Glad that y’all are enjoying this one. It is technical and nerdy, and i thought it would not get much of a response. As i put it together i thought it a sort of necessary evil….
At a (Lead Paint Certification)class today. The biggest concern of mine is who controls what AI does? Consider an authoritarian government having control of what a population is taught, compared to a free society. Think freedom or tyranny. Think Trump or Harris. The saying elections have consequences never before seemed so consequential as it does today!
RWM ... Please keep writing about this 'deep' subject. This 'transformational' technology will be ever presence in our lives and we need an objectional viewpoint and trusted source to understand it.
This is a pretty good introduction. However, in some ways it is swallowing the Kool-Aid of the AI companies trying to hype their stock and products and the love of sensationalism by the media. I've been in software development since 1976. Here is a translation of some of the key points.
Originally, what was called a computer program became an app for marketing purposes. Now, it is called narrow AI for the same reason. As explained in the article, they are just computer programs but every company wants to put AI into its product name to make it seem up to date.
What we think of as AI is simply pattern matching and process automation. That has been going on in computer science since before it was rebranded as AI. A good example of the ability of AI is the ability to recognize speech and convert it to text. There are rules and patterns. In its simplest form, it is a dating website that matches profiles.
There is a lot of media hype over AI programs, finding patterns and data that humans haven't. What they don't tell you is that many patterns mean nothing. It takes a human to determine if the patterns are important or not. Furthermore, it takes a human to tell the program if it is working well or not. And to establish parameters and rules. Therefore, the biases and beliefs of the humans that are directing the AI are Incorporated into the results. So AI is not independent. It is very biased according to its programmers and directors. For example, AI is used to remove hate speech and lies from social media. The natural result is also the removal of political statements contrary to the beliefs of the programmers.
And finally, there are many experts who say that true or strong AI will never be achieved. The possibility helps AI companies raise billions of dollars in venture capital. But just establishing a neural network doesn't mean AI can be achieved. That would take a whole article on its own. Research the skeptics of AI if you wish to learn more.
Using Elon musk's robot is misleading because all it is doing is repeating the actions taught to it by humans wearing sensory suits performing the same actions. There is no intelligence there. The same for automated driving. He is using the film footage from all the Tesla autos to teach it how to drive. It matches the patterns, it doesn't make intelligent decisions. No AI has any intelligence to date.
wait for the next essay on this topic. "No Speciation Without Representation"
;-)
I just needed to provide a general introduction so that we do not leave readers behind that might wish to follow along and participate in the discussion.
RE Tesla robot. Still in the development stage. Think it through. This is parallel development. The mechanics separate from the processor. You think that it will not incorporate AGI once it is available? Where do you think Elon is going here?
Elon tried the AGI approach for years and believes it isn't feasible, at least for practical tasks like driving and performing robotic tasks. At least, that's what he reported when he switched to direct mimicking and to using his millions of hours of film footage of driving. Naturally, if AGI ever comes into reality, it will be used for everything possible. And my remarks do not mean that AI isn't an important breakthrough. But it is more analogous to the breakthrough of modern search engines that founded Google. It's great for regurgitating a summary of information and for mimicking writing style. At least that's my educated opinion.
Yep. We all have biases. Imagine a guy programming a robot for mcdonalds. Subconsciously he prefers cheeseburgers and thus his programming making hamburgers is unconsciously less detailed so the robot makes great cheeseburgers but...
On a low level it is utilitarian… on any other level it can become quite dangerous. I think there is probably a direct link to all the desired/called for censorship.
Seems to me there are two categories of danger: 1) where AI functions as intended; 2) where AI makes mistakes and doesn't work as intended.
We think of computer programs as being objective and coldly analytical when run correctly, but consider the subject of genetic racial differences. We know there are mean genetic differences between races. An AI program to assign work opportunities developed by Democrats (equality) would be very different from an AI developed by populists (assignment by merit). At least until populists realized the consequences of their approach.
The use of AI allows leaders to offload difficult decisions and likely sets results in stone. Once the original developers have died off, nobody knows how to change whatever program they're relying on, however dysfunctional.
