Artificially Intelligent

 

There is lots of talk today about ‘Aye Eye’ and it seems to have everyone worried. From what I’ve read, this artificial intelligence is a computer asked to perform a duty request and it searches, not only what the application can find, but the entire Intranet to get as much information possible and assemble it coherent form to accomplish the request in the briefest of time. Sounds like what we invented computers for?

In the beginning, we made a machine that could type a letter or resume or menu and print it to be passed on as a memo or mailed. We created a machine that could calculate numbers and follow formulars to replace the slide rule and calculator. This new machine could even do basic graphics of lines and boxes as long as there was enough RAM on the floppy disc.

Then the best thing since the telephone, we linked all our digital machines to form an Intranet. Files could be sent anywhere in the world, photos could be shared for all to comment on, books could be downloaded, meals ordered for delivery and even finding a date for the prom. Except for the sites that had paywalls that needed a subscription for a password, it was all FREE.

We created browsers that would list the answers to a request in an instant, but then we had to scroll through and view each to see it these answered our curiosity.

Now this AI is supposed to read our mind and only tell us what we need to know. What we NEED to know according to the computer’s intelligence.

When you attend a speech, the presentation an opinion or a thought is made by an expert in the field on the subject. They have titles and diplomas to prove their intelligence. You expect the same from your office visit to the doctor and look at all the diplomas on the wall as proof they are allowed to prescribe pills or cut you open.

To drive a car, you have to get a license. To buy a gun, you have to get a license. If you want to go fishing, you better have a license. To get married, you have to have a license, but when you die you get a certificate.

I attended the public educational system and only had to repeat one year to get a piece of paper that declared I’d accomplished the requirements to graduate. I went on to higher learning (to avoid the draft) and gathered enough numbers in four years to get another piece of paper that stated I was smart. Somehow they knew I wasn’t married so I got a Bachelor’s Degree.

Intelligence can be defined as the ability to solve complex problems or make decisions with outcomes benefiting the actor, and has evolved in lifeforms to adapt to diverse environments for their survival and reproduction.

Artificial means something is not natural or real, or is made to seem like something natural. It is bogus, counterfeit, ersatz, fabricated, factitious, faked, false, hyped-up, manufactured, mock, phony, plastic, sham, simulated, specious, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unnatural.

In these days of lies and misnomers, how much paperwork do you need to show to prove you are ‘smart’?

I’ve known well-read people who can repeat authors phrase and lyrics but cannot tie their shoes. Others who have no declarations on the wall but can figure out how to start an engine or paint a landscape without instructions.

There are classes to graduate lawyers and doctors and even mechanics, but there are no presidential colleges. Should there be?

Should the people who ask us to vote for them to make them the CEO of the country have to attend a college that teaches them the ins-and-outs of running a country? Let’s see if those who are accepted can pass classes in economics, military strategy, civics, social science, world history, public speaking and probably take a health screening before graduation. Then, maybe, these people will be qualified to become president?