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?

👆👆probably a valid theory (people fired from Twitter!)

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Twitter had about 7,500 employees when Musk first took over. Down to a little over 1,000 now, about half are engineers/programmers.

As the truth emerges, it’s looking like many of those 7,500 formerly at Twitter were not technical staff—seems like maybe they were there to censor/edit/manipulate content at the direction of the deep state swamp.

If true, that was a LOT of censorship staff. Something like 5,500 employees for that purpose. Insane.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer-than-550-full-time-engineers.html

ChatGPT is a ‘large language engine’ that draws from a big archive of text and generates outputs from statistics, patterns and frequency of words.

It does not ‘think’ the way some people suggest it does.

Let’s stop being afraid of it, being doomers, etc., and start thinking about how we can better participate in the next wave of tech innovation by teaching machines to act with decent American sets of rules.

Answer to yesterday’s anonymous poll question

Most computers connect to the outside world, and the public internet through a Network card or adapter.

The network card is the hardware component inside your laptop or desktop computer (or tablet) that connects your device to the outside world.

This connection is usually made to the public internet. However, with the appropriate hardware components, computers can also connect to large LAN (local area networks), mesh networks built around the extended area of a neighborhood, or a local city. Satellite networks such as Starlink are emerging, which remove dependence on traditional land based, wired connections.

Pictured: Intel Centrino 6205 laptop wifi adapter. 2.4 GHz/5 Ghz. PCIe Half MiniCard. Wifi compatible: 802.11a/b/g/n. Max speed: 300 Mbps. This is a small component. Physical dimensions: 26.80 mm x 30 mm (about 1 inch x 1 inch).

Former #Twitter execs Vijaya Gadde, Yoel Roth, & Jim Baker who helped orchestrate the theft of the 2020 election, as well as my own election for Congress through deliberate censorship, are testifying under oath in front of the House GOP Oversight Committee today!

LOCK THEM UP!

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Twitter execs admit to censoring millions of Americans

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rms’s “Four Freedoms” of software (1990):

0. The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.

1. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish.

2. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.

3. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions, giving the community a chance to benefit from your changes.

“With these freedoms, the users (both individually and collectively) control the program and what it does for them. When users don't control the program, we call it a … “proprietary” program. The program controls the users, and the developer controls the program; this makes the program an instrument of unjust power.”

“A.I.” is in a hype phase in the MSM. Consider 2023 the year “A.I.” started to get headlines everywhere.

The emergence of the technology is interesting but it has a long way to go. It will be a big topic of debate in society from here on.

Used to ask the question, “are people waking up?” which misses the point, because these days, people are consistently waking up to the truth about gov’t corruption, pharma and banking cartels, etc., in other words, yes, over time, there’s a steady drumbeat of people who are waking up.

So the better question is, do you think people are waking up faster than say, a year ago. I know it’s easy to say no, no, no one is because all of us are so frustrated and we wish it would be faster.

Yet with sports players, newscasters collapsing on live TV, people losing their relatives to the jab (one of the hardest things to watch, its so sad), record inflation hitting everyone, the start of congressional inquiries, it seems like there is some momentum that wasn’t there a year, two years ago. What do you think? 🤔