Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "‘Artificial Intelligence is a misnomer’ - Sir Roger Penrose" video.

  1. The two words "artificial" and "intelligence" are at odds with each other, because if something just happened to be intelligent, it couldn't “be” artificial. The problem is, if humans with devious intentions program harmful information into the computers, and then refuse to shut the electricity that feeds the computers off, of course harm will be the result. To say that computers cause harm, is comparable to saying that books labeled as being holy information from gods cause harm. It's humans that “use” the computers and the books for selfish reasons that causes the harm. Nuclear weapons are not artificially intelligent, but if electrically is engaged by aggressive human nature, those weapons will get the job done that the humans demand of them. Whether it's a stick or a stone, or a spear, or an arrow, or a gun or a computer, or words in books, those inanimate objects are not responsible for what we as humans coerce them to do. I suggest we should stop giving power to the term artificial intelligence and go to the source of what always was the problem, which is, suspicious and devious human nature. We understand that we can't trust others to not cause harm to us, because we are fully aware from the study of history, that others can't trust us to not cause harm to them. And because as individuals, we all suffer from the weakness of tunnel vision, we are so very artificial, we find it impossible to “be” intelligent.
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