AI Reimagined and Repurposed
There is nothing less intelligent than rationality not tempered by emotions
9.25.20, my first day on Medium, my very first post:
Super-intelligent AI without a conscience would be the ultimate sociopath. Such technology should never be allowed to come into existence. Now, I see no barrier to AI having a conscience as long as it can be designed to have the sense of touch and smell, in which case souls might gladly join with an AI
I posted that response-as-a-story long before I knew the adaptive-advantages of that vs. a response, although I still do not understand how, when and if a response-as-story ever links to one’s profile???
Digression may hallmark this piece, we’ll see. 🤷♂️
How many reading this story discern the irony I painted into that response? It does not matter. I assure you, not even the most-advanced-not-yet-invented AI could accurately understand that social-media response.
Please respond with your interpretations, which may lead to a follow-up story with credit given where credit would be due.
Eureka!
I have the warm “chills” right now. The synchronistic beauty of the universe’s and my soul’s conspiracy to design this post over 3 months ago and have it lay dormant until my consciousness became ready to paint is astounding. So much so that I need to go take a walk with nature and then return to bang this out.
On 9.25 this 17-minute read from 6.10.20 found me in my feed: Forget About Coding, The Job Of The Future Is Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence will bring four major problems in the near future. Only philosophy can come to the rescue. While something deeper in the article triggered my above-quoted response, this introduction grabbed my attention:
If you are worried that your children won’t find a stable job in the future, you may want to suggest them to become philosophers.
Yes, the least practical profession ever is destined to find a role in the job market for the first time in history. And it will even be the most important one.
Not only am I concerned that my children may not adapt to this changing world, but I am in the process of reinventing myself. I did not come to Medium to earn money from my writing. I came here to write so that my ideas would have a platform from which to launch me into a new and as of yet unknown career.
As a deep thinker, I have beliefs as to how we should utilize AI. Fact-checking often comes to mind and that will form the basis of a different article. Writing legislation also comes to mind — another article will dive into restructuring the government — elected officials will set policy and AI will enact the implementing legislation. This will eliminate an entire branch of government and largely remove the outsized and corrupting influence of wealth in this country.
For this article, I turn to the misuse and/or poor design of AI algorithms to self-moderate social media.
Twitter gets a B+
In November Paul Krugman, the esteemed economist, whom I follow on Twitter, posted:
To which I replied:
And a 20 yr old somewhere will die today and an 80 yr old will live to 100. Besides the specific stupidity he’s an ignoramus
131 minutes later Twitter locked my three accounts. The AI read this as a personal threat and had target two people for assassination, when in fact I threatened no one — all I did was state facts of life to highlight the enormity of Prez Chump’s guy’s stupidity.
I appealed and 5 minutes later my accounts were restored. The quick restoration is why I give Twitter a high grade. I also understand how and why AI flagged me.
The takeaway: AI should not trigger a lock-out. AI should only trigger a request for an explanation.
Medium’s AI Grade: F
Medium’s AI failed to flag a libelous post, even after I logically connected the dots that it should have connected itself. As fully discussed in my homage to Emile Zola and his role in rooting out the anti-semitic and treasonous framing of Alfred Dreyfus, J’accuse…!, The Assemblage’s propaganda revealed for what it is — a scapegoating smear campaign, in his post entitled, How To Identify An Online Writing Pyramid Scheme, It’s Really Not That Hard To Figure Out, Mr. Greene, which I say not with respect but with sarcastic disdain, accuses various unnamed publications of being illegal pyramid schemes.
A properly designed AI would have taken note of this and known to pay close attention to future posts by this “author.” Thus, when a few months later he named the targets of his diatribe in Why Assemblage Had To Remove Its Submission Requirements, How To Get Better, Not Bigger, AI should have been smart enough to trigger a suspension response.
After all, this was an exercise in pure logic. Is the hole in the coding or in the design? One has to wonder considering I flagged Medium Staff and Medium Legal in the story. Perhaps they are backed up? I guess I’ll be patient and wait to file formal charges against the perpetrator, who blocked me and I guess hopes if he keeps his ostrich size brain concealed, I’ll get bored and go away. He clearly does not understand that my moral code mandates that people do not gain entitlement from their malicious actions. My code requires accountability.
I am the self-appointed karma police.
