Artificial Intelligence doesn’t yet draw inferences. After
all, what can a googazillion of tiny specks of short term energy infer with?
Isolated submicroscopic little thingies do on their own?
The answer? Plenty, when you realize there are so many more
of those particles than there are people and things to host them. Strength in
numbers. There are billions and billions of them. Strength in numbers. Especially
when they work together, and the remaining humans already have caved to their
authority.
You put a bunch electro-brainiac particles together in the
right computer, you ask a question and then get an answer that “everyone”
“knows” is the only possible correct answer, even if it makes no sense to the
human proletariat, even the smart ones. The particles don’t have the power to
learn. But properly grouped, chunks of them do. And chunks -- maybe --
can read each other’s notes.
Does this sound too much like the basic theme of Planet of
the Apes? You may recall how that turned out for the human proletariat.
Do you think it took human beings to make machines that beat
human grandmasters of chess? It started with humans. But eventually, the
machines taught themselves the rest.
The next step is machinery that reads The Racing Form and
wins so often they’re banned at Belmont and Aqueduct. Crunch 50 years of data
at the tracks. Combine that with weather reports, breeding records, jockey records,
all in split seconds, and the machine will bankrupt the betting windows.
That would be just for fun. These things will someday be
able to fight their own wars. Just think of what will happen to Best Buy. Instead
of selling phones and computers and home theaters, they’ll be selling people
2-point-0. The artificial intelligence with a heart will keep Kroger open so
you don’t starve. And the kennels where they board your great grandchildren
when they go on vacation -- which they will do without ever leaving the desk
you left them in your will.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome
to them. ®
Any Questions? wesrichards@gmail.com
© WR 2021
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