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Grey’s Anatomy Confirms A Fatal Flaw In Meredith’s Story After 20 Seasons – Screen Rant

Spoilers are ahead for Grey's Anatomy season 20, episode 5.

Grey's Anatomy season 20, episode 5 confirms a fatal flaw in Meredith Grey's (Ellen Pompeo) story and it has nothing to do with the surgeon's groundbreaking Alzheimer's research. In fact, the problem at hand has been apparent for the series' last decade, but it seems like Pompeo's decreased screentime has emphasized the long-standing Meredith Grey problem. When the Shonda Rhimes-created show premiered in 2005, it opened with then-surgical intern Meredith Grey and her supposed one-night stand. A few scenes later, Meredith realizes her fling is none other than neurosurgeon Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), her superior.

For a few seasons, Meredith and Derek were Grey's Anatomy 's most stable pair...

For several seasons, Meredith and Derek's fraught romance defined the show's narrative. Derek, who Meredith and her best friend Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) dub "McDreamy," is initially getting out of an on-the-rocks marriage. Meredith tells Derek to choose her and, eventually, he does, but it certainly takes awhile for the two surgeons to get on the same page, as evidenced by Meredith and Derek's wild relationship timeline. For a few seasons, Meredith and Derek were Grey's Anatomy's most stable pair, but things took a turn in season 10, and that fallout is still defining Meredith Grey's love life.

Grey's Anatomy season 20 continues Meredith's relationship with Nick Marsh (Scott Speedman), a world-class transplant surgeon who previously worked with Meredith during her brief stint at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic. After receiving a kidney transplant himself, Nick flies out to Grey Sloan to retrieve donor organs. After Nick collapses, his medical mishap creates something of a bonding experience for him and Meredith. Later, the pair reconnect, which leads to a long-distance romance of sorts as Meredith shuffles between Mayo and Grey Sloan. Slowly but surely, Meredith realizes her relationship with Nick is serious, so he relocates to Seattle.

Nick takes [Meredith's harsh words] as a sign of her distrust in his abilities as a doctor, caretaker, and partner.

As Nick takes on Grey Sloan's intern program in season 19, Meredith seems ready to move across the country to pursue Alzheimer's research for the Catherine Fox Foundation. Understandably, Nick is frustrated: He uprooted his life for Meredith and her family. In Grey's Anatomy season 19's ending, Nick and Meredith reconnect, though Meredith still makes choices that disappoint Nick. In season 20, Meredith travels between Seattle and Boston on the regular, leaving Nick in Boston with her children Zola, Bailey, and Ellis. By episode 5, their fraught relationship dynamic comes to a head when Bailey needs an appendectomy.

Instead of calling Meredith immediately, Nick takes Bailey to the hospital, leaving Zola in charge of Ellis. While on the phone with her eldest daughter, Meredith learns that Nick rushed Bailey to surgery. After flying to Boston, Meredith cuts Nick off at every turn. She can't believe he'd make decisions about her kids without calling her first, which Nick takes as a sign of her distrust in his abilities as a doctor, caretaker, and partner. By the end of Grey's Anatomy season 20, episode 5, Meredith apologizes for her harsh words, but it's clear the couple's relationship is strained.

Nick is like a father to his niece, Charlotte Marsh, who he initially prioritizes over Meredith.

Meredith's troubled relationship with Nick is symptomatic of a larger problem in the surgeon's love life. Since Derek was killed in Grey's Anatomy season 11, Meredith has struggled to find a functional long-term relationship. From casual flirtations with Atticus "Link" Lincoln (Chris Carmack) and Cormac Hayes (Richard Flood) to her passionate-yet-tragic romance with Andrew DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti), none of Meredith's post-Derek relationships have stuck. Before Nick, cardio surgeon Nathan Riggs (Martin Henderson) seemed like a good fit, but the pair's relationship ended suddenly when Riggs' presumed-dead partner Megan Hunt (Abigail Spencer), returned.

