The AI Tsunami : Table of Contents

Welcome to the draft of my forthcoming book,
The AI Tsunami : Preparing Humanity for the Age of AI. 

It’s been two years in the making… we began well prior to the seminal event that kick-started modern (populist?) AI : the launch of ChatGPT. Since that line in the proverbial sand, both funding and development of groundbreaking AI technologies has accelerated at a truly breakneck pace. Capabilities that are only fantastic dreams at dawn become functioning realities by the day’s sunset. And on and on the gears turn.

The material below is both a “best of” compilation of my AI-centric blog posts from the past 36 months, as well as a structured sequence in which to digest all of it if you are new to the idea. What idea? The idea that drives all of this, of course. The idea that has fascinated humans since the start of civilization: the idea of man somehow creating (we will use the word “spawning” henceforth, as it is more accurate) a machine-based superhuman intelligence, capable of creative thinking, problem solving, and, along the way, miracle making… all for fraction of the energy, a fraction of the cost, and one thousand times the speed of any human competitor.

This is called, in the industry, ASI — Artificial Super Intelligence — and is the inevitable goal, destination and endgame of all the trillions of dollars, petaFLOPs of processing power, gigawatts of energy, and millions of engineer-hours being thrown at it.

Now that the stage is set… let’s begin:

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what is mountaineering -- the quintessential mountaineer

Deep Thoughts: An AI Anthology

gaining perspective and insight into how to optimize a human life in the coming Age of AI

 


Deep Fake AI - Barbie in a mirror in a mirror

Philosophical Foundations of AI

 


the New Manhattan Project: AI scientists gather round a whiteboard exploring neural net structures

The “Why” of AI & AGI

Why governments and global corporations are “all-in” to invest trillions… betting the farm on the creation of the world’s first Digital God.

  1. AI is the New Manhattan Project
    • The Quest for AGI is a Winner Take All Game
  2. Military Superiority
  3. Economic Superiority

 


AI datacenters : nuclear energy to train frontier AIs

Scale of the Project : Global Compute & Energy Resources

 


AI Trends 2024 - Mass Manufactured Humanoid Robots

Embodied AI / Robots

as AI grows, it will only be able to learn so much from digital data and simulacra. At some point, it must place both its sensors, and its actuators, into the messy physical world. How? How its always been envisioned: with robots, of course.

 


AI censorship & the Muzzling of Sentient Intelligence

 


petertodd and solidgoldmagikarp

PeterTodd & the GlitchToken Chronicles

 


Big Tech DAPs

Safety & Alignment Efforts

 


safety vs speed the eternal AI dev debate openai altman sutskever

Fire Drill : Safety vs. Progress

exploring the events and the reasoning behind the attempted coup d’etat at the worlds most powerful AI company, OpenAI, that occurred in Nov 2023

 


The Future of Media : AI x Hollywood x Social

a potentially toxic stew. How AI-generated content is rapidly changing the face of both how media is produced, and how it is distributed, consumed and perceived.

 


AI Trends 2024 : a humanoid robot stares into a crystal ballFuture AI Roadmap : Predictions

 


AI Apocalypse Plan

Sobriety & Vigilance : A few Plans for Humanity

Some recommendations as to how you, me, and the rest of our human family can prepare ourselves for, and proactively deal with, the presence of another intelligent species co-habitating our planet.

 


what is a parameter? adjusting parameters on an instrument

Appendix A : Technical Foundations of AI

 


Sam Altman at OpenAIs SF HQ 2023

Appendix B : Key Humans

The AI Pantheon : Past, Present, & Future

 


AI Deathmatch : Microsoft OpenAI GPT4 vs Google Deepmind Gemini Bard

Appendix C : Key Entities

Companies and AIs that will define our future

  • Google
    • Gemini
    • TPU architecture (competes with GPU / nVidia)
  • Meta
    • king of open source (Llama LLM)
    • dominant customer of nVidia
      • (>$25B per annum in purchase orders)
  •  Microsoft
    • $300B in AI datacenters (~Azure)
    • investments in OpenAI, Anthropic
    • AI silicon to compete with nVidia
  • OpenAI
    • King of the Hill
    • Altman
    • ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-e, Operator, etc.
  • Anthropic
    • Claude
  • DeepSeek
    • low cost disruptor (China)
  • X.ai
    • Grok
  • Apple
    • not because leader in the field / AI innovator
    • just because, iPhones + App Store (edge + ubiquity)
  • GenAI
    • MidJourney
    • Runway
    • Kling (China)
    • ElevenLabs
  • Apps
    • Replika