Who’s The Boss?

 Response to the immediately preceding post:

While I strongly approve Facebook refusing to maintain false data, I do find it irritating when I point out that a post is false and they say your post said something false. Yes it did, and I posted it to point out that it was false.

I repeat artificial intelligence can’t be far away because we have already mastered artificial stupidity.

The post in question? Here’s the blog link:

https://el-naranjal-del-desierto.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-great-wall-of-trump.html?m=1

Please note that any human being will immediately comprehend that I am debunking the claim, not making it. That is too much for a computer to understand. I don’t blame the computer. I place the responsibility firmly upon those people who trust computers to make human level decisions.

I have said many times that we don’t need to worry about robots taking over from us because they are malicious. They won’t need to. We will simply turn everything over to them whether they like it or not. This is because we are a lazy species, Homo Relaxus.

As a stunning example of just how bad this can get (and also of just how accurate my prediction was), consider the following case.

As a response to the problem of extreme unemployment fraud, the state of Michigan adopted a robotic program to capture the perpetrators. Having almost entirely removed humans from the loop, the robot set about destroying the lives of innocent citizens, driving some of them into bankruptcy.  The program is so bad that it has a 97% failure rate. That means out of every hundred people that it throws into massive legal and financial difficulties, 97 of them are innocent. Only three of them are actually guilty. If you’re interested in this rather remarkable story, which is all too predictable, here’s a link:

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hjzoVW_DPps

Again, I remind you of the poor computer in John Varley’s series.  In one of the books (Steel Beach?), the computer bitterly complains that it really hates the burdens humans have dumped on it; making it judge, jury, executioner, and everything else humans don’t want to be bothered doing themselves.