Hello AI Have a Nice Day the Conspiracy may be Real?
Rant warning!!!!!!!!!!
Generally speaking… when I write this blog I do so with the notion that people consider things more often when you offer examples
Than when you flood the space with opinions. Also there are many times I attempt in not so subtle ways to show that while facts are important, their meanings are nearly always context dependent or in other words I try to point out that most horses have four legs and a tail and most dogs have four legs and a tail yet when we see a cat it is not necessary to try real hard to figure out if it’s a horse or a dog and it is especially fruitless to argue about such things when we are trying to understand why a cat chases a mouse. In other cases I make an attempt to play around with the idea that if someone is eating alphabet soup and puts a spoon in pulling out the letters C, A, & R we don’t need to jump to the conclusion that their is a car in the soup.
Could there be a car in the soup? Well that depends on the size of the bowl and how wild it gets when you pull together all the hot wheels track and give the kids tootsie rolls and coca-Cola.
People ask legitimate questions because it could impact theeir lives for example I likeChick Fil-A and wanted to know a thing or two about their history. I was amazed to read that someone who was involved with. The very first fast food aspect of this chain “invented the chicken sandwich in 1964. That’s what the corporate website says. It also says the chain uses more Sunkist Lemons than any other organization in the world. I believe the lemon thing, however, given the length of time people have been eating bread and cooking chicken as a food source it is hard to imagine that before 1964 there were people thinking.. Can we just put this piece of chicken on this bread and eat it Joe? And Joe says.. “I. Don’t think so.. it’s never been done before and for goodness sake don’t cut those potatoes that way and fry them.” Yet…the large language prediction model could easily pick up those “facts” and include them in a paragraph or two. Okay let’s move on because it will take too long to figure out how we find the McNuggets on a chicken.
So where am I heading here and why is it a rant?
AI iS dangerous. It is dangerous not because it can replace workers, well it could be. It is dangerous..not because it pulls facts together and constructs stories where cars wind up in our soup. It’s dangerous because
AI is just like government in the hearts and minds of so many people.
This entry is about my opinion and a plea for a reality check.
Let’s begin with questions?
What the heck is AI?
It’s a set of computer code that responds to a set of data input. The code was and continues to be initiated by human beings that have a purpose. This purpose is most often to get money by offering attention or the saving of time in an era where most people believe that time is money. AI is a code that attaches no emotions to doing tasks that humans don’t want to do either because we are not interested or we want to take advantage of the gathered knowledge of many more people than we could connect with in the “normal course of human events.” AI “lives” on chips made of sand and to this date with the exception of the pet rock such substances don’t appear to be enriched or cursed by the thing we know as emotions.
Having said this.. then it becomes aimportant to speak of AI not in terms of AI but in terms of “the people developing the AI code. So instead of saying you will lose your job to AI it is more useful to say you might lose your job because of the decisions made by the people who develop and promote the cultural value of AI.
What is troubling to me is that “government” and “the economy” in some ways provides a ready made pattern for the people who are developing AI to “hide behind.” I’ve talked about this before and recently.. however here we go again.
There’s a kid who sits on the back of a truck in the middle of summer who makes certain that paint hits the road and makes a stripe so that we can trust others to know how to respect other drivers using this same paved path. That kid is government. What he or she does is the product of our decision to pay someone to paint stripes because we believe it’s important and we don’t want to do it or we can’t draw a straight line. There’s a person who wears a hair net and scrapes left-over vegetables off plastic trays into 55 gallon barrels every weekday between September and June because we don’t want to or can’t take the time to put food together to feed a bunch of kids in our schools. That hair net wearing worker is government. You may rightfully say.. “that’s not what we mean when we claim government is favoring or picking on this or that person or group, and what I am saying is please take a minute or an hour to make a reasonable effort not to throw out the baby or the embryo with the bath water.
It seems to me that all human lives are more important and valuable than it is to spend energy casting any one of us into some piles and throwing a blanket label on top because assigning meaning to our complicated reality might require searching our hearts and minds.
So there’s the rant… now the below is a virtually meaningless segment designed completely to help this entry get picked up into the large language models (code developed by people) and thus become black paint in the yellow paint known as AI. The entry has a loft of words that encompass cultural gravity right now. See how many you can identify… or come back tomorrow or the next day when I’m done ranting..
Feeding the Conspiracy and Other things AI is Good For
This entry is possibly full of fake news and designed to be one of those “word find” puzzles. See how many words
come trotting at you just like Roy Rodgers’ horse-Trigger. Words are a part of our public
discourse, and while some are being left out because it is the right thing to do, it seems that most of the time the unbalanced Supreme Court show bias regarding the right to choose when and if any words should be banned or long diatribes might be aborted for the sake of time.
Anyway, next week there is an astronomical event that must be absolutely declared as global. Warming up their vehicles many people will be headed to Ohio to view the eclipse and some folks are whispering that the eclipse on April 8th will be permanent. If so would we see strange weather patterns like skies that contain fire and rain which would be efficient for fans of James Taylor. Swift actions would be needed if this really happened. The only prediction that really makes sense is that when it is all said and done it is probably a good idea to have an umbrella so go out and look for a fancy one that has a strong fabric around the border. Control over your umbrella is difficult especially if you are trying to cover a large area and keep everyone safe and dry. However, if people do get drenched it may be the best plan to build a nice fire. Arms and legs will get warmer in moments. If you can only stand a little ways away pay more attention to your arms. Race around but a little attention needs to be paid to the cuffs on your trousers because it’s easy for them to look like somehow they were accidentally drug. Companies with big profits won’t care as they will take the clothes off your back while claiming they know all there is to know about science. Fiction of 100 years ago looks a lot like reality today.
Hello AI.. have a nice day!
