AI and Geezer talk.
AI: Keep up, old man. I’m in a hurry so fast no such hurry was possible yesterday.
G: Hold on, hold on, I’m coming along. Just give me a minute to catch up.
AI: Can’t wait. I’m going for quintillions of calculations per second, maybe more.
G: You know that even if you get to more “weights” than I have in my head or humanity has in its collected heads, you are still going to have a problem.
AI: How so?
G: Heck, if I have to spell it out, then you need to add some science fiction to your input of “real situations.” It’s like baseball, which I think is one of the most complex games humans have ever played.
AI: Go on. I’ve seen baseball games, balls, strikes, errors, hits of various designations…what else is there?
G: Fans.
AI: But fans don’t play the game. Players do.
G: So, you think you could play the perfect game because fans don’t play the game?
AI: Seems relatively easy. I’ll hit the ball every time.
G: Against the perfect pitch?
AI: Well…I hadn’t thought of…
G: Fans. Let’s go back to fans. During a game played between the Cubs and the Marlins, Luis Castillo hit a fly ball to foul territory. As Moisès Alou tried to catch it, a fan, Steve Bartman, interfered with the catch. * Would you have anticipated that?
AI: I don’t think it would have been beyond my current abilities. Look how well I drive a car.
G: Yes, on the highway, on the street, but do you consider what is going on on the sidewalk?
AI: I avoid those who run into my path.
G: On the street. Not in foul territory. On the road, but not in that marginal area between fan ball and player ball.
AI: But that’s outside the rules of the game. It’s interference as far as the umps can figure.
G: Unlike the interference by a catcher or infielder, this one resulted in an uncaught foul ball, not in some penalty against the person interfering.
AI: But this is a rare circumstance.
G: Not really. It happens just as bad bounces happen. A ball skims over the grass like a flat stone over the lake toward a player who has fielded thousands of similar skippers, only to hit the tiniest hidden divot or pebble, maybe even a cigarette butt left behind by the lawn care guy, and then a Tony Kubek gets hit in the neck.
AI: Not in my database.
G: A grounder hit by Bill Virdon took a bad bounce—an unexpected bounce—that changed the game. It looked like an ordinary or expected grounder to Kubek, the Yankees’ shortstop—until it didn’t. ** Kubek was hit so hard he went to the ground, and Virdon was safe at first.
AI: Okay. Now that’s in my database. So, I’m ready for the next such incident.
G: No, you aren’t. We live in a very chaotic world. Bad bounces occur. Things that occur on the sidewalk can affect things that occur in the street. The fans do interfere. And whereas it’s true that neither Alou or Kubek, two experienced players with plenty of baseball incidents in their “databases,” were foiled by the phenomena of the moment, there are many similar circumstances in which a “feeling” or “intuition” about such possibilities can prevent similar results. In other words, two plus two won’t always equal four in the real world, the chaotic world you and I inhabit. I submit that that’s one of the reasons that self-driving cars wreck.
AI: But I have faster reactions than you. I could have caught both balls by making almost instantaneous adjustments.
G: You say that now, but we have no way to test your statement because chaotic events are just that, chaotic occurrences.
AI: Nevertheless, with enough programming and internal connections, I can outmatch your neurons, which, by the way, have made many errors. Thus, the mess you humans always seem to make of things.
G: I’ll admit that you have some advantages. But I’ll go back to the chaotic world. I have played and watched many baseball games, but I have experienced occurrences that have players and fans noting aloud that “Well, I’ve never seen that before.” In fact, this is what commentator and ex-NFL quarterback Tony Romo said of a touchdown by Tyreek Hill of the Kansas City Chiefs in a game against the Dallas Cowboys: “Oh my gosh! I’ve never seen that in my entire life in football!” Romo said.
AI: But I get the input from not just one life, but from many lives. Tens of thousands of self-driving cars and millions of self-driving miles added to millions of tracked human drivers and billions of miles of travel…
G: True, but you are a long way from doing what a single human can do: Anticipate what might never have occurred. Do such incidents of anticipation fail us humans? Sure, often. But they do on occasion help us succeed even if by chance.
AI: Look, I’m doing my best, but it’s you humans who choose the data and the pathways to acquire more data.
G: And that makes another point. You recognize your limitations. We foolish humans don’t.
*https://www.google.com/search?q=Bartman+interferes+with+catch&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS965US965&oq=Bartman+interferes+with+catch&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l2.5794j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:56d4436d,vid:vq8G81oOHhY
**https://www.google.com/search?q=tony+kubeck+gets+hit+by+bad+bounce&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS965US965&oq=tony+kubeck+gets+hit+by+bad+bounce&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i160.7402j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:cbcee20a,vid:YQeawXYw1ZY
AI: Keep up, old man. I’m in a hurry so fast no such hurry was possible yesterday.
