THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY: WHAT THEY CALL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS JUST A Slick MAGIC TRICK

A ghost haunts the global technocracy's polite society, the tedious conferences of Davos, and the glossy pages of magazines. A myth so powerful, so seductive, that no one dares to question it anymore. It is the ghost of Artificial Intelligence. A modern deity to which we sacrifice data, privacy, billions of dollars, and, above all, our critical spirit. Well, the time has come to commit an act of sacrilege and tear down the temple veil: Artificial Intelligence, as it is touted, does not exist.

This is not about denying the evidence of technological progress. Perish the thought. Computers have become monstrously powerful, algorithms feed on unimaginable amounts of data, machines can imitate – sometimes with unsettling verisimilitude – human creativity. But imitation is not creation. Efficiency is not intelligence. This is the colossal sophism on which the entire AI industry rests. They have sold us the idea of the electronic brain, when in reality we only have a concave, distorted, and hyperactive mirror that sends back, magnified, fragments of our own intelligence, our culture, our biases.

What is this monster everyone is talking about, at its core? A system that, via complex but still mathematical calculations, identifies patterns within an ocean of pre-existing information. Then, based on these patterns, it generates an output: text, an image, a prediction. It is a mechanical process. There is no understanding, no consciousness, not the slightest glimmer of will or desire. It is a trained parrot reproducing complex sentences without understanding their meaning, except this parrot has swallowed the entire Library of Alexandria. Its performance is astounding, but it is still a performance. A magic trick. We, bewitched by the illusion, mistake complexity for depth, statistics for wisdom.

The priests of this new religion – entrepreneurs seeking funds, academics seeking glory, journalists seeking clicks – are busy preaching the imminent advent of the Singularity, the moment the machine will surpass us. It is the greatest science fiction narrative ever sold as reality. It serves to inflate financial bubbles, concentrate power in few hands, and create an aura of inevitability around choices that should instead be scrutinized with the microscope of distrust. They are convincing us to delegate decisions concerning justice, medicine, and security to a black box, opaque and uncontrollable by its very nature. It is an unprecedented folly. We are abdicating our responsibility in favor of an oracle that, in reality, only tells us what it wants to hear, based on what already was.

The tragic irony is that this artificial "intelligence" is, in fact, the most human and most fallible product that exists. Its mistakes are not errors of pure logic, but our mistakes. Its biases are our biases, crystallized in data and amplified by an algorithm. It is a mirror reflecting our image, but we prefer to believe we are looking at a god. It is a defense mechanism to avoid facing the banal, desolate truth: we have not created a new form of sentient life. We have only built an amplifier, extremely powerful and dangerous, of our stupidity and our genius.

Let us therefore stop talking about "Intelligence." Let's call it what it is: Advanced Statistical Calculation. Mechanical Data Processing. Hypercalculator. Anything, as long as it is stripped of its false prophetic mantle. Let us admire the power of the tool, but let us not bow to it. Let us study it, control it, regulate it. Above all, let us not succumb to the temptation to think it is more intelligent than us. Because the only true intelligence in circulation, for now, is still the human one. With all its limits, its emotions, its flashes of genius and its abysmal stupidities. And perhaps that is precisely what scares us so much. Having built a slave so efficient it makes us feel inadequate. But a slave, however powerful, remains a slave. Not a master. Not a god. And above all, not an intelligence.

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🦅 Cheyenne Isa ₿ 🦅