There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a Brain
What If Surveillance Had A Brain… In modern life, we’re rarely not in the crosshairs of some spying device or other. We rush by a license plate reader on our way to work, a few blocks from a burglary that’s being patternized. As we walk from the parking lot to the gym, or the mosque, we’re picked up on a dozen CCTVs. We attend a protest under the watchful eye of a drone. Our smartphones log our every move, our every click, and our every like. But no single one of these machines, when used in isolation, is omniscient. The fact that intelligence can be difficult and tedious to correlate was perhaps the last natural rampart standing between us and total surveillance. The little privacy we have left exists in the spaces between each data point. Fusion technology eviscerates those spaces. With the click of an “INVESTIGATE” button, our digital footprints, once scattered, become a single uninterrupted life history, leaving not only our enemies, but also our friends and our lovers, with nowhere to hide.
Metaverse Company to Offer Immortality Through ‘Live Forever’ Mode Somnium Space is developing a way for people to talk to their loved ones even after they die. All it requires is massive amounts of personal data. By Maxwell Strachan (April 13, 2022)
[But can a replicant “learn” as time goes by post-mortality? Do replicants have to be humanly “updated”’ unlike Google’s DeepMind chess example? Will human desire to “live forever” accept a replicant where even approximations would do,?] It’s alive! How belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem, Reuters (June 30, 2022,)
Technology Moves AI Toward Human Functionality
AI Ethics Shocking Revelation That Training AI To Be Toxic Or Biased Might Be Beneficial, Including For Those Autonomous Self-Driving Cars Creating a biased algorithm into the virtual world: Making a sentient AI with human biases enabling survival of the species, but can the purpose be defined? Are we ready for the future? Lance Elliot (June 12, 2022)
Can AI become smart enough to solve Meta’s content-policing problems? The element of what is moral, what is ethical, comes in — artificial intelligence cannot do that. Isobel Asher Hamilton (June 15, 2022)
“Yuval Harari on the Future of Jobs & Technology, Intelligence vs Consciousness, & Future Threats to Humanity” , Harari calls out a “third way” of human evolution: “…a creation of completely inorganic entities’ …uploading human consciousness to a computer… “…the greatest evolution in history and biology”, Yuval Noah Harari, Linkedin Newsletter Series, (Morgan 062022).
How will we know when an AI actually becomes sentient? What is the algorithm of/for humans and is there a purpose in existence… maybe belief in the unknown, i.e., “hope” undefined…? Luke Dormehl (Jume 25, 2022)
Unleash all this creativity: Google AI’s breathtaking potential” Google begins to address/acknowledge the randomness of the human paradigm, “AI’s dark side — will it or humanity prevail in the 21st century?”, Jennifer A. Kingson (11/03/22)
AI Timelines: What Do Experts in Artificial Intelligence Expect for the Future? , Max Roser, 12/8/22 “…one of the biggest transformations in human history is likely to happen within our lifetimes.”
The Metaverse “…a parallel synthetic reality… virtual worlds that can be accessed simultaneously by millions of users… a portal into a new realm.”, The Metaverse, Mathew Ball , (The Economist, July 30, 2022)
We can virtually model any individual human being
“AI singularity refers to two concepts: The first defines “singularity” as a point when AI surpasses human intelligence, leading to rapid and exponential advancements in technology. The second refers to a belief that the technology will be able to improve itself at an accelerating rate, leading to a point where technological progress becomes so fast that it exceeds human ability to understand or predict it.”
“Even Sam Altman — OpenAI CEO and a leading proponent of generative AI and the developer of ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 — has expressed concern. He said recently that a worst-case scenario for AI ‘is, like, lights out for all of us.’ “
“…Pedro Domingos said in his book The Master Algorithm: “Humans are not a dying twig on the tree of life. On the contrary, we are about to start branching. In the same way that culture coevolved with larger brains, we will co-evolve with our creations. We always have: Humans would be physically different if we had not invented fire or spears. We are Homo technicus as much as Homo sapiens.”.
Jumping off to a virtual existence, humanity’s next life becomes visible, Generative AI may only be a foreshock to AI singularity , Grossman, Venture Beat (February 11, 2023).
How ChatGPT and its AI brethren are democratising programming
“… impact of AI. Much of the speculation typically surrounds the question of AI sentience and the ‘ifs’ and ‘whens’ of how we might lose control of our new creation. But Huang’s insight comes at it from precisely the opposite direction. According to Huang, AI language models like ChatGPT are going to do the opposite of AI taking over the human race. Instead, they’re the tool we need to perfect our control over the machines.” You already speak fluent computer code according to Nvidia’s CEO
Qualcom CEO: The best… is yet to come (March 20, 2023).
“The Company… is changing from a communications company to a connected processor and intelligence company for the intelligent edge… enabling cloud/edge convergence. We’re quickly moving to a world where everything is connected to the cloud……There are digital twins of everything. And Qualcom will play a role in connecting and making those devices intelligent outside the data center”
AT&T Leans Into AI, and Leans On Nvidia To Do It< (March 21, 2023).
“…Nvidia to incorporate the chip company’s AI offerings for data processing… digital avatars and conversational AI… where you don’t have to have a professional data scientist, a code warrior, to be your sherpa.”
Digital Twin Consortium launches working group to target telecoms
The new working group will define and identify digital twin applications for the telecommunications industry (March 21, 2023)
Google Engineer With Near-Perfect Prediction Record Makes Terrifying New Forecast (Rob Lenihan, Mar 29, 2023)
By 2029 …AI will pass a valid Turing test, which determines if a computer is capable of thinking like a human being.
Humanity Begins Its Interstellar Life
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet’s colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization, monsters from the id:
“…But I have an even bigger gun. It’s called the NSA. It’s one of the perks of being president…. The phone of the person sitting next to you. Your neighbor’s phone, and everyone you know, and the 300 million Americans you don’t know. I can see you. And I can use what I see… I’m talking about tapping into every single home in America…”, Frank Underwood soliloquy in American TV Series, “House of Cards” , Episode 7: Chapter 43, Netflix Original (2013-18).
Tech leaders Urge a Pause In The ‘Out of Control’ Artificial Intelligence Race , GBH News, Associated Press Michael Dwyer (March 29,2023)
Harvard Professor Says Government Should Pause “Scary” Development of Artificial Intelligence , GBH News, Science and Technology, (Alex Cohan March 31, 2023)