Meredith Grey's Notable Romantic Partners

Season(s) of Grey's Anatomy

Derek Shepherd

Dated & Married; Seasons 111

Finn Dandridge

Dated; Seasons 3, 4

William Thorpe

Dated; Season 12

Nathan Riggs

Dated; Seasons 1214

Atticus "Link" Lincoln

Meredith Asked Out; Season 15

Andrew DeLuca

Dated; Seasons 1516

Cormac Hayes

Briefly Dated; Season 1617

Nick Marsh

Currently Dating; Season 18Present

When Cristina Yang leaves Grey's Anatomy in season 10, she reminds Meredith that Derek isn't "the sun." Meredith's life doesn't have to revolve around Derek's ambitions, and hers should be equally important. It's a conversation that plagued Meredith and Derek's marriage for the bulk of season 10, with Meredith admitting that they'll always fall into the intern-attending dynamic of when they first met. Cristina's parting words strengthen Meredith's resolve; when Derek is offered a high-powered, cutting-edge neuro job in Washington D.C., Meredith tells him to take it, though she'll stay behind in Seattle with the kids.

Meredith's issues with Derek are a continual deal-breaker.

Meredith doesn't want to hold Derek back, but she also can't sacrifice her own wants, needs, and career. She can't live with him denying his own ambitions and then quietly resenting her for it. Clearly, Meredith's issues with Derek are a continual deal-breaker. The surgeon is proud of her work and her research; if prioritizing her partner's goals means taking away from her own, Meredith won't compromise. While Meredith and Nick might have worked when things were less serious when things were easy and fun season 20 proves they aren't a solid endgame.

With Ellen Pompeo's role on Grey's Anatomy significantly reduced, it feels unnecessary to prioritize Meredith's love life, especially when her groundbreaking (and very personal) Alzheimer's research is the more significant thread. In season 20, Meredith pulls Derek's sister, neuro surgeon Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone), into her research, setting up a clear-cut reason for Pompeo's guest appearances. If anything, Meredith's romantic tribulations cement the fact that romance will never eclipse her work. Clearly, the series wants to give Meredith a "happy ending," so it should embrace her success as a single person, mother, and surgeon in Grey's Anatomy season 21.

New episodes of Grey's Anatomy season 20 air on Thursdays on ABC with next-day streaming available via Hulu.

Grey's Anatomy is considered one of the great television shows of our time, winning several awards and four Emmys. The high-intensity medical drama follows Meredith Grey and the team of doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial, who are faced with life-or-death decisions on a daily basis. They seek comfort from one another, and, at times, more than just friendship. Together they discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white.

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Grey’s Anatomy renewed for season 21 – PopBuzz

3 April 2024, 10:53

Meredith says goodbye in Greys Anatomys season 19 episode 7 trailer

Season 21 will coincide with Grey's Anatomy's 20th anniversary.

It's official Grey's Anatomy has been renewed for season 21 (!), lengthening its lead as the longest running US medical drama, and the longest running primetime series in ABC history.

The renewal now means that season 21 will be airing when the show's 20th anniversary comes around in March 2025. There's been no details shared just yet about what the writers are planning for that landmark anniversary but fans will no doubt be treated to some pretty iconic surprises.

According to Deadline, season 21 will consist of 18 episodes. The strike-impacted season 20 will end with 10 episodes, making it the shortest season since the show began in 2005. (Season 1 consists of 9 episodes.)

READ MORE: Here's how Meredith Grey leaves Grey's Anatomy in Ellen Pompeo's last episode

Responding to the news of the early renewal, creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes wrote in a post: "Greys was something I made up 20+ years ago, and I am so incredibly proud that its been picked up for its 21st season. This honestly could not be possible without you guys..caring about the stories I tell, the talented cast, writers, and crew. Wow."

In another statement, issued to The Hollywood Reporter, Shonda added: "The loyalty and love of Greys Anatomy fans has propelled us into a historic 21st season, and I could not be more grateful. [Showrunner] Meg Marinis storytelling is a gift that continues to keep the show vibrant, compelling and alive, and I cant wait to see what she has in store for next season."

In early 2023, Ellen Pompeo officially ended her status as a series regular and the show's lead, and Meredith moved away from Seattle to Boston with her children. (She still pops up every now and then, provides the iconic voiceovers that open and close the episodes, and still serves as an executive producer.)

The early renewal is a clear testament to the show's staying power and popularity, even without Meredith and Ellen at the helm. Twenty years on, Grey's still attracts thousands and thousands of new viewers thanks to streaming and viral clips on TikTok.

