Algorithms are acting weird
If you're a sci fi nerd like I am, you may have watched the Movie I Robot, or other movies about Artificial intelligence taking over. Of course who can forget the movies that Arnold Schwarzeneger made famous, the Terminator and Total Recall. I recently read the book Origin by Dan Brown, (spoiler alert!) which implies that humanity is moving into an technological evolution, merging our present form with the technology we are creating to become a new species. When you see people's faces plastered to their phones, or their fingers seemingly glued to their texting screens, you have to wonder.
Try to imagine however, what would happen if all our satelites came crashing down. Most of our communication these days, including watching TV, is reliant on the signals relayed from those Satelites. My husband and I also love watching what we call 'disaster' movies, where all hell breaks loose in the form of tornados, earthquakes,solar flares, ice storms, volcanos and the list goes on....there is always some technology in those movies that saves humanity. Where would we be without it! Think about your Grandparents or Great Grandparents, depending on how old you are.
Technology for them was simply electricity and if you lived in a large city, you might have thought natural Gas was the most wonderful invention. A phone was a device that only the middle class and the wealthy could afford, and involved having to go through an operator every time. When you visited with family and friends, your attention was focused on them, not on your smart phone or Ipad. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love all this modern technology! I am old enough that I can remember when things were much less techy. However, the movies I mentioned in the beginning have got me thinking about what if?
My oldest son is a computer programmer and recently went to a Google convention (lucky guy). He told me that the algorithms behind Google have become 'self learning', an artificial intelligence if you will. Humans still think they control computers and the language behind it... Silly humans. Speaking of algorithms, the ones that live in my website have been behaving weird lately.
Internal links to my pages are breaking for no apparent obvious reason. Yesterday I noticed that I had two duplicate pages, that I did not create AND they were sitting in TRASH. First, I did not create them, and second, I did not put them in TRASH. One of my pages had it's position moved in my Main Menu too, from the front to the back. I also did not do that! I had to do some fixing yesterday but I wonder how long before I have to do that again.
Here I am sitting at my desk top computer, looking outside to the snow that is falling again, and I wonder what my life would have been like 100 years ago. Would it be better? Or worse?Now if I could go back in Time......
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How very strange!!
I have had strange things happen to me when I was typing in Site Content, but I am sure it's always me who has pressed something by mistake.
Your experience is really really strange!! You wouldn't have had such problems 100 years ago, but you would have had different ones. I think it's just as well that we can't choose.
~ Isabella
yeah sometimes the whole computer system with it's programming language is very strange and frustrating :)
Oh yeah, our family are also die hard Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Trek Discovery, Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5 fans... among others......
Thought provoking post.Maybe evolution is no just a biological species. Artificial Intelligence may own a part of that acre in existence, too. You never know....
You sound like you are a hopeless romantic :)
I too enjoy watching films relating to the end of the world. It's scary, but I don't think we can do much in such events, except to wait for the inevitable...
I don't know if my observation is related to your thinking. I have some posts that are titled with ______ 2. I don't remember I have created posts with 2 in the end.
Let's say my post is: Addressing Problems in the Offline World, and there 2nd edition like this: Addressing Problems in the Offline World2
Are you meaning having duplicate pages? The weird thing that happened on my site is that I had a duplicate of two pages that I did not make. They showed up recently. They were both sitting in my TRASH, but I did not put them there....Since they were duplicates, I did eventually delete them completely. One of the Pages in my menu, also got moved.... and not by me. Strange. My husband asked me if someone could have accessed my site, but I always use the WA log in, and refresh my passwords often. I think it was just artificial intelligence gremlins....
Yes, duplicated.
No other persons who can access every site and do manipulations for their own favor or against anyone than the owner of domain registrar and web host.
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The idea of computer controlling everything might be a scary one to some people. To me, they already are running our lives already. We have become slaves to our desktop, tablets, phones and video gaming devices.
I was raised by my grandparents, so I still remember not having a phone at home. I remember the black and white TV with no cable. I remember playing cards, board games, and even the games where you sit on the porch and everyone has a color of car that passes to count to pass the time. I remember conversations held face-to-face. The truth is, I actually miss some of these things.
I would still rather talk face-to-face with someone and I prefer phone conversations to text or instant messaging. This being said, I also prefer Google to Encyclopedia Brittanica and being able to find out where my kids are in an instant.
Have a great weekend,
Anita
Thanks for participating! I am with you on that 100%, we must be about the same age LOL!
You're welcome!