Artificial What? Oh Insemination? NO...Intelligence

     The question today everybody is asking – What will AI do for me? Well, as far as I can see it, nothing. Unless you’re talking about Artificial Insemination. In which case if successful will give you years of problems and sleepless nights. But if we are talking about Artificial Intelligence then yes, it could do something worthwhile. It is like most human inventions, there is a good side and a bad side. In other words, can be used for good or bad. The present fear is that AI itself could be used like that. I, as a person use AI, it helps giving me some interesting points to develop writing a novel. If you’re an investor then it can show ways to work that could be profitable. It designs, it draws. But it should always be remembered that AI is no more than the knowledge humans have committed to the wider world. Written or recorded. A humongous database. Using data it could perhaps find ways to multiple gates instead of just one. But on its own it could never think of something like the binomial theorem from nothing. What I mean by that is when there was no binomial theorem and algebra was not a mainstream thought process, just only the in the brain of one or two humans. So AI could not search any existent databases, there was nothing. I did pose a question to AI about growth. How would the Universe look to me if I grow and double my size every hour. How long would it be before the Universe becomes a single bright dot in a black nothing? Or could there be many of such dots and did that mean there is something like the Multiverse? As I suspected it came back with a lot of waffle about existing (!) theorems and the usual how big is big stuff. When in reality I wanted a definite answer about – Yes, there is the thing called Multiverse and Infinity is real. But of course it could not do that because none of us have incontrovertible proof. At least, not yet.

    Mathematicians have developed wonderful symbols, it is a language all on its own. No-one else understands it. Lambda, gamma symbols to describe gravity and how it interacts on everything, multiplying, subdividing, polarisation equations, even algorithms about what happens when we go to the toilet. All very interesting but does it tell me exactly what gravity is? I mean Newton’s view, Einstein’s view about warping space-time – whatever that means. All most scientists including AI and dismissing the waffle, are telling us, Gravity? It just is. In other words, we really don’t know. Einstein had this nice idea about space-time. Another of those – what the ‘ell is that, questions. Personally I think time does not exist. Time as an idea is something invented by humans as a measuring quantity. Something like figuring out the Earth’s orbit around the sun and calling that – a year. Then start subdividing that quantity in parts that made sense insofar the seasons were concerned. Spring, summer, autumn, winter. Then to divide these seasons in three calling them months. Nice, well at least only so far. It was then figured out that there were small discrepancies. So we now have leap years, and so on. Time exists only in our minds. Time measures movement. If there was no movement at all, there would be no need to have time. My time, personal time, started when I was born. It will end when I die. My movement stopped, as far as that the Universe has ended. The inevitable question then becomes, what was all it for? For myself, I am alive, I think, I look upon things and wonder. Am I the only being? Yes, I know there are 8 billion like myself, here on this planet. But if size doesn’t really matter as it depends on where you exist and the restrictions that imposes, it could well be that thinking about multiverses and infinity, there will be far greater things around. The question is will AI ever know?