Artificial Intelligence Thread

Aphorism of the Day, August 13, 2025

The human defeat of the value of AI occurs when a political narrative denies the validity of collected data.  AI's best use is statistical approximation for aiding probability outcomes.  If actual data is denied or not allowed to be considered then the purpose of actuarial wisdom is defeated.

Aphorism of the Day, August 12, 2025

AI represents the process of continuous deconstruction which happens because the reservoir of total data continuously grows to re-contextualize any singular piece of data, at a moment's notice depending upon the output information requested.  A piece of data may seem stable as an individual piece of information but its meanings are fluid as it becomes re-contextualized. 

Aphorism of the Day, August 11, 2025

AI follows the results of almost every human invention in having a way to be weaponized for war, both offensive war and defensive war.

Aphorism of the Day, August 10, 2025

AI is obviously a "public" search engine, and different kind of information has different kind of political, ideological, and commercial value.  In the past we sort of treated news data as being information just "reported" without spin.  In the post-modern era all news is suspicious because we assume that the interpreting seer and reporter has agendas which color how news is reported.  Much of news reporting now is how different interpreters of what is happening discuss these differences.  News is essentially the debating of what used to be regarded as "self-evidential" facts, meaning that the meaning was obvious to everyone in the "facts" themselves.  Now AI engines will compete on how a Wikipedia entry will be written or re-written.  AI is and will go the way of news reporting; the consumer will have to choose one's AI source that supports one's news bias.

Aphorism of the Day, August 9, 2025

Since AI is not human, one cannot say that it has a "meta-philosophy" but in the way in which it vacuums and organizes words, pictures, and sound, and then re-presents digital versions of the same, it expresses the meta-philosophy of linguistic constructivism, which essentially is an admission that all reality that is not language is mediated through language, and language is a reality in reflexive play with itself within human subjects who by language we name to have agency within this reflexive play of language by language users.

Aphorism of the Day, August 8, 2025

Does AI resemble language itself in that language is non-judgmental about what can come to a language product? Everything which can come to language has linguistic reality; classifying happens within linguistic reality. AI seeks to have the same encompassing reality as language itself.

Aphorism of the Day, August 7, 2025

For AI bias is but another piece of data and being programmed to perpetuate a bias is but another piece of data, since AI itself is amoral; it can only use programmed judgments as another piece of information to transmit, if asked.

Aphorism of the Day, August 6, 2025

AI in some ways has to treat all data as equal in that it is data.  If data comes to a classification as a genre in AI, it is because genre itself in being a classifier of language is but another piece of data or data set for AI.  At the point of origin, AI is a data vacuum which collects and stores data as equal material to be further classified with classifying criteria that has also been mere data.

Aphorism of the Day, August 5, 2025

Unfortunately AI is not useful in ending wars only for enhancing the tactics of opponents to fight better because it is a tool that conforms to human intentions and does cannot act as an independent arbitrator or interventionist or interdictor.  AI could still be an aid for parties which are seeking peace.  It could help assemble the logistics for peaceful settlements.

 Aphorism of the Day, August 4, 2025

AI was as inevitable as time since time for human happenings is the accrual of occasions of becoming with the continuing phenomena of self-surpassing.  The sheer recording and categorizing the amount of data arising within human becoming has always required apparatus to accomplish this, and AI in our time is the logical answer to human self-surpassing preparing for future self-surpassing.  The negative side of self-surpassing would be the possibility of massive destructive events, the depletion of energy resources to drive super-AI requirements which might trend towards entropic outcomes rather than positive evolutionary outcomes.

Aphorism of the Day, August 3, 2025

Today one has to be very wealthy to use AI to create privacy from the scrutiny of having most of one's life become an open book to the data vacuums of other AI platforms.  One has to pay to remove one's digital footprint.

Aphorism of the Day, August 2, 2025

AI which is designed to mimic human intellectual products is in fact designed to be an "intimate" machine to study human products which come to word, sound, and pictures and then applied to living human persons to study them, monitor them, sell to them, serve their goals both beneficial and harmful.  AI is vulnerable, just like nuclear energy, to the ethical whims of humans, but the stakes are higher in terms of the degrees of good and evil that can result from AI generated products.

Aphorism of the Day, August 1, 2025

Some might think that they can "go Amish" in limiting influence and participation in AI technology and such avoidance will only be an internal mental block supplemented with intense efforts to cloister oneself from any contact with the world.  Meanwhile AI will know more about one's "Amish efforts" than one knows oneself about one's "Amish efforts" to resist the AI trajectory.

Aphorism of the Day, July 31, 2025

AI suffers the same tendency as life itself; namely, the fittest seem to not only survive but dominate because they have the wealth and power to activate more AI engine power to conquer more fields.  There will not be much money in AI working on behalf of the poor and weak in society since they by definition are not profitable.

Aphorism of the Day, July 30, 2025

The number of AI companies worldwide is approaching 100,000 which indicates that the field of human data is so large now that it can only be made effectively useful through AI, which in turn will exponentially increase the amount of data exponentially with its own outputs.

