In my previous post, I mentioned how inept artificial "intelligence" really is. Just now, I encountered yet an even more unbelievable example of it.
I wanted to find out more about this picture, which was a split-second snippet segment of a series of photos about ostensible dead bodies of concentration camp inmates suffocated in trains at the very end of the war. But notice that these 2 bodies are ANYthing but those of concentration camp victims!
So I entered the image into a google search, hoping to find out what it was REALLY about. This is what google unearthed for me {snort}.
Because they don't show any emotions in their eyes or face (I'm an unfortunate anomaly in that dept.: I can never hide ANYthing I'm feeling, bec. at the very least, my eyes always betray me).
This article talks about things like signalling glasses for people with Asperger’s syndrome, and computers which can register "affect" in human facial expressions. (But could the computer ever feel compassion in the face [no pun intended] of human sadness or misery?)
There's no way a computer can ever be programmed to genuinely have feelings. They can't even properly translate texts from one language to another (even something as non-emotional or metaphorical as craft instructions!).
I love computers, but I don't view them as potential miracle workers.
Listen to it here while you follow these lyrics:
1. Thou who wast rich beyond all splendour,
All for love's sake becamest poor;
Thrones for a manger didst surrender,
Sapphire-paved courts for stable floor.
Thou who wast rich beyond all splendour,
All for love's sake becomes poor.
2. Thou who art God beyond all praising,
All for love's sake becamest man;
Stooping so low, but sinners raising
Heavenwards by thine eternal plan.
Thou who art God beyond all praising,
All for love's sake becamest man.
3. Thou who art love beyond all telling,
Saviour and King, we worship thee.
Emmanuel, within us dwelling,
Make us what thou wouldst have us be.
Thou who art love beyond all telling,
Saviour and King, we worship thee.
Freud wrote of the "beast within," Conrad of the "heart of darkness."
Suppose for a moment that the blackness in man's heart is like cancer
cells: a person can have 10 such cells or a million---either way, one
still has the cancer, right?
So all hearts have a measure of this cancer, and consistent with the
nature of the disease, the cells at all times have the potential for
multiplying furiously, causing such noxious outbursts as fornication, adultery, perversions, divorce, alchoholism, fraud, robbery, torture, pedophilia, rape,
persecution, murder and war.
Where the cancer cells are not yet as numerous, one finds "merely"
selfishness, quarreling, cheating, lusting, deceifulness, gossip,
malice, and other such "minor" infractions. But notice how the "minors"
are seed versions of the "majors"! Unbridled, deceitfulness and
cheating grow into fraud and theft; lusting into fornication, adultery,
or pedophilia; gossip into persecution; malice into torture or murder;
quarreling into divorce or war, and so forth.
What treatment for this disease? A very distinct form of radiation
therapy: massive doses of light, perhaps? And a heart transplant. The
human soul needs a complete dialysis to cleanse it of the old
impurities.
It's the secularists' favorite cant: "Religion has caused the most wars in history!" Sorry, it ain't so.
And put him in the White House!
A wise, balanced, articulate realist, Ben Sasse tells it like it is.
"[N]o war is winnable when you pretend that you are not even in one...All adults know that the next attack is coming. You don’t need to see
the classified briefings some of us see to know that the future is
dangerous. The San Bernardino fourteen will not be the last Americans to
bleed and die — in our homeland — because we are a free society."
Read his whole speech here (about a 5 min. read) or listen to it here (17+ min.).
If Cruz or Rand is not on the Pub ticket next year, I'll be writing this dynamo in.
“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.”
When Einstein said that, perhaps this was floating around in the back of his mind: Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. (Eccl. 12:12)
Since I am guilty of this myself, LOL!
Straining gnats and swallowing camels...
Einstein was no good in school; I imagine his teachers put him down a lot. He had this to say about that kind of treatment:
As far as I know, it's a felony to threaten any sort of shooting or bombing (especially in a place where there are many people, for crying out loud!). Yet Jabari Dean got off scottfree????
Oh, that's right, how could I forget?
It's called Black privilege....
