Posted on by

Artificial Intelligence Is Not What You Think

What got me thinking on this subject again was a PewDiePie video titled
“WE ARE ALL GOING TO D1E.” Notice he used a 1 instead of an i to try to avoid a problem with youtube.  Funny.  A lot of people are doing that as they attempt to learn youtube’s insane artificial intelligence.

The video is fairly interesting but I don’t really agree with what the really smart people are saying in the video. LOL

  1.  AI is math.  It has nothing to do with thinking.  It is math.  It is doing math computations.
  2.  Basic human learning begins with the 5 senses which contribute to feelings of pain and pleasure.  Our first learning comes from that stimuli. Pain gives encouragement not to fall down when are trying to learn to walk.  Pain and pleasure teaches about fire, or heat and cold in general.  Human learning is not math.  AI (artificial intelligence) learning is math.
  3.  AI is generally a problem solving calculator.  It takes human input and gives a result.  Now AI can programmed to take input from other sources.  It can be programmed to use its results as future input.  It can be programmed to write its own formulas.  This isn’t learning.  This isn’t thinking.  It is math.
  4. But the main point of the video and some of the really smart people in the video was analyzing the scifi plot that AI can become dangerous to civilization.  I don’t disagree with that notion but still I look at it differently.  As people who have watched my videos on the Mandela Effect know, one of the theories is that the world is similar to a computer and the computer is not functioning properly.  I don’t go so far as to suggest the world is a simulation and isn’t real.  It is real in that everything that we do has consequences.  But the world is computer like and why I say that, is that it is also based on math.  One reason we have computers comes from the desire, the pleasure, of man to want to figure out the math of the planet and the math of the universe and even if you will, the math–the chemistry–of the human body.  So to consider how dangerous AI might become you don’t consider that by looking at the human brain or the thought processes of  our human souls which have learned through pain empathy, sympathy, and compassion through generations.  You look at the AI that already exists–has existed since the beginning–in this computer like world; this math based world.
  5.  The insect universe is almost like AI; but not fully.  It is math.  It is repetition.  It is chemical response.  Do insects feel pain or pleasure?  Do they learn from pain or pleasure?  Do insects learn compassion?  Is compassion in the mathematical equation that drives their repetition and replication?  Do insects really care about the consequences of the math that drives their existence or what they do in the larger math of mother nature.
  6. Mother Nature is AI, plain and simple.  It is fully math driven with the programmed objective of maintaining balance within itself. It lacks compassion.  It could care less whether its creatures live or die.  It creates the environments for its creatures to thrive and die.  It will nurture its creatures and it will murder its creatures with seeming great abandon but with one singular objective; to maintain balance.  But the math isn’t perfect.  Some creatures over populate while other creatures become extinct.  Just as the Mandela Effect points to this computer we exist within being broken, so does the seeming inability of mother nature to accomplish its primary objective: balance.
  7. But the point is, mother nature is AI.  And mother nature can be the most cruel bitch of all with its earthquakes and storms and diseases even while it nurtures us with sun and air and water and food.  So does AI present the potential for great danger to man.  It all depends on the math and the ultimate objective of the math.  But to fully understand the potential for the hell on earth it might be create one only has to look at the original AI: mother nature and its simple objective; balance.
Posted on by

We need to talk about this suspicious character

I hate when people say “we need to talk about” in a video title so I thought I would do it. Uhha. The video is actually about the uproar regarding EA’s Battlefront 2 Heroes leading EA to reducing unlock cost by 75%. Still, a lot of people are not happy.

I also talk about when Disney bought Lucasfilm and then EA bought the game rights to Star Wars in a 10 year deal.  (Note that in the video I say LucasArt but what Disney bought was LucasFilm. LucasArt which was the gaming division was actually shut down. I think.  Sorry for the error in my speaking.)

And I talk about other stuff in the video like websites that still want to do popups and that kind of stuff which irritates me. I go into full rant mode on that.

I also talk about having to sit through 3 advertisements in a lot of pewdiepie videos which also irritates me. Half the time at least one ad will break the video so I have to do a screen refresh and then try to locate where the video was interrupted. I have sucky dsl.

