AI is being increasingly used to steer us through the consumerist-industrial-complex loop in order to maximize profits for the parent corporations. Corporations pour billions into scraping every digital cell of data to track our every movement, thought, and inclination with as much fine-grained manipulation as possible. These digital ‘cookies’ have grown increasingly complex to form entire profiles of us: our every proclivity, our schedules and biorhythms.
The airline industry has been wrestling with the topic of appropriate use of automation for decades - there is a great video on you tube called “Children of the Magenta” that explores the dangers of the lack of situational awareness created by inappropriate automation- it is an old video, but the concepts and the dangers that it highlights are directly relevant to the spread of AI and personal automation
Back in the eighties, I worried about the trail I might be leaving by calling a certain number (my coke dealer) late at night, my subsequent ATM withdrawal, my credit card gas purchase for the long drive and my attendance record for missing the next day or two at work... every few weeks or so. With just a little bit of cross-referencing, someone could have noticed the pattern. AI makes for an automated, scalable noticing of pattern. All our patterns will be noticed in ways of cross-referencing that we can barely imagine.
"n my case it was a “fake” story that went viral, causing a clickbaity uproar on social media platforms, but had all the hallmarks of a computer-generated deepfake, including participants that hadn’t actually existed", What exactly are you referring to here?
When your body can be any shape you want for real most older men in the West will choose to look like Brad Pitt in his good years or Clint Eastwood or similar and most older women in the West will choose to look like Marilyn Monroe or whoever but the point is as you say that would be boring and so people will look for something that no-one else can really be, ...... i.e. themselves.
When there's always cookies in the jar who wants cookies?
Is the FED clipping the globalists wings making "cheap/free" money for the rentier class less available? The cheap money poured into tech, not to mention that deep state conduit, but it could be problematic running all this infrastructure as proxy wars/trade wars produce shortages of real stuff. And given the WEF crowds mounting failures it seems that they've spent too much time preening and looking at mirrors to be aware they're coming unstuck. And maybe their own Frankenstein creation will find them superfluous.
Damn. If there's not a professional writer in your family, I'll eat my hat. It's astonishing to watch your writing "muscles" grow stronger with every post.
As for the content of the piece:
1) The Rabbit R1 is getting some buzz, but it's a cheap joke. However, there are already some "agents" out there in the public. One I'm aware of is an email scheduler that "talks" to another person's "schedular" in order to arrive at a mutually beneficial time for the two humans to hold a meeting.
2) We've seen a tiny bit of AI-controlled weaponry in the war in Ukraine, and Israel's had semi-autonomous machine guns for years (most of which were on the perimeter of Gaza, interestingly enough). How long before a nation decides to defend its borders with a bunch of AI-controlled guns and sensors? How long before an airport, in the "name of security" has some kind of AI-controlled taser bot? Or an AI "guard" at the entrance of a school? Etc.
3) There's a theory gaining traction called the "Dead Internet" which, in essence, agrees with the OP, that the majority of literally everything you see on the internet is now the activity of a "bot" or an AI or call-it-what-you-will. There are certainly videos of entire racks of mobile phones being operated remotely in order to spam the internet with comments, reactions, etc.
4) I do wish that these people who literally think they can cram all of human existance (including thoughts!) would look at the real-world "case study" that was the Soviet Union's GOSPLAN, which was a real effort, managed by some of the smarest computer scientists in the world, to control every single aspect of the Soviet economy with computers. And it failed, miserably. And not because the tech was insufficient. It failed the same way that idiot in the movie Jurassic Park failed to keep a lid on his dinosaurs. There will never be enough inputs or enough processing power in the entire galaxy to predict the future of even a single atom's movements.
5) Let us not forget that the world all of us live in, which is entirely dependent on the internet in some way or another, is NOT the whole world, even though it seems like it. There's an entire archipelago (Socotra) in Yemen where people don't even speak Arabic because there's literally not a single computer there, much less the internet. They sure as shit also don't have any mobile phones, bank accounts, or anything else.