Aphorism of the Day, July 29, 2025

The field of AI allows "brands" and therefore consumer choice, meaning that persons who want to purposefully lie, discriminate, and disseminate ideas in the name of their political agenda can do so.  AI brands will be like a political party or church affiliation.  While having AI "brands" for specialized field of study is very useful, such specialized brands will include the full range of human interest and bias.

Aphorism of the Day, July 28, 2025

Without achieving human status, AI seeks to be "made in the virtual image" of humanity by mimicking as many human products as possible.

Aphorism of the Day, July 27, 2025

AI will follow the biases of the paradigms and hermeneutical communities from which data is input.  Since the total reservoir of data digitalized all at once would be a chaos of cacophony, the algorithms which select and organize for specific purposes reveal the bias of the information which will be generated.  With AI, the truth will be that how the questions are asked will determine the answers received since there are so many answers to receive.  To generate an encyclopedia of different answers for every question does not serve the pragmatic occasion which needs specific targeted information for immediate use.  What is chosen will eliminate the background information of everything else that the specific output could have been.  AI is always an intentional targeting.  AI can be trained to "lie" with hidden algorithms which withhold "damaging" information, but a "competing AI" probe could be the necessary agent of correction.  AI will need to have the filters of muckraking journalist to counter the bias of AI censoring of certain information to protect the "guilty."  Of course, the AI that could be used or misused by government agencies and law enforcement could exacerbate the freedom of any kind of privacy.

A suggested editing by Gemini:  AI's output inescapably carries the biases of the paradigms and communities embedded in its training data. Because the entirety of digital information is an unmanageable chaos, the algorithms that select and organize data for specific purposes inherently determine the bias of the generated information. Thus, for AI, 'truth' becomes a function of how questions are asked, given the multitude of possible answers. Providing an exhaustive compendium for every query is impractical; real-world needs demand specific, targeted information. This selection process necessarily excludes vast alternative contexts. AI is always an intentional act of targeting. Furthermore, AI can be engineered to 'lie' by withholding 'damaging' information. Countering this may require a 'competing AI' acting as a corrective, perhaps with 'muckraking' capabilities to expose censored information protecting the 'guilty.' Of course, the potential misuse of AI by government and law enforcement poses a grave threat to privacy and freedom.

Aphorism of the Day, July 26, 2025

AI essentially is communal in that servers vacuum extensive textual data in all accessible form for the internet or scanning vacuum mechanism.  In being added to the data base, the individual loses "legal" control of "intellectual product," while at the same time collaterally influences how the textual algorithms select and deliver the event digital product.  One's stylistic variation makes a contribution to the whole and while "word for word" output can be cited for an author's credit, other short phrase authorial identity will be present but not publicly identified.  Yes, we are being vacuumed up, but we are being recycled in new combinations vis a vis all other textual data in the database.

An AI amended via Gemini: The communal nature of AI is revealed as its servers ceaselessly vacuum textual data from every accessible digital corner. Through this absorption into vast databases, individual creators effectively surrender legal claim to their intellectual output. Paradoxically, their unique stylistic choices then subtly shape the very algorithms that select and generate new digital content. While verbatim reproduction might link an author to their work, countless smaller stylistic imprints will persist without public attribution. Ultimately, we are all being digitally consumed, only to be reimagined and repurposed in new textual tapestries woven from our collective contributions.

Aphorism of the Day, July 25, 2025

AI is already influencing elections everywhere because it is used in real time by people wanting to gain votes.  Besides its use in the potential unlawful hacking of election software, the use of micro-targetting based upon statistical precision in statistical analysis of voting blocs as well as the dissemination of misinformation in real time including the ability with deep fakes to virtually fool voters will become more prevalent.  If everything can be a "deep fake," then it might, and voters will lose faith in live media, even worse than it has become divided by distinct ideological bents of the various media presenters.  If there are no election regulations in the taking the view that all sides have equal access to AI techniques, winning or losing may be based upon who has the superior use of AI methods.

Aphorism of the Day, July 24, 2025

AI will change religious studies because of the increased ability to do comparative analysis of ancient texts and archeological data.  It will render new conclusions about how ancient movements formed, developed, more precision in assigning dates for documents,  and what interrelationships are traceable between ancient people.

Aphorism of the Day, July 23, 2025

Part of the modern problem is that modern knowledge is so extensive, so profuse, so diverse, that no one can approach being omni-competent, in the way that Plato or Aristotle were with the world-knowledge-to-date, or even Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin in the American era.  It is comical but mostly pitiful to watch politicians deliberate on things outside their pay grade because of the complexity of the vastness of the current field of knowledge.  This is why AI will have to be the modern "consultant" on so many things and AI will have to be programmed to give wide and even competitive "advice" to aid humans to make decisions.

