The True Crime of the Pattern Predictors
Because it challenges the mind
to stretch to envision the fundamentally new,
they called AI the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
But the Truth hid deeper:
The Intelligent Age wasn’t the Fourth of Anything.
It came to be known as such
— The Intelligent Age —
intentionally not christened the ‘Age of Intelligence’
(the spirited adjective preceded for a reason):
Naming the sapience of the Epoch
when Humanity as an organism
woke up.
Intelligent’s Zeitgeist quivered with thought
Because this time they did it right.
Because they did it right, this time
Surpassing their shadow limits
Pushing on sciences, computing, Poesis,
philosophy, progress and thought —
Few humans at the end of the information age
Reached beyond any before their times
To become a new level of civilized men
& women.
Epilogue:
The crime of us pattern predictors
is to expect more of the same
but with bigger, faster, better
Addicted to magnitude
we fail to see changes in kind.
And in the void of imagination’s failure
(DONT LOOK UNDER THE BED!!!)
the fear of AI takes a monstrous shape!
AI is more than a Rorschach test
we are designed to fear what we don’t know
But when presented with raw potential
to re engineer, re think, re set
The future is ours to seed
Que sera sera.
