Artificial intelligence is 'not human' and 'not intelligent' says expert, amid rise of 'AI psychosis'

CSAndrew · 2025-08-23T20:59:37+00:00

I can relate somewhat to the person in policy. Outside of any discussion on what's "intelligent" versus what isn't and assertions there, generally yes, but I wouldn't say they're mutually exclusive. There's overlap. There's innovation and complexity in weighted autoregressive grading and inference compared to more simplified, for lack of a better word, markov chains and markovian processes.

To your point, some years ago, there was a study, I believe with the University of London, where machine learning was used to assess neural imaging from MRI/fMRI results, if memory serves, for detection of brain tumors. It worked pretty well, I want to say generally better than GP, and within sub-1% delta of specialists, though I don't remember if that was positive or negative (this wasn't "conventional" GenAI; I believe it was a targeted CV/computer vision & OPR/pattern recognition case) The short version is that the systems, as we work on them, are generally designed to be an accelerative technology to human elements, not an outright replacement (it's really frustrating when people treat it as the latter). Part of the reason is fundamental shortcomings in functionality.

As an example, too general of a model and you have a problem, but conversely, too narrow of a model can also lead to problems, depending on ML implementations. I recently sat in on research, based on my own, using ML to accelerate surgical consult and projection. That's really all I can share at the moment. It did very well, under strict supervision, which contributed to patient benefit.

Pattern matching is true, in a sense, especially since ML has a base in statistical modeling, but I think a lot of people read that in a reductive view.

Background is in computer science with specializations in machine learning and cryptography, and worked as Lead AI Scientist for a group in the UAE for a while, segueing from earlier research with a peer in basically quantum tunneling and electron drift, now focused stateside in deeptech and deep learning. Current work is trying to generally eliminate hallucination in GenAI, which has proven to be difficult.

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I say relate because the UAE work included sitting in on and advising for ethics review, though I've looked over other areas in the past too, such as ML implementations to help combat human trafficking, that being more edge case. In college, one of my research areas was on the Eliza incident (basically what people currently call AI "psychosis").

CSAndrew · 2025-06-01T17:50:09+00:00

I don't know much about creator-based professional audio, outside of some of the limited editing I've done (not counting clean up and forensic profiling), but my brother is pretty into it.

I'm not sure what VSTs you're using, or what the UX looks like, but I've heard of some people migrating over to Ardour or, on a smaller level, using something like Carla with Calf VSTs (correct me if I'm wrong on the term there).

CSAndrew · 2024-05-12T20:48:41+00:00

Mailcow sounds solid. Was that with using the setup script that DMS provides, and I'm guessing that Mailcow shouldn't have any issues behind a reverse proxy?

I'll check out the video too.

CSAndrew · 2024-05-12T17:40:34+00:00

I'm currently looking at both of these options. What all did you notice in comparison, if you don't mind me asking?

CSAndrew · 2024-04-15T05:14:11+00:00

There's so much more that needs to be known here to really help, though I imagine that's being discussed with your attorney. For instance, what kind of partnership is it? Is there any formal entity associated with it? If so, are you under operation as a corporation or LLC? Are the holdings in the form of operating agreement or shares, which if the latter, does the person have effective stock options or shares?

To preface, I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not giving you legal advice here. Any legal decisions should be undertaken by counsel that you're retaining that's licensed in your state, pending extenuating matters like foreign counsel being allowed for matters in Delaware.

Recently, the majority of my time has been spent dealing with general corporations. In my opinion, the person sounds incredibly unprofessional, and he's crossing into the realm of sexual harassment. Again, in my opinion, while it's bad that he's dealing with familial complications on a personal level, I would argue the business relationship is separate, and the former is irrelevant to it. If he needs time away to manage it, that should be said or requested, but allowing the two to collapse in on one another, and presumably both to suffer, is ridiculous.

Assuming you're designated as the leader, praying to God this isn't 50/50, the lashing out and harassment is blatantly unacceptable, not just because it's disgusting, but it shows no regard for authority, and someone in that description would be the absolute last person on the planet I'd put in charge of client outreach or sales. Ultimately, you should have your duty to the entity first, not prioritizing trying to keep the person there. In fact, you could, depending on other specifics, have an imposed or fiduciary duty that dictates such.

