Editorials & Other Articles

I don’t know and I don’t care
Seriously, I don’t believe most of these people are stupid in a physiologically compromised way. It’s that they don’t want to go through the rigor of any sort of organized thought process. I further believe it’s a natural human tendency that will be our undoing. We’ve subcontracted a large part of our cognitive activity to algorithms already. I warned about this when pocket calculators first came out. I said, give it a couple of generations and people won’t be able to add 17 + 11 in their heads. The advent of PCs added to the relinquishment of thinking to algorithms already. Now, vast swaths of society, business, and industry are flocking to AI - and we’re just beginning to see the results of that.