According to various reports, the contracts for almost all of the show's leads are up for renegotiation at the end of season 20, so it's unclear who will return for season 21 just yet.

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AI agents like Rabbit aim to book your vacation and order your Uber – NPR

The AI-powered Rabbit R1 device is seen at Rabbit Inc.'s headquarters in Santa Monica, California. The gadget is meant to serve as a personal assistant fulfilling tasks such as ordering food on DoorDash for you, calling an Uber or booking your family's vacation. Stella Kalinina for NPR hide caption

The AI-powered Rabbit R1 device is seen at Rabbit Inc.'s headquarters in Santa Monica, California. The gadget is meant to serve as a personal assistant fulfilling tasks such as ordering food on DoorDash for you, calling an Uber or booking your family's vacation.

ChatGPT can give you travel ideas, but it won't book your flight to Cancn.

Now, artificial intelligence is here to help us scratch items off our to-do lists.

A slate of tech startups are developing products that use AI to complete real-world tasks.

Silicon Valley watchers see this new crop of "AI agents" as being the next phase of the generative AI craze that took hold with the launch of chatbots and image generators.

Last year, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, nodded to the future of AI errand-helpers at the company's developer conference.

"Eventually, you'll just ask a computer for what you need, and it'll do all of these tasks for you," Altman said.

One of the most hyped companies doing this is called Rabbit. It has developed a device called the Rabbit R1. Chinese entrepreneur Jesse Lyu launched it at this year's CES, the annual tech trade show, in Las Vegas.

It's a bright orange gadget about half the size of an iPhone. It has a button on the side that you push and talk into like a walkie-talkie. In response to a request, an AI-powered rabbit head pops up and tries to fulfill whatever task you ask.

Chatbots like ChatGPT rely on technology known as a large language model, and Rabbit says it uses both that system and a new type of AI it calls a "large action model." In basic terms, it learns how people use websites and apps and mimics these actions after a voice prompt.

It won't just play a song on Spotify, or start streaming a video on YouTube, which Siri and other voice assistants can already do, but Rabbit will order DoorDash for you, call an Uber, book your family's vacation. And it makes suggestions after learning a user's tastes and preferences.

Storing potentially dozens or hundreds of a person's passwords raises instant questions about privacy. But Rabbit claims it saves user credentials in a way that makes it impossible for the company, or anyone else, to access someone's personal information. The company says it will not sell or share user data with third parties "without your formal, explicit permission."

A Rabbit employee demonstrates the company's Rabbit R1 device. The company says more than 80,000 people have preordered the device for $199. Stella Kalinina for NPR hide caption

A Rabbit employee demonstrates the company's Rabbit R1 device. The company says more than 80,000 people have preordered the device for $199.

The company, which says more than 80,000 people have preordered the Rabbit R1, will start shipping the devices in the coming months.

"This is the first time that AI exists in a hardware format," said Ashley Bao, a spokeswoman for Rabbit at the company's Santa Monica, Calif., headquarters. "I think we've all been waiting for this moment. We've had our Alexa. We've had our smart speakers. But like none of them [can] perform tasks from end to end and bring words to action for you."

Excitement in Silicon Valley over AI agents is fueling an increasingly crowded field of gizmos and services. Google and Microsoft are racing to develop products that harness AI to automate busywork. The web browser Arc is building a tool that uses an AI agent to surf the web for you. Another startup, called Humane, has developed a wearable AI pin that projects a display image on a user's palm. It's supposed to assist with daily tasks and also make people pick up their phones less frequently.

Similarly, Rabbit claims its device will allow people to get things done without opening apps (you log in to all your various apps on a Rabbit web portal, so it uses your credentials to do things on your behalf).

To work, the Rabbit R1 has to be connected to Wi-Fi, but there is also a SIM card slot, in case people want to buy a separate data plan just for the gadget.

When asked why anyone would want to carry around a separate device just to do something your smartphone could do in 30 seconds, Rabbit spokesman Ryan Fenwick argued that using apps to place orders and make requests all day takes longer than we might imagine.

"We are looking at the entire process, end to end, to automate as much as possible and make these complex actions much quicker and much more intuitive than what's currently possible with multiple apps on a smartphone," Fenwick said.