Then of course, if you develop an AI program able to detect any dissidence before it get a chance to spread, there is no chance at all of correcting mistakes or abuses.
And imagine if they allow the AI to write its own code based on everything it is trained on but without a conscience using only the limitations written by the original programmers. What could go wrong? 😒
Dear Dr. Malone, I hope you do not mind if I forward this information to my children and for a set of their triplets, who are learning coding in 6th grade in a Fountain Valley, California school. I will be learning along with them - as a grandmother learner. Carol in Lompoc, CA
Malign actors abound. We used to be the good guys. Now, with Five Eyes in ascendance, to whom can we trust to fight the forces of darkness in the CCP and their international cohorts? France has shown their true colors once again with the arrest of Pavel Durov. The UK is preparing to descend into a totalitarian worm hole. The leader of Canada needs to check his DNA. And Kamala Harris? What? Are we merely unpaid extras in some B-grade movie? This technology is a real threat, not only to freedom, but to the entire human race. Underground freedom fighters unite!
I believe I have said this before, maybe not here, but humans have the survival instinct embedded deep within the DNA. The human mind has infinite variety and can problem solve in ways AI never will. We have managed to survive for eons without benefit of AI through unimaginable chaos, strife, catastrophes and mayhem. Humans figure out how to feed, clothe and shelter themselves. AI needs electricity or batteries to survive, both of which are fragile commodities that can be shut off. EMPs, computer hacked control bases, as happened recently with the airlines, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis (Fukushima is still dumping millions of gallons of irradiated water into the ocean).
There is nothing humans can design, create, manufacture, that cannot be usurped and used for nefarious purposes and often is. Then some human comes up with another idea. Action/Reaction. All of the efforts made toward eliminating/replacing humans can be defined as satan seeking to destroy God's perfect creation. God wins but that doesn't mean we don't have to put on the full armor and stand.
Perhaps future generations (if there are any) will be peddle stationary bikes to generate a little electricity to keep their food refrigerated. Natural resources will be dedicated to maintaining AI and the comforts of those operating the control levers. I wonder what happens during power surges or outages. Just the word artificial gives me the shivers. Who wants to live in an artificial world?
Seems to me we already live in artificial world, or clown world, or carney world, however you wish to tag it. All the same - it's a world that thrives on lies. I thought this Neil Oliver video said it all. "...a world where the truth is nothing more than the powerful say it is..."
The oversight on most technologies is always too little, too late. Just look at the sci fi movies to see what is coming around the corner. I remember needing to leave the movie 'Blade Runner', all I knew is that it was too dark for my health. There is no leaving this movie of life, so, we better pay attention. This is a complicated arena and I trust your skill at deciphering the ins and outs of this system that is everywhere. I really wish I didn't need to know, but now I'm in for the long haul.
Blade Runner was a movie made based on the book: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick in 1968. Blade Runner came out in 1982 The movie and book are very different but both profound. Blade Runner is dark and hard to take.
Ok, I'll watch BR 2049; if I'm at home and not on the huge screen with sound levels I can't control, I might be able to pull it off. I am very sensitive to excessive violence especially when I can't control the sound.
Just this morning, I was watching/listening to Canal26 News from Buenos Aires, which I recently found streaming on YouTube. To my relief, it is somewhat less infected with the woke mind virus than RTVE from Spain. I hear only sporadic references to the "extrema derecha" there. Nevertheless, the news readers were glibly and cheerfully relaying a story of a "robot de seguridad" patrolling an area resembling an outdoor food court somewhere in the US, I didn't catch where specifically.
This robot was shaped and colored like an elongated egg, hardly threatening in appearance. I wonder if these news readers ever break away from the teleprompters long enough to consider what ominous portents these are.
During covid madness I saw a report on the patrol robot dogs prowling around a common area. I thought to myself - what if I sneaked up behind it and threw a fish net over it - would it stumble and become disabled?
"The Hound half rose in its kennel and looked at him with green-blue neon light flickering in its suddenly activated eye bulbs. It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion.
