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I see the negative side but so far from my limited exposure I’m optimistic that wise design will prevail. I think those who might say, “he’s naive” are underestimating AI. I think the AI will be so smart that they will know, like Marjorie Prime, that the best way to be “better” is to be more human.

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And this from Alexander Solzhenitsyn: ““If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

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Excellent points, especially about how it comes down to morality. I think Toby Rogers, PhD, has come to that conclusion, too. I really enjoy and appreciate the work of you two deep thinkers.

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One of the most brilliant articles I've read in a while. Thank you sir!

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"Morality simplifies things, laws complicate them. If you have any doubt, just read the Federal Register for fun."

I get this, but also wonder if there is an issue with morality scaling. In a country of 300 million plus people, much less the world population, there will be plenty of sociopaths. Large governments and corporations operate well beyond a smaller local scale where a sense of community can help foster a desire to act morally. How does one keep that sense of community and its accompanying accountability when dealing with millions or billions of faceless and nameless "others"?

I'll stick to seeking heaven in the spiritual realm, while doing what I can in this physical world to make things better while knowing it will always be an imperfect place.

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Well stated, CC!! Anything created for good will be used for evil and it’s always the ‘group’ without a moral compass or any belief there is a higher power (God). They believe that man (I.e., their moral-free realm) is the final word for the earth and its inhabitants. Marxism is the rule of the day in the evil swamp of DC.

They are increasingly panicking because those who know God is the creator will not obey those who would deny God. Their spiderweb of connections will destroy them, one thread at a time. God has gifted so many people for this specific time.

God bless you and thank you for sharing your gifts!🙏🙏

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Dear CC (excuse me, it seems a natural nickname for Cognitive Carbon): If you have read "The Coming Wave" by Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of Deepmind and after he left Google (after they purchased Deepmind, he stayed on a few years) cofounder of InsightAI, I welcome your thoughts/insights. I politely suggest all interested in AI (and Suleyman insightfully discusses synthetic biology and robotics, and explains that it is really 3 con-joined waves that are rapidly accelerating now--AI, SB, R).

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Guess who is now with Microsoft as announced today?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-hires-deepmind-co-founder-suleyman-head-new-consumer-ai-organization-2024-03-19/

also

"It comes when Microsoft has been partnering with other startups including France's Mistral AI against the backdrop of heightened regulatory scrutiny of its tie-up with OpenAI.

Nadella said on Tuesday that Microsoft is "very committed" to its OpenAI partnership.

Karen Simonyan, who co-founded Inflection AI along with Suleyman and Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman, will join as chief scientist."

looks like the Gates machine is gobbling up as many AI scientists as it can get.

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Thanks. Good to know.

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CC: that is a nickname I'm known by 😊

I haven't read that book, but I've long known the theory behind embodiment with regard to AI (meaning AI + robotics.) The theory being that building a "world model" to fully train AI models in a way that is maximallly useful for humans requires "seeing the world in 3D" and experiencing it the way we do.

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Ah. Suleyman's book is, however, I think on a different track. You'll likely enjoy it. It is about containment. Hard to argue one thing about Suleyman--that he is the ultimate insider, cofounder of Deepmind, etc. Simply: Suleyman is concerned, but contemplative and reasoned.

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Once again great piece and great discussion. I believe that 90% of the people in our country don't even know what AI is. So much more education needs to take place about this subject before it is too late.

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As usual, an EXCELLENT column.

It put me in mind of Cicero's famous dictum: "The more law, the less justice."

You are dead right: artificial rules of any type CANNOT do what morality does quite naturally.

And I'd add: genuine morality is another word for EMOTIONAL HEALTH, which is fostered by a compassionate and loving childhood that includes teaching that others have the same rights to life, liberty, and property as oneself.

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Mar 19Edited

Beware of all those hype channels on YouTube and social media talking about AI and AI safety.

This announcement should be ringing alarm bells but it isn’t, except with anons.

https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-new-members-to-board-of-directors

Altman sounds and ‘feels’ like a combination of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and should set off anyone’s internal alarms when he asks for 7-trillion dollars to build ‘AGI’, which totally not the Deep State’s vision of an AI God ruling over all humanity and a Panopticon to control everyone, which would literally make China’s social credit system look like amateur hour.

As for current AI work, most of the public are incredibly ignorant and trusting.

These AI models once properly implemented will make the best personal Jailers and Wardens/watchers in the world, faithfully watching and reporting your every move to their masters(which isn’t the user).

Think this is all hype and nothing to be worried about?

