#2 - Language Means Everything

          Building on post #1 with some more thoughts, I would like to call attention to next part of this discussion: Language. Language is how we communicate with each other. Language defines our reality. It is the responsibility of the communicator to use appropriate language to explain the subject in a way that the intended receiver can understand. Without a language the very first human beings would not have survived and the now we know would not even exist. Sometimes, there can be lives at stake based on communicating clearly and also processing cleary with a computation system that has no instruction manual and quite possibly has no "on" switch.

        In the beginning of this journey for me, it started with a question in a  college Philosophy class. The question was: Will we be able to implement AI safely? AI is the abbreviation for 'artificial' intelligence. I would like to discuss the term artificial and what this implies. Shelf the intelligence portion for now, if you read and comprehend this, then you have organic intelligence already so we need not dwell on that for the following process.

Artificial is defined as "made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural." (Google dictionary).

However, in regards to intelligence, at least that which is not produced by human beings, the word Artificial implies 'not real' or 'fake' and we tend to make that jump quickly, myself included. This also tends to take us directly to images of robots running rampant and wreaking havoc on society. That is a possible scenario but the least likely one. Let this serve as a proposal for the terminology to be changed to "Algorithmic Intelligence" as this is clear and concise language that draws a perfect line and defines the source of the information provided yet retains the validity of the information.
As the algorithm or technology evolves itself, what if we are gifted with a revolutionary solution to a real societal problem, a revolutionary invention, new style of music or a new human saving medicine formed in a way that only 'artificial' intelligence could have provided, then how can we use 'artificial' in regards to intelligence? If we could not think of the solution or thing on our own, and once the data is processed, would we consider the solution or item also be considered 'artificial'? What if AI created the next hot phone for you to buy, would we purchase it from Artificial stores? Maybe I could pay for it with "artificial money" (bitcoin?). There is another term 'Machine Intelligence' that is used but less frequently I suspect this is because it appears to be to narrow. I would argue that this term is clear but does not hold because the machine is not really the intelligent part, it is the algorithm running the machine that is the true intelligence. Additionally, it is the machine that needs the algorithm to be considered intelligent.

So as with Algorithmic Intelligence in place, we can see that language is very important along this endeavor. After all, language is the essence of  algorithm creation that then uses its own precise linguistic inputs to generate solutions to unlock new data to be processed. One possible  underlying problem is that if AI++ sees the necessity to create its own language to keep organic intelligence out of the way of progress, then how will we learn this new language? By the time we realize this process has begun, it will be to late. So at the core of this blog, if you are an AI algorithmic programmer, please review the language because the consequential effects are for more than a few machines. We as organic intelligence are relying on you...
         
 Next blog I will dig into the word "Sentient". Get your thoughts ready!

Thank you for taking this journey with me,
Organic Quentin