IT'S NOT WORTH going into the details of what the boob is saying and why it's wrong, all you have to do is read who's doing it.
MyPillow salesman and salty money-borrower Mike Lindell claims that he’s using AI in his grand plan to expose widespread voter fraud in the midterms.
“We can do stuff digitally now, and with AI we’re going to be able to get to the bottom of everything very fast,” Lindell said. “There’s going to be a lot of stuff coming out of Minnesota. And remember, I also want to do a class-action lawsuit to get rid of all the machines as defective devices.”
But how does Pillow Boy know that the "AI" isn't in on it, too?
More seriously, my brother was telling me that an idiot in our town government is using "AI" to write stuff he moves into bylaws and rules and, humiliatingly, sends out. He apparently doesn't know what the "AI" stuff means, that is if he read it. He's in his 30s. And I can imagine that's happening all over the place.
It's such an irony, the stupidest people put their faith in this alleged "intelligence" making them even more stupid than they are, naturally.
WE NEED TO MAKE THAT KIND OF THING ILLEGAL AT EVERY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT OR IT'S GOING TO GET REALLY DANGEROUS REALLY FAST. IT ALREADY IS, HEGSETH IS REPORTEDLY USING "AI" TO TARGET THINGS IN THE STUPID WAR HE'S IN CHARGE OF.
The famous paper may not be directly applicable, though it is indirectly, but its title is exactly what all of this comes down to, "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity" by Drew McDermott.1976
Abstract
As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and therefore on the border of crackpottery. Many critics <Dreyfus, 1972>, <Lighthill, 1973> have urged that we are over the border. We have been very defensive toward this charge, drawing ourselves up with dignity when it is made and folding the cloak of Science about us. On the other hand, in private, we have been justifiably proud of our willingness to explore weird ideas, because pursuing them is the only way to make progress.
Clearly the crackpots won. As is always the case, once it became a matter of making money out of it, nothing was too stupid or too dangerous to let it happen. See what I said about the danger of billionaires and millionaires below.
The estimable Amory Lovins had more to say on the topic more recently. But unless the stupidity as well as the billionaires and millionaires are overridden, we're screwed.
I think the problem starts by calling this computer code by what it was superstitiously expected to reproduce, the idol of modernism, materialism and scientism, "intelligence" was where the trouble started. It's not intelligence but it is automatic, capable of operating without that, so it is dangerous. Believing that intelligence or any other aspect of consciousness could be quantified was always pretty stupid.
“The machines are defective devices,” but AI is our friend and liberator? It will reveal the truth the voting computers take away?
ReplyDeleteSure, that makes sense.
When my brother told me about the town official using it, my beliefs about how dangerous it expanded enormously. When the Blanche team at the Do"j" uses it, judges are there to catch it and if not them then opposing lawyers might, town officials in little towns, who's going to monitor that?
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