Google is developing its own AI – Bard – and tonight I had a chance to use it. My question: What is synchronicity?
The answer fits.
Synchronicity is a concept that was first introduced by Carl Jung, a Swiss
psychologist. It is the meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where
something other than the probability of chance is involved. The event is
meaningful because what happens in the external world is mirroring
something happening in your internal world.
For example, you might be thinking about a friend you haven’t seen in a
long time, and then you run into them on the street. Or you might have a
dream about a certain place, and then you find yourself visiting that place
in real life.
Jung believed that synchronicity was a way for the universe to communicate
with us. He thought that it could be a sign of our intuition, or our
connection to something greater than ourselves.
Synchronicity is often seen as a spiritual phenomenon, but it can also be
seen as a psychological one. Jung believed that synchronicity could help us
to understand our inner selves and to connect with the world around us.
Whether you believe in synchronicity or not, it can be a fascinating and
thought-provoking concept. It can make us wonder about the nature of
reality and our place in the universe.
So will we, as a society, eventually censor AIs because we don’t like their answers? Here in Florida, Governor DeSantis is banning any mention of Blacks and the Civil Rights history because it might make white kids, well, uncomfortable. So I asked the Bard AI: Who was Rosa Parks? I asked because one publisher of school texts books has already removed any reference to her as a black woman.
Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”.
Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was raised by her grandparents after her parents separated when she was two years old. Parks attended Booker T. Washington High School, where she was a member of the NAACP and the National Association of Colored Women.
In 1932, Parks married Raymond Parks, a barber and NAACP activist. The couple moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1943. Parks worked as a seamstress and NAACP secretary.
On December 1, 1955, Parks was riding a bus home from work when she was ordered to give up her seat to a white passenger. Parks refused, and she was arrested and fined.
Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott of the bus system by blacks that lasted for more than a year. The boycott ended with the Supreme Court ruling that segregation on city buses was unconstitutional.
Parks’s act of defiance helped to launch the modern civil rights movement. She became a national symbol of the struggle for equality, and she was awarded the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal in 1979.
Parks died on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92. She was the first woman to lie in honor in the United States Capitol Rotunda.
Rosa Parks was a courageous and determined woman who fought for equality and justice for all Americans. Her legacy will continue to inspire people around the world for generations to come.
Ronnie boy DeSantis won’t like the Bard AI’s response to this question.