ChatGPT's introduction in late 2022 set off a frenzy at companies in many industries trying to ride the latest tech industry wave. That chatbot exuberance is about to be transferred to the world of gadgets, said Duane Forrester, an analyst at the firm Yext.

Google and Microsoft are racing to develop products that harness AI to automate busywork, which might make other AI-powered assistants obsolete. Stella Kalinina for NPR hide caption

Google and Microsoft are racing to develop products that harness AI to automate busywork, which might make other AI-powered assistants obsolete.

"Early on, with the unleashing of AI, every single product or service attached the letters "A" and "I" to whatever their product or service was," Forrester said. "I think we're going to end up seeing a version of that with hardware as well."

Forrester said an AI walkie-talkie might quickly become obsolete when companies like Apple and Google make their voice assistants smarter with the latest AI innovations.

"You don't need a different piece of hardware to accomplish this," he said. "What you need is this level of intelligence and utility in our current smartphones, and we'll get there eventually."

Researchers are worried that AI-powered personal assistant technology could eventually go wrong. Stella Kalinina for NPR hide caption

Researchers are worried that AI-powered personal assistant technology could eventually go wrong.

Researchers are worried about where such technology could eventually go awry.

The AI assistant purchasing the wrong nonrefundable flight, for instance, or sending a food order to someone else's house are among potential snafus that analysts have mentioned.

A 2023 paper by the Center for AI Safety warned against AI agents going rogue. It said if an AI agent is given an "open-ended goal" say, maximize a person's stock market profits without being told how to achieve that goal, it could go very wrong.

"We risk losing control over AIs as they become more capable. AIs could optimize flawed objectives, drift from their original goals, become power-seeking, resist shutdown, and engage in deception. We suggest that AIs should not be deployed in high-risk settings, such as by autonomously pursuing open-ended goals or overseeing critical infrastructure, unless proven safe," according to a summary of the paper.

At Rabbit's Santa Monica office, Rabbit R1 Creative Director Anthony Gargasz pitches the device as a social media reprieve. Use it to make a doctor's appointment or book a hotel without being sucked into an app's feed for hours.

"Absolutely no doomscrolling on the Rabbit R1," said Gargasz. "The scroll wheel is for intentional interaction."

His colleague Ashley Bao added that the whole point of the gadget is to "get things done efficiently." But she acknowledged there's a cutesy factor too, comparing it to the keychain-size electronic pets that were popular in the 1990s.

"It's like a Tamagotchi but with AI," she said.

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Where To Watch Anatomy Of A Fall – Screen Rant

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The demand to watch Anatomy of a Fall is increasing in the wake of its triumphant, headline-making premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. Already nominated for five Oscars at te 2024 Academy Awards, the thrilling courtroom drama stars Sandra Hller as a writer, also named Sandra, who is tasked with proving her innocence after her husband, Samuel, dies under mysterious circumstances. To make matters more complicated, Daniel, Sandra and Samuel's 11-year-old blind son, is the only other witness to Samuel's death.

Directed by Sibyl filmmaker Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute) is only the third film helmed by a woman to win Cannes' prestigious Palme d'Or. In late August 2023, the acclaimed film debuted in France, with its ticket sales sandwiched between those of the slightly more successful Barbie and the slightly less successful Oppenheimer. Ambitious, unpredictable, and deeply thought-provoking, Anatomy of a Fall autopsies the characters' relationship, Sandra and Vincent's marriage, and the very nature of truth. Given its early awards buzz, it's shaping up to be one of 2023's best movies that is climbing high on watchlists across the globe.

Anatomy of a Fall had its premiere on May 21, 2023, with it debuting at Cannes. Neon acquired the rights to distribute the film in North America shortly after, with it being given a limited release on October 13, 2023. Anatomy of a Fall was given a wider release the next week, with it still showing in some theaters. While it may be hard for some eager moviegoers to find Anatomy of a Fall, the film can still be found in many theaters ahead of the Oscars on March 10, 2024.

Theatrical showtimes for Anatomy of a Fall can be found via the links below:

VOD Platform

Rental Price

Apple TV

$5.99

Amazon Prime Video

$5.99

Vudu

$5.99

Google Play Movies & TV

$6.99

The unforeseeable plot and startling performances make Anatomy of a Fall one of fall 2023's most anticipated movies, but its availability to watch has been different around the world. Thankfully, US-based audiences finally have the opportunity to watch Anatomy of a Fall in theaters, though cinephiles may have to wait a few months before a streaming release date is set. The sensational courtroom drama first hit US theaters on Friday, October 13 with a limited release. By the following week, Anatomy of a Fall was playing in both national chains and first-run indie cinemas across the country.

