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The Obfuscation of Intelligence — Part 4…

Modernity, Post-Modernity and the Tower of Babel

“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence”…

— Jean Baudrillard

obfuscate

/ˈɒb.fʌs.keɪt/ ˈɑːb.fə.skeɪt

to throw into shadow

confuse

to be evasive, unclear, or confusing

to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally

Please read and watch :

• Is AI making you dumb? — Niall Ferguson: What Technophiles Should Learn from Medieval Universities [ LINK ];

• The Computer-Science Bubble is Bursting — Is the snake eating its own tail? (i.e. an Ouroborus that will lead to its own Self-Destruction) — Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it [LINK];
• Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything [ LINK ] — We are all trapped in the ‘enshittification’ of the internet [ LINK ] — The Imminent Enshittification of the Internet: LLMs are creating a huge sanitation problem that will probably never be solved [ LINK ]; and
• Tech companies are turning to ‘synthetic data’ to train AI models — but there’s a hidden cost [ LINK ].

“The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I’d have been lying!”…

— Rene Magritte

Please read — A Semiotic Painting Magritte’s point was to remind viewers that his representation of oil smeared on parchment is not a pipe. It is a symbol [ LINK ]

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Avoiding Plato’s Cave…

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