AI, robots and the multiculturalism factor

There is much noise being made about artificial intelligence popularly known as AI and the further advancement of robots.

Unsurprisingly, as with every issue, they have both their backers and their naysayers.

Some are out there spinning it that AI and robots will take over virtually everything in the nearest future.

You don’t need to scratch deep below the surface before you will realize that most of such people are those behind the two innovations and so need to sell them to make their money even if they know in their heart of hearts that what they are spinning will never come to pass.

At least we know clearly now through the recent revelations about Dr Anthony Fauci that what you say in public doesn’t necessarily correlate with what you believe.

And we know it as well through the climate change alarmists whom inasmuch as they mean good for the world and want it to be better, still they don’t really know what’s going to happen to the world and keep throwing out possibilities that never come to pass because they didn’t create the world after all and don’t know how it came about, the animals, nature, humans, so it’s very difficult for them to know what will actually happen to the world.

So, when the AI and robots’ proponents go out there and spin their wonderful stories that make them the money they are after through astronomical government contracts and government licensing of their products, some out there become scared of the future presented to them, one in which AI and robots have taken over their jobs and so on.

One thing is certain.

The AI and robots’ promoters are right that the two ongoing innovations have a critical role to play in the world.

But that will be in the area of entertainment mostly.

Whilst the two are great inventions, they are not humans that have the highest intelligence, which is why the two are even made by humans in the first instance to support humans and are even being promoted by humans, not the other way round, so they can never take over from humans as some are afraid of.

They will try their best, though, albeit with human supervision still, because if they run into challenges as is common with life, they can’t solve them on their own.

For instance, if you program a robot to walk down a street, and there’s a cordon on it, what will the robot do?

Your guess is as good as mine.

And another proof that AI and robots won’t be as great as some expect them to be is the great global experiment: multiculturalism.

Its utter failure proves that AI and robots will also greatly succeed only where they can enhance human values and never where they aim to replace them.

Take that to the bank.