Just say "No!" to Artificial Intelligence
I am a bit apprehensive about the notion of everything eventually falling into the hands of Artificial Intelligence.
Take the example of those coupon books supermarkets send their customers by mail. Anything you've been purchasing on a regular basis, whether frequently or simply on more than one occasion, the have calculated to a tee.
But, say, you decide to favor another product or another brand? Say there's a certain food product you no longer eat because your system doesn't seem to be able to handle it the way it used to, perhaps due to some of the metabolic changes that accompany aging?
When those coupon books come in they'll continue offering that product you no longer buy. It'll take at least a couple months before the products you're now buying start showing up in these books----alongside the ones you no longer purchase.
That's what I don't like about all these "A.I." trends. It's all based on profiling and pigeonholing. It's bound to miss nuances and idiosyncrasies because it's constantly "summing up" all its subjects.
And they want to put EVERYTHING under control of A.I.? Medical? Legal? Records of home addresses? Records of phone numbers? Analyzing anyone's lifestyle and habits?
What if one makes a major life change? Or they come into some kind of financial fortune (a.k.a.: trust fund or such)? Or a traumatic event initiates a permanent change of certain habits?
Is A.I. going to keep up with all these, or are the person's online credit reports going to continue to show information based on how that person's been living the past 20 years or so, simply reflect its summation of that person's "general lifestyle, character, and habits"---some of which would by now be irrelevant?
I am a bit apprehensive about the notion of everything eventually falling into the hands of Artificial Intelligence.
Take the example of those coupon books supermarkets send their customers by mail. Anything you've been purchasing on a regular basis, whether frequently or simply on more than one occasion, the have calculated to a tee.
But, say, you decide to favor another product or another brand? Say there's a certain food product you no longer eat because your system doesn't seem to be able to handle it the way it used to, perhaps due to some of the metabolic changes that accompany aging?
When those coupon books come in they'll continue offering that product you no longer buy. It'll take at least a couple months before the products you're now buying start showing up in these books----alongside the ones you no longer purchase.
That's what I don't like about all these "A.I." trends. It's all based on profiling and pigeonholing. It's bound to miss nuances and idiosyncrasies because it's constantly "summing up" all its subjects.
And they want to put EVERYTHING under control of A.I.? Medical? Legal? Records of home addresses? Records of phone numbers? Analyzing anyone's lifestyle and habits?
What if one makes a major life change? Or they come into some kind of financial fortune (a.k.a.: trust fund or such)? Or a traumatic event initiates a permanent change of certain habits?
Is A.I. going to keep up with all these, or are the person's online credit reports going to continue to show information based on how that person's been living the past 20 years or so, simply reflect its summation of that person's "general lifestyle, character, and habits"---some of which would by now be irrelevant?
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