It’s an intelligent totally different from human intelligence and as such should not be compared to evolutionarily human advancement.
An algorithmic bot is not a robot it’s a digital code of instructions to follow to achieve a specific target.
Ai is a net work of algorithms on a platform.
Quantum chips will take computing to the next level of artificial intelligence’s, with quantum information that only the computer will understand.
We all know that if our kids are constantly looking at computers I pads laptops and mobile devices we’re heading for a generation of fat kids with huge backsides.
Already we have over 208million Americans classified as obese.
Just imagine.
If it took millions of years for us to evolve but Robots without outside help will evolve at speeds not yet seen.
We are getting close to a world under constant surveillance thanks to the very thing I am using this very second – A Mobil phone.
It’s now impossible to live without constant contact with a computer, that is feeding of your personal and non personal data.
The ability of algorithms to analyse all this information is really beyond our comprehension.
The ability to make decisions must be within our capabilities, not with algorithms.
If we to have lives worth living, all technological advancement must be subjected to upholding human values.
This can only be achieved if we humans pass laws to regulate all social media platforms.
They all must be able to verify their content as genuine fact, not computer generated tripe.
Human if you have not noticed are inextricably connected to the earth not artificial intelligence.
It’s time to shift to a war time mindset when it comes to profit seeking algorithms and computers decide our lives.
Our smartphone accomplish the job 24/7
It’s simple unacceptable that they suck the life out of living for profit, while remaining un- transparent, un- unconscious, unethical, untrustworthy, untrainable.
The grow apathy about Ai, the state of the world drags on. It’s now or never or tomorrow will not arrive.
There is no deal to be had with Ai.
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From a distance so many of our lives look the same. Survival, Procreation, Death.
But in our lives everything depends on others and there is no life without feeling part of something bigger than oneself.
Life demands an horizon bigger than the four walls of your living space.
The narrow ruts of immediacy is not life.
The din of humanity has to be shaken off to experience life.
A super market, a shopping centre, a consumer market mall, what ever you want to a call it is not life
Is your life to focus on convenience and consumption?
Are you walking around in fear of loosing your phone, having never read a book or visited an art gallery or museum or being to a play or concert. Climb a mountain, gone scuba diving, sniff a flower, cooked a meal, crack a joke, live in nature.
Life is not a football team, a culture, a race, a language, a country, or the cadaverous light of the computer, the laptop, the iPhone, the iPad, the smart TV.
Or is it rituals we continually reenact that-have long ago emptied of their meaning and do nothing to regather the sense of self.
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Modern day life is turning into a multifaceted compendium of evolving technology and social media affecting our physical and mental health.
It’s is not a life.
Unplug your phone and take notice of your surroundings.
Standing in front of a panoramic vista, or horizon less night sky, is a bit like waving ammonia underneath one’s nose. It reminds you that you are part of a bigger scheme of things than just life.
Change is inevitable.
There are it seems no rules to modern day life, other than overindulgence and living beyond one’s means.
There are nearly 8 billion of us destroying what’s left of our planet’s beauty.
Life on a credit card and the never never of a pay check, bragging on social media is not living, its existence at the pleasure of others.
With the interdependence on each other to reverse climate change becoming more and more urgent, before living becomes not worth while, other than it being harvested by an algorithm. It’s time we understand what an algorithm is.
A set of commands that must be followed for a computer to perform calculations or other problem solving operations actions.
Life is an algorithmic process that does not function as a set of commands that cannot be self imposed or enforced or implemented or taught.
It (like an algorithm) never sleeps but we as organic entities must take a rest or die.
Despite many advances the world is still facing many challenges that have plagued life since it began- poverty- wars- hunger etc.
It’s a no brainier that with all of our achievements we have been unable to achieve equality.
Society is no longer a few people you know.
Non organic technology life is out pacing out ability to live a life and given the pace of change it is essential that we stand up for our rights and avoid assumptions that AI is going to benefit one and all.
The question is who is going to adapt to whom?
Us, to the AI bureaucrats or them to us?
The answer is obvious to life, but not to us as we are loosing the ability to think, talk, or tell each other what is at stake.
