{"id":53218,"date":"2016-10-20T19:02:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53218"},"modified":"2016-10-20T19:02:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:02:14","slug":"hinnary-or-google-image-search-meet-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53218","title":{"rendered":"Hinnary, or: Google Image Search, meet Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; artificial intelligence at the intersection of religion and politics ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Our own <strong>J Scott Shipman<\/strong> posted what I term a <strong>DoubleQuote<\/strong> on Facebook this morning, offering a juxtaposition of politician <strong>Hillary Clinton<\/strong> and preacher <strong>Benny Hinn<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/scotts-dq.png\" alt=\"scotts-dq\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/scotts-dq.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/scotts-dq-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enlarged it and cropped it lengthwise to give you a proper appreciation of the comparison. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hinnary-Clinton.jpg\" alt=\"hinnary-clinton\" width=\"600\" height=\"483\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hinnary-Clinton.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Hinnary-Clinton-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I thought, Scott&#8217;s doing an informal DoubleQuote, let me see if I can find the two images and rework them into one of my regular DoubleQuote formats. Only it wasn&#8217;t that easy. The only versions of the Hinn photo I could find were too small for my format, and the Hillary image wasn&#8217;t a photo but a screencap from a video &#8212; I could find a similar screencap from another TV channel, but not the exact one Scott had found.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ve seen above, I finally settled for cropping and enlarging the image Scott had provided &#8212; but along the way I ran across another instance of the intelligence of artifice &#8212; in this case, Google Image Search&#8217;s recognition technology:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Google-Image-Search-meet-Hillary-Clinton.png\" alt=\"google-image-search-meet-hillary-clinton\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Google-Image-Search-meet-Hillary-Clinton.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Google-Image-Search-meet-Hillary-Clinton-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah &#8212; but <font color=\"blue\"><strong><em>spokesperson<\/em><\/strong><\/font> for what or whom?<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m relieved to say that while Google is in general a brilliant, cutting-edge, genius of a search engine, it&#8217;s clearly not following the current Presidential race with any enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>You see that lady? She&#8217;s one of the candidates, and she was on several TV channels and online streaming sites just last night.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another candidate, who probably looks pretty much the same to you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/similar.png\" alt=\"similar\" width=\"602\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/similar.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/similar-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think my telling you all this will make you more artificially intelligent &#8212; but it might make you a little better informed about current affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; artificial intelligence at the intersection of religion and politics ] . Our own J Scott Shipman posted what I term a DoubleQuote on Facebook this morning, offering a juxtaposition of politician Hillary Clinton and preacher Benny Hinn: I&#8217;ve enlarged it and cropped it lengthwise to give you a proper appreciation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1122,526,497,1314,627,415,320,644,184,371,1003,618,462,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-donald-trump","category-doublequotes","category-elections","category-google","category-graphical-thinking","category-hillary-clinton","category-humor","category-irony","category-j-scott-shipman","category-metacognition","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53218"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53233,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53218\/revisions\/53233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}