Being Easter Sunday, it’s time for me to lay to rest the
idea that manmade machines may develop artificial intelligence. Have you ever watched Fox News? We’re not
even intelligent. By what wild stretch
of the imagination are we to imbue intelligence upon a mechanical device? Without
it ourselves, we wouldn’t recognize it if it happened.
What wits we do display evolved as a survival
tool. Humans need a hub to delegate physical
responses to sensory stimuli. That’s our
brain, our self, our consciousness.
Computers have no mechanism at their disposal such as natural selection
to achieve that. Necessity is the mother of invention and, as
programmed responses to electric input, they have no need.
Google as artificial
intelligence: Based on word
association, Google is used by many people as additional brain space, like
adding memory. That doesn’t make Google
conscious. It makes us less conscious. So perhaps one day we will have achieved parity
with machines by attrition.
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