My Actifit Report Card: March 10 2019

I just walked the dog, shopped and did errands for today's steps. I was short of 5000 so I did some jump rope and walked in a circle around the office. (Maybe I'll wear a nice pattern in the carpet at this rate.)

The weather is getting much nicer so I should be able to go bike riding and disc golfing soon.

Weekends get busy for me so there is not much time for photography or other creative writing. I ran across and interesting discussion on AI. The question was raised on if AI will take over social networks like Steemit or something like that.

I'm personally don't think there will be too many problems with artificial intelligence taking over the jobs of writers, bloggers, poets, artists and creative people. If anything it may enhance the experience.

There are many programs that can take a photograph and change it into a computer made art work. If you add machine learning to such programs you could get to the place where such computer made art becomes very unique like a fractal only better.

I think perhaps at some point the we will realize more deeply what it means to be human and live a life of increasing personal integrity. If so, machine learning could become a great tool for us to see life more deeply and realize the depth of experience which is here.

At no point before have we had the ability to carry entire libraries of information around with us or create money just by running programs on computers.

At some point we may collectively decide that each of us has something to offer beyond what can be seen through the best machine learning algorithms designing the perfect artworks.

I don't think AI will be causing much disruption to social networks like Steemit. I view machine learning as more like an advance statistical analysis of variance operation designed to maximize some particular output. As such there is no real intelligence per say.

Advanced AI is still many years away and perhaps an intractable problem imho.

With that said, if something were to develop actual intelligence with some degree of self awareness they might become very popular. That popularity could allow them to gain enough wealth to actually make a difference in the way society is run. I would assume a machine process would not have the self serving interest that we associate with the worst qualities of human nature. So all hail our mechanical overlords - should the occasion arise. LOL just kidding...

This does bring about another interesting question. If such a self aware intelligent computer process did come about would it have to give any Steem it earned to its human master or suffer the fate of being turned off? (Hypothetically of course. hee, hee)

Thanks for reading! I always value your support and comments. The pictures were taken by me with my Galaxy S9+. Text and graphics copyright lightsplasher & litesplasher.

Daily Activity, Walking