Liberals love the fairy tale where “good people” are “taken care of” by their “government” that “cares about them.”

What's true? In the search for truth, a few of us had the perspective of experiencing life deep inside the Democrat apparatus, where we realized after seeing it first hand all they care about is themselves. They sell out their country through influence peddling. It’s what most of them are doing, because it’s easy for them to do, and they have no other skills that would bring them anywhere near as much “comfort” as they get through treason. Maybe you’ve heard the saying … Comfort is a heck of a drug!

Maybe they’ll toss you a few table scraps along the way as your reward for staying quiet and being “compliant.” Won’t make any difference at all, long term. You know what will? We the People, united.

Friends, yesterday evening when I wrote some thank-you messages to Patriots who helped tell my story in years past, I forgot to mention a very special friend who I’ve still never met, but who moved heaven and earth for me. I appreciate her more than words can express.

That friend is the lovely Tamara Leigh, @TamaraLeighsTrendOn who is the kind of loyal friend we are lucky to find a few times in our lives, if we even do.

Tamara, I appreciate you so much.

I should also mention that Tamara’s friend Pat Scopeliti, passed away this past week. Am not sure what happened there. Pat was a special man who loved his country very much, I believe he co-authored a book with Gen. Flynn. We ought to keep Pat in our prayers.

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Your entire Digital Life!

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ONLYOFFICE 7.3 is here!

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Former Twitter employees are expected to testify next week before the House Oversight Committee about the social media platform’s handling of reporting on President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-twitter-inc-technology-politics-us-republican-party-adc0f668c76ac9a7099cd357679fb29d

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AI is a tool. It will be a reflection of its programmer and data. It is not conscious. It is a very fast and very accurate generative search engine. That’s it. You must program moral ethics into it, which is what we must do. Or our enemies will with their satanic “value systems.” You can have an AI based on Christian data and Christian ethics or you can have one that is based on worldly data and worldly “ethics.”

AI is no more “demonic” than the smartphone in your hand. It can be used for good or it can be used for evil, depending on who is using it. Same with any tool: a hammer can build a house or it can be used to harm someone. Doesn’t mean the hammer itself is inherently evil.

A Rasberry Pi is a great way to start learning Linux. If you can find one (they’re so popular, they’re often out of stock.)

Non-big-tech, cheap, small enough to hold in the palm of your hand.

Connected to a screen and keyboard/mouse, it’s a full computer. Surf the web, use Open Source word processing apps. Tons of free software available. Sometimes used for education in schools but great for all ages!

The Dunning-Kruger Effect refers to a cognitive bias that causes an overestimation of capability.

When it was first described, psychologist David Dunning wrote: “incompetence .. [is] often received with an inappropriate confidence, buoyed by something that feels like knowledge.”

This post is not meant to belittle the significance of A.I. as it emerges. Rather, to remind everyone that A.I., although currently experiencing a “hype phase” in the media, it is nascent; it has a long way to go. Can it be dangerous? Yes. Are we right to be concerned? Yes.

Can we do something about it, to improve outcomes over time? Yes.

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While the media experiences a “hype phase” about Artificial Intelligence, it is an appropriate moment to look back one of the first well known “A.I.” programs, ELIZA.

ELIZA was developed in the late 1960’s by a professor and some students at MIT, near Boston. It was a short computer program, usually written in BASIC, although there were versions in LISP and Pascal language. It would request input from the user than use rudimentary pattern recognition to juxtapose the user’s words, and repeat something back that would create the appearance of intelligence. It was supposed to imitate a “psychologist” but in reality the program was so simple it couldn’t do much.

If you want to give it a try here’s a web page that is running a Java version of ELIZA so it works in a web browser -> http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/eliza.htm

One of the first story lines in American “pop culture” that relied heavily on “A.I.” was written in to a T.V. show in the 1980’s, Knight Rider. 😁

The show sometimes seems almost laughable from a historical perspective but some of us who grew up watching it still appreciate it, even for the irony of how silly it could be…!

Maybe the best things about Knight Rider were (1) that KITT was a Trans-Am, which is awesome on so many levels but they modified the front end so it looks kind of lame and (2) KITT’s A.I. always worked to help its owner and went out of its way to recognize it could not harm humans.

There were two episodes where KITT had to duel against an “evil twin” A.I. called KARR, which was more concerned with its own preservation than with the protection of human life. Interesting to see such a shallow, frankly dumb show exploring potential dangers and ethics of A.I. with a non-technical, general market audience way back then when computers were a new concept.

As an American born in California, this old network promo flyer got me thinking a lot about how my home state sees other regions of America. The Knight Rider producers with their “Artificially Intelligent super-car” story were of course from California. Our state was the first to innovate technology. We leaned on that since the early 1980’s with a kind of superiority complex towards the rest of the country. At the time this flyer was made I guess the hi-tech car was supposed to look more sophisticated than the Dodge Charger but now they both just look like old cars, the General Lee probably with more authentic character.

Don’t know what generation everyone who reads the channel is but I grew up watching both shows. The Dukes of Hazzard was set in rural Georgia where Bo and Luke Duke were dealing with corrupt local cops. The Dukes were a lot of fun and despite being rebels they seemed like the good guys. Knight Rider was a “high tech” theme but the show had a empty soul-less feeling to it a lot of the time. KITT was a more technologically advanced machine than the General Lee but still a machine. It wasn’t the cars that made the shows, it was about the people and the cars were a part of their story.

The story about Bo and Luke and their family adventures felt like the more enjoyable story than some loner and his “A.I.” in Knight Rider. There’s probably some lessons for us in this simplistic reflection on 80’s TV shows. What do you think?