Those familiar with Facebook know that this online social media and social networking service will often provide users with various items that a mysterious Facebook algorithm has deduced will be of interest to the recipient. Sometimes, these items really are of interest, too!
As an example, here is an item that appeared on my Facebook profile page a few months ago:
That Facebook posting really was of interest to me. As most who are reading this blog posting will already know, and as as the online Encyclopedia Britannica tells us, ChatGPT is:
Software that allows a user to ask it questions using conversational, or natural, language. It was released on November 30, 2022, by the American company OpenAI and almost immediately disturbed academics, journalists, and others because of concern that it was impossible to distinguish human- from ChatGPT-generated writing.
ChatGPT, and similar software products, are commonly referred to as "A.I." That abbreviation stands for "Artificial Intelligence," and A.I. is quite controversial. It can allow students to "cheat" on writing (and other) assignments, and some believe that there is a real danger that A.I. will seek, at some early date, to supplant human beings entirely. "Artificial" intelligence, in this view, is "better" than human intelligence. Because of this, A.I. certainly poses a big labor issue, since A.I. promises to be able to eliminate the need for human workers, in many situations.
As I looked at the Facebook post I received, and which is reproduced above, I suddenly realized that the abbreviation, "A.I." is not, actually, accurate. "A.I." should really be modified, and should be called "I.A." What these "A.I." software products do, in fact, is "Intelligence Amalgamation." The "Intelligence" involved is not actually "Artificial" at all. The "Intelligence" involved is human intelligence. The so-called "A.I." products being deployed are simply high quality and efficient search engines, which are "trained" to find what facts and opinions about any designated topic have been generated, in the past, by various human beings, then presenting what has been discovered in an easily readable form.
In the example above, the "wisdom" being provided through Artificial Intelligence is nothing other than a listing of the ideas of various wise men (and women) who, in the past, have been thinking about the topic of how human beings might best reach their full potential.
If you follow me that far, then think about this. If we start confining our human search for wisdom to be nothing more than a search of past ideas, well-articulated and colorfully presented, won't we be missing "new" wisdom?
If you do follow me in that thought, it can be seen that the "danger" of A.I. is that it will, increasingly, foreclose new ideas, new thoughts, new efforts, new initiatives that were never ever dreamed of before, but that we can dream about now.
What a real loss!
I am going to stick with "real" intelligence. Mine. And Yours!
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