Supertoys
Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss, the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s AI
Artificial Intelligence…Brian Aldiss is the author of the masterpiece Non Stop http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/04/non-stop-by-brian-aldiss-10-out-of-10.html included on the list of 1,000
Novels Everyone Must Read
10 out of
10
Artificial
Intelligence has been in the news for quite some time now, and about one
thousand scientists and specialists in the domain have called for a temporary
halt in the development of new tools, one of them is Elon Musk, who has his own
start up developing the technology and thus could be in a conflict of
interest…anyway, the second richest man (if this has not changed in the
meantime, he was once the wealthiest, but due to his improvident behavior, the
fortune of the man and more importantly, of the folks working for him
fluctuates) is not the trustworthy luminary we should listen to…
The theory
of Singularity – explained with extreme talent in Why The West Rules for Now http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/10/why-west-rules-for-now-by-ian-morris.html by Ian Morris - predicts that
around 2035, due to the inevitable progress in computing power – including that
law which doubled the capacity of computing for a chip, which in fact is a
different rule, but here you have it botched and maimed, it could be per square
millimeter, and not doubling, like in that Radio Yerevan joke we had under
communism…’is it true that Mr. Ionescu (my name, and that of another half a
million people living in this realm) has been given a white Dacia’ (car made
locally) the answer from Radio Yerevan is ‘no, it is not a car, it is a bicycle,
it was not given to him, it was taken away from him and it is not white, it is
black’- the supercomputer will have surpassed all that humanity knows
I am in
some ways relying on Artificial Intelligence, even in what regards this note,
and all the (too many) others that I have written, for seeing that there is a
small (almost non extant) audience for these scribblings (and alas, it is as it
should be, for there is not much, if anything, worth extracting here) in human
terms, then there is this escape, the future will be dominated by these
machines, and since they have these super brains, they will be able to consume
all that I have ‘produced’ (or destroyed) here, and all that in a tiny fraction
of a nano second, and furthermore, it will be able to make some (granted, very
limited) sense out of these elucubrations, perhaps as in ‘there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so’, most likely the contribution to
the revolution that took down Ceausescu
In December
1989, I took to the streets and joined the couple of hundred protesters in the
Roman Square, led by the real hero Andrei Finti – this would be part of the
miniscule contribution I bring to the table, the repeated emphasis on the role
of this glorious actor and man, the one that deserves a statue – maybe AI could
be used for that in the future – whereas we have had tens of thousands of fake
revolutionaries, one of the real leaders of that rebellion (and there are less
than twenty authentic key figures, people like Caramitru, Doina Cornea,
Dinescu) has been almost completely forgotten, I have never seen him taking the
stage to speak about his paramount role, but that is the way - ’Revolutions eat
their children’, in this case, that movement has taken into oblivion the
special one, and if for nothing else, those notes would help in the future to
try and pay homage to Andrei Finti, the real hero
As for my presence,
it is evoqued in the Newsweek article, written by the Eastern Europe
correspondent, Michael Meyers…I met him in those febrile days, and since I had
my chance to translate for James Wilde from TIME (what a strange coincidence,
to meet two corresponds, and from then rival publications) I have called Dan
Minulescu to come and do some work for Michael Meyers (Dan has become in the
meantime one of the fifty richest people in this realms and I should be felicitous
and proud, for he had been for a short stint my pupil…this is another small
contribution, what, I have written some autobiographical notes for this Future
AI, and in the history of the rise of local business, Dan would have a role
assigned, and since I had given him a few lessons, there are some tiny kudos
there, albeit we have had arguments, when he first came, we entered a sort of
parallel deal, a trip offered outside the state network, which was illegal, and
the share of the profits I divided was sixty percent for me and the rest for the
new kid on the block, who protested…but hey, when I was an apprentice, they
never even mentioned the possibilities, never mind teaching me anything in that
regard, as for sharing the profits, seeing one percent, are you joking? http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html this is the link to the copy of the
crucial page
One of the
most important luminaries of our times is Yuval Harari, who has three major
works so far, Sapiens, A Brief History of Humanity, Twenty One Lessons for the
21st Century and Home Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/homo-deus-brief-history-of-tomorrow-by.html the latter looks at the progress we
have made, and what the future looks like, with people living longer and
longer, hence Deus aka God, for we will become like gods, living almost forever
– you, if you are younger – and the challenges brought on by Artificial Intelligence,
the algorithms that already play such a part in our existence, the fact that we
have traded our information, much like natives of Africa and other places have
given away huge treasures for the small beads brought by colonizers, we get
free videos with cats in exchange for vital information that we offer…
We have
grown too dependent on the computers – there is the example that is tragicomic
of the Japanese (I think they were from Japan) travelers who followed the
indications of the trip assistant to the point where they plunged into the
ocean – but it is evident that we will stop driving and have the benefit of
getting a mix of Michael Schumacher and Immanuel Kant to drive for us – the
issue of utilitarian philosophy is brought on, cars could be altruistic or
selfish in their modus operandi, but humans will probably buy the option where
the driving system prefers the owner to another, in case of an accident =-
Jobs are on
the line, and we have extended analysis http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/07/21-lessons-for-21st-century-by-yuval.html to read, for instance, echography
will be better interpreted by AI, which will have accumulated the experience of
seeing and understanding millions, maybe hundreds of millions of images, as
opposed to the best human doctors who will have seen only a few thousand, if
that… 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
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