Artificial Intelligence Relies on Discovering Patterns and so do People

Technology has us distracted from the obvious

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Artificial intelligence, one of the biggest topics puzzling and terrifying society, gives people a grim feeling of insecurity.

They feel threatened by the potential that robots and AI have yet to realize.

It makes sense to be afraid, but one truth about AI is that it’s making the lives of humans better. It even has the potential to fix our climate change issue.

But how does AI function?

What makes it so powerful and effective?

The answer is its ability to analyze and then identify patterns. Data analysis in a sense.

So far AI has developed perhaps 500 of these 1000 specific intelligence algorithms. And pattern recognition amount to perhaps 30 of them.

Through their ability to find and identify patterns, AI has been successful in many astonishing and fascinating feats that humans could only hope for.

Humans, however, are also equipped with an excellent ability to recognize patterns. People rely on the ability to identify patterns in order to function and learn.

Learning a language, learning to read, and learning anything at all requires an ability to understand patterns instinctively — learning the sound of a mother’s voice or the sound of a predator.

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This ability is what also fuels a person’s creative ability. Artists are masters at seeing an obvious pattern and changing it to create dissonance, abstraction, and conflict.

So why don’t people expand and grow in this ability?

People are losing the ability to see patterns for themselves

It seems like everyone is stuck in some sort of funnel, where the only way to go is involving oneself with more and more distractions.

We can literally choose to see what we want to see and unfollow or ignore any perspective that doesn’t suit us.

People are so lost in their own reality that they don’t know what is real anymore.

Instead of relying on our ability to perceive and understand our environment, people choose to create their own and ignore the rest. Meta and virtual reality will only worsen the issue.

This is worse than what AI can do to us. We are destroying ourselves by ignoring the world. We feel like the problems are out of our reach when in fact, we have the skills to workout our own issues.

People are truly gifted with abilities and potential that are taken for granted. By seeing ourselves as gifted and talented beings, we can feel more confident to taking on challenges and facing new problems.

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