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AI War Against Reality
As you may know, I think and live in the light of reality. The developers of AI don’t. I will get to that.
For myself ( academic, author and researcher) so far, AI has been a complete blessing. What I can accomplish in little time and effort now is amazing. But…. I don’t pay anyone a dime.
The first question I asked is: What exactly is going to be the profit engine that enriches those who are expecting to get rich?
AI will definitely do these things.
Boost productivity: AI automates tasks, letting people do more valuable work.
Create new products/services: AI helps build new offerings, like personalized shopping or AI-generated art.
Improve existing operations: AI makes things like manufacturing or customer service more efficient.
Personalize everything: AI understands customers better, leading to more targeted marketing and sales.
Trying to personalize everything will lose money for them. Online vendors are clueless when it comes to anticipating consumer demand. There is nothing new in online marketing. Consumers are immune to their marketing techniques. They are completely cost – conscious and are becoming irritated at those who assume they know what folks are thinking.
I haven’t found a way AI will be used in every home in the United States alongside computers, etc. That may be forthcoming.
Here is where the war begins. Furious competition will develop within the AI community. Aspiring AI profiteers will try to destroy one another. AI search engines are biased with respect to any search where the answer could possibly raise doubts about the existing order of things. Nothing critical of the Affordable Care Act will ever be said. As an experiment, try an AI answer to “Who killed JFK ?” Only Baidu’ AI search lists other possibilities. The Facebook AI search is so biased that it is ridiculous. AI searches are all biased but not near to the extent traditional search engines are. AI will never be perfect. AI is quite inept at abstract thinking. The only human nature it understands is that of those who developed it.
There are no genuine traditional search engines. Google is an advertising company. You only see what Google wants you to see. The emergence of AI will compromise Google greatly. The following are previous posts that focus on the headwinds big tech faces.
Because of AI’s enormous costs, lobbying efforts will be made to gain government subsidies. Those may be forthcoming but this is not a good time to ask taxpayers for monetary gifts.
The Coming Tech Train Wreck
AI searches will break the backs of most tech companies. Big tech cannot prosper if they are unable to control and manage what people think and do. They are already losing that battle. Big Tech had already been losing this battle prior to the advent of AI and its bubble, albeit not stock prices.There are many elephants in the room that no one sees.
AI will be with us from now on. It will greatly enhance the efforts of academics. It will cause the loss of jobs. New jobs will be found. This always happens when superior technology is introduced.
Most importantly, the initial market failures of AI entrepreneurs will crash the stock market and usher in the 2nd great depression – one even greater than the first one.
They are selling what the public will never buy. AI will eventually then be put to higher and better uses as time passes. The second rat will get the cheese.
Future of AI
AI does not understand human nature. The folks developing AI do not think in the light of reality anymore than anyone else. AI will reflect their mindsets.
Only billionaires and politicians will have the means of using AI to its full potential.
So, how long will the public be able to retrieve honest information by way of AI? Not, long, because the elite depend upon controlling the minds of ordinary people in order to accomplish their goals.
They will compete with one another for power and control.
Living With Artificial Intelligence
Living With Artificial Intelligence.PDF Version
You can live with artificial intelligence. That is because you are alive. It is touted as the wave of the future. It may very well be. Most new advancements initially get dismissed by many and put in the “will never catch on” category. Yes, being alive, you may prefer to live without it. However, you may not be able to avoid living with it.
Certainly, Artificial Intelligence will be used to accomplish many wonderful things. Lives may be improved and enhanced. Fortunes will be made. It also provides ways to manage larger populations more efficiently with less effort. That is great for folks who appreciate being managed. It can make decisions for you. Is that good? It is great for multitudes who prefer others to make decisions for them. Thinking is work. Work is routinely avoided. Few people can concentrate intensely for perhaps an hour without getting fatigued. Limiting thinking is avoiding fatigue.
So far, I have only been involved with two aspects of Artificial Intelligence. That is with respect to voice cloning and customer service experiences. With voice cloning it works great.
With respect to customer service operations, it obviously cuts costs for companies. For this reason, they have all convinced themselves that it is good for customers as well. Let’s look at that in the light of reality.
So far, on balance, it is to the detriment of customers. Artificial intelligence is a virtual entity. Customers are living beings, only treated as if they are virtual in nature. Attempts to sound friendly and insightful are simply irritating. While expenses are reduced considerably on the parts of companies, customers are assumed to have all the time in the world, regardless of what each may earn on an hourly basis. How impressed will a guy making $100 per hour be with spending an hour dorking around with a machine for an hour trying to explain what his question is. This is a big disconnect which will eventually be to the detriment of companies providing the customer service.
It is important to understand the limitations of technology. Machines can only use math. Math has a basic downside in that all it can produce is a number. Numbers become accepted as reality. In the right circumstances a number is perfect. When math is used to describe human behavior or create it, math is completely flawed. That is why with economics – I examine the forces in nature which make the numbers what they are. I let the other guys, who are many, deal with models and statistics. I am always ahead of the numbers. I appreciate their work. It is there to be used as a resource for me to use when I need it.
The firms who adopt Artificial Intelligence for customer service operations see only their new cost savings. The number attached to that looks good. No focus on how it affects business overall, no worries as to how many customers it eventually runs off.
Customer service has been technology based for a long time. For myself, if I end up going to customer service, it is only because of something so bizarre that it requires an actual sentient being to figure it out. It. With Artificial Intelligence customer service, my goal turns out to be finding a way to get past it and talk to a real person.
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