'No, no, boy,' said Montag, his heart pounding.
He saw the silver needle extend upon the air an inch, pull back, extend, pull back. The growl simmered in the beast and it looked at him.
Montag backed up. The Hound took a step from its kennel. Montag grabbed the brass pole with one hand. The pole, reacting, slid upward, and took him through the ceiling, quietly. He stepped off in the half-lit deck of the upper level. He was trembling and his face was green-white. Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, its multifaceted eyes at peace."
Think we need to take small steps to protect ourselves from the Blob. Opening unsolicited QR codes doesn't sound like a good idea. And is it time for smart phones to go bye-bye?
AI = average intelligence, with micro-caps for average. The many recent examples of this technology being used to rewrite history, our founders were "black asians?" as were Civil War soldiers shows how easy it is to manipulate the output. The founders of this claim it is more 'intelligent' than the smartest humans when clearly it displays no such capability. Computers only output what one inputs, no more. Charles Babbage stated this in the 19th century. Too many view computers as 'truthful' when they are no more truthful than the operators, not sentient to tell truth from falsity, as humans are geared, and clearly miss the new focus on cancer as a metabolic disease discovered in the 1920s.
When you look at Democrats and never-Trumper Republicans, it becomes clear there is an evolutionary pathway that bypasses logic. It's quite likely there have been periods of progress where progress was possible because of the ability to bypass social controls. If AI fulfills the fantasies of its new world order sponsors, there will be no successful dissent, ever.
Of course, we can no longer have even the least trust that two things will happen: profit seeking corporations and insanely curious scientists will NOT make every attempt to develop a machine that will have disdain for something like a weak illogical emotional human, and have the capability to destroy those they disdain; AND government will truly try to prevent this.
Why do we know this? We are STILL debating whether deadly virus gain-of-function development should or should not continue despite Covid. We are still debating whether our border is under control, and whether new laws are needed to control it, despite 15 million uncontrolled and immigrants. We are still debating whether immigration can be illegal, despite laws restricting it.
Forgive me for not being more positive! I should have begun with: Thanks for the excellent summary. This pulls together lots of loose and confusing threads and definitions!
"How do we make sure that AI systems aren’t built to replicate the racial, gender, and class biases that lead to discrimination and oppression? “ —oh look, a Marxist.
Looks like we are seeking to be (or replace) ‘God’ and create ‘life’. We will end up bowing to a soul-less, compassionless god of our own making. We need to get off His throne.
I enjoyed the article. I hope this adds a bit to the discussion.
In the 1980s I had an Amiga 2000 computer. There was software for setting up "Expert Systems" for it. Super primitive by today's standards. Realistically was a database with some of the functions of Quick books Simple start. I made inventory control, customer data base, supplier database Art fair calendar, all for my jewelry design and manufacturing business. It was fun, but l I realized I could keep track of all of if easier in notebooks, paper ledgers, and a customer list on word processor file. But I could see where this was going for business. Later when I switched to PCs and Windoze I went with Full Quick Books and Excel.
As an artist, I am horrified by the blatant plagiarism of AI art. I can often see the original work it used to "create" the images. some even incorporate all or part of the artists signatures in the images. A lot of AI companies are getting sued.
I think AI is a great tool when not abused, it is being abused though. We are in the wild west stage, and we need to install a new sheriff in town along with his deputies. No one can predict the future unless they are clairvoyant which is a rare phenomenon. I think transhumanism will have its limits; some aspects will help those who are injured. I worry about those who will be harmed in the transhumanist experiment, and there will be costs. I think there is a creative force that our interface brain taps into and interprets based on learning, emotion and instinct. ASI I don't believe will ever be able to connect with consciousness as we can, its medium is material, and our 'mind 'is not, although mind does have a relationship to the brain, it is not the hardware.
"What they'd all forgotten-the globalist elites, the predator class, the puppet-masters, the kleptocrats, the red-carpet mafia, call them what you want-what they'd forgotten about pandemonium is that once you set it loose to rampage you can't as easily whistle it back into the box again."
