The Reality of AI | Pt.5 | AI isn’t ‘all knowing’. AI just reads a lot and recalls everything.

Al works by analysing patterns of behaviour over and over again.

So, when AI reads you doing just a few a few of the things that it has read in the behaviour of others somewhere else – perhaps many times before, AI will conclude that you will be the same in your other behaviours to those that relate to whoever those compared examples have come from before.

On the majority of occasions AI will certainly appear to be right. But what AI is right about will be generalisations.

AI will not and cannot ever be 100% right about what makes anyone tick. Nor can AI be fully right about the real ingredients or idiosyncrasies of what really makes any of us who we really are.

Regrettably, what seems like the magic or trickery of being able to fit each and every one of us into a box or category based on little more than patterns, will be enough to convince those who intend to profit from AI, that artificial intelligence is the power that will make them the new gods.

They are a long way from being anywhere near correct.

The human condition is built upon a foundation of difference or separation at its most basic and intricate level.

To consider any number of people as if they can be understood and treated as if they are exactly the same is not only the behaviour of people who believe they are the equivalent of a god. The oppression and restriction that naturally follows is an act against humanity itself – whether or not the victims have any conscious understanding of what is happening or what is involved.

AI cannot fully understand you. But the people who pay for it believe that it can.

This belief is what makes them feel powerful. But it is a power built on oppression, not understanding, as all power should.

Deep down, everyone and especially the few who have everything know what the real value of a human and the human experience is.

However, the reality is that even as slaves, humans are not a thing that any other human can truly own. Whereas a machine that is perceived to have the same abilities as a human is something that they can own, and therefore cheaply control.