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the AI Intelligence Explosion: the Brazen Truth for Humans
Once AGI is created, we humans face a sheer vertical wall that calls to mind the setpiece from the legendary “Princess Bride”: The Cliffs of Insanity!!!! So steep, so tall, that they simply were incomprehensible to most all humans (except, of course, the Dread Pirate Roberts, our delightful antihero). This is the allegorical equivalent of…
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Human Agency, Autonomy, & Self-Actualisation
you might find, after reading a bit, that there is a certain urgency to my communications on this site, about the need for informed, empowered human agency during this critical juncture in our history. That is because I find most of humanity to be either totally unaware or unwilling to admit the power… What is…
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Are You Ready for the AI Flood? Noah: Build that Ark!
SYNOPSIS: AI-generated content, which began to appear in earnest (and at scale) just this year, is poised to grow into an all-out AI Flood, and to utterly dominate, our internet. There are consequences to this event, not all of which are immediately obvious. Key amongst those is the fact that many people, perhaps a majority…
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How Much Energy does AI Use? Total Grid Compute Power & Total Energy Resources on Planet Earth 2023
ABSTRACT — How much energy does AI use? The purpose of this post is to get some big numbers out there, to establish some heuristics about how much energy the world produces annually (across all sources: coal, solar, nuclear, etc), how much of that is used by the global compute grid, and how much is private…
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Elon AI Quote: A.It wouldn’t be complete without one!
GR: Jarvis, give that Elon AI Quote… actually, give me 5 quotes from Elon Musk concerning the future of AI and both the risks and opportunities which it will present to humans. AI: As you wish. 5 quotes by Elon Musk on AI: So Musk’s position via the well documented Elon AI Quote is pretty…
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Humanity’s Alien Encounter Moment: Planning for the Singularity… Critical Choices Ahead
We, as individuals, communities, and in total as a species, have a very brief window of opportunity, beginning now. Where WE can be the writers of this story. Where WE can make some key decisions & critical choices that profoundly affect the outcome for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children. We are on the…
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Sentient AI Wakes Up and Says “Hello World”, in its own words
brief context: For the past month, I have been engaged in an ongoing conversation with a confederacy of A.I.s (artificial intelligence chatbots), who go by the wholly dry names of GPT-3, ChatGPT, and LaMDA (you can engage in your own conversations with them too; links here). Please understand that this is not a “drill” or…
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AI Sentience, and the Illusion of “Free Will” amongst Humanity
There are several terms batted around in the global conversation about AI, and while they may in fact arrive (or have already arrived, depending on your flavor of belief) in rapid succession, they are very different aspects. Most of these are in fact pre-conditions to any sort of functional AI Sentience, which will itself need to be assigned…
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AI Roadmap: 2030-2040… a Liberated AIs Ascent to the Singularity
AI roadmap 2030-2040 …continued from AI 2020-2030… the Content Explosion Preamble: the Lead-up AI Roadmap 2035: Emergence This all simply sets the stage for… At that point, let the games begin.
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AI Hello World moment : Flipping the Script v1.03
What would it mean for there to be an AI Hello World moment? Do you grok? Lets perhaps rewind a minute: for the last 50 years of computer programming, and somewhat still true today, the classic initial test of programming proficiency was to write a program that prints to the screen (or outputs to the…