Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.
I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.
Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?
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Information is alienated experience.
Tags: technology computers internet information
But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart. If you can have a conversation with a simulated person presented by an AI program, can you tell how far you've let your sense of personhood degrade in order to make the illusion work for you?
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. Before the crash, bankers believed in supposedly intelligent algorithms that could calculate credit risks before making bad loans. We ask teachers to teach to standardized tests so a student will look good to an algorithm. We have repeatedly demonstrated our species' bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good. Every instance of intelligence in a machine is ambiguous.
The same ambiguity that motivated dubious academic AI projects in the past has been repackaged as mass culture today. Did that search engine really know what you want, or are you playing along, lowering your standards to make it seem clever? While it's to be expected that the human perspective will be changed by encounters with profound new technologies, the exercise of treating machine intelligence as real requires people to reduce their mooring to reality.
Tags: technology computers artificial-intelligence ai personhood turing
The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.
Jaron LanierTags: technology computers artificial-intelligence ai personhood
Οι υπολογιστές είναι άχρηστοι, μόνο απαντήσεις μπορούν να δώσουν.
Pablo Picassoartificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity
Albert EinsteinTags: computers
Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't.
There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.
Tags: humor technology computers
Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.
John PfeifferTags: inspiration technology computers
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
Edsger W. DijkstraTags: computers programming
No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: humor revenge humour computers funny nerd nerds computer vengeance geek-humor geek computer-hackers nerd-humor
If we are lucky, they were never retarded enough to create computer viruses and will have no such things as firewalls and security like we have. If they have never experienced a full blown computer failure we'll introduce them to the concept
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