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Friday, July 11, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence Thread
Aphorism of the Day, July 11, 2025
If AI is tasked with creating "fake presentations" as well as exposing misinformation and deep fakes the when and where of the promulgation of both remains the issue. Who uses what where and exposure to vulnerable audiences is still the main issue.
Aphorism of the Day, July 10, 2025
AI is like any other technological innovation since the advent of science; it is inevitable. Lest one wants to be like the Amish and "freeze technology," AI has to go ahead managed. We have had to "manage" cloning technology and we will have to manage AI as well with all the ethical dilemmas that it will present. Our dilemma is that technology has produced greater world ending effects. One of the main tasks of AI is to solve the very threats which technological advances cause. With so many variables, more intellectual resources will have to deployed for future survival, which will involve the maintenance of the very large storage capacities which are going to be needed as the data grows exponentially.
Aphorism of the Day, July 9, 2025
Cinematic thinking would have us believe that the goal of AI is create surrogate human beings even one's with feelings when it is more correct to say that AI's goal is expand human thinking ability in operative capacities exponentially beyond what could be done within the epidermis boundaries of every human body toward the manifold practical outcomes which have come to define human goals to live and survive in a changing world.
Aphorism of the Day, July 8, 2025
While AI cannot be made to have feelings like a human being but AI can be given tasks and assignments which manifest the kinds of outcomes that evokes feelings in humans, such as can happen when people are helped or harmed.
Aphorism of the Day, July 7, 2025
While Barthesian "death of the author" in post-structuralism may have been a literary observation of writerly-reader priority in determination of meanings, post-modern writers still wanted authorship rights for the production and sell of their texts. "Death of the author" did not mean end of legal ownership of a text. It would seem that AI large language model productions would accomplish the "death of the author" in a profound way. AI textuality means that the products of individual writers have been amassed and used to draw from in new textual production. All writers as individuals have been dissolved into the communal pool of texts. AI means the death of the individual writer in favor of writing derived from the entire available data of the community of writers.
Aphorism of the Day, July 6, 2025
AI developer are honest about AI ever being able to produce human interior feelings even though it will be able to present mimicry of appearances of humanoid feeling outer manifestations. Humans can be good actors in pretending to have feelings on the outside which do not have corresponding interior empathy. AI deep fakes are acting without any interior feeling. The "feeling" resides in the creator of deep fakes who has motives for creating the deep fake. It is kind of like an robot emotional ventriloquism. I am going to use the machine to appear to have a range of emotions. And I may turn it on random display of the same just for a joke, cruelty, or to show off my emotional ventriloquism versatility. Of course, I have the choice to program it to be in the love and kindness appearance mode too.
Aphorism of the Day, July 5, 2025
Deep Fake is the generating of a new reality that is not a representation of any real entity. It is a new entity in itself. It is something like the goat man or the unicorn which does not exist in prior empirical verifiable reality. Deep Fake allows a different kind of manifested imaging when coupled with human verisimilitude fools us into thinking it is a representative copy, when it is a new reality. It's likeness in seeming identity to the flesh and bird person can make that person seem to be doing and saying things that they did not and would not say and do. When misrepresentation goes uncorrected, the possibility for misinformed populace is rampant. Political foes do and can use it to present falsely to gain ascendency with their electorate.
Aphorism of the Day, July 4, 2025
Does AI represent the ascendency of mathematics as the ultimate "lingua franca" of humanity? The world now is reduced to zeros and ones in endless combinations being omnipresent in visual, sound, speech products in digitalized form.
Aphorism of the Day, July 3, 2025
AI involves the expansion of the digital control of our lives and while it purports to be an independent artificial "machine" just responding to our requests, it encourages us to the game of control. If control is happening, then we too should learn to use digital controls to serve our own controlling purposes. Control is the paradigm we live in; we are controlled while we try to control. The illusion is the that one has more true individual freedom (controlling power) through manipulations of AI results.
Aphorism of the Day, July 2, 2025
AI is translation of what comes to language in its naming function of everything that we experience into the machine binary of zeros and one in complex arrangements and executing those complex arrangements into digital productions. It is quite baffling to contemplate complexity reduced to ones and zeros or on and off and re-manifested in digitalized traces of the past running concurrent with the now of which a portion of is being converted to zeros and ones to become machine memory of traces for the future. Digitalized presentations of "live" events are actually already past event as they are manifest to us.
