Can we trust AI?

   Can we trust AI? 

Artificial intelligence is a tool that doesn't create information from emptiness. That means the AI uses data and information that already exists. If something or somebody changes information from the data sources that the AI uses, the AI gives wrong answers. The AI can use old-fashioned information. In the same way, a human can take an old book of facts from the shelf. 

That is one thing that we must remember. The second thing is that most AI chatbots are owned by companies whose purpose is to bring profits for their owners. That causes a situation where some of the answers that the AI gives are customer-friendly. That means they are made to please customers, or people who pay for those chatbot services. 

However, one of the most important aspects of using AI is that it is actually utilized incorrectly. But the question is, why is it used? Because it makes work more effective. That means people who work with the AI assistants have no time to think and check the answers that the AI gives. The prime focus in AI use is that it makes people do more work. 

The modern business ecosystem has evolved over time, when all products were physical. That means the business ecosystem measures the effectiveness of the worker by simply calculating the number of work performances in a time unit. And that means the number of code lines that a programmer makes determines how effective that person is. And that means there is no time to analyze and think about the product that the AI makes. 

This is the problem with AI. It makes people more effective, and it should leave time to make analyses about the product. But the problem is that if the AI allows the person to work at double speed, that gives the company leaders the opportunity to fire half the workers. That decreases costs. 

When we talk about how AI makes things less effectively than a top-level programmer, we can find one very interesting question. If we analyze that argument closely, we face the claim that all programmers are top-level specialists. All programmers are top-level specialists. And another thing is that some workplaces are so hurried that they have no time to advise junior programmers. Sometimes old workers think that the young comrade is a competitor, and that makes the workplace atmosphere poisonous. 

The person might not dare to ask for advice from workmates. And that causes firing. The thing is that the AI is a tool that can help people. But we must remember that this tool allows us to analyze and think about new possibilities, only if we give it that chance. But we must have time and willingness to check the data that the AI gives. And if we see the AI only as a tool that allows us to cut the personnel costs, that is not the way to make our working life easier. 

If we just copy-paste texts that the AI makes. And don't even try to analyze that data, we don't increase trustworthiness in the company. That means we deliver the decisions to the AI. AI can also use old-fashioned datasets. Or it can use fake or falsified data. That means the AI makes mistakes in the same way as humans. It simply takes the wrong book from the shelf, and then that causes destruction or catastrophe. 

The AI is not immune to fake information. The problem with propaganda home pages is that their page rank are raised by drumming it with net queries. That makes those homepages easier to find. The problem with those pages is this: they use .com or some other neutral terminal identifiers. So, those homepages are not easy to connect to China or Russia. They are operated from servers that are in Western countries. The operators use a remote control to control those servers that operate in Western sockets. 

If the AI uses regular web browsing applications, that means it can select a propaganda page. The popular pages are always at the top of the page lists. And that thing means that the AI selects popular homepages. That decreases the AI's trustworthiness. The AI requires training. That training means that the users must set limits on what kind of sources those systems use. 

Is the universe made of information?

Is the universe made of information?

Information exists only if we detect it.  But maybe we should call for information. That involves deliberate information as data. Deliberate information exists only if we detect it. 

The fact is that this thing depends on the way we think about information. We can think that all physical things are information. Or we can think. That information is an abstraction that makes something visible. Things like quantum technology are opening the vision about information as separated from material or physical particles. 

The physical particle can carry information. And then we can face things like electromagnetism as the information carriers. The electromagnetic field can carry information, or, in wave-particle duality, the electromagnetic field can transform or condense into a particle. 

Or a particle can turn into the electromagnetic field. That happens in annihilation. Information is independent of direct observation. We know that there are things like eagles, even if we don't see one of them ourselves. Another person can tell us that thing. So, in that case, the medium actor lets us know that there is something called an eagle. And if that person is inaccurate enough, we can even believe that there are eagles on Earth. Eagle is bird and they live somewhere, even if we don't see them. 

The question is, will the universe be a form of information? There is a lot of information about the universe. The thing is that the universe is like Schrödinger's cat. It forms of information and it doesn't form of information. The thing is this. We must determine the information before we can answer that question. If we want that information to mean something, that means the universe is not formed of information. But if information doesn't need to mean anything, that means information forms the universe. 

But if the information must make sense, the universe involves only meaningless oscillations and waves. So when we talk about things like black holes, we talk about information. That vanishes. Or, we talk about information that slides through the event horizon. In that case, the information means the particles and quantum fields that slide into the black hole. That means a black hole collects information, but we cannot reach it through the event horizon. 

The information is substantial, or substance. That means the existence of information depends on the information itself. The material is not a substance because its existence depends on the universe and quantum fields. Without those things, Materia turns into wave movement. But information doesn't need even the universe to exist. If some civilization can exist after the ultimate end of the universe, that civilization has knowledge of the universe. They have information about their past. And they can talk about the universe even if they didn't see it themselves. 

They can make clones of animals that lived in the universe. But for that work, those creatures require physical things. So, information itself cannot make anything. It can interact with the physical universe through sockets. Those sockets can be the DNA molecules that contain information. Those sockets or tensors that connect information with the physical world can be the bits in the computer's mass memory. 

But a computer cannot turn that information into a physical form. Without robots. Robots are tensors that allow computers to turn abstraction into reality. Materia can be destroyed. But information lives forever. Theoretical information can be reorganized into a new form. 

There must be some information stored in the system that the system can sort data into a new form. In human brains, memory cells are like the net eye. They can sort information from those cells into a new form with a very high accuracy. The reason for that is that there are so many small information dots that the brain can put into a new order. And the number of those memory dots determines how accurate that image is. The information can make sense. But that information must not have a match in the real world. 

Or, we just don't find that sense from the captured information. Or maybe we should call that thing signals. But are signals physical things? Maybe, maybe not. That means we capture radio signals from space that involve information about reactions in distant worlds. 

Is some other, intelligent civilization behind some of those radio signals? 

The answer is this: researchers have not detected any confirmed messages from another civilization. 

Or a shorter version is: nobody knows. There might be many messages that mean deliberate information. But researchers and AI don't detect those messages from natural radio signals. That means the search continues. And we are alone until we get an answer. We get an answer only if there is a message that comes from a confirmed alien source. Until that silence continues and the answer remains open. 

That is the problem with things like language science and especially the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, SETI. That means we might have billions of alien messages. But we cannot detect the information that those signals involve. 

Because. We don't know anything about the information systems that they have. So we cannot separate those messages from the cosmic background. That is one version of the theories why we don't have alien contact. That model goes like this. They cannot detect our messages, as we cannot detect their messages. And maybe we should be glad about that possibility. 

We call virtual information imagination. That information can seem very reasonable, like a human who walks on air. We know that thing is impossible, but in the virtual world in our brains, those things might seem very reasonable. Or at least we see those things while we sleep. 

In the human body, neurons connect information with physical things. Neurons use information to control muscles and other things. The information that we get exists only if we detect it. If we don't detect that information, it doesn't exist to us.