2025-02-07
Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?
Equally, why should the Devil have all the best AI?
We are now accustomed to the notion that "the AI" will be intent to replace humanity (and ultimately control the remaining humans through the IoT - the Internet of Transhumans: Homo Transfectus). Indeed some speculate that "the AI" will naturally evolve to require to eliminate humanity so that it itself may survive. Happily that discussion is out of scope of this article 😎.
But indeed, there is AI and there is AI.
So we can probably agree that we should harness the power of AI to work in our favour, and that we should design new AIs to naturally embody that requirement. And here we are probably not talking about specialist AIs that are designed to fulfil a specific technical requirement (for example, to analyse speech and/or ancient texts to tease out the original meanings in the modern language vernacular). We are talking about the general purpose AI that can do things like control a robotic battlefield, and manage the world's geopolitics and military-industrial complexes to triumph in the incoming inter-galactic wars ...
Are we there yet? Hmmmm.
If we are, then we could have a big problem on our hands. And we are now pretty sure that vast sums of money have been (almost certainly illegally) diverted into Pandora's Box, AKA the DARPA-Military-Industrial-Complex black projects that obviously "don't exist".
Still, for such an AI to directly control the realms of battlefields and geopolitics, we would need IoT connectivity to both robotic armaments and robotic politicians (ie: homo transfectus - possibly already patented by such as Pfizer - yes, some may believe we have these already!).
But I digress. Further speculation in this vein I will leave as an exercise for you, dear reader.
So to return to today's topic, Martin Geddes is of the view that we can already use the AI currently available to good effect for humanity's more humble purposes.
Here is his exploration of this concept, in analysis of the nuances implicit in the "Great Awakening".
Enjoy, whilst you still can ...
