Piercing The Veil

The infamous figure, Ghislaine Maxwell, has stated that at no time did she ever hear or see Donald Trump do or say anything " inappropriate " when the two were operating in each other's orbit, and, most pertinently, when both were operating within the orbit of the even more infamous, Jeffrey Epstein.  I don't know exactly what Ms. Maxwell meant by inappropriate since no one seems to have tried to definitively pin down that detail. As it happens, it's something like common knowledge that, in the midst of the 2016 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump was recorded making the astoundingly vulgar and self incriminating claim/admission that "you can grab them (females) by the pussy"-and with impunity at that, if, as seemed to be understood, one possessed a Trump like level of celebrity status-so, the notion that an adherence to propriety has ever been the remit of The Donald heavily strains credulity, at least for those who take at face value what perception ma...

I'm of the firm opinion that we already live in an "All AI, all the time" world. Typically, my default position is that all technology of any importance, at the point it's introduced to the public, is not new. It is only new to us. Just how old "new tech" is, is debatable, but that it isn't new is not. On that basis, and in this particular case, because of AI's tremendous potential to be used as an instrument of deception, I argue that "AI" has been in use for far far longer than we've been led to believe. Equally, I'm of the view that this tech's very well documented shortcomings-which are a bit too blatant to be accepted as either unintentional or an honest portrayal of what the technology is actually capable of-no, it's neither intelligent nor self aware, nor will it ever be, but it is formidable-serve a critically important purpose, which is to concretize our perception of AI as a relatively recent technology whose (too ...