The great cost of looking back

As AI pioneers become instant “statistical physicists,” to grab the Nobel prize, as otherwise intelligent academics fret over AI killing us all, as technology companies fight for dominance in the “almost certain,” AI future, one has to understand the great cost of looking back. Artificial Intelligence, currently a euphemism for mountains of Silicon warming the planet, and data storage move from one patch of snow to another for cooling, ride high, we are fast approaching ignorance, hitherto unknown.

As AI spreads into politics, the cost of looking back is getting clearer. Elections have an outcome and when they are over, the one who lost concedes to the other and everybody waits for the next cycle, at least in a democratic system. History, the fodder for AI, is for fools and those who let history go will succeed in the future. And AI, based on history, shall fail to satisfy the lofty expectations of the money men and intermediaries, ushering in the next nuclear winter in the same.

Intelligence does not “emerge,” from history. If it did, we would have had intelligent plants, the earlier inhabitants of the planet, by now. And those who become slaves of the past in any field, are guaranteed to lose.