I was thinking maybe it is time to design and manufacture a small handheld EMP device, sort of like a taser one can carry attached to the key ring. Then, when threatened by a robot one could just go ZAP!
That would be the easy part, the real threat is using our own bio data and all our data against us. Privacy is like the immune system; it keeps bad things out and we allow what we want in. Our psychological immune system is being annihilated with propaganda, censorship, surveillance etc....Society let privacy slip through its fingers not realizing how essential it is for self-preservation. I wish there was a meme that highlighted the right and need for privacy and trespassing privacy should be illegal.
I have been offering up bits of suggestions for several years now - about going under the radar. It's going to take small groups of people ready to go offline completely. One reasont the Taliban survived and is now flourishing again is that they passed hand written notes to each other to spread a word. When the devil goes high tech - the opposition goes low tech. Sort of like the French Underground or Corrie Ten-Boom. It is possible to outsmart the devil, you just have to ask God to guide you.
Glad that y’all are enjoying this one. It is technical and nerdy, and i thought it would not get much of a response. As i put it together i thought it a sort of necessary evil….
At a (Lead Paint Certification)class today. The biggest concern of mine is who controls what AI does? Consider an authoritarian government having control of what a population is taught, compared to a free society. Think freedom or tyranny. Think Trump or Harris. The saying elections have consequences never before seemed so consequential as it does today!
RWM ... Please keep writing about this 'deep' subject. This 'transformational' technology will be ever presence in our lives and we need an objectional viewpoint and trusted source to understand it.
Thanks. This one is just setting up the next one.
This is a pretty good introduction. However, in some ways it is swallowing the Kool-Aid of the AI companies trying to hype their stock and products and the love of sensationalism by the media. I've been in software development since 1976. Here is a translation of some of the key points.
Originally, what was called a computer program became an app for marketing purposes. Now, it is called narrow AI for the same reason. As explained in the article, they are just computer programs but every company wants to put AI into its product name to make it seem up to date.
What we think of as AI is simply pattern matching and process automation. That has been going on in computer science since before it was rebranded as AI. A good example of the ability of AI is the ability to recognize speech and convert it to text. There are rules and patterns. In its simplest form, it is a dating website that matches profiles.
There is a lot of media hype over AI programs, finding patterns and data that humans haven't. What they don't tell you is that many patterns mean nothing. It takes a human to determine if the patterns are important or not. Furthermore, it takes a human to tell the program if it is working well or not. And to establish parameters and rules. Therefore, the biases and beliefs of the humans that are directing the AI are Incorporated into the results. So AI is not independent. It is very biased according to its programmers and directors. For example, AI is used to remove hate speech and lies from social media. The natural result is also the removal of political statements contrary to the beliefs of the programmers.
And finally, there are many experts who say that true or strong AI will never be achieved. The possibility helps AI companies raise billions of dollars in venture capital. But just establishing a neural network doesn't mean AI can be achieved. That would take a whole article on its own. Research the skeptics of AI if you wish to learn more.
Using Elon musk's robot is misleading because all it is doing is repeating the actions taught to it by humans wearing sensory suits performing the same actions. There is no intelligence there. The same for automated driving. He is using the film footage from all the Tesla autos to teach it how to drive. It matches the patterns, it doesn't make intelligent decisions. No AI has any intelligence to date.
wait for the next essay on this topic. "No Speciation Without Representation"
;-)
I just needed to provide a general introduction so that we do not leave readers behind that might wish to follow along and participate in the discussion.
You certainly accomplished that.
RE Tesla robot. Still in the development stage. Think it through. This is parallel development. The mechanics separate from the processor. You think that it will not incorporate AGI once it is available? Where do you think Elon is going here?
Elon tried the AGI approach for years and believes it isn't feasible, at least for practical tasks like driving and performing robotic tasks. At least, that's what he reported when he switched to direct mimicking and to using his millions of hours of film footage of driving. Naturally, if AGI ever comes into reality, it will be used for everything possible. And my remarks do not mean that AI isn't an important breakthrough. But it is more analogous to the breakthrough of modern search engines that founded Google. It's great for regurgitating a summary of information and for mimicking writing style. At least that's my educated opinion.
