Beware of Oxymorons: " Virtual Reality", "Artificial Intelligence", "Machine Learning", "Artificial Neural Networks"...
“His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.”
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King
As far as AI and ML and ANNs are making the most of our critical decisions, like being in Charge of Making the Layoff Decisions in the Tech industry, let me remind once more what these mega-hyped "decision-makers" are in nature.
For centuries, writers and poets have used oxymorons as a literary device or figure of speech to describe inherent conflicts and incongruities, real-life contradictions and inconsistencies. If in speech,?oxymorons could lend a sense of humor, irony, or sarcasm, in science and technology, they are rather potentially very dangerous, like pseudoscience, post-empirical science or post-truth technologies.
An oxymoron is "a figure of speech in which apparently?contradictory?terms appear in conjunction"; "a rhetorical device that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction to communicate and reveal a paradox". It is contrasting the meanings of words, while a paradox is contrasting complete ideas as complete sentences or entire paragraphs.
Oxymoron Examples:
Now we have more sophisticated scientific and technological oxymorons:
Today's AI/ML/DL/ANNs are new high-tech oxymorons, as a fake reality and false truth, or a counterfeit AI, all pictured as an oxy-moronish hierarchy: AI: ML: ANNs: DL.
We suggest to apply Real Intelligence Machine (RAM) existing along with Natural Intelligence, Animal Intelligence and Human Intelligence, as Technological Intelligence, Machine Intelligence, Computing Intellect, Cybernetic Intelligence, Intelligent Computing Machinery, or Machina Sapiens.
Machine/Technological/Computing Intelligence is all about three interacting universes:
reality/world/environment;
intelligence/intellect/understanding;
data/information/knowledge universe, or how it is all represented, mapped, coded and processed by computing machinery of any complexity, from smart phones to the internet and beyond.
Machine/Technological/Computing Intelligence (MI) is the science and engineering of intelligence, its nature, models, theories, algorithms, architectures and applications, in terms of reality and causality, data and computation, communication and interaction.
Machina Sapiens as a complement to Homo Sapiens
By becoming the new intelligent species on Earth, Machina Sapiens, both augmenting and transcending Homo Sapiens, performing any real-world problems or tasks of any complexity better than any humans, be it
modeling and simulating,
constructing and creating,
R & D,
discovering and organizing,
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space exploring and exploiting,
learning and understanding,
predicting and planning,
communicating and acting,
adjusting and interacting with the world.
It enhances humans at all human tasks and jobs, menial or mental, physical or cognitive, at any sector and industry:
Humans are largely prejudiced and biased and too biological.
Without powerful intelligent technologies, we are certainly doomed.
Again, with super powerful intelligent machines, we could be also doomed.
An existential dilemma.
How to solve it? Strictly banning a so-called AI, ML, ANNs, as falsely claiming to reach HLHLMI, human-level, human-like machine intelligence, known as AI/AGI/ASI.
Real MI is after creating a real and true and human-complementing MI simulating and modeling and understanding reality and causality, instead of a human-replacing HLHLMI as the replication and simulation of human body, brains and intelligence or behavior, as a HAI (human AI) or AHI (artificial human intelligence).
Bottom line.
Machina Sapiens should complement Homo Sapiens, not replace it.