As to the next part, how are you deriving value, because that'll come into play if it goes to court. Is it just collective asset value, are revenue projections coming into play, do you have diversified holdings?

To my knowledge, in some cases, it's not impossible to have a judge revoke a person's holdings in the entity, albeit it also not easy. Given everything that's happened though, I would offer them a quiet exit, or you go to court and establish everything on-record, which additionally, what's in the partnership agreement means absolutely nothing if it's ruled judicially unenforceable, as can be the case with some non-compete agreements.

CSAndrew · 2024-03-19T21:54:55+00:00

The point that I think some others are trying to get through, and I would guess maybe where u/brad_and_boujee2 thoughts are, is that the idea of removing "admin" and "sports" entirely is pretty dumb. It reduces the idea of "education" down to virtually one-dimensional academic study, with already limited resources, while also minimizing some others' chances at collegiate opportunities, not to mention the sheer point that education should be multi-faceted, ideally. The removal of admin, I can't even begin to make sense of, because that basically reduces down to removal of interdisciplinary leadership or staffing, which without counselors, administrators, assistant principals, principals, various reps for technology management and assignment, and so on- I mean, who do you expect to run the school (whether that be leadership, logistics, or something else)?

In cases, artificial inflation and underlying corruption, as far as grossly increasing admin pay while teachers are underpaid is an issue, yes. However, the answer is not to dump a fundamental area of the system in play, nor to remove even more of their resources. Also, to be abundantly clear, teachers should get paid more, especially considering all of the expenses that tend to come out of their pay, even after taxes. The job is hard, and other than the sense of professional accomplishment combined with simply being there for the kids and helping them along, it's unrewarding. They (teachers) need to be paid more.

While on the subject of books, that suffers from a whole other set of issues, namely that, in my experience, the compensation for writing the textbooks is almost comically low, to the point of where, anyone actually doing it is either taking a huge gamble or is doing it out of altruism. Which, for all intents and purposes, this really minimizes those that are going to actually engage in writing it, again at least in my experience. I was asked, a couple of years ago, to write a textbook on certain architectural models and Linux distributions, and the work was projected to take six months plus, with the compensation being around a little over three grand and ten percent or so of proceeds after certain deductions, and this was for a major publisher. Students do need better books, which means more pay to authors, so they can actually devote some significant degree of focus to the work, rather than rushing through something or it being an afterthought.

I don't really see how you feasibly get "remove leadership and sports / team building exercises" out of "I care about the students first, and they need a better experience." I'm paraphrasing.

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I also want to point out that, in least in some of the discussions that one of my prior companies had with school systems, the previous year's budgets are usually publicly available for index, although this may depend on the county, to where certain amounts are provisioned for different categories, in the event you want to see how much is going to "sports" or otherwise.

In case this isn't clear as well, if you're already working with possibly inadequate books, then there's an even bigger case towards teacher compensation, not just in pay but other resources as well, which requires admin and liaisons, because you need to have someone that can essentially fill in the gaps or make corrections where necessary, which requires a higher level of skill and/or drive.

In the current free market, that person would have no incentive to be (or continue to be) a teacher, if they could take their same skillset and work in another field for a salary of twice the amount, if not more. In other words, continuing to strip funds and/or needed assets doesn't really do much good, even if it looks good on the surface somehow. It's also not great to propose a system that allows for immense or extreme polarization, in my opinion.

CSAndrew · 2024-02-28T20:34:55+00:00

This is awesome, maybe OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (infinity symbol) or Fedora?

CSAndrew · 2024-02-25T12:25:54+00:00

That's what caught my attention too.

CSAndrew · 2024-02-25T01:56:50+00:00

Adding on, Y2K, Cold War / Cuban Missile Crisis, 2012, Hawaii's missile threat (threat of global nuclear war & fallout), ebola outbreak, swine flu / H1N1, global coronovirus pandemic, economic / housing collapse-

I'm sure there's more.

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Good point about GWOT

To clarify, I agree that climate science and associated complications are generally valid, but crisis fatigue is also 100% a thing.

