Friday, February 1, 2019

   More Prognosticative Misgivings About Artificial Intelligence (so-called "intelligence")
My biggest fear concerning Artificial Intelligence (or "A.I.") is "Who's going to be responsible for programming all these units?".

Surely not our illustrious federal government!
Not the one whose Social Security Administration sends us annual charts through the mail projecting our "future income", all based on however much we've been earning the past 5 years.  Or whose agencies are still sending mail to our previous address or are still trying to call us at our old phone number after we've already sent them forms and letters informing them of our change-of-address and new phone number.

Surely not any of the businesses who still send us coupons through the mail for products we used to buy on a regular basis that we no longer purchase or bother with.

Do we need to be completely controlled by mindless automatons that think the same way as a typical bureaucrat, where there's "only one right way to do" whatever project or task is being undertaken, or "there's only one solution to" whatever the given problem, or in the case of a conflict between persons there's "always one individual or group who's at fault and guilty of causing all the problems and everyone else is an innocent victim of their ways"?

That's the typical mindset of industries, academia, lawmakers, the police and the courts.
That inaptitude for noticing and recognizing the dynamics of nuances and variations  of (and in) character and temperament.
Whatever you've done in the past, or however most others judge you, that's what you're stuck with the rest of your life

...and if you wish to live under a system like this, controlled by inflexible mechanical minds pre-programmed by inflexible authorities representing an inflexible social system, then I guess you'll be okay with an A.I.-controlled environment

The rest of us?  We'll still continue "kicking and screaming" and suffering in silence.

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