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Just to be clear, the background picture is by 18th century Dutch painter, Aert Schouman, possibly a self portrait. Or so AI tells me. AI also identified it as a meme currently circulating. I won’t get into the fact that the definition of meme has changed from its coinage in the late 20th century by Richard Dawkins to its current usage as crap circulating on the Internet. Language evolves and changes.
May Deep Thought save us all.
There is a lot of food for thought in this video.
It has struck me for sometime now that folks are more than willing to outsource their cognitive work to computers or other people. With the invasion of AI (Artificial Intelligence), things are only going to get worse, much worse.
And no, the irony of my finding this video on YouTube is on not lost on me. After all there is a reason that the YouTube rabbit hole is a well known phenomenon. Nor is the irony of the authors of this video pushing their other videos to keep you engaged. Nor is the irony of my silly little blog screaming into the black hole of cyberspace, although I try very hard to keep my facts straight.
If you saw any of the Alien movies you will remember the Facehugger aliens. I am not sure there is a lot of difference between them and our cell phones.
Although I worked in technology for 30 years, I am beginning to feel more and more that we have opened up Pandora’s box with computers.
And so it should not go.
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
As you probably remember, most of us survived the recent COVID pandemic that occurred at the beginning of another pandemic, the invasive parasitic brain worm known as Trumpism, which in itself was the result of the unnatural mating of incorrigible, rampant, corporate capitalism and dogmatic, religious fundamentalism.
In the last few months a new pandemic has descended on us, this one given the cute name of AI, Artificial Intelligence. It is everywhere I do not want it to be… like out of control canker sores. IMHO, the movie, Terminator, was prophetic. I am spending way too much time trying to eliminate AI from my devices to just see it pop up in a different application. It is reminding me more and more of a “social disease”. It is appearing more and more like the only solution is abstinence from all things computer related.
From the movie, Terminator:
“By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms, everywhere. It was software in cyberspace. There was no system core. It could not be shut down. The attack began at 6:18 p.m., just as he said it would. Judgment Day. The day the human race was nearly destroyed by weapons they’d built to protect themselves.”