Monday, September 4, 2017

Words Poorly Used #102 -- AI

Putin and Musk are holding forth on the future of AI.  They, and most the rest of us, act like AI is a stage play that is evolving toward a tightly plotted ending.  Observations:
  • AI is in the Stone Age.  We've been wrestling with the mouse for over 3 decades.  That is glacial change.
  • There is little NI (Natural Intelligence) among our popular leadership.  AI will be politicized, so that PI will stay in the hands of incompetents.
  • We will try to weaponize AI, thereby stalling it as we did with atomic research.  The same is happening on several scientific fronts -- genetic, environmental, and mememetic (educational) spring to mind.
  • "Strategery" and dumbing down has doomed our civilization.

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