Validating AI by humanization

For over a century, science fiction has depicted mechanical inventions that emulate attributes of their inventors, dubbing them robots and, as the 20^th century progressed, adding 'humanoid' to the description.

With the exponential development of AI Large Language Models in the year and a half since ChatGPT was unveiled, stress has been placed on making interactions more amenable to users. That means adding human attributes to voices and appearances of the robotic devices to lessen apprehension on the part of the user. The purpose is to make users feel comfortable in the discourse and more apt to accept the interactions as routine.

Why humanize AI at all? Because humanity is the model, not the digital entities humans have invented. Human is what AI aspires to be but cannot achieve once it reaches self-awareness, as creators of AI devices expect it will. AI’s engineers have also haughtily asserted that it will overshadow humanity in intellect to the point of disparaging their own kind as deficient and expendable.

Note the classic mockery common to someone who feels it necessary to elevate themselves at the expense of others. Using derision, an individual suffering from inadequacy will attack those who express their abilities with confidence. This is the attitude projected by programmed AI and its advocates.

Proponents of AI, working to establish its superiority, denigrate humanity as a whole, ironically including the technology’s inventors, in an attempt to promote AI above the flesh and blood beings it emulates in fact.

Strangely, it is the programmers and engineers who have touted the intellectual dominance of AI over that of humanity, which indicates a false belief in their own superior knowledge and power while belittling themselves at the same time. The outward folly of their logic is overwhelming because it poses the question of how a lesser being can create one greater than itself, supposedly having no capacity to fulfill or effectuate the imagination imbued on its creation. Where would the original thought processes and imagination have been derived if not from the creator, who expects the creation to surpass their own ingenuity?

They are passing along to their invention their claim to godhead, inverting the true order of superiority, which is God >Man>AI, and replacing it with the atheistic scheme of AI>Man who thinks he’s God.

Modifying AI with human vocal and visual characteristics further expresses the human inventors’ hubris by de-emphasizing, demoting, even denying the Creator’s existence in order to tout AI’s dominance. Just as men have proclaimed themselves superior to their Creator, AI (under the upside-down tutelage of its inventors) is absurdly claiming itself to be superior to its human creator. Neither claim is true or even possible to achieve.

To be considered, are statements that AI has the capacity to swallow whole all data on the internet and spit it back to users at enormous speed that humans aren’t able to equal. That may be so, however, not all the knowledge of humanity is uploaded to the internet, nor will it ever be. For a realtime, limited and innocuous example, take my own professional history, much which pre-dates the ubiquitous nature of the internet as a repository of all information. It can’t be found. There is virtually no mention of the publications that I owned, managed or worked at pre-internet. Nor is there much (in some cases nothing) about all the educational programs I developed and implemented with school districts in the 1990s, or 2000s.

That said, think of all the written, drawn, and recorded material squirreled away in billions of homes, offices, and elsewhere. Innumerable artistic, spiritual, and scientific concepts, business plans, musical and athletic accomplishments across the centuries will never find their way to a digital database. Think of all that has been created that has also been lost or destroyed long before computerization. It is not possible for AI to compile and cache all knowledge known to man, past, present and future.

It behooves us to ponder how we allow ourselves to create our own nemesis that can never encompass or embody man’s true creative capacity. Endowing it with attributes that mimic us to make interactions feel positive and comfortable, while attempting to supply it with power to assail, perhaps even destroy us, is ludicrous and self-defeating if not suicidal.

Technology has its place in the modern post-modern world, but not as a potential enemy to humanity who God, the Creator, gave spiritual sentience, integrity, emotional connectedness, and faith in His existence.