does not make calculations on images of paintings or photographs of them but on very small pixels that it assembles like pieces of a puzzle taken from immense archives and from the internet guided by neural networks whose functioning maybe is not well clear even to those who developed them, so much so that some say that there is an uncontrollable part of generative artificial intelligence and the filters placed by programmers act only after its complex calculations. It seems that the first application based on generative artificial intelligence questioned with targeted questions gave unethical answers (in practice a frightening technology and enemy of man) that also suggest a sort of self-awareness; so looking at these images could be really unhealthy, then they have very little or nothing artistic at all other than requiring large amounts of energy to be generated. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 19, 2023 n°: 5472 Technology and publications * The author doesn't assume some kind of responsibility for the bad use of the articles councils (all rights are reserved) |
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