richardmurray

MY COMMENT TO THE POST BELOW

Computer programs have never amazed me or scared me, and never will. If I have any issue with this issue is people keep using the term Artificial Intelligence. None of these programs are intelligent by any means. But humans keep using the term AI I wish humans would stop. 

Yes, a computer program can translate various human languages, which have rules themselves, which can be aligned to deduc a translation. yes, programs have been made by humans which are designed to make more programs. But I don't see that as a big deal. 

Is it possible for each human being to have a personal computer that is groomed to them, that assesses your physical condition  and tests you for cancer an allows you to communicate to other human beings in languages you don't know and act as a librarian or study aid and be a life organizer being the size of a button with an energy source that is solar powered while able to be longer than any human life?

Yes, between computer programming/research in acute electromagnetic emissions/research in biological cell scale structures/nuclear fusion / solar power. I can see such a device being made. It isn't amazing or scary, it is merely a tool, and one no human being is forced to use. 

A wrench is a wrench, you don't have to use it. 

For me, again, my issue is the use of the term A. I. and as always with me the Black populace, in the usa or the larger humanity, relationship to tech and to that end, which matters to me... 

It seems many Black people in the usa and sadly beyond are techphiles or techaddicts. 

Every single new tech tool black people seem to be enamored by it. It reminds me of Frederick Douglass and his love of the camera. And his reasoning for loving the camera was what he called its honest quality, it shows the human body, it isn't with an artist's manipulations, it is raw. It has a level playing field aspect in that each user of a camera is a painter whose tool does the equal work and I think ever since then many blacks, ever growing in the usa,  have seen tech as that. 

I don't though. I don't mind not being able to do something. I don't mind being able to say I don't know, or I can't do. 

I do think the legacy of enslavement to whites has made black people in the usa addicted to "doing" as if one is less than when they can not. But one is not less than when they can't lift any more bales of cotton.