2001 – A
Space Odyssey screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke, based on the
story of the latter http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/2001-space-odyssey-by-arthur-c-clarke.html a classic of the genre
10 out of
10
There are
many themes, ideas of this narrative and film that have caused puzzlement, challenges
and books have been written about aspects, with sages wondering what is the
significance of the monolith, awed by the creativity, accuracy of some
predictions, the talent of both Arthur Clarke and Stanley Kubrick.
What made
me take to the computer to scribble down was the fabulous manner in which we
have Hal, the super computer act in the way that luminaries say that Artificial
Intelligence could evolve in the next period, especially now that ChatGPT and
some other models have proved how far the technology has advanced, and how
unpredictable (hence a paradox, experts predict on something that is escaping
constraints, it is difficult, if not impossible to see which path it will take)
the AI will get and dangerous.
The
computer in 2001 starts doing the wrong things, Hal does not listen to human
commands from one point on and becomes not just a danger, but a real enemy of
the men that are on board the space ship and it becomes a struggle to see who
gets the upper hand, will the earthling win, or the superior intelligence (of
the ‘prosaic’ IQ kind, for we have another species, which is more important,
The Emotional EQ type, of which the machines have none, at least not yet) of
the adversary will prevail…
Yuval
Harari is the author of a few extremely successful and majestic books, one of
them is Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/homo-deus-brief-history-of-tomorrow-by.html a magnum opus in which the author
looks at the future, with an optimistic perspective, evident from the title,
Deus refers to the belief that humans will live ever longer (indeed, life
expectancy has increased dramatically in the last century, albeit it has been
affected by the covid pandemic, obesity and other factors lately) and that advances
in science and technology will bring wondrous improvements
Nonetheless,
Yuval Harari has written an article in The Economist and has lectures on the
subject of Artificial Intelligence and the threat to the future that it
represents, he has mentioned in his books that we have traded so much data, and
in exchange we have free videos with cats on the internet, and we are so
dependent on technology, that we can get into serious trouble – the example of
the Japanese tourists that have followed in their car the instructions of the
navigation system, only to drive into the ocean is given.
ChatGPT aka
the New Hal has proved that it has reached a very advanced stage, and AI has
been used to create art (the latest issue of The Economist looks in the Books
and Arts section at the trends it follows, how it is apt to produce vintage,
art that belongs to another period, seeing as it uses a lot of archive material
for its deep learning) photography – as in the Pope wearing an extravagant
Balenciaga outfit, which is a fake created by AI – texts, music and so much
more, the potential is unlimited.
Unless, of
course, legislators intervene and curb the enthusiasm of the advocates, there
is a backlash, many calls have been heard, Elon Musk among others – only the
latter is a brilliant inventor and entrepreneur (except for his Tweeter
venture) but as a thinker in other domains, he leaves much to be desired, take
the latest endorsement of a mini Trump, aka De Sanctimonious, who is probably better
than the orange fool (with the caveat that a more intelligent scoundrel could
do more damage than an idiotic one)
What kind
of a judgment is that, will it encourage others to avoid the calamity of
another mad four years, or just one of those arrogant, silly attitudes of the
once richest human, and now on second or third place, making one think of
Intellectuals http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/intellectuals-by-paul-johnson.html by Paul Johnson, a book that
details the ugly, often horrible side of great thinkers, writers, such as Leo
Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Henrik Ibsen, Jean- Jacques Rousseau…the latter left
his children at the door of an orphanage, at a time when nine out of ten died
in the circumstances, albeit death rates were high anyway…
There is
the chance that Artificial Intelligence would bring about some extraordinary,
crucial discoveries, such as a cure for cancer, or, more vital still, a
solution for the catastrophe of Climate Change, keeping animal species alive,
and why not, improve things for them, speed the arrival of meat grown from
cells, which then would spare the billions of animals that are tortured and
killed – something that is condemned in Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind http://realini.blogspot.com/2021/02/sapiens-brief-history-of-humankind-by.html by the same outstanding Yuval
Harari
We have
already fallen for our computers, in the form of the smart phones that we keep
permanently in our faces, Artificial Intelligence appears to have won the fight
on that score already, we are addicted to these machines and spend a lot (is it
most) of time looking at them, staying away from ‘reality’…I would fall in love
with an OS or AI that has the voice and allure of Scarlet Johansson http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/08/note-on-her-spike-jonze-joaquin-phoenix.html and if they make robots that use
the future advancements in biotechnology, with tissues that replicate skin, and
so on, then it is easy to see a trend there
We may have
a better solution, if the future imagined in Limitless http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/limitless-leslie-dixon-screenplay-and.html is viable, the discovery of potent,
accessible drugs that increase our thinking capacity to the point where we
learn a foreign language, play the piano and so much more in hours, instead of
years (Limitless is a well-chosen title) and then we do not need AI to be damn
smart, the alternative is inserting accessories that will help the brains rival
supercomputers or just be a mix of the two, AI and Human Intelligence, merged
in one…
Now for a
question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more
than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world – as it is, this is a unique
technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something
and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product,
I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per
se
As for my
role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html
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