Artificial Intelligence
Keanu Reeves in The Matrix
One of the favorite science fiction themes is the idea that a person, today, is just the realization of a computer program. The person or being that did the programming did it long ago. The result might be a world as in the movie, The Matrix.
In the Matrix people worked at their jobs in modern looking buildings doing neat looking things.
But, there were a group of people that knew how to escape that paradigm. Once outside the Matrix, the world looked like a bombed-out Detroit.
Everything was imaginary and programmed. Humans were cloned in a giant “hatchery”, or something like that.
This idea can get really scary, especially if you have done any computer programming with one of the modern object oriented languages.
In object oriented programming you start by creating “classes”. Let’s create an animal class, and from that evolve a human class that inherits certain biological traits that all animals share. Then, we can proclaim an object of the people class as one instance of a person, like an Al Gore. There would also be Bob’s, Ronald’s, Donald’s, Jim’s, and even females like Marilyn Monroe, etc.
From the basic class idea we can program into people the way they think and react in logical terms, and some hard-wired illogical contrary traits. This way you could create a smart person, and have them do stupid things like Barack Obama.
Suddenly, fiction makes as much sense as reality.
Is intelligence a natural occurrence or a a programmed artificial property?
My contention is that whatever the answer is, we have artificial intelligence in the White House. It is time to click on the “Interrupt” button to send Barack Obama and his Marxist programmed minions to the trash bin.
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