Why This Image? Because We are Human
Why artificial Intelligence is So Very Human
So… Chongo and his Sister Elizabeth (even in 22,000 B.C.E. females had out-evolved their male counterparts jk) are out hunting for some ingredients for elephant soup which of course requires some elephant because fast food restaurants and SPAM had not yet shown the world you could use “meat-like stuff and get away with it. Anyway our distant ancestors were trying to bag an elephant and as one might imagine a couple people tossing a few rocks and a sharp stick just didn’t quite make the grade. However, sitting around the cave later eating some tasty blueberries Chungo and Lizzy pondered “what if we could throw rocks farther and faster?” Fast forward a few years and presto Bambi is running scared when hearing the retort of Uncle Steve’s AR15. After all what is a gun? It is the human expression of wanting to throw a rock faster and farther.
Oh let’s look at Galileo for a second now he learned how to use a telescope and why? Because he had this idea that maybe the physical universe didn’t quite match what those noted scientists in Rome (the Pope and his boys) were putting out. So this telescope was just a device that made his eyes stronger and able to see better right? Well you can read the Galileo story in many places, but the bottom line is he stood up and said I sort of agree with Copernicus on the whole “the Earth is not the center deal”. Well the Pope says “Dude we can have a stake fry and you can be the main course or we can charge you with crimes against the cross and lock you up for the rest of your life… Well since there wasn’t Door Dash, Netflix, Amazon, XBox or even Nintendo 64 Galileo lived out his incredibly unfulfilled life knowing he had only done what humans have always done evolved through using a human invented device.
Oh and who among you has a cell phone? Or who among you uses a computer? Phones were all invented because AG Bell was working on something to help his hearing-impaired mom. Yep he made this thing called a telephone as a disability accommodation so the next time someone suggests that an accommodation might be made… think hell that’s a good idea..how can we help? Anyway this phone idea spread like the need for someone to remind you that you can extend your car warranty and also now you can talk to friends and family across town, the country, and around the world.
We invented keyboards, dictation software and laser printers because there was never going to be enough feather quills to go around and monks like chanting far better than walking around with candles in dreary rooms and eating with inky fingers. Even “fast-fingers Father Phil couldn’t crank out the 23rd Psalm as quickly as most 2nd graders can build cities with Mindcraft.
And that brings us to the “Seeking Peace and Joy” portion of this entry.
You see… we might be freaked out about what AI can do, yet don’t you think we have been freaked out about what we can do with a gun, what we can see with a microscope or telescope, or how many scam calls we still get?
If you want to gain peace with regard to this….understand AI is just what humans do…
If you want to seek some joy even in the AI world invite your neighbors to a picnic sit down and talk with them about their lives, sing a few songs, raise a toast or two…. Set your cell phones and iPads on the picnic table and every 20 minutes or so make sure the phone is off because if you shut it off it won’t be talking with the group, making dinging or other noises and that silly android just won’t have any fun at all. Then the next day while you are out planting a tree set your phone on the porch and try to figure out how it helped the planet that day. You see finding some peace and joy in what your spirit housed in a human body can do in ways that a series of codes housed in a machine cannot. Oh and possibly STOP COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHER PEOPLE AND MACHINES.
I bet you wish this was written by chatGPT lol no chance.
Peace
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