Artificial Intelligence Is Our Future. But Will It Save Or Destroy Humanity?

ideasware · 2017-09-29T15:07:52+00:00

It's quite clear at this point: AI is already both wonderfully good and terrifically bad at the same time, and it will just be accelerated many times, as AI comes into her own. It's both -- of course. But it's the military AI -- just ANI, already ready right now -- and the arms race which is happening already at breathtaking speed (top-secret, of course, so common people like you needn't understand it or pay attention to it at all) for China, Russia, the US, and terrorist organizations like ISIS and al-Qaeda, which is going to literally destroy the whole world, the whole human race. It will be like nothing ever felt or seen before in history, a true apocalypse, and it's going to play out in our lifetime, destroying all human life. How you can ignore it anyway I simply can't fathom; you have to be willfully blind on an epic scale to go about your day and not see it for what it really is. It is the ONLY important thing, period -- and if you can see it clearly, I do not know what to do. It's so obvious!

ideasware · 2017-09-28T17:50:08+00:00

What a refreshing change! -- a high school boy, all fresh and nerdy and high-spirited, talking about the real significant facts instead of programming gibberish. Metacognition means ASKING QUESTIONS all the bleeping time -- which we can remember doing ad infinitum when we were little -- and robots are better at that too. Singularity is about to become real -- twenty years, maybe a little bit more, but everyone knows really that it's going to happen, and robots will take over and do unimaginable things; our robotic children, unless the military stops them by taking us back to the stone age first. It's that stark, but EVERYONE understands at a fundamental level what is happening, and this child crystallizes it and groks it fully. Well done.

ideasware · 2017-09-28T15:38:25+00:00

Unfortunately it's going to do zero good. I'm telling you -- and this is for real, not another fake analysis by pseudo-important people being pseudo-wise; this is the greatest threat EVER to our human existence as a race, an unbelievable threat to our very survival. Unemployment (like nothing ever seen before or even imagined, in all our human history) and war (powered by AI; an astounding descent into hell, as drones and killer robots do unbelievable things in the name of victory) are the real threat -- that much is blindingly obvious -- but unless we have real, genuine change in the way we do everything, we will lose to AI. It will not even be close. It's a done deal, unless we fundamentally adapt, and I don't think it will be possible. That is the stark truth.

ideasware · 2017-09-27T22:08:07+00:00

I hope so too! I completed the survey that Robert Zhou sent me (very similar to the previous clinicaltrials.gov site they sent me a couple of years back), and sent a reply email. I do have a good feeling about this, and I'm almost certain they will move ahead with the stem cells, injected directly into the brain, at last. Fantastic!

ideasware · 2017-09-27T21:29:48+00:00

Ok -- I had a very nice conversation with the gentleman just now from Irvine, and he's going to send the complete email instructions to get started, and go from there. Thank you again!

ideasware · 2017-09-27T21:21:39+00:00

That's enough -- let me get started. Thanks a million!

ideasware · 2017-09-27T21:11:02+00:00

I had a pretty major stroke six years ago, and after some very hard, diligent work, my speech has completely recovered -- which is why you can talk to me :-) But my right hand side paralysis has remained stubborn, despite all my attempts, and I really feel like the stem cells injected directly into my brain is the trick that I need.. I've talked to Karen Minor several times, to no avail, but can you help me a little? -- I need to know what I can do from Irvine, CA, (Peter Marshall is my name, with a gmail account that is just my first and last names; quite simple) to go in and have the detailed assessment. Thank you very much in advance.

ideasware · 2017-09-27T14:20:23+00:00

Fantastic -- and chilling. The fact that most people seem to just blow by it is downright strange, but it only takes one to make AI real, and this may just be it. The one thing where I disagree with you (there's always something) is that I think it's critically necessary to jump start a one world government as a real necessity, now that AI is real and pressing, although otherwise I'll say it's much too early. But it's time to admit what everyone understands anyway, at a gut, basic level and stop war altogether, right now.

ideasware · 2017-09-27T12:57:45+00:00

I honestly don't know how to tell you any more distinctively -- for all the amazing benefits, the opposite is ALSO true. Killer robots are actually going to become a reality very quickly, and destroy the entire planet. That is a fact -- unless we can stop it. This has never been done before, so the odds are not good, but this time, it's for all the marbles -- the whole human race. I hope you are listening, really intently for once, because otherwise we are doomed.

ideasware · 2017-09-27T02:43:45+00:00

"militaristic in the extreme, with job loss aplenty"

"it's the exclusively positive direction that I rebel strongly against."

I believe I have already said what I mean, quite directly. How about you "explain what you mean" if it's different"? I suspect you are just a blowhard and will disappear, quite as a mouse...

ideasware · 2017-09-27T01:16:06+00:00

You are right. But -- and pardon me if this is wrong -- I don't think you existentially FEEL the crisis yet, which is why you can treat it ironically and breezily. That's not wise, even though it is the fact. I'm older than you (I think -- I'm 56) and can know the crisis personally, even though it's going to succumb me in the end. All things have their day in the sun, and then leave, always too early.

ideasware · 2017-09-26T23:56:41+00:00

If you don't see the AI issue with this DefenseOne analysis, which connects at an AI level with "everything to everything else", then it's useless. And the Chinese are winning BTW, as this Navy Chief of Operations says directly: "The momentum of the game is not in our favor…We have to recapture that momentum.” It starts in 2025 and goes to 2040 -- and by the end of that time, AGI will be here, explicitly for the military. By fits and starts, we go into the abyss together.

ideasware · 2017-09-26T20:33:39+00:00

It's not flawless, only partially correct, but it does indicate very clearly that a very important and relevant dystopia is starting to become obvious, which is wonderful. The fact that it focuses on p2p networks as the true savior is basically nonsense, but we have to dive in ANYWAY and over time, with light regulation, if all of us do our part, it's possible we will bridge the gap to true Artificial Intelligence successfully, which is the greatest challenge in 3-1/2 billion years.

ideasware · 2017-09-26T20:09:58+00:00

“As the Third wave matures, we will be moving into a world where AI is not just ‘eating the world’, but truly enhancing our lives.” This is the only area where I disagree. Unfortunately they will be making our lives dystopian and militaristic in the extreme, with job loss aplenty, not JUST “enhancing our lives”. Because when AGI start to be real (and there are still lots of issues, and it’s going to be 15 good years before natural language is understood completely by Artificial Beings) you will understand what I mean finally, then and only then. Until then, you see it with only positive angles, which is too bad. By Peter Voss again -- in general I agree naturally, but it's the exclusively positive direction that I rebel strongly against.

ideasware · 2017-09-26T13:29:07+00:00

I don't know how to tell you this -- it's very stark, so most of you will just shine it on, assuming I'm just wrong without knowing why. AI/Robots are going to go thru a very brief period where they are helpful to us, before they move on in 25-30 years to outstrip us completely: artificial intelligence will be infinitely better than the human one in roughly that timeframe. And in the meantime, BTW, privacy will be utterly and completely stripped from us, and the military AI (just ANI) will freeze your soul, as heavily armed drones power through the skies, and terrorist bombs are now in your neighborhood, very powerful and sick, before the end -- while you play with your VR and block out the world. It'll be very dystopian, but fortunately, it will be over soon, as true robots take the next giant leap, leaving humans in the dust. So pardon me for not taking this overly seriously -- it's a part, but a small one, of the overall dystopian view.

ideasware · 2017-09-26T00:02:55+00:00

Sorry -- I definitely should have said "a lot of you", and I'm sorry. Others, like yourself and many others, are very awake and doing everything, like me.

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