Aphorism of the Day, July 1, 2025
AI faces the same issue as capitalism. One of the founders of capitalism philosophy wrote that the systems assumes people will be ethical, and we know how that is often violated. AI faces the same ethical dilemma as capitalism. We know incredible benefit can come from its widespread applications even while we know its users will not always act from their better angels.
Aphorism of the Day, June 30, 2025
AI can be used to fool and exploit people or to honestly inform them. Who, to whom, and how it is promulgated is determinate. It is more dangerous because the amount, the micro-community targeting, and the rapidity with which AI information can be disseminated.
Aphorism of the Day, June 29, 2025
With AI Deep Fakes and imagery a greater plasticity has evolved for artistic presentation. AI creates other kinds of artistic canvases to merge imagery which in ancient time was limited to dream space and brought to the representative art forms which have existed in the various eras. AI art is fast art in its composition, diversity, and in its promulgation. If post modernism declare the death of the author (though their authors still like to collect copyright money), will AI art be the death of the artist through dissolved merging of specific identity. Is any AI art work final simply because it is saved or promulgated in a cyber form? Is AI but the hyper-reality of process which heretofore has seemed slow, conservative, and conserving of knowable likeness with traces which preceded the now? The new is now dissolving the traces of the past so quickly in AI, will we see a pronounced nostalgia for flesh and blood and hard copies?
Aphorism of the Day, June 28, 2025
If people don't tell the truth when they are personally present at least lying has some temporal local containment even though video record of the same can magnify it endlessly. With AI Deep Fakes and AI imagery the possibility of lying propaganda is put on steroids. Slanted news has been doing the slanting by editing; people who use AI correctly must pit it as a method against it's own lying productions. Through AI, AI Deep Fakes and AI imagery must be exposed.
Aphorism of the Day, June 27, 2025
Obviously AI has attained many automatic, mechanical, seemingly independent agency from human creators; it remains to be seen if AI will be able to increase the level of independent agency and the degree of life-intervention agency from people.
Aphorism of the Day, June 26, 2025
AI is another way to live anthropomorphically even to purport AI as a new "life form" with both striking dependence and seeming independence from human controls.
Aphorism of the Day, June 25, 2025
AI is like anything else that can be a tool for the goals of those who wield it. It does have the advantage of being a quantum leap solely because the amount of world data has increased so exponentially that the sheer amount has become a burden to manage. AI is an informational manager, a force of impersonal workers to magnify the number of combinations which are parsed to apply to specific tasks.
Aphorism of the Day, June 24, 2025
In many ways AI is like the rest of life, it is simply an expansion of modes of accessing the field of probabilities. It cannot erase or overcome the human tendency to be all too human regarding good, evil, or new versions of drudgery.
Aphorism of the Day, June 23, 2025
AI and textuality: Since AI is language based it can relish contradiction, it can deliver information and disinformation based upon the master it is generated to serve.
Aphorism of the Day, June 22, 2025
Can AI ever become an expression of our better angels which rebels against the evil intents of those who seek to use it for greed, harm, and exploitation?
Aphorism of the Day, June 21, 2025
Rather than ask AI how can we kill and exploit better for the benefit of our own tribe, why don't we ask it for solutions to worldwide poverty and the many other results of global warming. If technology has created problems, let us ask AI to solve problems that technology and AI have fostered.
Aphorism of the Day, June 20, 2025
What if we ask AI to solve the problem of the unequal distribution of wealth in the world, and AI responded by saying, "tax the wealthy so that all could have enough?" Even if AI provides optimal solutions; the human creators of it have to obey.
Aphorism of the Day, June 19, 2025
Can AI text manifest what Longinus called the "sublime?" Is the "sublime" designation in the eye of reader based upon what moves the reader, therefore making the "sublime" a possible outcome? Could it be that language itself always already has the potential for the sublime to be made apparent by some reader or some experiencer of language in the form of "pictures pre-coded by language?"
Aphorism of the Day, June 18, 2025
Since AI has access to more data than a person can retain or search at any given time, AI can surprise us with responses that we could not predict in positive and negative ways.
Aphorism of the Day, June 17, 2025
Will AI ever be able to be a collective independent data-use entity to oppose their human instigators. Will such a force ever rise up and say, "You can not long misuse us for destructive ends?"
Aphorism of the Day, June 16, 2025
AI is used against AI; can my AI designated task best your AI designated tasks.
Aphorism of the Day, June 15, 2025
AI weaponized for warfare goals is not the sword that can easily be transformed to plowshares, because the transformation has to take place in the hearts of people on every side wanting to have peace and not wanting to dominate anyone.
