2 thoughts on “The Operative Word is ‘Artificial’”

  1. One of the oldest Information Technology jokes, going back to the days before the field was known as Data Processing, ends with a firm’s CIO asking the CEO, “How much is two plus two? That’s an interesting question. How much do you want it to be?”

    A computer does two things, and only two things, from the time you turn it on, until the time you turn it off: Fetch and Execute. The apparent magic comes from the fact that even the primitive computers of the 1960s could do those two steps almost faster than the human mind could comprehend. But its still just Fetch and Execute.

    The key to understanding the AI current situation, and any potential bias, is to remember Stalin’s position on elections. He felt that the deciding factor was not who voted and how, but rather who counted the votes and how.

    Those AI machines are being created and programmed in Silicon Valley and/or in Communist China. Not much point in discussing which of those are more left wing. That’s a distinction without a difference as fare as we’re concerned.

  2. Blogger Joe Huffman did some Q&A sessions with different AIs, and found that he could not get them to answer a question of how many Supreme Court justices agreed that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right, no matter how he phrased the question or prompted it with information. They just wouldn’t do it.

    (The answer, of course, is that all nine Justices agreed in Heller that 2A protects an individual right — they disagreed on the scope of the right, but the Court was unanimous that it’s an individual right.)

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