Artifiical Intelligence vs. Superficial Intelligence

If we are going to examine the worst of what artificial intelligence can do to us, we should join that at the hip of hiplessness with what the worst of superficial intelligence can do in conjunction.

The tree picture is my hat tip to the Windows 10 program that keeps promoting changing desktop backgrounds that then provides info to a bing page.  It looks like a way of promoting bing as a browswer, as much as the question whether you like the background or not.  If you do not, the algorithm predicts what you may like and show something else.  The technical side of this is a learning because at present I actually have not looked into how I set up background images on a Windows 10 machine :

Having a viewpoint about what is good or bad does not mean we are stupid, it may simply mean that the chief reality we have learned is binary and that we can operate in the present society at that capacity, or maybe that is the given capacity we have, but we should also recognize the level of superficial intelligence that we either take for granted or accept.

The short and tall of this is that if the machines are getting smarter, so should we be.  Instead of operating from the natural defensive and tribal mechanism that we programmed with over centuries, the future is about embracing new capabilities we either did not think we need or that due to this exponential increase in information processing, that we will acquire, simply by being exposed to these more dense fields of information and data.  So it is that I now look forward to seeing what it is Microsoft's AI bot thinks I like and if it manages to recognize what I like, then that is a challenge for me to raise my own choice levels - maybe through this interaction with an AI agent at the simplest level of Windows 10, may provide me insight as to the actuality of just how predictable I really am.  The opportunity is in raising my sophistication.

If we think that measuring our awareness against a machine is like arm-wrestling a child, that is our own individual level of acceptance.  As technology advances so should human beings.  Not to keep up with technology like some ego-minded arms race, but to recognize the changing landscape, virtualscape and environment, and see how that raises rather than diminishes our insight capability and maybe, just maybe our own innovative capability.  The alternative is to unplug and find a wooden hut in a forest in Montana - but very few of us are equipped to deal solely with nature.  We are not the pioneers of old, we are comfortable fat cats living in a digital paradise - that we need to be smart about - otherwise the dystopia we enter is equivalent to our own superficial intelligence, and then it does not matter how much we gripe about artificial intelligence - because then it is we as "human beings" who have ceased to evolve.