See below for this months' Roomers contribution
Each month, we will share a piece written by our Roomers participants for you to read through and ponder at your own leisure.
The Bar
Brave new world “ each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent then the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” George Orwell.
“ It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value” Arthur C. Clarke.
“ Artificial intelligence is the study and development of computer systems that can copy intelligent human behaviour.”
Source: Oxford English Dictionary.
We train the brain then drain it lame to be
an appendage that outran its task. The
machine robs it, usurps to claim the
navigation of our lives. Our lives are
more than zeros and ones. Our emotions
are a gift from something mightier than
ourselves. We are not meant at all for rationale
and logic. Nuance and subtle thought shift
in light and shadow in our imaginings.
the atavistic algorithmic voracity
of the human mind is too onerous
to contemplate. To reduce form and line,
art and beauty to an iron shaft is
reprehensible and a dire leap to
the fall of man. Precious fallibility,
soft strokes of unpredictability,
the heartfelt joy of spontaneity
must stand above all else. But we will in
human error fault and only by this
can we ever learn. So steadfast the captain
must remain. Though by endeavour the machine
can by its own will, banish famine and
disease then may man cautiously pay it
heed but mind it so. And if the machine
by its own will can take us to the stars
and be of goodly worth, be wise, seek out
the something mightier than us, and humbly
ask of it to judge. So captain draw the line. Love,
art, beauty, relationship must bar all
harm. The machine must not cross the line on
penalty of the annihilation of mankind.
No! No! Harm! It must not cross this bar.
- Roderick Waller
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