I believe NVF readers already understand that there is no such "thing" as "Artificial Intelligence". AI is simply a marketing fad term to describe a decades-long technological process. AI does not refer to an actual "entity". Having worked with electronic computers since they were first invented (I am that old!), I am amused by the current use of the terms AI and Artificial Intelligence. Take any recent article about AI and replace "artificial Intelligence" with "computer" and the article remains essentially the same.
At the end of the last century (I love using that term rather than "1998", for example.) we called it "expert systems". Nothing is really new about AI. Are we mistaking the output of large server farms, huge database systems, small computer chip sizes, sophisticated software, and high speed electronic machines as thought?
I like to consider my first introduction to modern artificial intelligence as the Encyclopedia Britannica - a massive searchable database containing much of the world's knowledge and available for "download" to your own home using a "post office link" for private use! Amazingly, I was then able to "upload" it directly into my brain using simple "text recognition" software through my "optical interface". The hours I spent googling through those books in grammar school were a world class adventure.
For some context on this AI feeding frenzy, please refer to my latest special report "Artificial Intelligence vs Natural Stupidity - Who's Winning?" in the Lake Berryessa News at: https://www.lakeberryessanews.com/
I recently read a chilling description of what may happen if unlimited human greed proceeds down an AI path. I found it in a book by one of my favorite authors, Gregg Hurwitz, in his Orphan X series titled Lone Wolf. I included it in my report. It's a bit long, but it develops a stream of consciousness cadence as you read it. I think you'll recognize the trends.
An Interview with an Evil Genius
Everything that can be electrified can be monetized, but you can't monetize a corpse (or can you?).
And remember, all productivity gains and efficiency increases will go, as they do now, not to the people doing the work, but to the corporations that squeeze and layoff the people doing the work.
I believe NVF readers already understand that there is no such "thing" as "Artificial Intelligence". AI is simply a marketing fad term to describe a decades-long technological process. AI does not refer to an actual "entity". Having worked with electronic computers since they were first invented (I am that old!), I am amused by the current use of the terms AI and Artificial Intelligence. Take any recent article about AI and replace "artificial Intelligence" with "computer" and the article remains essentially the same.
At the end of the last century (I love using that term rather than "1998", for example.) we called it "expert systems". Nothing is really new about AI. Are we mistaking the output of large server farms, huge database systems, small computer chip sizes, sophisticated software, and high speed electronic machines as thought?
I like to consider my first introduction to modern artificial intelligence as the Encyclopedia Britannica - a massive searchable database containing much of the world's knowledge and available for "download" to your own home using a "post office link" for private use! Amazingly, I was then able to "upload" it directly into my brain using simple "text recognition" software through my "optical interface". The hours I spent googling through those books in grammar school were a world class adventure.
For some context on this AI feeding frenzy, please refer to my latest special report "Artificial Intelligence vs Natural Stupidity - Who's Winning?" in the Lake Berryessa News at: https://www.lakeberryessanews.com/
I recently read a chilling description of what may happen if unlimited human greed proceeds down an AI path. I found it in a book by one of my favorite authors, Gregg Hurwitz, in his Orphan X series titled Lone Wolf. I included it in my report. It's a bit long, but it develops a stream of consciousness cadence as you read it. I think you'll recognize the trends.
An Interview with an Evil Genius
Everything that can be electrified can be monetized, but you can't monetize a corpse (or can you?).
And remember, all productivity gains and efficiency increases will go, as they do now, not to the people doing the work, but to the corporations that squeeze and layoff the people doing the work.
Informative and entertaining - as always. Thank you for sharing.