Comments by "Ginny Jolly" (@ginnyjollykidd) on "Apocalyptic A.I. - A New Religion?" video.

  1. We already trust a lot of hardware technology, even down to needles that draw blood and monitors of vital signs. Automatic defibrillators are trusted to tell what kind of EKG a heart attack victim has in order to advise whether they have a shockable rhythm or not. Anything that we use to get information on biologic entities is a trusted form of AI. Micro tools used in microsurgery give views of blood vessels and tissues too small to see. We use a lot of technology already that is voice-controlled or smart seeking, like the little square corners in your camera in portrait seeking out recognizable faces. Sometimes it will tell you when somebody has their eyes closed. (Tho in my case, my eyes are actually open but squinting.) I went to a direct buying site for glasses, and I virtually tried a pair on. Instead of viewing them on a snapshot picture, the site was like your camera taking in moving scenery. Wherever I turned,the virtual glasses followed my face at the proper angle. This is a form of AI as well. Isn't one of the largest, most prolific AI the Internet? It makes decisions all the time. In Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, "“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master – – that's all.”
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  2. If technology is a product of a limited source code, say, of a price scanner in a grocery store, then everything should work consistently and perfectly. Yet it doesn't. You could argue it's not maintained right, but even if it is maintained right, and even if the customer scans everything right, there are times when the scanner doesn't work. And the upper shelf for grocery holding doesn't work. And the carousel, which is built to recognize the weight of the groceries, doesn't recognize small packages like Kool-aid. Or even heavier groceries. These events happen randomly in a way that users cannot predict, something the users don't associate with AI. and no matter how much an AI is created to be like a human being, it, in the end, is a difference machine. We humans have the ability to go beyond the logic of a collection of integrated circuits and logic imposed by software—the commands given to it to make those circuits work. Truly, we each are more complex—more a black box than AI is.
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