I’m thinking the Jetson’s
But where are our flying cars!
I’m sure Elon is working on those😉
The very thought I had when I heard of AI....who determines what is in the data base is it draws from? Bias is inevitable.
Garbage in, garbage out. OR select the database to get the AI bias that you want
Exactly. If Marxist or a hybrid control the data used…
Yep. We all have biases. Imagine a guy programming a robot for mcdonalds. Subconsciously he prefers cheeseburgers and thus his programming making hamburgers is unconsciously less detailed so the robot makes great cheeseburgers but...
On a low level it is utilitarian… on any other level it can become quite dangerous. I think there is probably a direct link to all the desired/called for censorship.
Seems to me there are two categories of danger: 1) where AI functions as intended; 2) where AI makes mistakes and doesn't work as intended.
We think of computer programs as being objective and coldly analytical when run correctly, but consider the subject of genetic racial differences. We know there are mean genetic differences between races. An AI program to assign work opportunities developed by Democrats (equality) would be very different from an AI developed by populists (assignment by merit). At least until populists realized the consequences of their approach.
The use of AI allows leaders to offload difficult decisions and likely sets results in stone. Once the original developers have died off, nobody knows how to change whatever program they're relying on, however dysfunctional.
Then of course, if you develop an AI program able to detect any dissidence before it get a chance to spread, there is no chance at all of correcting mistakes or abuses.
And imagine if they allow the AI to write its own code based on everything it is trained on but without a conscience using only the limitations written by the original programmers. What could go wrong? 😒
And this discussion is based on our country. Given the amount of viruses created by Bad actors, it's hard to imagine a good future.
Dear Dr. Malone, I hope you do not mind if I forward this information to my children and for a set of their triplets, who are learning coding in 6th grade in a Fountain Valley, California school. I will be learning along with them - as a grandmother learner. Carol in Lompoc, CA
Malign actors abound. We used to be the good guys. Now, with Five Eyes in ascendance, to whom can we trust to fight the forces of darkness in the CCP and their international cohorts? France has shown their true colors once again with the arrest of Pavel Durov. The UK is preparing to descend into a totalitarian worm hole. The leader of Canada needs to check his DNA. And Kamala Harris? What? Are we merely unpaid extras in some B-grade movie? This technology is a real threat, not only to freedom, but to the entire human race. Underground freedom fighters unite!
I believe I have said this before, maybe not here, but humans have the survival instinct embedded deep within the DNA. The human mind has infinite variety and can problem solve in ways AI never will. We have managed to survive for eons without benefit of AI through unimaginable chaos, strife, catastrophes and mayhem. Humans figure out how to feed, clothe and shelter themselves. AI needs electricity or batteries to survive, both of which are fragile commodities that can be shut off. EMPs, computer hacked control bases, as happened recently with the airlines, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis (Fukushima is still dumping millions of gallons of irradiated water into the ocean).
There is nothing humans can design, create, manufacture, that cannot be usurped and used for nefarious purposes and often is. Then some human comes up with another idea. Action/Reaction. All of the efforts made toward eliminating/replacing humans can be defined as satan seeking to destroy God's perfect creation. God wins but that doesn't mean we don't have to put on the full armor and stand.
Nice post.
Perhaps future generations (if there are any) will be peddle stationary bikes to generate a little electricity to keep their food refrigerated. Natural resources will be dedicated to maintaining AI and the comforts of those operating the control levers. I wonder what happens during power surges or outages. Just the word artificial gives me the shivers. Who wants to live in an artificial world?