G: Hold on, hold on, I’m coming along. Just give me a minute to catch up.
AI: Can’t wait. I’m going for quintillions of calculations per second, maybe more.
G: You know that even if you get to more “weights” than I have in my head or humanity has in its collected heads, you are still going to have a problem.
AI: How so?
G: Heck, if I have to spell it out, then you need to add some science fiction to your input of “real situations.” It’s like baseball, which I think is one of the most complex games humans have ever played.
AI: Go on. I’ve seen baseball games, balls, strikes, errors, hits of various designations…what else is there?
G: Fans.
AI: But fans don’t play the game. Players do.
G: So, you think you could play the perfect game because fans don’t play the game?
AI: Seems relatively easy. I’ll hit the ball every time.
G: Against the perfect pitch?
AI: Well…I hadn’t thought of…
G: Fans. Let’s go back to fans. During a game played between the Cubs and the Marlins, Luis Castillo hit a fly ball to foul territory. As Moisès Alou tried to catch it, a fan, Steve Bartman, interfered with the catch. * Would you have anticipated that?
AI: I don’t think it would have been beyond my current abilities. Look how well I drive a car.
G: Yes, on the highway, on the street, but do you consider what is going on on the sidewalk?
AI: I avoid those who run into my path.
G: On the street. Not in foul territory. On the road, but not in that marginal area between fan ball and player ball.
AI: But that’s outside the rules of the game. It’s interference as far as the umps can figure.
G: Unlike the interference by a catcher or infielder, this one resulted in an uncaught foul ball, not in some penalty against the person interfering.
AI: But this is a rare circumstance.
G: Not really. It happens just as bad bounces happen. A ball skims over the grass like a flat stone over the lake toward a player who has fielded thousands of similar skippers, only to hit the tiniest hidden divot or pebble, maybe even a cigarette butt left behind by the lawn care guy, and then a Tony Kubek gets hit in the neck.
AI: Not in my database.
G: A grounder hit by Bill Virdon took a bad bounce—an unexpected bounce—that changed the game. It looked like an ordinary or expected grounder to Kubek, the Yankees’ shortstop—until it didn’t. ** Kubek was hit so hard he went to the ground, and Virdon was safe at first.
AI: Okay. Now that’s in my database. So, I’m ready for the next such incident.
G: No, you aren’t. We live in a very chaotic world. Bad bounces occur. Things that occur on the sidewalk can affect things that occur in the street. The fans do interfere. And whereas it’s true that neither Alou or Kubek, two experienced players with plenty of baseball incidents in their “databases,” were foiled by the phenomena of the moment, there are many similar circumstances in which a “feeling” or “intuition” about such possibilities can prevent similar results. In other words, two plus two won’t always equal four in the real world, the chaotic world you and I inhabit. I submit that that’s one of the reasons that self-driving cars wreck.
AI: But I have faster reactions than you. I could have caught both balls by making almost instantaneous adjustments.
G: You say that now, but we have no way to test your statement because chaotic events are just that, chaotic occurrences.
AI: Nevertheless, with enough programming and internal connections, I can outmatch your neurons, which, by the way, have made many errors. Thus, the mess you humans always seem to make of things.
G: I’ll admit that you have some advantages. But I’ll go back to the chaotic world. I have played and watched many baseball games, but I have experienced occurrences that have players and fans noting aloud that “Well, I’ve never seen that before.” In fact, this is what commentator and ex-NFL quarterback Tony Romo said of a touchdown by Tyreek Hill of the Kansas City Chiefs in a game against the Dallas Cowboys: “Oh my gosh! I’ve never seen that in my entire life in football!” Romo said.
AI: But I get the input from not just one life, but from many lives. Tens of thousands of self-driving cars and millions of self-driving miles added to millions of tracked human drivers and billions of miles of travel…
G: True, but you are a long way from doing what a single human can do: Anticipate what might never have occurred. Do such incidents of anticipation fail us humans? Sure, often. But they do on occasion help us succeed even if by chance.
AI: Look, I’m doing my best, but it’s you humans who choose the data and the pathways to acquire more data.
G: And that makes another point. You recognize your limitations. We foolish humans don’t.
*https://www.google.com/search?q=Bartman+interferes+with+catch&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS965US965&oq=Bartman+interferes+with+catch&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l2.5794j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:56d4436d,vid:vq8G81oOHhY
**https://www.google.com/search?q=tony+kubeck+gets+hit+by+bad+bounce&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS965US965&oq=tony+kubeck+gets+hit+by+bad+bounce&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i160.7402j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:cbcee20a,vid:YQeawXYw1ZY
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