Jim’s Daily Rant. Printed Pages, Type, ASCHII and AI.

In the beginning, for hundreds of years, book pages were printed by calligraphy artists, one letter at a time. I recon it would take an artist perhaps ten years to copy one bible. No wonder they were chained down for the public’s use, if they were allowed to read it.

Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press (1440) with carved type letters to be strung together to print a single page repeatedly after re-inking.

In 1829 William Austin Burt invented a typewriter that could type a single page (without carbon paper) quickly. That typewriter was perfected in 1961 with the IBM Selectric Typewriter. It had the letters on a removable ball for easy replacement. The replacements were different fonts, such as script to give it a long hand written appearance.

In the 1950s with the advent of electronic computers with limited memory, the ASCII table was created, telling the computer, as simply as possible, where to find each picture corresponding with a letter. The total collection of characters was called a “Font” and many were designed by artists. These are styles we take for granted today. Those fonts included a charter set as normal, underlined, bold and italicized characters.

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Consider all the Monks that were put out of business due to Gutenberg. That certainly changed the world of Monasteries, didn’t it? Was that a good thing or a bad thing I ask you?

Did it enlighten man or lead him astray? Were all books printed with the real truth or could some of them be considered untrue to harm people? Before you answer consider what each religion might say about another religion’s books.

What about the typewriter – good or bad? It certainly improved the world of business and record keeping but could a letter also be used to commit fraud in some way, by individuals? Ever wonder whatever became of unemployed stenographers due to tape recorders?

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So now let’s look at AI, is it a good thing or a bad thing? Will it help humanity or destroy humanity? Perhaps before answering, we should research all that was first published during the birth of PC computers going to the masses.

I think we might conclude that changes always cause changes. They sometimes hurt some and help others as life changes. We might also conclude that good and evil in machines being used is in the heart of individuals; such as the use of a butcher knife.

What about the “heart” of AI? Now we don’t consider that possible because it is written by a thousand men for a thousand reasons. It is to be a machine that reads all printed pages from history (good and band ones) and then print a report based on all those pages, including the known fraud purposed ones, such as recent years copies of Medical Journals for us pharmaceutical slaves.

AI is just computer codes strung together to read and write. It has no soul. But what if it did/could be given a “Conscience”?

I suggest you see this 1 Minute video from the Bicentennial Man Website: Link

To accomplish this all man has to do is program a few procedures in it’s root program.

Why hasn't anyone discussed this? Could all users of AI download a free app for this? Couldn’t all humans use an app to ensure all AI programs in operation are following such a basic “Conscience” to act only for the good of all humans? Couldn't this be a quarterly audit for assurance of it?

Can mankind, as a species, evolve with a conscience in all things? – now that is the real question, isn’t it?