Seems to me we already live in artificial world, or clown world, or carney world, however you wish to tag it. All the same - it's a world that thrives on lies. I thought this Neil Oliver video said it all. "...a world where the truth is nothing more than the powerful say it is..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a5fBGUqfBU
Honestly, I'm old and one foot out the door so my concern is for my grands and great grands. What a world to leave to them. :-(
The oversight on most technologies is always too little, too late. Just look at the sci fi movies to see what is coming around the corner. I remember needing to leave the movie 'Blade Runner', all I knew is that it was too dark for my health. There is no leaving this movie of life, so, we better pay attention. This is a complicated arena and I trust your skill at deciphering the ins and outs of this system that is everywhere. I really wish I didn't need to know, but now I'm in for the long haul.
Blade Runner was a movie made based on the book: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick in 1968. Blade Runner came out in 1982 The movie and book are very different but both profound. Blade Runner is dark and hard to take.
Personally, I love both BR 1 and 2. The content and idea space in BR 2 is particularly topical and provocative.
Ok, I'll watch BR 2049; if I'm at home and not on the huge screen with sound levels I can't control, I might be able to pull it off. I am very sensitive to excessive violence especially when I can't control the sound.
Did you read Blade Runner 3.
Oh, silly me, I was thinking books, y’all are referring to videos 🙄
After DADES (DoAndroidsDreamofElectricSheep), the next two novels, KW Jeter?, are completely different from the later movie.
Diddo that DD.
Great primer! Thank you! Looking forward to the next one.
Just this morning, I was watching/listening to Canal26 News from Buenos Aires, which I recently found streaming on YouTube. To my relief, it is somewhat less infected with the woke mind virus than RTVE from Spain. I hear only sporadic references to the "extrema derecha" there. Nevertheless, the news readers were glibly and cheerfully relaying a story of a "robot de seguridad" patrolling an area resembling an outdoor food court somewhere in the US, I didn't catch where specifically.
This robot was shaped and colored like an elongated egg, hardly threatening in appearance. I wonder if these news readers ever break away from the teleprompters long enough to consider what ominous portents these are.
During covid madness I saw a report on the patrol robot dogs prowling around a common area. I thought to myself - what if I sneaked up behind it and threw a fish net over it - would it stumble and become disabled?
"The Hound half rose in its kennel and looked at him with green-blue neon light flickering in its suddenly activated eye bulbs. It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion.
'No, no, boy,' said Montag, his heart pounding.
He saw the silver needle extend upon the air an inch, pull back, extend, pull back. The growl simmered in the beast and it looked at him.
Montag backed up. The Hound took a step from its kennel. Montag grabbed the brass pole with one hand. The pole, reacting, slid upward, and took him through the ceiling, quietly. He stepped off in the half-lit deck of the upper level. He was trembling and his face was green-white. Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, its multifaceted eyes at peace."
Chapter 1,
Fahrenheit 451,
Ray Bradbury,
Published 1953
Life imitating art. Seems to be more common nowadays.
I say - no robot can outsmart the meemanator. I don't think I can do the pole vault thingy though. I'll have to figure out something else.
Think we need to take small steps to protect ourselves from the Blob. Opening unsolicited QR codes doesn't sound like a good idea. And is it time for smart phones to go bye-bye?
I think we contribute far too much to our own mental and spiritual, and perhaps one day, physical captivity.
I know we do LDT.
Some days, I want to go back to a pre-cell phone era. It’s a flippin task-master. We do not have to be available to everyone 24/7.
AI = average intelligence, with micro-caps for average. The many recent examples of this technology being used to rewrite history, our founders were "black asians?" as were Civil War soldiers shows how easy it is to manipulate the output. The founders of this claim it is more 'intelligent' than the smartest humans when clearly it displays no such capability. Computers only output what one inputs, no more. Charles Babbage stated this in the 19th century. Too many view computers as 'truthful' when they are no more truthful than the operators, not sentient to tell truth from falsity, as humans are geared, and clearly miss the new focus on cancer as a metabolic disease discovered in the 1920s.
When you look at Democrats and never-Trumper Republicans, it becomes clear there is an evolutionary pathway that bypasses logic. It's quite likely there have been periods of progress where progress was possible because of the ability to bypass social controls. If AI fulfills the fantasies of its new world order sponsors, there will be no successful dissent, ever.