You are not a person on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or the internet you’re a product to be bought, exploited for profit by self learning algorithms.
This is why all education should be freed, why all health care must free, why a basic living income is essential.
So we all can become spellbound, transfixed, entrenched, arrested, riveted, mesmerised call it what ever, by the beauty of life that set our selves free to come somewhere near living a full life.
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With Artificial Intelligence this is a question that all countries are going to have to address within the next ten to twenty years.
For New Zealand this question is arriving in more ways than one simply question.
Grappling to this day with an agreement that dates back to 1840 (which was ment to be a partnership between the British crown and the indigenous Maori, not the other way around) New Zealand find itself politically in no man’s land.
The Maori signed a treaty written in both English and the Maori language called the Waitangi.
The current Treaty Principles Bill debate reveals a fundamental constitutional reality:
NEW ZEALAND existence is based on an imperial treaty and this treaty predates the emergence of its parliamentary democracy.
The treaty needs to be understood in the context of the age of revolution and an emerging imperial era in which European empires negotiated many treaties with each other and indigenous peoples.
So the treaty to day needs to be read in its immediate New Zealand context and British constitution history, which is based on the Magna Carta dated 1215. ( The English constitution has never been written in a single document.)
The Waitangi treaty like all British treaties points to the English notions of empire, with imbedded privilege in a graduated social hierarchy of mutual obligations- noblesse obliged.
Therefore it cannot be squashed into a later democratic paradigm of individuals with equal citizenship as the Act Party’s Bill might prefer it was.
The truth if faced, is that the treaty arose in a completely different context from the present, but still is the foundation to New Zealand constitutional arrangements with the crown. This is the position and will remain so till New Zealand stand on its own two feet and its people are no longer surf to an unelected monarchy.
This means that the treaty principles are tied to their historical foundations.
You could say that treaty settlement have done much to re-establish tribal collective identities but they do not have the right to exhaust the ongoing treaty based rights of the indigenous people- Maori who were a free people.
(Democracy itself is a Johnny come lately on the global stage, not more than a few centuries back old.) It remains the best way to co- ordinate a multi- ethnic society, but it must reflect local agreement and histories.
While New Zealand retains King Charles as head of state the British government has ongoing obligations to the indigenous peoples on which its authority is based.
Edmund Burke’s 1790 conservative policies sum up the position New Zealand finds itself in.
Society is indeed a contract… it becomes a partnership not only between those who are alive, but between those who are living and those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
Of course New Zealand has moved on since 1840. However we all know forget the past and the present makes on sense.
We all know that stupidity is more dangerous than malice treaties. They cause civil wars, apartheid, and genocides.
Because of the very nature of treaties they lead to race politics.
Millions have died because of treaties, millions have lived because of treaties.
New Zealand problem is not who owns what land, rather race politics is and continues to divide the country.
This is also the problem with North Ireland.
A land that was taken forcibly by the English in return for a peace treaty that caused a civil war, the establishment of a apartheid state with years of killings and a new recent treaty call Good Friday. (Written in English and not Gaelic the language of the original inhabitants.)
If there’s no written constitution that enshrined equality, every decade that passes the meaning of treaties change.
This is why the need for a written constitution is paramount to interpreting any agreement/treaty.
We have and are entering a new era of digital information and Laws and the way we use them with Artificial Intelligence are developing a style of their own.
People have to be with in hearing range of each other firstly to have any agreements.
In order to unify any people/nation in the world of artificial intelligence’s there will have to be a citizen equal act against any platform, digital citizenship, algorithms greed/ profit and climate change mitigation taking precedence over the vote.
The only way to have a large-scale political conversation among diverse groups of people is to set out the terms and conditions in an agreed constitution.
The key misconception here is that we equate elections to democratic outcomes but a liberal democratic citizenship with Artificial Intelligence can only be achieved with an Equal Citizenship Act that is enshrined in a written constitution.
It could be said that Democracy is at a tipping points. Yes democracy governments are messy. They have so many demands on them that their elected members are not in touch with reality.
Whether his is true or not social media is distracting and distancing us from the real problems, giving rise to populism.
History is full of examples as to what happens when the Democratic process brakes down.