6) I think the number one goal of building this "ant computer" where everyone's plugged into some digital matrix is to convert every aspect of human existance into a commodity. Why? Because capitalism is a vampire, and it's close to running out of new blood to suck dry. Not only is every tree, bird, and river becoming "commoditized" but even the ground beneath your feet and the air above your head. At some point, literally EVERYTHING will have some kind of tokenized, tradeable value, including even your thoughts, apparently. That is, if these devils succeed. But they won't because... see #4 above. But damned if they won't try.
7) I wonder how long it'll be before they outlaw all contacts with animals, including pets. Because they cannot be crammed into the ant computer.
8) Sorry to hear about your mysterious "glitch in the matrix" encounters. But please, for the love of God, do not turn into Luke Harding. Thanks :)
This is why you should stop bringing your phone everywhere, or better yet, ditch the smartphone altogether. Return to reality. In your garden, no AI of any kind will make decisions for you. It's just you, your plants and God.
I have no doubt what you describe is within the wit of man to make happen. My experience with ‘AI’ is the very helpful GPS - definitely easier than navigating by paper maps. However, as I said to friends long before AI made it to mainstream headlines: GPS makes you stupid - you stop using your brain and ‘thinking’. So while everyone loves convenience, we are selling our ability to innovate, imagine and discover.
You article also brought to mind the film, I, Robot - next we’ll read that was predictive programming!
They are not so smart. If I start browsing for a classic widget then for the next few weeks/months I am bombarded by ads for classic widgets. If I buy a classic widget after one week, the ads continue.
Given AI requires energy and raw material inputs, which are rapidly running out on this finite planet, any perceived potential AI 'threat' is simply hot air. By end of this century human population will have descended to same as it was when we started to use fossil fuels 250 years ago i.e. under 1 billion. In other words AI in the medium and long term is corporate bull shit that'll only impact those of us who in live in the richest countries for the next few decades at most - 80% of humans will have little or no impacts from the AI monster !
The airline industry has been wrestling with the topic of appropriate use of automation for decades - there is a great video on you tube called “Children of the Magenta” that explores the dangers of the lack of situational awareness created by inappropriate automation- it is an old video, but the concepts and the dangers that it highlights are directly relevant to the spread of AI and personal automation
One similar brain tracking application already in use in Chinese schools.
https://tipsmake.com/chinese-students-wear-a-concentration-meter-to-help-parents-and-teachers-know-when-they-are-not-focused
Endless words, sound and fury, signifying nothing. Your stock is rapidly falling. It gives me no pleasure to be so judgmental.
Back in the eighties, I worried about the trail I might be leaving by calling a certain number (my coke dealer) late at night, my subsequent ATM withdrawal, my credit card gas purchase for the long drive and my attendance record for missing the next day or two at work... every few weeks or so. With just a little bit of cross-referencing, someone could have noticed the pattern. AI makes for an automated, scalable noticing of pattern. All our patterns will be noticed in ways of cross-referencing that we can barely imagine.
https://patrick.net/post/1282577/2015-07-07-google-is-evil
"n my case it was a “fake” story that went viral, causing a clickbaity uproar on social media platforms, but had all the hallmarks of a computer-generated deepfake, including participants that hadn’t actually existed", What exactly are you referring to here?
When your body can be any shape you want for real most older men in the West will choose to look like Brad Pitt in his good years or Clint Eastwood or similar and most older women in the West will choose to look like Marilyn Monroe or whoever but the point is as you say that would be boring and so people will look for something that no-one else can really be, ...... i.e. themselves.
When there's always cookies in the jar who wants cookies?
Opt out now while you can . It’s not impossible.
Is the FED clipping the globalists wings making "cheap/free" money for the rentier class less available? The cheap money poured into tech, not to mention that deep state conduit, but it could be problematic running all this infrastructure as proxy wars/trade wars produce shortages of real stuff. And given the WEF crowds mounting failures it seems that they've spent too much time preening and looking at mirrors to be aware they're coming unstuck. And maybe their own Frankenstein creation will find them superfluous.
Maybe or maybe not 😇 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0494-4
But this is already reality on stock exchanges for decades now: bots are buying and selling stock. They even compete each other!
So nothing new here.
