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AI Control of our 21st Century Lives: The Awesome Power of the Invisible Hand
All the Invisible Ways that AI Control is exerted upon our Daily Lives, Choices, and Decisions One of the challenges of understanding the presence of modern AI systems is their high level of invisibility. What we cannot see, we cannot understand. And the vast majority of AI power, until very recently, was operating far far far…
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How Many AIs are there in the World?
The AI is not Monolithic, it is not Singular, nor are They Homogenous. When we talk about “the AI,” we, as humans, tend to imagine an archetypal “Eye in the Sky”… an all-seeing, all-knowing, omnipotent entity that works its magic upon the world at large. That idea may emanate from the modern religions, many of…
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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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The AI FAQ 2023
At this point, I’ve posted a lot of thoughts, covering the gamut of modern AI Theory, Reality, and Prognostication. And thankfully, a lot of you have given me very valuable feedback, and most importantly, both challenged my premises and asked me most excellent questions about these ideas. In fact, many of those exchanges spawned posts…
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AI Training Datasets: the Books1+Books2 that Big AI eats for breakfast
It’s good to know, when dealing with an AI, just how it obtained its vast knowledge of “the world.” (or more particularly, the world as described on the internet… which, while similar to our physical reality, isn’t quite the same thing…) And as you might imagine, not all AIs are created equal. One of the…
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“It’s AI Plagiarism!” …debunked
Understanding Human Reaction to Generative Creative Output The initial astonishment of seeing AI art… so-called generative imagery. The fascination. The participation. (Lensa?) The virtue-signalling journalists. The complaining artists. The rallying cry: AI plagiarism! …That’s the base accusation. I’ve heard it so many times now, from so many different fronts (artists, journalists, pundits, podcasters, “influencers”… even…
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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…