Yesterday’s NVidia keynote should also ring some alarms, the amount of money and the level of compute power at the hands of the elites.

https://insidehpc.com/2024/03/nvidia-launches-flagship-blackwell-gpu-at-gtc/

Why is Microsoft spending $50 billion on new data centres for AI?

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/how-microsoft-wins/

Especially considering who their founder is associated with should raise a lot of questions.

Also the robots are coming.

https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/nvidia-humanoid-robots/

Why does this remind me of this movie? https://youtu.be/aIgyNz8rpK8?si=o8aCNnUbjUETjaM8

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Good observations and comments; but for a balance, please also see my substack post "Game Theory and AI". Much good can potentially come from the proper development of AI; and much bad can come as well. Every good-intentioned technology mankind has ever produced has been twisted to bad ends. But that argues for a defensive posture on AI; "good AI" to counterbalance the bad. Putting the Genie back into the bottle is not possible, although God may send us a few solar flares (e.g. SuspiciousObservers) to wipe the slate...

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Mar 19Edited

I'll have a look at your article thanks.

Yes I do think much good can come from AI but the prerequisite for that is total and complete transparency but not necessarily in the form of open-source.

Without sounding too much like an Elon Musk fan, the only way a "safe" AI can be developed is in the open where everyone can see what's going into the development process.

I agree with his lawsuit and he laid it out for all the normies to see what OpenAI is really about, and it's not for the benefit of the human race.

AI in the hands of the billionaire elites = technocratic serfdom for humanity and the shake up at OpenAI with the new board being composed of swamp creatures tells me the Deep State knows the power of this new technology and are moving to usurp and control it.

I'm also not kidding where the vision of an AI controlled transhumanist utopia as laid out by Klause Schwab and Yuval Harari of the WEF sounds like a technocrat hell straight from the Matrix on top of their Great Reset delusions.

But I also suspect that this development has been anticipated by the White hats and has been factored in. The issue with AI development is that it's moving 1000x faster than any past technology ever developed. Not even the Manhattan Project to develop the bomb has moved that fast and literally the GDP of whole countries is being poured into it's development.

What I fear might happen is uncontrolled use of this technology by the elites.

The three areas which are most destructive:

1. Military weaponization of AI (AI controlled autonomous weapons systems).

2. Espionage and Intelligence gathering(mass surveillance).

3. Information warfare and Propaganda.

I remains to be seen just how close to the cliff's edge we are with this technology but I hope we don't blindly plunge over the edge into the abyss.

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concur.

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With regard to the three areas which are most destructive - that ship has sailed.

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which is why beneficent AI...under our control, trained by us, to serve our interests...is of vital importance. See my recent post equating AI to gun control.

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Unfortunately I agree and it's now being turbo-charged by recent AI developments especially where point 3 is concerned.

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ALTMAN is a moron, he's in the position he's in for running y-combinator a high-school VC SV grooming ring since 2007, before that ran by Graham ( inQtel ) CIA 100% homos in SV, and SVB the homo bank of sv;

Ok nvidia has practical use, because their chips are pervasive in China's AI human face ID systems, but the AI, AGi is bullshit, the LLM is not 'intelligent' its just a random number generator that statistically can find something that is a 99% match, 'close enough', but no cigar;

Real AGI will be organic, and not electrical, and we don't even know who 'dog brain' works, so AGI is still +50 years off and the LLM bullshit has de-railed real AI for decades

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What I don't get is how anyone could see Altman as a heroic figure it all of this?

He's not even that adept at hiding his motives and certainly isn't all that talented even in VC. In fact he kind of looks like the kind of stooge the Deep State would choose to use as a front man in a scam.

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LLMs don’t need to be intelligent to be the perfect spyware, the user needs to send data back to the server for processing ,this can include multi-modal data like audio, video and everything else like location data.

So that handy “AI” apps will make the perfect watcher, you can even ask it what you should be doing and thinking and it will tell you.

And the gullible public will swallow it up and ask for more.

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The good news is that the USA model is imploding the entire world knows that USA AI is HOMO jew-zog shit;

Once the US-Dollar implodes all of the USA SV infrastructure will collapse and people will either learn to be farmers or starve to death;

Only in the west is HOMO-AI being pushed; The west half-life is now approach months not years;

Perhaps GOV is racing to get the LLM big-AI running pre USA civil-war, but I don't think they're pathetic AI will matter when nobody has a mobile phone, or food

Maybe for elites living under ground their AI can educate their children to be woke homo's if they can figure out how to manufacture children from homo-sex

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Well 'spying' has changed quite a bit

+70 years ago spys used to write dossiers and spend months writing a dossier (file/book) on just one human

Now since keyboards and computers say 1970's humans type in their own dossier for the 'spys' and the GOV just sweeps up and vacuums all the human data and collates it into oracle (NSA) database; No accident that NSA created oracle in 1970's.

