𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 ... 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲?

Artificial Intelligence ... 

What's Intelligent About Artificiality?

[Alt. Title: The Devil is Dancing a Jig]

When here we have Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj asserting that all acquired knowledge is ignorance ... "The knowledge 'I am' is the first ignorance and whatever knowledge you acquire with it is ignorance."

[If you are moved to get into that Saint's message, please do. See for yourself. CLICK to Read I AM THAT.

And, what is Artificial Intelligence if it's not acquired. And, here's the kicker ... it's artificial. It's not just phony, it's phony phony. That's Baloney!

So it seems we're going all in on artificial ignorance? The devil is dancing a jig. On our heads.

Even on a mundane, relative knock-on-wood level, shouldn't we be looking into what could possibly go wrong? Human error — read, those young, uber-bright techies who design the algorithms — human error, even with the best intentions, it too often comes up short with some "interesting" unintended consequences. Do I have to prove the fact of the ecological disaster we're making on this planet? 

If we can expect that even under the best circumstances, think about how using such information power could serve evil and criminal purposes. Just look at all the Internet scamming going on now. More of that, and way smarter to boot.

Let's draw it out into a possible [probable?] set of circumstances ...

Okay. So AI has the ability to know everything there is to know about you and me. Add to that the ability to sort all us you's and me's into categories. Which categories? You tell me. How about the category of people who will drive an hour for a Pizza, but won't stand in line for even 5 minutes. Who also, like to mix plaids in their wardrobe, prefer thong underwear, and have pronouns that can't even be spelled in the English alphabet. We're here, believe it. Get used to it!

It would be a craven marketers wet dream. "Have I got just what you've been looking for! ... In 4 easy payments!"

Or, our fearless leaders. Wouldn't they like to know what we're all about. The message could be tailored to ring all our right chimes. Do you even think now that the advertising your seeing on TV is the same as I'm seeing. It's called audience targeting. But, with AI, a whole hell of a lot more precise. 

And, heck, since our betters know all about us, and what makes us tick, what's say we tailor the rhetoric to push just the right buttons to get the hoi polloi to think what we want them to think.

With AI this is possible. I am, however, counting on the good heart of every damn living person to prevail. But, mass slavery has happening in history. Only, now, no need for whips and chains. I'm for a good heart. I'm not for having it tested by Big Brother.

That devil is dancing ... "PRAY"

PS There was a time when pay telephones were dotted everywhere in New York City. And, on every last one of them ... "PRAY", "WORSHIP", "REPENT" thinly scratched on the shiny bright metal plate. 

Seemed like an overzealous crazy person to me at the time. Now, way not so much crazy. Now, good advice. Real good.