Understanding A.I.

Artificial Intelligence, what's the first thing that comes to your mind?  Gemini?  ChatGPT?  These A.I. systems are fairly impressive at what they can currently do, and they only seem to be getting more capable.  However, there is one fundamental flaw that can only cause problems if used for one very distinct human and animal characteristic, in which only biology can really experience what it truly is.  I bring this up, as over the past week, I feel like I've been led astray by an A.I., and here's why:

A.I. Lacks a True Understanding

The one thing that A.I. models are no doubt the best at is logic, just like the underlying computer, which is also bound by logic.  This is sort of where that rather stupid debate about A.I. being conscious is really from, is the debate on if logic can create such an awareness like we humans and other biologic creatures can experience?  We are now even understanding that even plants seem to have some level of awareness.  The science on consciousness and awareness is really astounding.  However, when it comes to an A.I. being able to experience this sort of self-awareness isn't possible, at least without the biological components we all take for granted.  Anyways, I won't go into my own theories in this thought, but perhaps in a future thought I will, as it can be a bit subjective, but as I've been predicting certain things about the world around me, I later see an article about it.  Now not everything, but there are a few moments where I just wish I made that post about a theory, but didn't...  Anyways, so look forward to such thoughts in the near future.

Back to where A.I. is useful, is when using them to solve logical problems, and they tend to be really amazing at that  task, but then if you ask them to solve a more emotional problem, they tend to use logic to solve that problem.

The Problem A.I. Couldn't Solve

So, as some of you may have noted from my website here, I wrote a post about various potential places I could go from here.  Some of them are downright depressing, but I honestly don't want to be homeless again, and it's there for 100% transparency in a final last result if all my funds are gone, I can't pay rent, and got no job or income...  Like, I really don't want to be homeless again, and I apologize if this does sound to the extreme, but I think I'd feel safer in a hospital talking about all the stress to my life to a doctor that paid to listen and help.  I hope that the upcoming Career Counselor will help me, but I do like to think over every possible scenario, it helps with my anxiety if I think of every single outcome.  Which is also why I'm usually good at Analytics sort of job positions, like DevOps, where I need to deeply analyze a problem, and make the right decision, during this process, I tend to consider almost every possible scenario, and then choose the solution that makes the most sense.  This is how my anxious mind works, and I make it work for me at jobs where it could benefit me.  I accept my disability of being anxious, but have learned of the positives it can also bring.

So back to the problem A.I. couldn't solve, so after presenting all of the options you see on that page to the A.I., and it having all the information from my website, it gleefully suggested that I keep aiming for a DevOps position again, as noted in the A.I. response I also provided in that post.  This was A.I. being guided entirely though logic, rather than through any deep emotional understanding of who I am as a human being.  While in the post I do mention a bit about that potential career path of social services, A.I. didn't really understand the emotional impact, and probably a much better overall well-being by having a social services job over trying my hand back in DevOps again.

I needed to take another step back after chatting with A.I. again to realize, I am being let astray by it, because it doesn't really understand me, and instead based all it's responses entirely on pure logic.  That is the real fear about trying to use A.I. for everything.