17/05/2026
I'M EXTREMELY WORRIED ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Read this to the end as there's a funny twist in the story that ought to give you a good laugh in fact there are a few things to laugh at, even though the underlying statement I selected for the title, is absolutely true and is very worrying.
Yes it's the topic of the era Artificial Intelligence (AI) and I'm extremely worried about it but I doubt it will be for the reasons you guys will expect.
In fact it may not even be AI that I'm actually worried about, as much as the potential for an incompetent human fool who thinks it's easy to implement and then ends up destroying the world by accident.
Now you may be thinking surely only the best and smartest people get involved with AI, so why am I worried. Well the fact is that even the smartest people in the world can make mistakes, especially when 'playing' with something new, as I just found out.
Now just for the record here (and not to brag, as you'll see proof of shortly) and for those dumb-ass fools that think I'm a dum-bass fool, my IQ is 168 (and sadly declining), which is higher than Einstein's was. But I assure you that I'm not saying I've achieved anything near as super important as he did ...... YET, I'm just mentioning it, to set the scene for what follows.
So when I first heard of AI (in the form of Chat GPT), I thought I'd try it out and I was happy to see that it was NOT as 'smart' (or should that be knowledgeable) about nitrous as I am, so at least my job is safe for a while longer.
I asked it a tech question and as I expected it rolled out a totally inadequate and totally incorrect response, based on the stock US brand ill informed and limited information.
However, despite that I could see the potential and told my Granddaughter that she should get herself educated on AI use and applications, because in the words of Peter Kay I could see that it "was the future".
A few months went by and then I see some impressive AI generated photos and video clips popping on TikTok and a Thai woman I'd recently met had been creating quite a few, so I asked her to create some for me that I could use for promotional purposes, as I'm about to re-launch the WON brand, specifically to make the world aware of my latest product (more to follow ASAP) and I thought that AI assistance would be beneficial.
So again a few months went by and despite a couple of EXCEPTIONAL attempts, she couldn't create anything that showed what I was wanting to achieve, so I decided to try it MYSELF.
Now it's at this point that you need to keep all the above in mind, as it will all become clear as to why I presented it as an introduction to what is to follow.
So I just happened on an AI App called DOLA (for reasons that aren't apparent to me) and thought I'd give it a go. The pro mo for DOLA made it all sound far too easy for me not to give it a go, just tell DOLA what you wanted and DOLA would create it.
So I told DOLA that I wanted a motorcycle fitted with a nitrous kit that would accelerate away from the camera with the wheel spinning and the tire smoking, thinking surely that's simple enough, so what could go wrong with that.
Well if you take a look at the first video you'll see exactly all that DID go wrong with that and there was probably much more that could also have gone wrong.
So now I could bring it to an end here and make my point but I'll just take it another step further.
After seeing how inept my first attempt was (both in terms of my understanding of what was required as input and what AI is capable of), I decided to try again, but that wasn't even worth showing you. So then I thought I'd give it another try by starting in the simplest possible way and whilst that moved closer in some respects it also moved further away in others.
So this is where the 'twist' comes in let's just say that I'm smarter than the average bear and yet MY instructions resulted in AI creating a total abomination, that was nothing like I was aiming for.
Obviously at a much deeper level and a much bigger scale, what if someone thinks they are smart enough to try something new like I've just done, not realising that it has the potentially destroy the planet. The whole purpose of this is to do what hasn't been done before so predicting the outcomes are impossible and you only discover the consequences of your ignorance of what the AI is doing AFTER IT HAS BEEN COMPLETED by which time it is too late to stop it.
So even if AI was safe, in as much as it couldn't cause any harm under it's own auspices, just as cars and planes can't, it might only take just one human to make a 'driving' error, to destroy the whole of the planet.
Now add that to the already acknowledged concerns that AI could be intentionally used by a power crazed human or humans and that AI itself could become malevolent towards humanity and beyond our control and it's looking to me to be the riskiest gamble humanity has ever taken.
With that all said, I think we'd all better enjoy life as much as possible while we still have the it to enjoy and so to that end, I'll continue to try to create an AI assisted advert that will b low your socks off, while not potentially blowing the world up.
Thank God there's no chance of them letting me anywhere near the heart of the system, that would have the ability to do that.