Why artificial intelligence is not intelligent at all and is only called that for marketing reasons.

Admittedly, today's AI models not only consume a lot of electricity but also deliver results that surprised me, but also absurd errors that are trivialized as hallucinations. One fact that is often overlooked, partly due to good marketing, is that today's AI models are based on calculated probabilities. The AI does not really understand what it is doing, it only calculates probabilities. Admittedly, it often does this very well until a “hallucination” occurs. This means that AI can only reflect human knowledge, human perspective and human bias and racism. Everything is based on human training data and the AI calculates with which probability the human user would like to have which knowledge. Wouldn't you expect much more from real intelligence? I just wonder how people can attribute intelligence to this well-calculating machine? There are people who even fall in love with today's AI models or see them as real artificial life. Fueled by marketing that promises us a real super intelligence in the near future in order to get even more venture capital to maintain the whole hoax, which devours vast sums of money in data centers and electricity. Another more serious problem in my view is that today's AI models are destroying the jobs that we need to continue creating good training material for AIs. Today's AIs can easily replace graphic designers, translators, authors, musicians and poets. As a result, the internet is already flooded with AI-generated content. This will eventually become the new training data, which will further reduce so-called intelligence. How a superintelligence will ever emerge from this is a mystery to me.

#ai #technology #training #internet #user #marketing #economy #money #business #future #humanity #problem #ethics #philosophy #fail #knowledge #science #intelligence

The past and the future are now.

[…] it is true—as the Eastern mind has discovered before the Western mind was even born—that ultimately there is only the present. The problem is that the Western mind tends to misinterpret this assertion as meaning that the past and the future can be forgotten and ignored. Such misinterpretation is tragic: the present is the only thing that exists because both the past and the future exist in the present, as integral parts of the present.
You have never experienced a past beyond your memories, which are themselves experienced now; always now. You have never experienced a future beyond your expectations which are themselves experienced now; always now.

Therefore, to truly live the present moment in all its richness and breadth, in all its substance and depth, we must integrate our memories and expectations, our history and aspirations. In the language of the Western mind, we must embrace and embody the past and the future.

To be our true selves, we must be the entire arrow of time. If you succeed in doing so, you won’t feel empty or alone a day in your life.

— Bernardo Kastrup

#blackAndWhite #meditation #philosophy #photography #zen

Ernst Cassirer -- 1874 - 1945

I've just finished this German philosopher's 1944 "An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture". This reading was prompted in part by my thinking about the work of the American philosopher Susanne Langer , on whom Cassirer exercised a powerful influence, and partly by a more general interest in intellectual history and the history of philosophy.

The opening paragraph of Peter Gordon's introduction to the 2021 edition:

>> Can any meaning at all still be found in that old and often battered word humanism? Over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, so many arrows have pierced this once heroic ideal that it now resembles Saint Sebastian, bound to a tree and always just about to die. But much like the martyr himself, humanism has shown a miraculous ability to survive its wounds, and a faith in humanity seems to persist even when the evidence against it may appear overwhelming. Perhaps no document of the recent past better exemplifies the improbable persistence of this ever-dying idealism than "An Essay on Man," a book that Ernst Cassirer completed in 1944, not long before his death the following year. Few works of philosophy have ever seemed as antiquated, and fewer still as necessary, since it may serve as a reminder of what we still might be. It is a hymn to humanity in an inhuman age. <<

I'm undecided about tackling the three volumes of his "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms."

#Philosophy #ErnstCassirer #AnEssayOnMan #PhilosophyOfCulture #Humanism #IntellectaulHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #158

Coldness as a melody, gliding through a river with a magnificent #cat and #fox, why people give up and how to overcome it, #Japanese ambient #music, #vegan shepherd’s pie #recipe, building a pond for local #wildlife and loads more. #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip

When it’s cold enough to see a bird’s melody

Via Nature is fucking lit on Reddit.

Infographic: Why People Give Up

This one is particularly powerful. Don’t let yourself give in to self-doubt and to give up on things, here are some common mental traps people fall into. Just. Keep. Going!
Infographic: Why People Give Up
Here is a very determined fisherman to cheer you on…

youtu.be/KxGRhd_iWuE

The most beautiful kayak journey in Germany with a cat and fox

This channel called LouisWildlife is incredibly serene with this lucky guy and his Main Coon cat Louis gently glide through canals watching the world go by. Apparently Louis has known this fox since he was five years old. I would love this gentle life with rivers, kayaks and friends (animal and human) in this place!

youtu.be/lgdmHKJ4uYU?si=NyURm7…

Hearty Vegan Shepherd’s Pie

Featuring protein rich cauliflower, potatoes, lentils and much more to help warm your heart and tummy. Via Rainbow Plant Life.
Hearty Vegan Shepherd’s Pie

I Built a Wildlife Pond… and so Many Animals Came | Wildlife Habitats | Robert E Fuller

Robert E Fuller is a really talented wildlife photographer and artist from Yorkshire who has created a wonderful natural pond on his property and filmed the animals who visited over the course of a year. It’s a symphony of life and extremely uplifting. He has inspired me to do the same when I eventually get my own place. I love his art and hope to one day own a painting of one of my fav British animals, and one very unfairly maligned and persecuted – the ever tenacious and resilient Badger.

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Guido Borelli’s comforting vision of Tuscany in the summer

Via Helen Warlow
Guido Borelli’s comforting vision of Tuscany in the summer

Hong Kong by Elizabeth Keith, 1924

Elizabeth Keith (1887–1956) was a Scottish artist known for her evocative prints depicting East Asian landscapes and cultures. “Hong Kong” (1924) captures the vibrant harbour life and bustling cityscape of early 20th-century Hong Kong as the sun sets and the constellation of yellow lanterns flicker on over the looming Chinese sailing boats. Via Francisco Ribiero.
Hong Kong by Elizabeth Keith, 1924.

Languages in the British Isles in 600 AD

I am a bit obsessed with this period of history and how things were unfolding at this time…

Via Nrken19

Languages in the British Isles in 600 AD medieval history

Beautiful rare cassettes: Chie Otomi & Shirotsubaki – Season of Wandering (2023)

This Youtube channel is a treasure trove of little-heard cassette tapes of ambient, drone and new age music from the vaults. There is an emerging trend (especially in Japan) of a return to analogue and cassette based music. Personally I love this, it reminds me of my childhood and the wonder elicited from listening patiently to a whole album.

youtu.be/-5Nkrjit9f8?si=jUVhet…

Nokia 3310 Liquid Drum and Bass Soundtrack

This Nokia happens to be the first mobile phone I ever owned, it came out about the year 2000. I have a lot of nostalgic memories attached to this phone! Do you recognise it? The music as well is really peaceful and beautiful…enjoy!

youtu.be/9Apckeia5gw?si=g3V2oQ…

Visual Illusions: Natalie Featherston’s Trompe L’oeil Artistry

American artist Natalie Featherston crafts stunning, illusionary artworks within the trompe l’oeil genre, a French term meaning “deceive the eye.” This technique creates the illusion of three-dimensionality on a flat surface. Since 1995, Featherston has perfected her craft, blending the meticulous skill of Dutch masters with contemporary humour. Her oil paintings, drawn directly from life, achieve a lifelike realism that can fool even the sharpest viewers. To explore more of Natalie’s art, visit her website. Via Inspiration Grid.

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