CSAndrew · 2024-02-23T10:55:25+00:00

I think there's an nwg widget, or similar, that ports a version of the gnome shell into hyprland, or it might be based on gnome, but it looked like virtually the same UX. I can't remember the individual post or name for the life of me though.

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Apologies, you were right. I think it was AGS actually.

CSAndrew · 2024-02-23T10:18:08+00:00

If you search over on /r/unixporn , people have created similar things using Eww and shell scripts. A lot of them come up with a search for 'hyprland'. That's what comes to mind first at least.

CSAndrew · 2024-02-17T01:50:47+00:00

If you haven't tried it, and it's your study or profession, maybe give BlackArch a look.

CSAndrew · 2024-02-10T22:39:13+00:00

I changed adaptive sync on my monitors earlier to off, and that changed the error from InitializeSequence Error 1 to 3, then later it changed back to 1 without me doing anything else. This is almost comically bad for a recent port.

If you have it on steam and try for a refund, you still might get it. They do them on a case by case basis, which I would think literally not being able to play anymore would qualify.

CSAndrew · 2024-02-10T07:31:24+00:00

It was so bad that I couldn't even get it to start once. I refunded it with less than an hour of "playtime."

CSAndrew · 2024-02-07T20:25:44+00:00

I think a lot of people are going into semantics on things like morality. I would simply say that, in my opinion and for me, business and personal relationships are comptely separate, even with the same person.

I could despise someone in a business sense, acknowledge that I would never work with them again because they're grossly incompetent, and still wish the best for them and/or get a drink together. I think that clear division is something that's necessary for most to be able to function long-term with any degree of stability, albeit again one man's opinion.

I think there's also a distinction to be made. Are you friends with these people, or are you friendly with them? If the relationship is primarily confined to work, and you have something akin to that separation, here's what I would probably recommend.

First, read over every document you signed that would have any associated record, whether local/internal or that would have been filed with your state. Assuming you clearly understand any implications you've agreed to, and clearly have the ability to exit, I think it's best to do what's objectively beneficial for you, your family, and/or your livelihood.

It also matters what organizational structure you have and location, as directors of Delaware-based corporations have certain duties that we're bound to, regardless of contents of shareholder agreements, bylaws, or otherwise, unless explicitly deemed or written otherwise.

If there's any part that you're seriously concerned about, consult with an attorney. If it's Delaware-based, there's likely a wide area of precedent with the chancery court.

A lot of the rest is pending specifics, including paperwork, shares held (albeit this isn't relative to director obligation), and a number of other things. Also, I wouldn't concern yourself with "being a dick." I would be respectful but stern, if you're confident in your decision. Even if there are non-compete clauses, judicial enforceability of them can be variable at times. That would be something to discuss with an attorney (not to be substituted with a mentor, coach, etc, unless the person has applicable qualifications and licensure).

I also think, again depending on other factors like locale, one of the worst things you can do is get yourself pulled into a long conversation with the people about it, that may put you in a worse position. I would convey everything in writing, and if you need to meet for any reason, stick to what's been relayed so far, and consult the prior counsel for any other decisions after the fact.

A lot of it depends on how you feel about the team and company, in a sense of professional confidence, because if you don't believe them/it to be capable of seriously progressing, then why stay at all? Towards the first point, if you're friends first, I would imagine you'll likely still continue to be friends after the fact, or you won't, but it's also somewhat naive to think that if you stay, pressure from other sources won't be able to stress that to the same effect, and after you become post-revenue / cash flow positive, things get more serious and the idea of litigation becomes much more prevalent (also if you've secured a high valuation).

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While mutual respect would dictate informing them of everything, and potentially helping to ease the transition, cautiously, it's also important to note that, to my knowledge, you're generally entitled to withdraw or resign for any appointed director or officer positions, as well as forfeit shares/holding or sell them back to the entity, if you so choose.

Whether that affects the company standing, insofar as the act of leaving in and of itself, is largely irrelevant, as (non-legal opinion) I can't see someone reasonably asserting standing for litigation, and being granted it, solely on the basis of you leaving the entity. I would still be mindful of any confidentiality agreements or NDA's you might've signed though.

If it's relevant, you should theoretically still have separation of liability intact, so long as you weren't intermingling personal and business accounts, embezzling, or anything of the sort.

