AI as quintessence of our society
AI as quintessence of our society Symbols and more symbols, and nothing behind them Carlos Ramalhete Of course, I used AI to generate an illustration, and of course, it couldn’t understand the prompt “floating symbols in human shape.” When I see the way people treat “Artificial Intelligence” (henceforth AI, which, as I already wrote, should be “artificial idiocy”), what really scares me is how often people perceive it as if it were a kind of superior intelligence. Just like the fantasies of hyper-technological aliens , by the way; the only difference is that AI is here, while said aliens are not that much. But I shouldn’t be surprised, for one simple reason: AI is just a reflex of the societal situation in which urban people in rich countries (or in the richest enclaves of not-that-rich countries) spend their lives. That global minority lives in completely artificial environments, whose temperature is controlled, whose food comes in clean boxes, often in ready-to-eat form, ...