It's Not What We Think It Is

... or more accurately: It's not what they've been telling us to think it is.

Marketing is an astounding thing - it can do so much.

Except it can't - not really.

Ask any Russian grunt sleeping in the Ukrainian mud right now, how all that Kremlin hype is translating to battlefield success.

Anyway, artificial intelligence in real-world terms is bullshit.

I don't think we don't have to worry about it, but computers achieving consciousness, and then moving to enslave all of humankind is a low-probability thing. What we have to worry about is billionaire plutocrats who are using our infatuation with high tech shit like AI - and our willingness to be dazzled - in order to distract us from a plan to enslave us that they've been running for 50,000 years.