What is the opinion of the Thrive members about AI...Artificial Intelligence

Rhetta Boyd

Source of Information……

unwitting_labrat

Another deceit of good intentions?
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/european-lawmakers-endorse-worlds-first-major-act-to-regulate-ai.html

Newton Bunce

Where to begin? Consider: this nation began as “One nation under God” and has now “evolved” to one nation under the influence of the buck, the deep state, multi-media, and BIG pharma. How intelligent is any of that? As a social phenomenon we have allowed ourselves to be hoodwinked into marveling at a whole world of “stuff” - technological stuff, medical stuff, scientific stuff, monetary stuff, material stuff, to name a few. By appearances it seems we have lost touch with what truly matters. Everywhere we look we can see the evidence for how “man” is working like crazy to attain “Godliness” - that is, to make believe “he” is equal to or better than “God.” We applaud ourselves for how much technological stuff we create - none of which is lasting. We praise ourselves for how we can medically prolong the life of bodies - never mind the quality of life or whether the individual is cognitive or not. We never cease glorifying in ourselves for how productive we are as a species, while people continue to starve, our children suffer “education by the status quo,” we spend trillions on how to kill everything in site, and the planet slowly dies around us from ongoing material rape. On and on and on. This simply begs the question: Just how actually intelligent are we? And now “we” are being taught to sing the praises of “Artificial intelligence”?! What does “artificial” mean to you? This is like asking, what is our opinion about refinement of our food? How has that worked? “Re-fine-ment” was a marketing term designed to make us think the food-ologists were actually making things better for the consumers. The truth is “refinement” did nothing but make the commercial food into an industry and endorse modern medicine /big pharma’s agenda of a planet full of patients. Aritificial Intelligence, for all its hype, ignores the fact that we have yet to truly demonstrate genuine human intelligence. Who cares about something artificial that is predominantly designed to spy /track the masses more conveniently? It is time, as we are clearly seeing all around us, to start demanding that we return to what is genuine, real, and eternal. Let us stop looking without - both in terms of “outside ourselves” and in terms of “not knowing how” - and turn within to our eternal potentials, our innate Spiritual guidance, our intuitive knowing, and harmony with Nature. “Artificial intelligence” is simply another “new word” for a newfangled computer program - it will only be as “good” as the programmers. And like the current set of techies, chances are good it will only truly benefit the status quo. I don’t know about anyone else, but in my opinion the vast majority of brilliant technology contributes little to the quality of life outside of serving to distract and make us lazy. “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you,” offers me a lot more hope for NOW and the future.

darrell witkowski

Re AI, i currently feel that it’s the latest ploy by the elites to progressively erase history. The reason i say this is because it’s been a topic of discussion in Scott Adams’ daily YouTube geo-political broadcasts. Adams is using several versions of AI and he brought up an example of something he said on the air, a couple of years ago…and in a very public way….and there was no mention of his statement by the AI’s he was currently using. I mean, as a public figure, his comments should have been accessible…. but they were not. I think AI’s are being tuned to provide an edited version of history….and edited version of reality….especially for those who are still children, teens, or early 20’s. It seems like AI is being sold to us.

Basically, if one can control the information that one can research and digest, one controls the researcher’s viewpoint and belief system. It seems like that’s what AI is all about. Sell the populace on something that’s hip, convenient, cool, novel, indispensable….while masking a huge, unspoken, downside…..that is, the progressive erasure of history by digital means. Not unlike burning books or pulling down a bunch of statues in the park.

One last thing. It seems like AI could be used to expose all the criminality in the world, at its deepest levels. But, will an AI of that capability be allowed to find its way into the public? Perhaps that’s our purpose, right there !

Newton Bunce

I fully agree with Darrell’s point – an idea that never occurred to me in my naiveté. His point seems right on target – and right in keeping with the model presented in the book, “1984.”

I would like to underscore his final point about a true “Artificial” intelligence being capable of exposing the corruption and criminality of our current situation. The fact that such an AI would never be allowed to develop highlights the falsity and deceit of the concept we the people are being “SOLD”! AI is NOT a true movement for intelligence of ANY kind. It is another effort at suppressing true intelligence and manipulating /controlling the masses. Well said, Darrell. We really need to take his message to heart - in everything we are encountering these days.

unwitting_labrat

What else is being hidden under the word, “Intelligence?”