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2025-03-13
Elon Musk's DOGE may well have federal agencies on the run (and rightly so), but is there another reason for Elon's time to be invested in this enterprise?
Now as with all tools invented by man, they will be imperfect in various respects and may be used for good or for ill.
Our challenge is always to avoid the worst and to promote the best.
So if Elon is successful in remaking the federal agencies operations to his liking, that isn't necessarily a bad thing overall, but it would be sensible to have the best independent minds reviewing and monitoring to ensure that the worst is avoided and the best is promoted.
The best may well include least cost - provided (big proviso!) that the service provided is an improvement over that provided by human employees.
Given that the federal shake-up (shake-down if you prefer) is likely to be very far-reaching, a period of stability under (reduced levels of) human employment would seem necessary in order to (a) establish the size and shape shape of future operational procedures and (b) establish some sort of quality benchmark for operational outcomes.
AI could then be introduced in stages in a monitored and controlled fashion to ensure that the benchmark is improved upon.
Whether that is a likely turn of events is anybody's guess at the moment, but however this is approached, America is likely to set the standard for overt use of AI in governmental operations.
All you would have to worry about then is the opportunities for corruption, which as we now see has been endemic for years in federal agencies. Twas ever thus ...
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2025-02-27
The Glastonbury Symposium is not exactly a mainstream source of topical wisdom - it is however a good venue for challenging one's "little grey cells" to take a hard look at what may be coming right around the next corner.
Andy Thomas, long-time power behind the Symposium, presents another keynote address, providing a critical discussion of the issues of the day (this was July 2024).
Not to mention a possibly terrifying view of the incoming future ...
He covers a lot of ground.
" ... you can't trust anything any more ... "
" ... any advanced civilisation that has managed to reach space and is visiting here in their craft must surely have gone through the AI revolution ... therefore ..."
Watch to the end. It's your view that counts.
(62 minutes)
Like / Dislike this video here.
As mentioned by Andy, get the book "The Coming Wave" (now discounted!) at Amazon.
Watch The Day the Earth Stood Still on YouTube.
Visit the Glastonbury Symposium to book for the next event in late July 2025.
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2025-02-25
The future of AI?
The market leaders took a knock recently when the Chinese DeepSeek made its debut on the world AI stage, denting their aura of invincibility and sending shock waves through the stock valuations of certain chip makers.
But who actually understands how AIs work?
And equally importantly, how they don't work? After all, they are the creation of human beings (work with me here) so will inevitably tend to inherit the human characteristic of fallibility.
So is AI on course to World take-over en route to conquering the Solar System, the Galaxy, and ultimately the Universe?
Or is it just another Ponzi scheme in the venerable tradition of the South Sea Bubble - but much BIGGER?
"In effect, investors aren't getting a piece of OpenAI, or any kind of control over OpenAI, but rather shares in the future profits of a company that loses over five billion dollars a year"
"Place your bets now"!
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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 ...
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2025-02-04
Well, AI seems to be all the rage currently so yet another article on the topic may be in place.
As so often it's Martin Geddes who pushes the buttons to persuade AI into topics new. Far-fetched? Maybe not.
And AI is going to be around until it's uninvented, which "could be a while", so best get used to it.
Heck, I'm coming to accept that I may even have to play with it myself ...