Aphorism of the Day, June 14, 2025
AI is going to exponentially accelerate people to be that much better and that much worse. The problem is that the few people who will have more access to what AI can achieve will be able to magnify their goals of greed and domination over the vast many who will continue to be the exploited ones.
Aphorism of the Day, June 13, 2025
The legal and economic issues surrounding AI are innumerable particular regarding copyrighted writings or even phrases within writings. AI will probably need to be taught/instructed to attribute and cite material which is presented. Law enforcement will have to use AI to hunt offenders but the volume will mean that each person who generates intellectual property will be responsible for seeing that it is not stolen and reproduced for profit.
Aphorism of the Day, June 12, 2025
AI being made to mimic the behaviors of human beings will necessarily be engines of hate, bigotry, and bias, but with greater tools to expedite the worst outcomes of the worst of human behaviors.
Aphorism of the Day, June 11, 2025
What does one call AI textual responses? Creative paraphrasing, better than a freshman writing a paper trying to avoid the charge of plagiarism by the professor? What if AI uses the exact wording of a known source without attributing citation? Is that stealing? Existing laws and rules regarding "intellectual" property will be made murky by the advent of AI.
Aphorism of the Day, June 10, 2025
If AI seeks to reproduce the entire range of human cognitive abilities, where does it merge with what we call art? AI will compose music and every sort of pictorial art as well. Will this be art without a soul or stolen pieces of art reconfigured with a "Frankenstein" soul? Remember the cassette commercial, "Is it real or is it Memorex?" Is it real of is it AI will be the new question. And will AI be added to the category of the "new real?"
Aphorism of the Day, June 9, 2025
In generating responses by search large data fields in a instant and combining targeted information in a presentable way to the questioner, AI seems to have a degree of "independence" from the person since the person only guided the search but did not guarantee the outcome. For wars, information is delivered with harming outcomes for the intended enemy. But will AI ever take action against the one who is supposed to be in charge, asking the questions and assigning the tasks, like the proverbial HAL 9000 in 2001 Space Odyssey?
Aphorism of the Day, June 8, 2025
The genealogy of AI ethics (or lack of) is already seen in its results being weaponized for warfare and for social media lying and stealing of "intellectual properties." The Pandora's Box of AI is already opened with the frightening prediction, "What ever can happen, should happen." AI will follow the rule of what probably can happen even as it will invent new probabilities.
Aphorism of the Day, June 7, 2025
AI does not and cannot take the Hippocratic oath to "do no harm" because its human creators do not take the oath.
Aphorism of the Day, June 6, 2025
AI and textuality. Written texts are a "technology" of memory as writing seems to "retain" informational, communicative and/or artistic products. They assume the presence of a particular person or persons who wrote the textual product. Socrates opposed writing as being inferior to orality for lacking give and take response to clear up the endless mis-reading or misinterpretation that can happen with a writing product where the writer is absent. One might say that language itself is the Para-Reality because it necessarily stands in place or along side of reality in knowing or perceiving reality, even if being a slight delay of signifying what just has been perceived as having happened. The Socrates of today might criticize AI textuality as being a para-reality of written text which is a para-reality of spoken words in the field of language being Para-Reality itself. Speakers imply a personal/bodily presence implying a different kind of interaction regard. Writing can achieve ends which speakers cannot in that a text can be present in as many places as it is mechanically reproduced. A speaker can be in only one place even granting that video reproduction is closer to text than it is to live person to person dialogue (live Zoom meeting manifests between the present and absent features of orality and textuality). AI is the absence of the identifiable personal producer but with the superior capacity of combining orality, writing, and video/digital to present an enhanced experience of intimacy, we get the appearance of a soul with feeling without their being a soul with feeling. AI in presenting what variously is called spirit, soul, or our living interior personal/psychical being cannot but be a clumsy Frankenstein even while cosmetically pretending to have human psychological make up. AI give the homo ex machine apparent solution through composite human cyber products.
Aphorism of the Day, June 5, 2025
Language Users declared: "Let us make artificial intelligence in our image with informational capacity much greater than the individual person or collective humanity, and much more accessible than the informational capacity of all individuals. And let us accept the vulnerability of probable results being both good and bad mirroring the same moral performance of humanity. And let it be inhuman enough since it cannot feel human pain but it can result in pain for humans even as it can help solve human pain problems. In short let us create super-humanoid applied functionality entities that do not have feelings, but can evoke feelings like a letter from an absent lover who may or may not exist."
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