The considerable public relations-cum-marketing machine seeking to create a hype cycle for artificial intelligence has probably got all they’re gonna get from a credulous media, reporting carefully crafted talking points, without understanding a word of what they’re repeating.
And maybe also from the marginally even more credulous public, particularly among those chasing the quick and easy buck in some huckster scheme or stock market gamble.
And, of course, among the great mass of functionally illiterate people quick to marvel at the grammar machine’s capacity to output prose that looks, to a functionally illiterate person, as if it might have been prepared by another functionally illiterate person.
These are the same people who have been fooled by Russian, Chinese, and Israeli disinformation farms, thinking they were actually their next door neighbours. These are the people who elected the most stupid, ignorant leaders in history. These are the people who get their ‘news’ from social media, and their opinions from drug-addled pop stars not gifted in the IQ stakes to start with.
The same type of people whose jobs were always going to be automated, because they probably failed in some other areas of education too, like the entire liberal arts high school syllabus that teaches critical thinking and problem solving skills.
If you don’t have literacy skills, and aren’t employed to solve problems more complex than a calculation, of course your job will be automated. Done quicker and cheaper by a machine.
Like the bundled algorithms that are called AI and can fool badly educated people into thinking there is actually such a thing as ‘artificial’ intelligence. People who might profit from reflecting on what ‘natural’ intelligence looks like, and how it passed them by.
Here’s a clue: technical skills in isolation from educated human judgement is not intelligence.
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