A brief history of AI
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I came across this doing some research on Aladdin, Blackrocks AI trading software. I've always traded stocks and in the past 10-15 years, nothing made sense. Thing go up when they should go down and vice versa. It goes much deeper than that. For those who are caught up in all this social media trash, this is what's under it all. To understand something, you must understand it's origins. The program is the one responsible for Blackrock buying up all the real estate. People are just doing what it tells them, because it's profitable. This AI program is now being used by the federal government. The genie is most likely already out of the bottle.
AI is overrated. Literally just a computer program, everything has to be programmed. It's even a stretch to call a computer program an "intelligence". There is no "self-learning", an application can be given data but it will only do what it's programmed to do with that data. Trading bots are not "artificial intelligence", they are simple programs that buy dips and sell peaks.
The most advanced AIs out there are used in video games and advertising. The traffic system in a virtual city like GTA is actually an incredibly complicated artificial intelligence, but it is just doing what it is programmed to do, detecting other cars and avoid collisions just like the self-driving AI. Targeted advertisements is probably the best example of an advanced AI, the system collects data and uses it as if it were a self-learning intelligence. But still, it's a computer program doing what it's programmed to do. The computer didn't decide on it's own to listen to your conversations, convert the audio to text, add that text to a huge secret profile for you and then scan through that data for brand names or product suggests to show you a related advertisement the next day... a human programmed it.
TLDR; AI isn't as scary as people make it out to be
READ AND WATCH EVERYTHING ADAM CURTIS HAS EVER DONE AND IT WILL BLOW YOUR FUCKING MIND.
Personal faves: century of self, hypernormalization, power of nightmares... shit it’s hard to pick favorites, seriously, watch whatever you can get...