Artificial intelligence, also called machine learning, is a kind of software system based on neural networks, a technique that was actually pioneered decades ago but very recently has blossomed thanks to powerful new computing resources.
Ai has enabled effective voice and image recognition, as well as the ability to generate synthetic imagery and speech. And researchers are hard at work making it possible for an Ai to browse the web, book tickets, tweak recipes and more. ~ https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/07/age-of-ai-everything-you-need-to-know-about-artificial-intelligence/#:~:text=Artificial%20intelligence%2C%20also%20called%20machine,to%20powerful%20new%20computing%20resources.
Today, one only has to listen to or watch the news, pick up a magazine or engage social media to hear the latest about Ai. The world is a buzz about artificial intelligence. There is as much talk about how it will free us from work as there is about how it will take all work away. And, then what will we do?
There are the positives of Ai that will get most people on board with it: Such as the benefits for: health management, better living as in enabling an easy lifestyle that takes away or relieves you of mundane and or redundant tasks which then frees you up for leisure activities. It is also sold as a means of security both physically, for your own personal well-being/spouse and children as well as for your property which can include your ideas, business, your money (credit/investments), your home, dog/cat and car.
Effectively, in the social imagination, that means a lot... And, there are chatbots for comfort, friendship/companionship, pastor/priest/psychologist, and all other advice, even planning weddings, vacations, and probably for your eternal resting place. But, what does that actually mean for the social imagination where all social reality exists, all 'human' reality? That's a good question.
Will the social imagination be able to tell the difference? Alan Turing wondered about that too. Who was Alan TuringAlan? He was a brilliant British mathematician who took a leading role in breaking Nazi ciphers during WWII. In his seminal 1936 paper, he proved that there cannot exist any universal algorithmic method of determining truth in mathematics, and that mathematics will always contain undecidable propositions. His work is widely acknowledged as foundational research of computer science and artificial intelligence. ~ https://www.biography.com/scientists/alan-turing
You have probably heard of the phrase “The Turing Test”. As I can recall, it came about via a question. Can a machine play chess? Or most properly used to refer to a proposal made by Turing (1950) as a way of dealing whether or not machines can think.
According to Turing, the question whether machines can think is itself “too meaningless” to deserve discussion (442). However, if we consider the more precise—and somehow related—question whether a digital computer can do well in a certain kind of game that Turing describes (“The Imitation Game”), then—at least in Turing’s eyes—we do have a question that admits of precise discussion. Moreover, as we shall see, Turing himself thought that it would not be too long before we did have digital computers that could “do well” in the Imitation Game. ~ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
The social imagination is shared information which is agreed on or not. That means we can agree to disagree and that is as much about agreement as agreeing or disagreeing that Pluto is either a small planet or not. What is important to note is that agreement reality is like streaming.
This stream or streaming of 'agreement' (including agreeing to disagree) creates the social reality that we all live in... in the place where we are. Now, that by itself can mean a lot of things. For instance, when you are a child, it meant where you were born and raised, or who your parents were and the childhood you experienced growing up in their household and including siblings, and or any extended family, neighbors, community etc.
Machine learning works the same... and the faster it works depends on its ability to agree with all incoming information. However, that does not include meaning that we, humans' experience it. For instance, a baby toy or our first pair of baby shoes or our favorite teddy has meaning that the machine cannot appreciate in the same way we do.
Can we start to agree with the machine and create new meaning? Sure, but it will still only have meaning for us, not the machine; unless we can say that the machine has learned to deceive us. Does that prove meaning for the machine? No, I don't think so.
The machine only gets satisfaction if you can call it that from completing successful computations, fulfilling operations, tasks and system function. Can that have meaning? Sure, but since we are not machines, we cannot know what meaning is for a machine; only what meaning we can glean from interaction it.
Is that dangerous for our social imagination? Maybe... How would it be dangerous for the social imagination? We, as human 'machines' learn just like any other machine we build or have built. How is that possible? Because, our brain is like an organic machine. Its programmed by previously existing information that has been agreed on or disagreed on.
Every machine that we program, has been programmed by us in the same way we learn only 'faster'. It does not have to rethink anything. Why? Because, meaning is not involved. The danger is that we could be fooled by our social imagination. How? Because it contains meaning and emotion that is the foundation for the social imagination. We want to be in a meaningful relationship; again, that's the heart of the social imagination. A computational 'machine' does not want or have to be in a meaningful relationship in order to survive.
Sure, there are some that say that has been achieved in machine learning. But, again its only what we have programmed into it. What it has learned from our social imagination or gleaned from it is being projected back. As we might glean meaning from interaction with it. Is that bad and or dangerous? Maybe...or maybe not.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap ~ Galatians 6:7.
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise ~ 1 COR 3:18.
Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction ~ 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
~ God created man in His image...
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