AI is it never stops learning and does so at speeds we cannot wrap our head around

I have had a mild interest in the modern technology called AI, or artificial intelligence. With my limited knowledge of computers, I might know more about women than AI technology. And even though I have been married to a great woman for over 43 years, I do not have much of a clue about her either. 

Wikipedia states AI is the intelligence of machines or software, as opposed to humanities intelligence. Invented in 1956, but not developed until 2012, eleven years later it is in use throughout industry, government, and scientific communities. Google, Netflix, Amazon, You Tube, Siri, and Alexa are examples of companies already using AI. 

Did you follow that, folks? AI is already here and in use. While we were busy raising kids, trying not to die from COVID, trying to eke out a living and all of other life’s mundane activities, artificial intelligence has already been employed all around us. This is particularly aggravating to me as I read AI is able to author novels at a time when I just finally got the time to do it myself. 

The thing about AI is it never stops learning and does so at speeds we cannot wrap our head around. Its goals are general intelligence, including reasoning, knowledge, representation, planning, learning, natural language processing, perception and support for robotics. Wait – support for robotics? Does that suspiciously sound like colluding against us?

I have read articles and watched programs about AI. They either just scratch the service or dive so deep my noggin’ cannot keep up. “60 Minutes” reports on AI regularly, including last Sunday when they reported on the Quantum computer that “competes with the atomic forces that created the universe.” If I understand it correctly, this is already the next step up from AI. 

The government has gotten more involved in AI, to monitor and control it so that someone cannot use it maliciously. Given what I know about politicians in general, the governments’ involvement certainly does not make me comfortable. Think about AI in the hands of someone like Little Rocket Man in North Korea, Russia’s Putin, an Iranian zealot, China’s Xi, or even worse, Hillary “What Difference Does It Make “Clinton. 

Or consider the people who programmed AI. What if the programmer’s mother did not make breakfast that morning, so he/she stomped out of mom’s basement, arriving  to work crabby and hungry. Meanwhile, they are in the middle of writing code for AI. Can you imagine what could go wrong? Worse, what if the programmer was a Biden voter. 

I tried to make light of this, but it is actually serious. There are so many wonderful projects AI might do, particularly in the fields of medicine or space technology, to name examples. It could be a game changer for diseases like cancer or diabetes. I might finally get to find out what is on the other side of those black holes. AI’s value to humanity is greater to anything we have ever seen before, and it is only in its infancy. The potential for AI infinite. 

But then I ran across an article that gave me heartburn. Chris Hutton of the Washington Examiner wrote a piece entitled, ‘IBM and Meta Partner Up.’ In his piece, he reported more than forty technology companies have partnered to create a group that will regulate the use of artificial intelligence. “Regulate?” I wondered who will be getting regulated and will not. 

Called the AI Alliance, it claims to focus on responsible development of safety and security tools for AI models. Hutton also reported that Senator Chuck Schumer, who I trust about as much as Nancy Pelosi, is hosting forums to address doomsday scenarios and national security.   

But Schumer’s involvement pales in comparison to Meta being involved. Meta is the corporation formerly known as Face Book, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, about as trustworthy as Hunter Biden and a bag of coke. Recall, it was Face Book that censored conservative thought, squelched alternative thinking about COVID, and suspended the account of a sitting president (Trump). Meta/Zuckerberg has nearly 3 billion users, many of them children between the ages of 13-18. 

And now Meta, already in bed with the government, has hooked up with Artificial Intelligence, the most technologically advanced innovation in the history of man. 

There is just no way to trust this menage-a-trios. Sadly, that horse is already out of the barn.