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In the 21st century, people rely on a vast database --- the
internet --- of so-called reliable information. People can make verbal or
written queries to acquire answers.
Well over 3,300 years ago, in and around Athens, Greece, a
man named Aristotle assembled a huge database of knowledge. He and his
assistants recorded on papyri everything they could. This included topics such
as logic, linguistics, botany, metaphysics, philosophy, among other subjects.
For well over a thousand years after his death, Medieval and Renaissance
scholars and students relied on Aristotle’s database to provide education and guidance.
Such was the depth of the Ancient Greek’s database, which was encyclopedic.
The database of knowledge we are beginning to use today is
based on information from the internet. Our new relationship with it is called
Artificial Intelligence.
Aristotle’ database was natural, not artificial.
For centuries, people relied on his database. Today we rely
on ours: the internet and Artificial Intelligence and its complex algorithms.
However, Aristotle was way ahead of his time.
In the 21st century, people use the internet and Artificial
Intelligence as a basis for learning about the world and interacting with it. This
interaction uses hardware.
For centuries leading up to the end of the 20th century,
widespread knowledge was based on books. Printed books came about because of
the invention of the printing press in Europe in the 1400s. People interacted
with books. These books were made with thick paper, animal skins, and heavy
twine to hold them together. This “hardware” of books and the “software” of
ideas within them were relatively portable. Such portability is similar with
our phones, tablets and ultra-small computers.
Could these books be called Artificial Intelligence? That
is, the books were produced by a kind of machine --- a printing press --- and
people interacted with the books. The wide-spread use of manufactured books was
the embryo of our internet. And Artificial Intelligence?
In the early 21st century, Artificial Intelligence is still
in its infancy --- its ultimate purpose and direction unknown. Nevertheless,
people are grappling to interact with A.I. to provide guidance and insight.
This is a complex relationship.
Well over 3,000 years ago, the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt had
their own kind of “Artificial Intelligence,” but there was nothing artificial
about it. The Pharaohs used their dreams to help them with answering questions,
providing help with decisions, and showing guidance. Priests would help to
interpret the dreams. In that long ago
era, the Egyptian elite kept “dream books.” We call these books but were
actually rolls of papyri. The Pharaohs wanted and needed the dreams and priests
to help the Pharaohs acquire the best foundation for their rule.
The human mind and subconscious are a powerful means, a
secure gateway to creativity and intuitive understanding. There is nothing
“artificial” about this.
In the early 21st century, people use the power
of complex algorithms of “artificial” intelligence.
From ancient Pharaohs to “modern” people, the search for
answers and guidance is eerily similar.
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Artificial Intelligence in the 21st century is a
complex interaction among algorithms, hardware, and humans. People ask the
computers about their situations and concerns and get some kind of answer.
Their situations could be about the present or the future. Is this a science
and technology basis for astrology and horoscopes? People exhort A.I. to
provide false talents to provide a simple drawing or simple writing ---
providing vague guidance.
Over 2,000 years ago, the Greeks had Artificial
Intelligence: The Oracle at Delphi. The Greeks and others would pose questions
to the Oracle, who was a kind of Articifial Intelligence, to get answers to
important matters to the present and the future. Sometimes the answers were
welcome, sometimes not. The Oracle at Delphi was a kind of ancient Artificial
Intelligence.
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In the 21st century, people use Artificial Intelligence
without a full understanding of its ultimate power and direction. The evolution
of A.I. is just beginning.
For over 2,000 years, however, there has been a kind of
“artificial” intelligence --- but there is nothing “artificial” about it. This
“intelligence” is the Bible. Ask the Bible a question and it will provide an
answer. The answers illuminate the present human condition and, perhaps, even
its future.
However, do some people believe that the Bible, like
Artificial Intelligence of the 21st century, to be an “existential
threat” of some kind? Not to livelihood or wages but to someone’s idea of
“being” or “meaning”? I leave that answer to others. The Bible is a kind of
Natural or Generative Intelligence ---
not artificial. Afterall, the Bible has been in constant use for over 2,000
years, while the Artificial Intelligence of the 21st century is just
beginning.
The written word of God, the Bible, in direct contrast of
the algorithms of computer Artificial Intelligence. What a difference!
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In the 21st century, people are beginning to rely
on Artificial Intelligence. To what extent eventually for logic and reasoning
no one knows.
In the late 17th century and early 20th century,
Issac Newton lived. Through his mathematics, he made clear the past, present
and future. Because of his calculations, humankind finally could know where a
celestial object had been in the deep past, where it would in the present, and
where it would be no matter how far in the future. Newton had unlocked
knowledge that humankind since it began had lacked until him. Issac Newton’s
mind was a kind of “artificial intelligence,” but there was nothing artificial
about it. Yet, for his time, his way of thinking was what is now in the 21st
century is called Artificial Intelligence.
People in the 21st century now take his intellectual
accomplishments casually and for granted. Yet, in his time and for centuries
thereafter, the results of his work were and are supremely powerful. There was
nothing artificial about his thinking --- it was completely natural. His
thinking was akin to a computer --- what we might describe today as “artificial”
intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence in the 21st century
threatens people who feel their livelihoods will become extinct. This is
because they fear that A.I. is “taking over” the creative and administrative
tasks that people rely on for wages. They feel insecure that A.I. can do their
jobs more efficiently and precisely.
In the early 19th century, there were people in
England and elsewhere who feared the same with regard to clothmaking
(textiles). They believed that their livelihoods would be erased because of new
machinery. The Luddites did not want this new machinery from “taking over.” To
that end, they used threats and violence against the threat.
The feelings and thoughts of the Luddites are not so far
removed, perhaps, from how people in the 21st century are reacting to how
Artificial Intelligence is “taking over.”
Of course, the Luddites or anyone could not talk to the new
machine inventions as 21st century people can talk to A.I. But, alas, this lack
of talking machinery was the reality of “technology” of the early 19th century.
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