I know from what little experience I have with ChatGPT that if you put in grade level requests for writing, the response is a little more accurate. As you probably know 7th to 8th graded is average--she says optimistically...
Don't tell me they have finally started enforcing the truth in labeling law? For, truth be told, Artificial Intelligence is precisely what the name indicates...artificial.
True intelligence consists only in part of the ability to add 1 + 1 and come up with 2. There is an impossible to define aspect of true intelligence that some might label "spiritual." And the bad news is that the folks designing AI left that part of the formula out. What AI actually represents is modern mankind's slavish devotion to the absurd proposition that every problem has a technological solution. If only we could come up with the right programming code all would at last be right with the world!
In my experience zoning regulations are difficult to understand/apply not as the result of the author's inability to write clearly, but rather as the result of a purposeful attempt to make them so difficult to understand as to require a Planner to interpret them, and so fuzzy as to allow the "in crowd" to ignore them. Job security I think it's called.
Among ethologists there is general agreement that mankind's Ace In The Hole is his/her (or should I say her/his) ability to build and use tools, in the process widening the niche within which she/he can profitably exist. Alas, as with most things, tools have a sharp edge and a dull edge. The sharp edge allows us to travel between Portland Oregon and Ontario International Airport in California in the virtual blink of an eye. The dull edge is represented by the plug door that fell off in flight forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
Before leaping into the Black Hole represented by the alluring promises of AI we would do well to pay heed to the bitter lessons of unintended consequences depicted in Princeton Professor Edward Teller's brilliant book, "Why Things Bite Back." The book describes in great detail the promises made by those promoting the supposed "advances" of various new technologies and then contrasts them against the actual results.
Spoiler Alert: Turns out that the promises were seldom delivered and the problems engendered often represented a giant, expensive, step backwards!
More than a hundred and fifty years ago Henry David Thoreau noted that "Men have become the tool of their tools." Nowhere does this seem more true than in relation to computers in general and to AI in particular!
Easy solution: If Bar Harbor planners and planning board can't come up with understandable, enforceable rules and regulations fire them and hire someone who can.
I know from what little experience I have with ChatGPT that if you put in grade level requests for writing, the response is a little more accurate. As you probably know 7th to 8th graded is average--she says optimistically...
"Artificial Intelligence"
Don't tell me they have finally started enforcing the truth in labeling law? For, truth be told, Artificial Intelligence is precisely what the name indicates...artificial.
True intelligence consists only in part of the ability to add 1 + 1 and come up with 2. There is an impossible to define aspect of true intelligence that some might label "spiritual." And the bad news is that the folks designing AI left that part of the formula out. What AI actually represents is modern mankind's slavish devotion to the absurd proposition that every problem has a technological solution. If only we could come up with the right programming code all would at last be right with the world!
In my experience zoning regulations are difficult to understand/apply not as the result of the author's inability to write clearly, but rather as the result of a purposeful attempt to make them so difficult to understand as to require a Planner to interpret them, and so fuzzy as to allow the "in crowd" to ignore them. Job security I think it's called.
Among ethologists there is general agreement that mankind's Ace In The Hole is his/her (or should I say her/his) ability to build and use tools, in the process widening the niche within which she/he can profitably exist. Alas, as with most things, tools have a sharp edge and a dull edge. The sharp edge allows us to travel between Portland Oregon and Ontario International Airport in California in the virtual blink of an eye. The dull edge is represented by the plug door that fell off in flight forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
Before leaping into the Black Hole represented by the alluring promises of AI we would do well to pay heed to the bitter lessons of unintended consequences depicted in Princeton Professor Edward Teller's brilliant book, "Why Things Bite Back." The book describes in great detail the promises made by those promoting the supposed "advances" of various new technologies and then contrasts them against the actual results.
Spoiler Alert: Turns out that the promises were seldom delivered and the problems engendered often represented a giant, expensive, step backwards!
More than a hundred and fifty years ago Henry David Thoreau noted that "Men have become the tool of their tools." Nowhere does this seem more true than in relation to computers in general and to AI in particular!
Easy solution: If Bar Harbor planners and planning board can't come up with understandable, enforceable rules and regulations fire them and hire someone who can.
AI, a.k.a. the plagiarism engine.