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ARTIFICIAL IDOICY
Like crypto, the name of the game is money, and the name has little to do with the reality of both these phony substitutes for the real thing. Crypto is money alright, as long as you want to trust some Ketamine-taking techno wizard or lizard to hold your money and dole it back out to you when he or she feels like it…If it’s still there.
Artificial Intelligence has one valid word in its title, and that’s ‘artificial.’ The intelligence part is made up of truly intelligent humans. Machines cannot think, feel emotions, care or invent a damned thing. This ‘new’ form of trying to create the computer aboard the spaceship in the movie, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, is as big a real failure as that A.I. of its time was in the fictional world, but for different reasons. We are all experiencing the downside of accepting that machines are being created that have intelligence as we humans know it.
It’s not true. We are experiencing the amalgamation of data swept from all electronic sources and then processed to appear as if the collected knowledge somehow can mimic or even be what we know of intelligence. Much of that data belongs to or did belong to other humans, but that’s another issue. There’s a problem with getting channel 25 to function in Lake Geneva. It’s a problem of electronics, and no machine intelligence is making it possible for that video system of city meetings to have sound.
Where is the A.I. to solve that problem? Where is the A.I. system inserted into computers to monitor and then report to human owners about the problems the computer may be having, to be able to correct or fix the problems? It does not exist. The authors’ G55 Mercedes cannot be started. One day, it just quit. One year later, it still has not started. Two dealerships rejected it as being too old to work on. One dealership hooked up the electronics to a special new German A.I. system. It was plugged in and engaged. The machine ran for a few minutes and then spewed out its conclusion. The conclusion was to scrap the vehicle and purchase a new one that would start.
Shocking? Almost in the realm of machine humor, not that the machine had the capacity to laugh. These problems are cropping up all over as the public becomes ever more convinced that the intelligence being built into machines is making them better able to help and deal with humanity in using them and in life itself.
Ten years ago, an anthropological institute began to study female beauty. Computerization had reached the point where a million female faces could be entered onto a hard drive. The machine spends two days morphing all the photos into one generalized face. Many faces, including that one, were presented to judges of all sexes, races, etc. The morphed photo won every contest hands down. It wasn’t even close. Female facial beauty is the most general, symmetrical, and even appearance. That’s probably because of genetic selection for healthy offspring production.
The upshot of the study was, however, what is being written about right here. The machine generating the morphed photo was deemed to be able to predict and display female beauty, along with evaluating and judging. That experiment and the mistake it amplified by giving the machine an ability it certainly did not have, is the mistake of today. Machines are, by their nature, stupid, because they don’t have any nature in them. The biology alone of humanity is not clinically reproducible when it comes to mental connection and processing with the observable and experiential universe around us.
As we continue to give overpowers to machines that don’t deserve to have such powers, we will continue to sit inside cars that won’t start and view meetings that have no sound.
