Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Posted on 02/07/2018 9:20:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We see a lot of people touting artificial intelligence (AI) as the wave of the future.
On Monday there was a great example of the wonders of AI. Machines are programmed to sell stocks at certain levels, and they do what they are told. Then the cascading effect goes throughout the world. So what if a human forgets to program the machines to stop selling? What could go wrong?
When I think of AI, I think of self-driving cars, which are only as good as the humans programming their cameras and computers. Let’s say an autonomous car was going down the road and came to black ice that it didn’t recognize and yelled at the person in the back seat (who was drinking a beer, reading a book and had never learned to drive) and the car took over. What could go wrong? I also think of how cars with AI could not have handled the changing conditions of Hurricane Harvey.
There are a lot of examples of AI cascading through society today with negative consequences. It has to be AI, because if humans were actually using the brains God gave them, this stuff wouldn’t happen. AI is that sort of automatic programming that replaces thinking in the name of greater productivity.
Programming can take many forms, not just AI, but the thought-free parrotings of the press and on the left:
Some examples:
No matter how many times the global warming fear mongers have been shown to cook the books and how many predictions of theirs have been completely wrong, programming in the form of journalists and others. repeat over and over again “Climate change/global warming is caused by humans. People who disagree should not be listened to because they are stupid.”
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This wasn’t AI. It was automation. AI could have been better or worse.
“AI could have been better or worse.”
The problem isAI self referencing against other AI. You get a loop that eventually blows up.
That's why SpaceX lost their main booster....it fired too long...and couldn't restart 2 of the engines to land on the barge.
For the stock market....millions of humans around the world making decisions based on fear and greed and everything in between...no AI can replicate that complexity.
It’s artificial, but it’s not intelligence. It’s a computer program. Programs do exactly what the instructions say to do, even if that’s not what the person intended, and then they call the disaster a “glitch.”
Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.
The machine sells off an investor's portfolio at fire sale prices.
That machine will be jobless by the end of the trading day.
I absolutely love your tagline!
Programmed trading is merely a computer simulation of crowd madness.
AI is just a tool.
There are different definitions of it. An AI routine that is fine for one thing might be completely useless for another. Arguably we keep changing the definition.
Yes. Software is only as good as the developers who write it. The Dow is still up, BTW, and well over 25,000.
Artificial Intelligence is mostly Real Stupidity.
Humans would make a big mistake by letting it loose.
People like to imagine that a software package called artificial intelligence learns in the way that humans learn. Not true, and errors in outcomes are highly likely.
Two words - index funds.
I think this point of view stems from a completely materialistic, evolutionary concept of biology in which the human mind and consciousness are simply artifacts of the brain, which they view as nothing more than a biological computer. If intelligence and consciousness merely stem from a very sophisticated biological computer, then no wonder they believe that a sufficiently advanced electronic computer could achieve the same or superior results.
Of course, what they fail to understand is that the human mind is really the combination of spirit and biology, and thus beyond the comprehension of mechanistic “scientists.” Machines can, of course, become much faster than humans at performing calculations (as they already have), but I predict continued failure and disappointment in the pursuit of creating a truly intelligent machine.
AI should not be used as “artificial intelligence, it should be considered automatic ignorance. It is a way for the wealthy to separate themselves from having to involve themselves with pesky masses. It is simply a digital wall so they can deny any responsibility for other people. Only people who hate people use automatic check out stations. Expand this thought.
All of these “artificial intelligence” programs are nothing but a bunch of statistics. They are trained up from past data and make all of their predictions from that.
So, if some new way of interacting comes along, then the models have to be retrained.
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