Unfortunately, Anatomy of a Fall isn't a movie with a same-day release on streaming. While the picture's US distributor, Neon, hasn't released much information regarding a streaming release date, it's likely that Anatomy of a Fall will follow the terms of Neon's deal with Hulu. Neon-distributed titles typically stream exclusively on Hulu approximately four months after their theatrical release in the United States. As such, Anatomy of a Fall may not be released on Hulu until February 2024.

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Fired on Mars cast: Who stars in the animated comedy series – Hidden Remote

POLAND - 2022/01/21: In this photo illustration, HBO MAX logo is displayed on a smartphone with stock market graphics in the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A new workplace comedy has entered into the streaming game! The upcoming Max animated comedy dystopian series Fired on Mars premieres Apr. 21 on the streaming service formerly known as HBO Max. The service has been switching their focus from family-based programming to adult animation withFired on Marsarriving on the platform at perfect time.

The series explores the precarious relationship between work and selflight years away from Earth. Jeff Cooper, the lead character, finds himself adrift in an office colony and is forced to reinvent himself and find meaning in a dangerous, alien, yet all-too-familiar corporate landscape.The animated series is based on the 2016 short film of the same name from newcomer writer/directors Nate Sherman and Nick Vokey. This movie will join the same slate of adult animated series that will live on the platform including the upcoming Clone High reboot.Are you looking to find out whos voicing the characters on the show? Read on to find out!

Previously, it was reported that SNL alum Pete Davidson would lead the series but has since not been mentioned in any current promotional media as the lead. The remaining cast of Fired on Mars has not yet been revealed.Want to see what to expect before the episodes are released? Look on to find out!

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Let us know in the comments below if you plan on watching! You can stream all eight episodes of Fired on Mars starting Apr. 20 on Max. Make sure to keep up todate with Hidden Remote for more Fired on Mars news and coverage.

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Fears of artificial intelligence overblown – Independent Australia

While AI is still a developing technology and not without its limitations, a robotic world domination is far from something we need to fear, writes Bappa Sinha.

THE UNPRECIDENTED popularity of ChatGPT has turbocharged the artificial intelligence (AI) hype machine. We are being bombarded daily by news articles announcing AI as humankinds greatest invention. AI is qualitatively different, transformational, revolutionary and will change everything, they say.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced a major upgrade of the technology behind ChatGPT called GPT4. Already, Microsoft researchers are claiming that GPT4 shows sparks of artificial general intelligence or human-like intelligence the holy grail of AI research. Fantastic claims are made about reaching the point of AI Singularity, of machines equalling and surpassing human intelligence.

The business press talks about hundreds of millions of job losses as AI would replace humans in a whole host of professions. Others worry about a sci-fi-like near future where super-intelligent AI goes rogue and destroys or enslaves humankind. Are these predictions grounded in reality, or is this just over-the-board hype that the tech industry and the venture capitalist hype machine are so good at selling?

The current breed of AI models are based on things called neural networks. While the term neural conjures up images of an artificial brain simulated using computer chips, the reality of AI is that neural networks are nothing like how the human brain actually works. These so-called neural networks have no similarity with the network of neurons in the brain. This terminology was, however, a major reason for the artificial neural networks to become popular and widely adopted despite its serious limitations and flaws.

Machine learning algorithms currently used are an extension of statistical methods that lack theoretical justification for extending them this way. Traditional statistical methods have the virtue of simplicity. It is easy to understand what they do, when and why they work. They come with mathematical assurances that the results of their analysis are meaningful, assuming very specific conditions.

Since the real world is complicated, those conditions never hold. As a result, statistical predictions are seldom accurate. Economists, epidemiologists and statisticians acknowledge this, then use intuition to apply statistics to get approximate guidance for specific purposes in specific contexts.

These caveats are often overlooked, leading to the misuse of traditional statistical methods. These sometimes have catastrophic consequences, as in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis or the Long-Term Capital Management blowup in 1998, which almost brought down the global financial system. Remember Mark Twains famous quote: Lies, damned lies and statistics.

