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Elon Musk, Artificial Intelligence and Poetry

  Elon Musk said in the interview above that he is concerned about implementing security controls for AI. He says that, if left unchecked, AI may become so powerful that it starts to act like an evil villain in movies such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" or "Terminator". I write about these kinds of issues all of the damn time ; but it is rare to find any person actually discussing them on MSM. AI is basically alike to a social media site like Facebook or even Twitter, which has been super-charged to a massive scale. Yes, AI can manipulate language, just like Facebook did to influence the 2022 election, illegally. Oh yes, I almost forgot that Twitter did the exact same thing. Indeed, words are powerful. But here's the rub. Anyone can throw around any old words (it's true, most can't even do that i.e. string two sentences together) and make a point. However, it takes an artist--a poet--to truly make words powerful. Really, this is not even a controversial poin...