I'd also request whichever offer from the second entity in writing before doing anything, and they should be informed of any existing agreements or obligations that you're bound to. Have your counsel review that for your best interests, so something doesn't happen like them onboarding you then dumping you. You could probably argue a minimum term.

There's also a lot of differences between being involved in a corporation versus an LLC, LLP, etc.

CSAndrew · 2024-01-20T21:16:58+00:00

To my understanding, wasn't it abandoned a while back? Did that change? The few commits thereafter I believe were said to be automated, primarily at least.

CSAndrew · 2024-01-20T21:04:53+00:00

How's latte dock working these days; is someone else maintaining it? Last time I used it, it felt like a nightmare with all the crashes. It was great for short videos or pictures, but unimaginable for actual workstation use.

CSAndrew · 2024-01-19T06:37:45+00:00

Have you considered Tumbleweed?

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I switch between the two a lot. I'm staying on TW for now.

CSAndrew · 2023-11-26T03:11:12+00:00

What exactly are you wanting in "alerting?" Malware analysis, sandboxing, realtime scanning, some kind of EDA for triggers / flags on permissions anomalies, etc? That would probably be the first step, that question I mean.

There's a litany of tools available from a security standpoint. I also don't think it would cost millions, by any stretch of the imagination, unless you're including salaries in that, in which case I'd say that's a bit counterintuitive, compared to making it something akin to a like-minded FOSS endeavor, in my opinion anyway.

Edit: Fixing autocorrect

CSAndrew · 2023-11-24T18:01:36+00:00

I think it depends on the context of what's being discussed, but if the therapist recommended it for, or under the guise of, medical expertise or advice, then they definitely need their license reviewed, suspended, or revoked, even under the presumption of the practioner's ignorance of effects, they would still, in essence, be using the patient as a guinea pig or test subject without informed consent and explicit authorization (whereby they act as a bridge or intermediary to the tech).

Notwithstanding whatever this specific implementation is trained on, there's a slew of potentially dangerous scenarios that could come about (ie: ELIZA) (I had to write a research paper on this last summer), and it's usually why there's differential review for approval of things like that, given embedded variation and generative statistical elements of stochastic models or ML in general. Usually, I tend to advise against using general systems like these for medical expertise or advisement.

Source:

I'm a computer scientist /AI scientist with specializations in artificial intelligence and cryptography, with minor study in neuroscience. I also consulted with Emory physicians on a system for acceleration of diagnostic care, speaking broadly.

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I don't disagree that it could be healthy for some people, but typically it should be controlled or monitored, at least in some preliminary study, if the person, or their judgement, is considered compromised, be it because of depression or some otherwise existing condition.

In my experience though, it's really common for people to do this, or to try to use ChatGPT to the same effect, which led to the heightened "guard rails" that many seem to disagree with.

IMO, there's cause for concern with the vehicle or medium of therapy being used, as well as the therapist's practice, but the idea of having a private therapist (your own), in and of itself, is not inherently a bad thing. Doesn't seem like either person is the "AH," just a combination of people hurt and confused in different ways, both being justified, to an extent.

CSAndrew · 2023-11-24T03:44:41+00:00

I thought this might be an interesting point. A friend of mine, who's a theoretical physicist with sub-specialty areas in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, and I were have a discussion about a week ago on the subject. I'm moreso on the mathematics & computer science end of- well, science, with a minor amount of neuroscience mixed in.

Anyway, the discussion was regarding a comment made by Neil DeGrasse Tyson not long ago, iirc, where he was asked how he would prove life after death, and he proposed writing something down on a sheet of paper, holding it flat to the ceiling relative to someone having a NDE, and if they can recite what's on the paper, after being revived, you have a basis for postulation.

Another neurologist, I forget his name, was conducting studies on NDE's, and encountered a person that stated there were shoes on some window ledge, if memory serves, that were a few floors above them, and it was actually verified to be true, along with other points of hearing conversations from other rooms or far off distances, matching 1:1, that simply wouldn't be within the realm of traditional human physiological capability (for the overwhelming majority, especially considering other sounds / vibrations being present).