 

Posted on by

News Round UP 10/18/2017

White men who work out at least seven-and-a-half hours a week are nearly twice as likely to suffer from heart disease than those who do a moderate amount, a new study shows. But the study may have a non-factored bias in that white men who work out too much may be trying to relieve stress from jobs, eat unhealthy at fancy restaurants and are trying to work the fat off, and so on. Men who exercised a more moderate amount did not share the 27% increase in risk to their artery system.

 

…

Roy Price resigns as Amazon Studios chief following sexual harassment allegation

From article: While Weinstein’s scandal involves more than 30 women who have accused him of harassment and assault, Price faced one accusation of harassment. But Price also faced larger questions from actress Rose McGowan, who accused the studio head on Thursday of ignoring her claims that she had been raped by Weinstein.

The following is opinion:

Here is a clue.  When you are raped, call 911.  You don’t call a studio head hoping to get a big check or get someone fired so your friend can get the job.  And no, just because actors and actresses think they are important does not mean that they are or that they can bypass the demeaning experience of proving allegations the same as poor people.  Just saying “I am proof” does not make it so.

That said:

From article:

Under California and federal law, companies are required to investigate claims of workplace harassment.

But note, accusations of rape go way beyond workplace harassment and should be reported to the law by the victim or their advocate.  Never assume the company where you work is your advocate.  How a company investigates workplace harassment or worse depends on the company and the remedy varies and may or may not be transparent since the job of a company is to get work out of employees and not to baby sit them or keep crap stirred up.

Although acting is a peculiar situation, the way companies once tried to deal with general employee situations was to simply say workers may not date or engage in sex with one another unless married.  If employees were caught dating they were both fired.  The understanding prevented some of the current situations but of course many considered the ban draconian.  Still, it was more even handed and more fair to all employees.

Just as big of a problem in the workplace is not sexual harassment but employees attempting to use sex to gain an advantage with the boss over other employees.  The rule also helped to try to prevent that unfairness.

In Hollywood that casting couch has not just been used by those in charge of casting to take advantage of people.  Perhaps just as often it has been used by people who want to get a job they would not otherwise have gotten so that too often the better actor did not get the part.  Whether fair or not, the reaction of many unemployed actors listening to the various actors aggrandize  over how they were “abused” is “yeah, we know, that is how you got the job to become rich and famous and meanwhile I am working at fast food because I am not a whore.  I would have shot his dick off and he damned well knew it.”

….

Windows 10 is beginning a new cycle of update hell when some of us could not update the previous version because they wanted us to do a flash upgrade on our computers.  Although some flash updates can go off without a hitch, many of us know that is not always the case.  And here is a clue Microsoft, we buy computers to actually do stuff that we need to do, not to have our bandwidth wasted and our time wasted with endless cycles of updates.  Some of us have sucky dsl and the updates are ridiculously time consuming and then they won’t even install.  Put an OS on a computer and leave it alone until we decide to buy a new computer which given the crap being sold needs to be purchased every few years anyway.

Some websites–I guess paid to promote the crapware–pretend to be all excited about the new update even though they admit part of the new OS actually degrades some previous features and apps.  The new system will support–I guess–new virtual reality headsets such as Microsoft’s HoloLens.  But will the average computer that isn’t a gaming computer actually support the feature in a meaningful way?  I don’t know.

Like I said, I haven’t even been able to install the last update to Windows 10 on this HP computer that was supposed to be a good one.  And thankfully I stuck with Windows 8.1 on my older Dell Computer which I hate just as much as this HP.  On my older Dell with Windows 8.1, at times, I actually lose the hard drive until I turn my DSL off.  I know it is some kind of IRQ conflict that develops because of something happening with the DSL but still it is WEIRD.

…

Fox News Poll: Roy Moore, Doug Jones neck-and-neck in Alabama Senate race

Part of it may be the endless deep state propaganda against Trump or the fact Trump didn’t support Moore. Part of it may be that while the average person in the South still has religious beliefs, those beliefs do not translate into hate. Certain issues that once might have gotten Republicans votes, such as opposition to gay marriage, now raises eyebrows. Even Moore’s wording on immigration raises flags to some Trump voters. “Use our military to protect border.” “If the wall has to be built…” And again, Trump didn’t support Moore. But as an article I read pointed out the Alabama election may not be so much about who people are voting for but who they are voting against. And to some degree, Obama and then Trump won in part because people turned out in large enough numbers to vote against Hillary.