Occasionally I read something I believe you really need to read, and I label it a "must read." Writing for The Atlantic and echoed at msn.com, Stephen Marche describes where we are with artificial intelligence (AI) and where it is going. Trust me, it is a "must read."
An esoteric something called Natural Language Processing which involves billions of parameters is at its core. There is a sense in which our tech types are creating a god, or perhaps God.
Particularly fascinating is the ability of AI machines to mimic individuals so well that, much of the time, you can't know whether you are communicating with the individual or the machine avatar.
I propose a future in which each of us has an AI "familiar" which keeps us company, acts as our friend and advisor, tolerates our idiosyncrasies, and keeps the existential loneliness at bay. If all this seems a bit like science fiction, I assure you the article is not fictional.
Another article, at Science Alert claims super intelligence AI will be impossible to control. AI is very spooky stuff.
