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salience's avatar

Like all tools, ... That the tool will itself tell you what it is not useful for is interesting. After the fact I thought of further needling that cd be done, of course. Rick (below) might have gotten a bit further!

salience's avatar

I didn't want to make Perplexity AI feel bad, so I didn't go into this:

Inasmuch as (Human) Intelligence involves and requires Consciousness, and Consciousness is a non-physical or extra-physical phenomenon (see Mind and Cosmos, by Thomas Nagel, on the failure of reductive materialism), then so-called AI, Artificial Intelligence, can never in principle achieve identity with or replicate, or even mimic Human Intelligence since it must forever remain a prisoner of the physical. Human Intelligence, and thus Consciousness, demonstrates a capacity for Agency, the source of its non-physical reality.

"It is in having possibilities, which exist only insofar as they are envisaged by a conscious subject, that the capacity for agency resides. Possibilities populate a space outside of nature, from which human agents seek to act upon the world. There are no possibilities in the physical world itself; there is only what is. The choices behind our actions are therefore not effects of material causes with an ancestry traceable to the Big Bang, or the expression of laws acting throughout nature. They are the children of envisaged possibilities.

"It is moreover in the grasping of possibilities that we find the origins of the scientific inquiry through which we have learned how to magnify our capacity to manipulate the world. It is ironic, therefore that, as science discovers ever more universal laws with increasingly astonishing powers of prediction, we have begun to imagine that these laws demonstrate that the noose of nature is tied tightly round our necks. To the contrary, our growing science confers upon us the ability to act upon nature from ever greater distances. It is not mere superstition, therefore, that our actions originate from us, that they deflect the course of events, and that we are responsible for them.

Raymond Tallis 2020

AI must remain a prisoner of the physical since the direction of causation is from the machine (which is attempting to be Intelligent) to the result being sought, while Human Intelligence is just the opposite since reductive materialism fails.

Steve Martin's avatar

Sighing. I sometimes use Perplexity, but avoid questions that challenge the tech bros and others entitled in the current world order. As often as not, A.I. is just an 'Anonymously Imaginary' tool, and these data centers are built to do three things ... surveillance, gaslighting, and control ... the modus operandi of high-functioning psychopaths.

Altered States of America's avatar

fascinating. i've had some fun with Chat GPT about 9/11, MKULTRA and other psychedelic conspiracies.... it's fun to outsmart it like you do here....

Rick Zammuto's avatar

Well this is a very decent summary. However, noticeably missing to me are the emails sent back and forth between FucStein, Gates, and other lying fakes (since 2000, exposed by many), that specifically show among other facts that the cleavage patterns of AIDS within COV, were deliberately pre-planned, and these and other details were published by RFK in numerous locations. That is a big problem. A bigger problem to me as a PHD in evolutionary ecology is that cellular patterns within COV have not occurred in nature for 3 billion years, which prove beyond any doubt it had to be purposely created in a lab, not nature, using my experience and knowledge! Further, I was notified by email in 2018 by the former leading bioweapons expert in the world at the time that what became COV was deliberately created by the World Economic Forum cult to murder 7 billion people. Additionally, he said Pfizer, the head corp there had a backup, fake vax bioweapon to continue the "job" should COV fail to murder the WEF-cult goal of murdering 7 billion people. This is exactly what happened! Thus, I knew what was coming since RFKs published emails from 2000+, and had specific notification by a law prof in 2018 that all became the scientifically-accepted reality years later of those in the know, that knowledge still being attempted to be covered up by millions of liars all over the world.

Steve Souder's avatar

Wow! What an awesome tilt at that windmill!