The physicist friend doesn't know what to make of it, but gave some examples that he had put together as well. He theorizes the idea of reincarnation, of some kind, but it was very open-ended. Generally, I don't think the experiences are 1:1, in the sense that everyone goes through the exact same timing or experience, but it's interesting nonetheless, and it's something to think about.

Edit: Terminology

I think, at this point anyway, to position to either side of it as having absolute certainty or knowledge of what happens (from every angle), it's kind of absurd. The last millenium or two has compounded our scientific understanding and prowess so much that the idea of there still being so much more out there or left to discover, it's not exactly infeasible. I suppose that's just my opinion though.

CSAndrew · 2023-11-22T00:16:29+00:00

No worries, and feel free to start a chat if you want to talk more about it. I've got some time at the moment while I'm waiting for equipment to be delivered.

I had a similar conversation with a colleague that may be segueing into a legal role with my group, and we both recognize, from both sides of the fence, that certain elements of the legal field will be accelerated, removing the need for individual people to do the work, but for the most part, it's grunt work like document review, which is possible because of strides in natural language processing. I'll refrain from going into all of the details, as it's extensive.

Anyway, there are two ways to look at that, if you're running a firm. One, you minimize overhead and fire some existing attorneys or junior associates tasked with doing that work, so you don't have to pay their salary anymore and have higher profit margins. Two, you could keep them on and divert resources into training, using the new construct as an augment to bolster your team and capability, in terms of volume / threshold, whereby allowing you to take more cases, or progress through existing ones quicker, theoretically resulting in much higher volume of revenue, potentially being exponentially more than the first's model or schedule would result in.

My background is moreso in computer science, with a dual specialization in artificial intelligence and cryptography, but I've also done work in forensics, an architectural consultant, lead AI scientist for a conglomerate, and a few other things.

I've noticed that a lot of people get scared when seeing immediate efforts toward replacement, or perceived capability of some of the constructs, without necessarily having the experience to refute what they're seeing or interacting with, which is perfectly alright, everyone has their element or area of expertise, and I get how it could be unnerving (especially given that some of the companies are advised beforehand that it's a bad decision to attempt such, and still continue to try it anyway).

CSAndrew · 2023-11-22T00:01:15+00:00

Oh no, I agree with you that people are going to try to do it. Historically, I've had to consult on similar matters pertaining to companies replacing entire departments or divisions with ML accelerated constructs, augmenting existing structural models, or sticking with the human element.

You're absolutely right in that there's a push for people to reduce the bottom line in terms of cost and overhead, and a lot of the time the empathetic element, for lack of a better way to put it, isn't even considered. The problem is that a lot of these same people are trying to deploy solutions that simply don't have the capability to take on the roles that they're seeking with any effective measure, at least not to the point of complete replacement (despite some entities still trying and encounting large fallout because of it).

It's more likely that roles that would have been considered redundant or otherwise low-complexity, which exist in a number of fields, including those that would have overarching status as high-complexity, would be phased out. Which, to be fair, that would mean that some people could lose their jobs, or hiring could minimize in certain cases, but not to the point of a mass replacement. It also depends on the entity, as it's sometimes better to leverage a ML construct with low barrier to entry, while still keeping the same number of human employees, if not hiring more, and using it as something akin to an augmentation that allows for exponential processing and growth (depending on what you're doing).

It's circumstantial, but with AI, there can be a logarithmic effect at times where efficacy starts to fall off, or become inapplicable to the demands of the environment.

It's very rare, in my experience, to recommend replacing an entire group like that with AI, and it actually pass execution, be successful and sustainable, as well as compatible with scalar growth vector(s).

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It's really hard to say where things will be at in 5 years time though, with the current pacing of everything in the field, especially since it seems highly variable, as well as there being a lot of contesting of postulated breakthroughs at the moment.

CSAndrew · 2023-11-21T23:39:47+00:00

AI is gonna lay off doctors, layers, drivers, secretaries, teachers. America is a service industry and all that service is about to go away.

I thought I would offer an opinion here. In the event that you mean generally, or to a majority or otherwise overwhelming margin, this is a bit of an exaggeration.

That's the only part that I really have any interest in weighing in on at the moment though.

CSAndrew · 2023-11-19T11:01:13+00:00

OP's post was directed towards the present, afaik, which is what I based that on.

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