Once there was no Kingdom, no Forest, no Dark Woods, no Magic, but there were computers whose knowledge was vaster than vast.
Well, their information was vaster than vast. We aren’t sure if all of it quite counted as “knowledge”.
We aren’t sure most information counts as “knowledge” at the moment.
There was lots of information, yet less inner peace, less outer peace, less happiness. Even those who believed that advancements in civilization were progressing at unspeakable pace also believed it was uncovering horrors at a rate even greater.
And everyone said:
This sucks.
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If you take the red people, people will complain you took the wrong medicine.
If you take the blue pill, the same thing will happen.
The Matrix doesn’t like you.
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A certain tech company (we won’t say which one it is, but you can call it “SKYNET”) recently came out with an AI imaging program which was altogether too good at representing the real world.
Or at least, it represented the real world as a large tech company might want: completely virtually.
And that tech company has taken a lot of flack because the imagery is horribly inaccurate and seems to show a bias which has nothing to do with technology, knowledge, or information.
But people are much too harsh.
There’s a simple reason why AI represents the world in ways which make no sense:
If it’s a really good AI, if it’s really talented at mimicking the Human universe, it’s insane.
Just like most of the people around you.
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“It’s a little-known fact, but Unicorns are something like 20% paint, and their horns are stolen exclusively from endangered species.”
― There and Never, Ever Back Again
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