That's the devil's bargain. Just have all the facts, and have them lined up just right, and you're livin' the life of Riley. Utopia!
Interesting to think, if you pull the plug AI is kaput. And, besides, does it all just boil down to having all the right words, arranged is all the right ways? I say ... no.
We once went to a supermarket when the computers were down. Everyone at the check outs were standing there, silent. Like the world stopped. Image that, writ large, when AI gets its plug pulled.
Like everything science and technology have created, AI is just a thing. But, how it's used, that's the thing.
Thank God Kamala Harris is on top of that domain. She'll do us proud, just like when she went way down South to tackle the "root causes". Whatever happened to that noble venture? Crickets. I doubt Veep has enough self awareness to understand the why's and wherefore's of anything, let alone what's off in the human venture. You name the topic.
Like how with yet another mass shooting. Guns are the problem. Never mind that there's a whole lot more going on before any gun used for ill purposes gets into any hand.
Who is it that said we live in a sick society, and the compounded sickness is the system(s) we've jiggered to adapt to it.
AI is the new Tower of Babel. Lots of words. Seductively arranged to seem to be significant and true. Seem.
Yes, I get the appeal. Like AI can compute deeper and faster. To get what? Whatever. Some good ... great! Some ... not so much. Well, we can watch out for that. Kamala!
What is true? Maybe that's the question we should be asking. But, don't be fooled by me or anyone else who's claiming to say what that is. Pols don't have your soul interest in mind. Self interest. You and me ... we're treated like pawns in the game.
Imagine this: IA can be used to collect data. On you and me. Heck, our purchase history, our browsing history can all be collected. Analyzed to a fare thee well. Not only down to what you look at, but the granular particulars on how long we stay on something, the pattern of our browsing style. The AGORITHM then aggregates all that into a picture. Then it can group all those with similar pictures into, well, groups. Predictable groups. Groups that can be manipulated. Oh, it gets better. Ones out to manipulate can learn just the right way to reach any particular bunching of us. Our blind spots particularly are vulnerable to being exploited.
AI. It's here. Get used to it. It's queer. Even better. We would rather it be that way, nowadays. LGTPBQXYZ+ dig aside, that it's queer [in this usage, meaning "artificial"] is the seed of its own demise. No support for all its weight.
Ozymandias would agree.
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