Machine learning relies on the complete abandonment of the caution which should be associated with the judicious use of statistical methods. The real world is messy and chaotic, hence impossible to model using traditional statistical methods. So the answer from the world of AI is to drop any pretence at theoretical justification on why and how these AI models, which are many orders of magnitude more complicated than traditional statistical methods, should work.

Freedom from these principled constraints makes the AI model more powerful. They are effectively elaborate and complicated curve-fitting exercises which empirically fit observed data without us understanding the underlying relationships.

But its also true that these AI models can sometimes do things that no other technology can do at all. Some outputs are astonishing, such as the passages ChatGPT can generate or the images that DALL-E can create. This is fantastic at wowing people and creating hype. The reason they work so well is the mind-boggling quantities of training data enough to cover almost all text and images created by humans.

Even with this scale of training data and billions of parameters, the AI models dont work spontaneously but require kludgy ad hoc workarounds to produce desirable results.

Even with all the hacks, the models often develop spurious correlations. In other words, they work for the wrong reasons. For example, it has been reported that many vision models work by exploiting correlations pertaining to image texture, background, angle of the photograph and specific features. These vision AI models then give bad results in uncontrolled situations.

For example, a leopard print sofa would be identified as a leopard. The models dont work when a tiny amount of fixed pattern noise undetectable by humans is added to the images or the images are rotated, say in the case of a post-accident upside-down car. ChatGPT, for all its impressive prose, poetry and essays, is unable to do simple multiplication of two large numbers, which a calculator from the 1970s can do easily.

The AI models do not have any level of human-like understanding but are great at mimicry and fooling people into believing they are intelligent by parroting the vast trove of text they have ingested. For this reason, computational linguist Emily Bender called the large language models such as ChatGPT and Googles Bard and BERT Stochastic Parrots in a 2021 paper. Her Google co-authors Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell were asked to take their names off the paper. When they refused, they were fired by Google.

This criticism is not just directed at the current large language models but at the entire paradigm of trying to develop artificial intelligence. We dont get good at things just by reading about them. That comes from practice, of seeing what works and what doesnt. This is true even for purely intellectual tasks such as reading and writing. Even for formal disciplines such as maths, one cant get good at it without practising it.

These AI models have no purpose of their own. They, therefore, cant understand meaning or produce meaningful text or images. Many AI critics have argued that real intelligence requires social situatedness.

Doing physical things in the real world requires dealing with complexity, non-linearly and chaos. It also involves practice in actually doing those things. It is for this reason that progress has been exceedingly slow in robotics. Current robots can only handle fixed repetitive tasks involving identical rigid objects, such as in an assembly line. Even after years of hype about driverless cars and vast amounts of funding for its research, fully automated driving still doesnt appear feasible in the near future.

Current AI development based on detecting statistical correlations using neural networks, which are treated as black boxes, promotes a pseudoscience-based myth of creating intelligence at the cost of developing a scientific understanding of how and why these networks work. Instead, they emphasise spectacles such as creating impressive demos and scoring in standardised tests based on memorised data.

The only significant commercial use cases of the current versions of AI are advertisements: targeting buyers for social media and video streaming platforms. This does not require the high degree of reliability demanded from other engineering solutions they just need to be good enough. Bad outputs, such as the propagation of fake news and the creation of hate-filled filter bubbles, largely go unpunished.

Perhaps a silver lining in all this is, given the bleak prospects of AI singularity, the fear of super-intelligent malicious AIs destroying humankind is overblown. However, that is of little comfort for those at the receiving end of AI decision systems. We already have numerous examples of AI decision systems the world over denying people legitimate insurance claims, medical and hospitalisation benefits, and state welfare benefits.

AI systems in the United States have been implicated in imprisoning minorities to longer prison terms. There have even been reports of withdrawal of parental rights to minority parents based on spurious statistical correlations, which often boil down to them not having enough money to properly feed and take care of their children. And, of course, on fostering hate speech on social media.

As noted linguist Noam Chomsky wrote in a recent article:

ChatGPT exhibits something like the banality of evil: plagiarism and apathy and obviation.

Bappa Sinha is a veteran technologist interested in the impact of technology on society and politics.

This article was produced by Globetrotter.

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