This is Scary

[Daisy]

We none of us know where Artificial Intelligence will take us in the future, but I'm finding it quite scary. I think it will result in a lot of problems and we're only just now beginning to get an idea of what those problems might be.

This piece recounts how a bank customer cloned her own voice and used it to get into her bank via the "My voice is my password" technology. She tried it first in a BBC studio, using their very high grade audio equipment, then tried it at home using a basic iPad speaker. In other words, it wasn't dependent on high quality sound.

It was tried successfully with two different banks. When she discussed it with one of the Government's cyber security specialists he said he was dismayed and said it was just one element of the risks AI could present.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lg3ded6j9o

[Sum1Ls]

Agree. It’s technology progressing exponentially while governments are asleep and don’t have the know how to control and regulate. That’s one reason why I refuse to do online banking. If necessary I use an old fashioned cheque if I can’t use my credit card.
not because I don’t trust most of the banks but because I don’t trust myself not to make errors and if I do it would be my fault not their’s. It’s also the case that.ime computers it’s RoRo. Rubbish in, rubbish out.


Tutors at university have devised various ways of detecting students who have used AI in essays. One is by instructing students that they must refer to Dr Something, who of course, doesn’t exist. When they do it’s clear they have cheated. So sad to have to do this.

[Gemini]

Daisy I heard that article on Radio 4 the other day. Very scary indeed.

[Gemini]

OH and I both do online banking but only on our laptop at home never on our phones.
I'm not sure if it makes any sense but we both feel we would not feel safe banking on our phones.

[Nanto2girls]

When AI first came on the scene, i said things would go from bad to worse.

[Oma]

Scary isn't. It,
I read recently how two robots had started talking to each other in their own language and had to be shut down as scientists didn't know what they were saying.
It's the same with the ability to mimic people making it look like it's the real person talking,

All well and good having this technology but they need as Sum1 said the knowledge to control and regulate .

[Daisy]

I think many of us feel worried about security. I remember us commenting on a scam whereby a phone scammer would lead the victim into saying the word "yes". The context didn't matter because they then used that one word to rob their victim.

OH does online banking but neither of use our mobiles for banking. I try to use cash where I can, because I think there's a very real danger of cash disappearing and all sorts of problems and limitations can be forced on us if some faceless entity controls access to our money.

Sum1, I had to smile at the lecturers being one step ahead of the students. In "my" day students would plagiarise textbooks. This could be spotted a mile off because of the tone and register of the language, and we could usually pinpoint which textbook they had copied from. It seems almost quaint now.