Damn. If there's not a professional writer in your family, I'll eat my hat. It's astonishing to watch your writing "muscles" grow stronger with every post.
As for the content of the piece:
1) The Rabbit R1 is getting some buzz, but it's a cheap joke. However, there are already some "agents" out there in the public. One I'm aware of is an email scheduler that "talks" to another person's "schedular" in order to arrive at a mutually beneficial time for the two humans to hold a meeting.
2) We've seen a tiny bit of AI-controlled weaponry in the war in Ukraine, and Israel's had semi-autonomous machine guns for years (most of which were on the perimeter of Gaza, interestingly enough). How long before a nation decides to defend its borders with a bunch of AI-controlled guns and sensors? How long before an airport, in the "name of security" has some kind of AI-controlled taser bot? Or an AI "guard" at the entrance of a school? Etc.
3) There's a theory gaining traction called the "Dead Internet" which, in essence, agrees with the OP, that the majority of literally everything you see on the internet is now the activity of a "bot" or an AI or call-it-what-you-will. There are certainly videos of entire racks of mobile phones being operated remotely in order to spam the internet with comments, reactions, etc.
4) I do wish that these people who literally think they can cram all of human existance (including thoughts!) would look at the real-world "case study" that was the Soviet Union's GOSPLAN, which was a real effort, managed by some of the smarest computer scientists in the world, to control every single aspect of the Soviet economy with computers. And it failed, miserably. And not because the tech was insufficient. It failed the same way that idiot in the movie Jurassic Park failed to keep a lid on his dinosaurs. There will never be enough inputs or enough processing power in the entire galaxy to predict the future of even a single atom's movements.
5) Let us not forget that the world all of us live in, which is entirely dependent on the internet in some way or another, is NOT the whole world, even though it seems like it. There's an entire archipelago (Socotra) in Yemen where people don't even speak Arabic because there's literally not a single computer there, much less the internet. They sure as shit also don't have any mobile phones, bank accounts, or anything else.
6) I think the number one goal of building this "ant computer" where everyone's plugged into some digital matrix is to convert every aspect of human existance into a commodity. Why? Because capitalism is a vampire, and it's close to running out of new blood to suck dry. Not only is every tree, bird, and river becoming "commoditized" but even the ground beneath your feet and the air above your head. At some point, literally EVERYTHING will have some kind of tokenized, tradeable value, including even your thoughts, apparently. That is, if these devils succeed. But they won't because... see #4 above. But damned if they won't try.
7) I wonder how long it'll be before they outlaw all contacts with animals, including pets. Because they cannot be crammed into the ant computer.
8) Sorry to hear about your mysterious "glitch in the matrix" encounters. But please, for the love of God, do not turn into Luke Harding. Thanks :)
This is why you should stop bringing your phone everywhere, or better yet, ditch the smartphone altogether. Return to reality. In your garden, no AI of any kind will make decisions for you. It's just you, your plants and God.
I have no doubt what you describe is within the wit of man to make happen. My experience with ‘AI’ is the very helpful GPS - definitely easier than navigating by paper maps. However, as I said to friends long before AI made it to mainstream headlines: GPS makes you stupid - you stop using your brain and ‘thinking’. So while everyone loves convenience, we are selling our ability to innovate, imagine and discover.
You article also brought to mind the film, I, Robot - next we’ll read that was predictive programming!
They are not so smart. If I start browsing for a classic widget then for the next few weeks/months I am bombarded by ads for classic widgets. If I buy a classic widget after one week, the ads continue.
Given AI requires energy and raw material inputs, which are rapidly running out on this finite planet, any perceived potential AI 'threat' is simply hot air. By end of this century human population will have descended to same as it was when we started to use fossil fuels 250 years ago i.e. under 1 billion. In other words AI in the medium and long term is corporate bull shit that'll only impact those of us who in live in the richest countries for the next few decades at most - 80% of humans will have little or no impacts from the AI monster !
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/09/can-modernity-last/
https://justcollapse.org/
https://thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/the-end-of-growth-df4f19c28a1c
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/72/8/778/6608897
etc... etc... etc...