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In the 1984 thriller, the Terminator, directed by James Cameron, a soldier from the future teleport's into the past in an attempt to save the future, he explains the the motivation for his presents to the film's protagonist.
“new... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all.” Skynet quickly became self-aware and gave itself a different purpose. While it was programmed to see America’s enemies as the enemy, it eventually saw all of humanity as the enemy".....“They say it got smart... a new order of intelligence.”
Artificial Intelligence has been the buzz in techno news cycle for sometime now. Many journalist have jumped on the Skynet/terminator bandwagon of an all powerful system of computers that could possibly act on it's own initiative and destroy the world. But is this really true?
Artificial Intelligence is not new. I has been around for some time now. The anti-braking system in a car, the automatic illumination of a light when someone walks into a room, an the auto-pilot in an airplane are examples of artificial intelligence. In it's simplest form artificial intelligence is a series of conditional statements. Conditional statements are of the form, if this happens, then do that, and if that happens, then do something else, and if something else happens, then return whatever. Computer Programmers code various devices to interpret inputs, from the human user of the device, then return a result based on the input. Every decision on a microchip is binary. The current is on, or the current is off. Many of us use mental small scale conditionals in our daily lives, but computers or microchips can do the task much faster and handle more inputs.With the advent of semi-conductors, the programming of artificial intelligence (AI) into various components has made our lives easier.
On a large scale, artificial intelligence encompasses extremely sophisticated algorithms. The computational steps are layered. The computer is programmed with a set of rules with the ability to make small tweaks with the programmed instruct set. In addition, the computer program is introduced to large scale data bases, so it will have items and patterns with which to formulate desired outputs or solutions. Artificial intelligence is only as good as the programming of the instruction set. Artificial intelligence has bias based on the creative bent of the programmers. For example, the programmer may not properly configure the instruction set to recognize people of color, correctly. Thus, it will always have a flaw. The computer doesn't dream. It processes information based on an instruction set. In addition, Artificial intelligence is binary. That is, it uses male and female voices in the more popular ChatGPT ,Google Bard, Siri and Alexa. Although ChatGPT does offer three options for the non-human synthetic voices. Also, the current AI machines have issues with homonyms distinction. It doesn't calculate the context of word usage. Lastly, there has been a lot of hoop-la about Artificial intelligence's ability to write it's own computer code. However, do to errors StackOverFlow.com , which is a go-to website for computer programming information, has issued a warning for it's constituents to not post code solutions which originated thorough Artificial intelligence engines. We have to ask ourselves. are we being spoofed about AI and it's alleged superhuman computing power?
Are Artificial Intelligence programs plagiarizing other peoples work? Recently John Grisham and 17 other very renown authors are suing OpenAI , who is the firm that produces ChatGPT, for “systematic theft on a mass scale". Shocking! Understand, mega amounts of data must be uploaded into language learning model (LLM) programs. These Language Learning models crawl the internet continuously reading and logging various pieces of written work. These large programs, designed by humans, analyze word usage and patterns in the various books that are uploaded in the data mine, the "LLM". Thus a particular writing style or word connection sequence is logged into the Artificial Intelligence memory. That is , the soul of the authors style. These "AI" programs are now writing books in a style similar to the authors, and putting the authors name on the book with out the authors permission. Some authors have reported that books being sold and written by "AI" have pages verbatim to the books they have written. Is the idea of Artificial Intelligence similar to the movie "wizard of the Oz". are we being gas-lighted to believe that Artificial Intelligence is the new God with all knowing mind power that humanity should surrender too? when in reality someone is behind the curtain (the programmer) pulling the levers and dials.