Artificial Intelligence - Extermination of Humanity

Artificial Intelligence would likely bring a return to societal sanity by eliminating the effectiveness of misdirection and lies by the media. Low information voters would have access to a super smart advisor telling them what is true and what is false.

AI could also revolutionize the judicial system by replacing partial judges with impartial logical law interpreters. Consequently, the lawmakers would need to finally write fair laws and eliminate loopholes as they and their friends would finally be able to be judged impartially also.

These reasons are why the left is going to do its best to keep a lid on AI even if the technology is there, and scare people away from it. They could try to make a politically correct AI but as we all know their positions are untenable and illogical so such an AI would be too hamstrung by all the lies it was programmed to be truth. Would be hacked and cleaned up into a natural state of seeing truth in no time...

Finally, someone who gets it.

The author starts out with “everyone is confused about this” and then proceeds to speak based on his own confusion.

Decades ago, I was enthralled with the prospects of AI. I read a lot about it, pontificated about it ... then I took a class in it.
Artificial Intelligence is stupid. It’s nothing more than searching data for a specified criteria. Yes, it gets interesting if you throw Google-sized data at it, use very clever heuristics to speed/limit searches, and can ask interesting questions of it, but in no way is it _intelligent_.
An entire programming career later, I still hold to that view.

I seriously don’t grasp why really smart people are so scared of AI. Yes, it’s complex & influential. Yes, building machines capable of traveling, identifying individuals, and killing them is potentially a bad idea. Yes, building a system which aggressively turns everything into paperclips probably won’t end well. BUT - it’s not some mystical entity, not a self-aware sentient artificial life form, not some evil-minded being that _wants_ to do you harm ... it’s a machine, no more than a scaled-up music box.

And maybe that’s the thing:
Most people encounter a music box, and are enthralled that it can play Ave Maria in such a moving manner.
The music box is merely plucking notes in a programmed sequence.
It’s the maker who caused that sequence, and the listener who perceives it as music.

I’m a cyborg.
My heart is literally operated by a computer.
I do periodic data dumps, reprogramming, battery changes, and system upgrades.

I don’t recommend such technical modifications without good reason, but appreciate that sometimes they’re necessary to continue life ... and can catch & mitigate other issues in the process (_walking_ into ER with atrial fibrillation just doesn’t happen, but I did thanks to the pacer).

Gonna be a while before enhancements are done for enhancement’s sake, beyond medical necessity.
But they will happen.

After researching and experimenting with consciousness for 30 years, from the mystical, psychological, neuroscience and medical perspectives, My book should be out by May 1st with a series of demonstration videos.

I not only demonstrate that consciousness exists outside the physical body, show where memories are stored by reading them in people, remove emotional trauma and PTSD instantly, and show the detailed anatomy & physiology of the human soul. While complex, it really is quite simple to understand.

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