Show me the smartest guyz in the room, any of those Tech Bros, and I\u2019ll show you the testosterone ego-driven idiots who are creating their own superiors, AI with an intelligence so far beyond their meager IQ\u2019s as they are to earthworms, that\u2019s how smart these yahoos are. The betting here among Vulture Capitalists is that AI will be the servants of mankind and the Tech Boyz will keep control past Singularity. Might be why earthworms stay underground \u2026 to keep from being squashed.<\/p>\n
I spoke to a pseudo human today on the phone who called itself Pixie, ready to help me with my new dryer\u2019s problem. Spoke better English than most of the real people on these sorts of calls, took down all the pertinent information to cover our warranty, then connected me to Jordan, a live hominid who, truth be told, was hard to understand but who finally scheduled a service call. Pixie told me right up front she was an android, Jordan didn\u2019t mention whether he was a human or not. Another few months, a year maybe, nobody would tell the difference, why bring it up? And you can bet your cryptos Jordan will be unemployed.<\/p>\n
The future isn\u2019t already here, it\u2019s roared past. AI is ubiquitous already. It\u2019s on our personal gizmos, in our offices, at work in our factories, better believe the military is all in. The genie is out of the flask, snaking into all aspects of us humans\u2019 lives. Even if we wanted to, there\u2019s no slowing the exponential growth of this infant alien, designed by coders and engineers, the Musks and the Silicon Vally crew who assure us there\u2019s nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n
What, me worry??? I\u2019m just a stupid primate content to live in the techno backwaters, strumming a banjo and scribbling warnings sent out on the tide in stoppered bottles. Why would I fear machines so advanced already that even their creators don\u2019t fully understand their \u2018thought\u2019 processes? If they don\u2019t make the next generation of AI, the Chinese will. Or some other competitor will. Whatever this is, it\u2019s coming. Faster than anyone dreamed. Except maybe the androids.<\/p>\n
Give Musk his trillion. He\u2019s going to kill the kitten anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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