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To: z3n
If you programmed the histories of civilizations into a computer and then asked the computer to rank which civilizations were more successful, more prosperous, more advanced, the list would be objectively obvious to most people.

Of course, you could change the ranking by subjectively including which nations succeeded by 'exploiting' other countries, people and resources, 'waging unjust wars', slavery, discrimination, etc. Then you would get different results.

He who controls the algorithms controls the output.

16 posted on 04/11/2019 10:06:46 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

I agree completely. How do you ‘objectively’ define success? Its impossible to unmarry language from the human (subjective) concepts that they represent. In it’s purest sense, for AI to be objective, it would have to have never been created or the least bit influenced by human intelligence at all. But you wouldn’t want to encounter such an AI, I suspect.

Let’s also just note here my opinion, again, for the record, that what most people call Artificial Intelligence is really just adaptive programming. It’s not true AI that can not only adapt it’s limited processes, but can alter it’s own programming, scope, and even ‘grow’ or develop totally new functions

By the way, were the different examples of historical success that you mentioned the Roman Empire versus 20th century United States?


18 posted on 04/11/2019 10:18:43 AM PDT by z3n
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