The Story: Yours, Mine and Ours

I amend:) especially today:) I do not have the numbers but how many people had their informatios shared from others, given freely from others in the internet age. 

That would pretty much be anyone with a smart phone.

Even tbe senior citizen with all those plastic rewards card attached to their keyring.

It is hard not to freely share your information. 

@richardmurray & @Troy  I hadn't thought about involuntary ways we share our stories.   

I was thinking more about how we share moments, and events with each other.  For example, I can tell a part of your story, Troy, that took place at Brooklyn Tech because it was my journey too. Or Richard, I can share a little of your writing journey as I know it from AALBC because both of us look for ways to get our words to the masses.

But your responses allow my little observation to become so much more than I'd realized. 

Data analysts can collect all the information in the world;  sift through it and concoct part of our stories but it will never be accurate. It will always lack intimacy. 

Humans are too fluid.   We possess innate ability to connect with another human in a way that allows us to feel what the other person is feeling in that moment.  

This is one reason, Artificial Intelligence will never become the standard.  It can never  be intimate - because it doesn't understand vulnerability.  Such as the intimacy of community.   In a community, we allow ourselves to see others and  " be seen" by them.  

Looking through our data and trying to figure out the human experience is as hard as looking through our excrement and understanding  WHY we eat the things we do.  To know WHY we eat, takes sharing a meal and feeling the nuances of the story we tell.  

Speaking of meal and stories,  -Amistad author Michael W. Twitty,  won the James Beard Foundation Award for his book - The Cooking Gene.

But I digress. 

I happened to stumble on this early tedtalk yesterday and while the speaker rambles on, he expands on this concept  when he said  "emotional empathy, feeling with the other person"  

His talk reminded me of why it is a lot easier to turn humans into robots than it will be for Artificial Intelligence to reach the level of humanity.  Humans will always have shared stories; AI, not so much.

I see @Mel Hopkins yes, one member in the masses at a time:) 

Nice line Data analysts can collect all the information in the world;  sift through it and concoct part of our stories but it will never be accurate. It will always lack intimacy. 

For me, artificial intelligence will never be truly intelligent. Merely an illusion alluding to intelligence that serve the vanity in humans to be masters to something. 

11 hours ago, richardmurray said:

Merely an illusion alluding to intelligence that serve the vanity in humans to be masters to something.

@richardmurray , interesting perspective and one that makes a lot of sense - especially with the history of humans seeking to control each other. 

On 5/3/2018 at 10:31 AM, Mel Hopkins said:

it is a lot easier to turn humans into robots than it will be for Artificial Intelligence to reach the level of humanity

I never heard this before, but it is a brilliant observation.

Remember @Kalexander2 every machine purpose stem from its creator, not itself 

Precisely my point, @ruchardmurray!

one thing @Kalexander2 carson /trump all said they would do these things if elected

@Richard Murray, yes sir, I don't recall hearing that specially because they promised so many ludicrous polices. But to witness this 'heartless' move in real life only adds to my sense of hatred for Trump/Carson. To think of the plight elderly Blacks, children and widows without protection from the elements, without a place to call home or hope for a future. Not even talking about how worse matters are going to get for Black folk. Or is that a 'blood red' light at the end of this tunnel?

20 hours ago, richardmurray said:

every machine purpose stem from its creator, not itself 

@richardmurray  ... OMG!!!  this is true of everything we create.

Understanding the creator reveals the creator..

I knew this to be true of my writing ... to read me is to know my heart - (good bad or indifferent).   BUT now looking from your perspective I'd say this is true of what we consume.  

On 5/6/2018 at 8:50 AM, Kalexander2 said:

I do believe anyone with something to hide exposes everything about her/his self.

 

@Kalexander2., 

"It's not that I have something to hide.  It's that I have nothing I want you to see."  ~ANON  (Netflix) 

10 hours ago, Kalexander2 said:

allowing local and state governments to continue receiving HUD grants without compliance with the full requirements of the Fair Housing Act, the Post reported. 

@Kalexander2 If I understand this premise correctly, if  the state is receiving the money - then why aren't officials distributing the HUD funds based on needs  - rather than using the cash to integrate communities.   One challenge, however,  is to make sure millionaires such as Fox News Sean Hannity don't get the HUD money  and then fix up buildings in areas - and charge exorbitant amount of rent for each apartment. 

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/sean-hannity-under-fire-for-allegedly-using-hud-money-to-help-buy-housing-property-in-georgia/85-548596246

@Mel Hopkins true:)  but, what separate a baby from a program is a baby while it is created at least physically through parents, its design is special. the parents can not determine what it will be, like all the rest created from humans. 

@Kalexander2 yes , the one key thing that black people must state or remember is that our vote would not had changed it. The presidential election in the u.s.a. is fifty elections. whomever get the majority vote in a state gain all their electoral votes, except for two states, where the votes are divided upon the percentage. Black people do not have a majority vote in any state in the usa, and the white vote this past election voted as a block for donald trump. The black vote voted against trump, all non white votes , voted against trump  side carson, but none of them separately or together did and do have the quantity to win it alone, as the white vote proved. 

@ Richard Murray: Not exactly, Mr. Murray; a child can be programed to be whatever the parent wants; priest, serial killer, politician, fool, wise man, etc. Although a child can learn to be any of these things without guidance, there is always some external/internal influence.  However, just as there's no guarantee a machine will take the program it's imbrued with, or continue functioning as expected, nor is it guaranteed a child will turn-out as expected.

For instance, Donald Trump, constantly ridiculed by his father who said he was too soft, weak, a loser, etc., find validation by pointing out the faults in others, calling them losers, "you're the loser, not me because I can make you suffer." This is to say not all guidance turns out opposite, some just turn out to be side-ways or misguided. 

Never in my wildest dreams (and yes I have wild ones) would I think a short observation would spur such a nourishing conversation!  Thank you @richardmurray, @Troy and @Kalexander2 for you evocative perspectives!    

@Mel Hopkins our pleasure... I bet one of the wild dreams has an opening line... it all begins with honey:) 

 @richardmurray: Doubt sister Hopkins meant where that's going, but i'll leave it up her to check it up!