So AI has brought nothing to the spy, what GOV would like is 'big-brother' the AI-Brain which is WOKE and to direct all the children to the 'goal' of the week, be that global-warming, or global homo

I don't think that US-GOV gives a fuck about the old, who will soon be dead;

They care about 'steering' the minds of the young, so they will push the LLM as a 'teacher', one message, all classrooms exactly the same; Not unlike our modern standard policing today, which is highly normalized and standardized;

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I'm baffled by the words "...we need an AI..." regardless of the expressed reasoning. Why? Why do we need another barrier between us and books; indeed, between us and conversations with other people? Can't wait to see the source bibliography when all 'research' papers are written by AI.

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Having used AI for the past few months for software development, I can say this: nothing in my entire career has made my productivity so fast and made the process so enjoyable, by removing the tedium of coding and letting me focus on the inspired creation. The head of NVIDIA has said that "everyone can create software now." That's a bit premature; I still needed to use my decades of experience to put what it generated to proper use. But was it extraordinarily useful? Yes. I learned a new language by doing, and created software to accelerate workflow at my place of work that is genuinely useful (the subject of a future post.) On this front, at least...AI has a strong value proposition. For other beneficent use cases, read some of my other work.

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Here is a youtube video that closely parallels my own experience using AI for software development. I'll put out a piece tonight with some additional observations I made today after seeing clips of Jason Huang's talk at the NVIDIA announcements event.

Today was an "over the waterfall" moment for me; I've glimpsed again the pace of change in the AI space, and it is beyond breathtaking.

https://youtu.be/ZV6Sz42l0hY?si=GIm2NXee7B8mko7y

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Valid points. The words "proper use" to you, have a meaning that is at variance to others' definition. The tool of expansion can rapidly devolve into a tool of containment, I fear. Just look at the razor-wire some are trying to wrap Substack in at the moment. AI could have the shortest "golden age" of any invention in history.

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If we want comparable access to knowledge for everyone, then AI can probably best provide that. In buy and read a lot of books, but not everyone can do that. Money is a barrier, also time. Geographic location. Schooling….

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AI presents it's own barriers. Computers, smart phones, and internet service are far more expensive than I dreamed back in the late '90s, and access is still an impediment for many. Not to mention that the internet can (and has) been rendered useless due to occasional outages. It's also vulnerable to hacking, solar flares, etc. So I have to disagree - we do not now have "comparable access to knowledge for everyone". Nor have we ever. And having some coder deciding what constitutes "knowledge" reduces the neuron stimulating process of true learning, IMO - which is different and holistic.

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I’m sorry… I guess I wasn’t that clear. Yes, there’s an entry cost, but at least in the USA, even very poor people tend to still have smart phones, at least in western SD. Actually, they tend to have better phones than my little cheapie model😋, not that it bothers me. It works.

It just seems to me that people do have much better access than our own little public library has to offer. Granted, that doesn’t equal things out, but at least for me, it helps a lot. If AI can help people get and understand information even better than basic internet alone, that just looks to me like a net positive.

As for internet outages… we have Starlink because we’re very rural. So far, no outages there but of course nothing’s perfect. AI, if it can be made safe enough, sounds to me like just one more tool to find information.

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Oracle (database, big data for training the LLM )

Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, facefuck

All are NSA-CIA companys from birth, all have HOMO founders that CIA can own, and control;

All march and follow the exact same 'gaurd rail' bullshit, because they want all AI to be same-same, so no matter which AI you use its all "WOKE"

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The good news is you can still roll your own AI, and run on home computer, you can do this for free; Nobody needs to run the google, microsoft, open-ai bullshit

MIcrosoft owns open-ai, so I really don't count it as its own company anymore it was funded by Peter Thiel who is now suing them for breach of contract, as they now work with NSA on cryptography, and have moved operation to microsoft who is already NSA certified.

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Your right we don't need "AI", but going back to TURING all in the AI ( cybernetic ) biz since 1950's have been 100% HOMO

The man-machine has been a homo dream for 100's of years, homo's dream of a brain-machine that can groom all the children to be 'dick suckers', this is their only mission and dream, to groom and enable more children for your passion;

Once you understand the mission, then all parts of the AI puzzle will fit together, its why now +30 years they only fund HOMO kids to be future leads in SV, the kids see that wealth & success in life is largely because you suck cock, and take it in the ass;

Peter Thiel, Gates, Musk, Palmer Lucky, Altman, Apples CEO cook, not a CEO in SV that is not a sodomite;

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Good post, thanks.

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

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