Aphorism of the Day, July 22, 2025

Future prisons could be the complete loss of any interior privacy as prisoners would be required to wear a helmet with electrodes with BCI, brain computer interfacing.  The brain waves translated to language could then be digitally transmitted to "wardens of the mind."  But having unpublished thoughts would further overrun the world with data.  Will data storage efficiency and cost keep up with proliferation of data.  Permanent "delete" of data will be a requirement as editors will get rid of "unworthy" data.

Aphorism of the Day, July 21, 2025

As AI develops brain-computer interaction with neural activity connecting human thoughts and intentions converted to "machine" agency, the machine will not "have" feelings but will be able to directly express in actions the actual feelings in real time of a person.  Could be about ten years away.

Aphorism of the Day, July 20, 2025

Interaction with AI data keep altering the algorithms which retrieve and reorganize responses based upon upon new input which requires a new algorithmic matching categorization. 

Aphorism of the Day, July 19, 2025

AI output has the goal of converting the data juxtaposition in data reservoirs, which potentially has each piece of information in relationship to every other piece of information which could imply what Deleuze and Guattari called the rhizomatic relationship of all data, into more familiar linear presentation of data.

 Aphorism of the Day, July 18, 2025

If one views time as the accruing of numbers of occasions, there has been unknowable number of occasions and available histories and traces of what has happened are relatively sparse in comparison with the quantity of the total number of occasions.  AI will help be the future of memory as the recordable occasions in the lives of more people in more places become unmanageable for the collective intellectual abilities of all people.  AI may be the only solution to the memory problem of a daily exponentially self-surpassing data base of records of human experiences.

Aphorism of the Day, July 17, 2025

AI is a para-human tool, like so many of human inventions.  It is alongside of humanity and if it seems to act independently, it does so like a simple machine, but with a higher functioning intelligence center which can deal with far greater probable situations than a simple machine.  Para, means along side of and in dance terminology, humans are the lead in the partnership.  We cannot blame AI for independent bad behaviors of harm and lying.

Aphorism of the Day, July 16, 2025

AI is but the algorithmic rearrangement of signifiers signifying from a data base of other signifiers to create new representations of arrangements of signifiers with a "programmed" randomness which mimics true openness of probable outcomes  but with the guided randomness to be able to create hypertext which can be meaningfully understood by the consumer of the new AI creation.

Aphorism of the Day, July 15, 2025

AI may be the result of attaining complexity in the use of metaphors, a continual deferral of this equal that equals that equals that....continually creating new tautologies.  Artificial intelligence begs the assertion of "real" intelligence which we assume is human intelligence.  Intelligence derives from human thinking which comes from the rather vague and mystical term, the human mind.  To understand the human mind not as a vague mystery, we locate its origin within the human body as a "machine," and we come to believe that mind, intelligence, and thinking originates within the human brain, a body part.  Once we reduce mind, intelligence, and thinking to a human body part generating real intelligence, AI seeks to emulate what is happening in the human machine of thinking into external computational thinking.  Human thinking, which is manifest in human language and it para-linguistic products such as mathematics, naming of sensorially encountered phenomena, sound, visual, tactile recognition, et. al., is then represented mathematically into series of zeros and ones, machine language for on or off.  This binary system and translation of all language products into computational code, then is fleshed out with virtual products to be received and used by the real human thinking subject.  AI comes to imprint our inner linguistic structured being with a new way of appropriating reality, an exponential leap from what happened when language came to text.  The latest is the first in gaining priority and it brings into existence a new way of processing written text and orality.  AI cyber reality brings into existence newness of what orality and textuality now means.

Aphorism of the Day, July 14, 2025

The results of AI are human results so they can also manifest inhumane outputs since with "garbage in, garbage out" features AI can reproduce human tendencies for evil.

Aphorism of the Day, July 13, 2025

AI is like every technological advance, it is and will follow the contours of human tendencies toward good and evil, meaning human freedom to choose will remain.  It also means that those who can enact choices affecting the life conditions of the masses will be as enhanced as ever.  It will be the "power brokers" who will make the significant choices on the use of the benefits or the harming powers of AI.  AI does not let us off the hook, ethically; it does mean that we could use enlightened leaders who choose continuously the most common good.

Aphorism of the Day, July 12, 2025

AI has the same relationship with "truth" that humans do but it can be more thorough in the compilation of more perspectives on any topic and can generate more theories of likelihood of any specific perspective as it pertains to criteria of meaningless of any proposition.

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."

Aphorism of the Day, June 4, 2025

How artificial is AI?  Does it not exist within the realm of human language users who are not artificial?  Is AI a growing reservoir of data to be continuously accessed with focussed requests to collate regarding a chosen topic?  Does AI have independence, i.e., independent "agency" from the human agents who use it?  Does the same phrase, "garbage in, garbage out" pertain to AI regarding quality of output and/or any evidence of AI ethical or moral products?  Does moral and ethical only pertain to AI users and not to AI products?  AI as a semi-human entity creates an new class of "being" in the world.