Economics of AI as "Artificial General Intelligence"
Is wise to start counting from 0 when it comes to AI. Although the glossary is usually placed in the eastern side of books or at the "end" of page-turners according to western nations' standard of "left to right" reading styles, the most valuable documentation is often the glossary. Glossaries should describe in detail the meaning behind any and every acronym used in the guide or document; and a really good glossary should be a core part of every business operation. When we prepare to have a discussion about "What is AI?" and "How do we want to use it to improve the lives of workers and clients?" we must not attempt progress without at least one compensated technical writer and documentation manager.
That the acronym "AI" is often used to strike fear and cast doubt and uncertainty into discussions is why I preceded this column with my copyrighted, trademarked history as a technical writer and documentation manager -- *oodles of professional and Industry-grade experience technically writing about AI cannot be discounted, ignored, or taken out of context.
About the word ¨General¨ (international quotes)
For the first time, an entity often referred to as the ¨United States of America¨ with a (geologically speaking) tiny timespan of history, being incorporated fewer than 260 years, might elect a female whose ancestors are genetically traceable to the continental body of Africa. If or when this happens, she will be President, CEO and Controller of the United States of America. She will, in fact, be the ¨General¨ of the whole business operation.
The word ¨General¨ with an uppercase G (¨UPPERCASE¨ <- word in uppercase letters) does not imply a military connotation, although many people incorrectly and automatically assume it does. ¨General¨ in the context of the entity known as U.S. of A. is simply an abbreviated way of referring to her roles as President, CEO and Controller of business-related agendas. Some business involves machinery (machinery like computers) and some involves machinery built with "combustion engines" requiring constant sucking of petrol-based fuel. The Acronym Inception AI™️ will remind you that all petrol sucking ultimately affects systems that stabilize tectonic plates, and that the sucking can often lead to subsidence and destabilization of those tectonic plates. Furthermore, the sucking is harmful to the most diverse underwater marine life trying to survive on the geologic feature known in English language as the "continental shelf." When the CEO as a General chooses to prioritize agendas and relationships with the "combustion engine" machines that require constant sucking of petrol-based fuel? The continental shelf is greatly disrupted; more problems are created than get solved, and shareholders' interests tend to suffer.
A better focus is on the machines built to compute, and on humans who can see outside themselves when it comes to a Cost:Benefit Analysis. The CEO of the US has a role largely in charge of hiring people to maintain relations or to correct any misunderstandings in relationships with outside (sovereign) entities. That they have their own rights, languages, cultures, and norms beyond the control and jurisdiction of the US of A's President, CEO and Controller is the first thing an economically-minded "Artificial General Intelligence" would need to acknowledge, understanding its own limitations. Part Two we'll discuss what democratically-minded Generals can and should do to prevent the wrong kind of machine being prioritized.
A long long time ago, I promised all of my reservation friends who live in those flimsy, falling-apart trailers in extremely rural places that I will always use my talents to stand up for them and their rights to maintain their own languages, cultures, and documentations: "Is okay to speak and write your language".
*Disclaimer: the human being who authored this column is neither stupid, nor worthless (worthless as in "without valuable investments"), as the college dropout CEO and his stock brokerage want everybody to believe.
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$DTST ++ Edit note -- a "combustion engine" requires combustible fuels, is correctly identified as "combustion" engine
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