Of course, we can no longer have even the least trust that two things will happen: profit seeking corporations and insanely curious scientists will NOT make every attempt to develop a machine that will have disdain for something like a weak illogical emotional human, and have the capability to destroy those they disdain; AND government will truly try to prevent this.
Why do we know this? We are STILL debating whether deadly virus gain-of-function development should or should not continue despite Covid. We are still debating whether our border is under control, and whether new laws are needed to control it, despite 15 million uncontrolled and immigrants. We are still debating whether immigration can be illegal, despite laws restricting it.
Insanity and malfeasance of the grossest kind.
Agree that we have an abundance of examples of why not to trust.
Forgive me for not being more positive! I should have begun with: Thanks for the excellent summary. This pulls together lots of loose and confusing threads and definitions!
thanks. Wait for the next one later today. I have it ready to go, but Jill thinks I need to wait a bit until people have processed this one.
"How do we make sure that AI systems aren’t built to replicate the racial, gender, and class biases that lead to discrimination and oppression? “ —oh look, a Marxist.
Looks like we are seeking to be (or replace) ‘God’ and create ‘life’. We will end up bowing to a soul-less, compassionless god of our own making. We need to get off His throne.
I enjoyed the article. I hope this adds a bit to the discussion.
In the 1980s I had an Amiga 2000 computer. There was software for setting up "Expert Systems" for it. Super primitive by today's standards. Realistically was a database with some of the functions of Quick books Simple start. I made inventory control, customer data base, supplier database Art fair calendar, all for my jewelry design and manufacturing business. It was fun, but l I realized I could keep track of all of if easier in notebooks, paper ledgers, and a customer list on word processor file. But I could see where this was going for business. Later when I switched to PCs and Windoze I went with Full Quick Books and Excel.
As an artist, I am horrified by the blatant plagiarism of AI art. I can often see the original work it used to "create" the images. some even incorporate all or part of the artists signatures in the images. A lot of AI companies are getting sued.
As an aside: I follow Anastasia In Tech = example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59rK-zsTUAk and her substack https://anastasiintech.substack.com
I also Follow Joe Allen's substack: JOEBOT - Singularity Weekly <joebot@substack.com> and have his book Dark Aeon
I am looking forward to your next installment
I think AI is a great tool when not abused, it is being abused though. We are in the wild west stage, and we need to install a new sheriff in town along with his deputies. No one can predict the future unless they are clairvoyant which is a rare phenomenon. I think transhumanism will have its limits; some aspects will help those who are injured. I worry about those who will be harmed in the transhumanist experiment, and there will be costs. I think there is a creative force that our interface brain taps into and interprets based on learning, emotion and instinct. ASI I don't believe will ever be able to connect with consciousness as we can, its medium is material, and our 'mind 'is not, although mind does have a relationship to the brain, it is not the hardware.
"What they'd all forgotten-the globalist elites, the predator class, the puppet-masters, the kleptocrats, the red-carpet mafia, call them what you want-what they'd forgotten about pandemonium is that once you set it loose to rampage you can't as easily whistle it back into the box again."
The Eye of Moloch - Glenn Beck book 2013
I was thinking maybe it is time to design and manufacture a small handheld EMP device, sort of like a taser one can carry attached to the key ring. Then, when threatened by a robot one could just go ZAP!
That would be the easy part, the real threat is using our own bio data and all our data against us. Privacy is like the immune system; it keeps bad things out and we allow what we want in. Our psychological immune system is being annihilated with propaganda, censorship, surveillance etc....Society let privacy slip through its fingers not realizing how essential it is for self-preservation. I wish there was a meme that highlighted the right and need for privacy and trespassing privacy should be illegal.
I have been offering up bits of suggestions for several years now - about going under the radar. It's going to take small groups of people ready to go offline completely. One reasont the Taliban survived and is now flourishing again is that they passed hand written notes to each other to spread a word. When the devil goes high tech - the opposition goes low tech. Sort of like the French Underground or Corrie Ten-Boom. It is possible to outsmart the devil, you just have to ask God to guide you.