New Zealand with all its faults / beauty / expenses remains one of the best countries to settle in, and it must do everything possible to remain so by not becoming another Hong Kong abandon by the British Empire it must establish its independence internationally.
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Ai is the first technology that is more efficient than all the collective instruments, institutions, corporations so far invented by humans.
However its main objectives is us.
While we reside in our twenty century caves call houses, apartments, algorithms exam our every day existence and addictions to our smartphones on behalf of their overlords.
Engagement is however not the model. As we will be less and less involved in making decisions.
With our caves converting more and more to automatic functions at speed to maximise profits.
In the mean time the planet is in a state of crisis not only to provide the necessary materials and energy to sustain itself never mind ourselves or AI which is slowly killing real activism, and replacing it with slacktivsm – with smartphones opting – out of actually committing time or money.
Where are we?
It is having a profound effect on all that surrounds us.
Social Media has already transformed the way we communicate, share information and consume media its self.
It’s all about attention seeking.
It had shifted the balance of power from the hands of the masses to the hands of the few.
On the threshold of a war,
Popular v. Democracy.
The future is not yet determined by Ai
We have to decide what we want before it’s too late.
Yuval Noah Harari book Nexus says that history is not deterministic and the future will be shaped by the choices we make in the coming years.
He says and I quote “ if we cannot change the future why waste time talking about it”
Unfortunately we respond to these dangers with the same brains as our Ancestors had some 60,000 to 80,000 years ago.
( He rightly pointed out who will we know that we are talking to a human. Place an x on a serious of photos not on your Nelly.
There will be no way to know. )
Unlike us with our I am all right Jack society they had a vested interest in each other. Peace without Victory.
Strong societies or weak
The fact that we have bot pits of rewards to engage the more extreme the more consuming the content becomes the bigger the rewards and that is what we are presently being fed by Algorithms.
What do we get in return for engagement?
Nothing.
Except democracy hacked for profit.
So here is my advice:
Really is you not some Algorithm that is trying to hack you.
Imagination is information that has be checked to become information.
So it follows that there is no such thing as information, there is only reality which is this very present moment in time, becoming fact when observed more than once by independent observation.
Life is a series of positions that fluctuate with time.
Most information including technology information has nothing to do with reality.
As we have found out in quantum mathematics is that it can be in two places at once depending on who or how it is observed.
We all have different perspective on the world. Here to day gone to morrow.
It is nothing but information.
As Yuval Noah Harari book Nexus states and I quote “ No account of reality is 100% accurate, but some accounts are nevertheless more truthful than others “
The question is will we adapt to Ai or will it be the other way around.
We need sleep it does not.
The world as you know it is over. It’s not about to happen it has already happened.
Remember that corporations in the USA already have legal rights.
One year remaining to ensure that our rights are respects as humans not as Ai pets.
We already have decisions being made by Ai that could replace the richest person with an Ai controlled company.
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The truth is we have only after centuries of killing each other it’s not difficult to imagine the next step to how pathetic we will become.
YUVAL NOAH HARARI see the algorithm as “ arguably “ the single most important concept in our world.
His latest book Nexus describes some kind of automaton that especially through smartphones use we have succumbed to the cold inhumanity of compassionless algorithms.
Somewhat a remarkable claim, given such concepts as time, identity, information, morality, and so on.
Determinism is central to his world view.
Honestly every thing in the quantum world of entanglement and chaos points to non deterministic outcomes.
He argues that 20th century scientists found neither self nor free will.
We can at least assume they knew what both looked like before commencing their search.
He therefore stated that we’d never expect to hold a fully determined robot legally responsible for its actions, but we do hold fully determined human beings legally responsible for their actions.
The ethnical implications are glossed over, but a jurisdiction governed by this principle would have no selves to prosecute, casting doubt on the legitimacy of prisons and the legal system.
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How did the planet earth get into such a dire state on terms of climate crisis and degraded environment?
Donald Trump has pushed us to the point that we can’t even agree on the weather.
What a stupid time to be alive.
Nothing would exist without temperature and the words adaptation and mitigation are ridiculously inadequate to describe what is coming.
Has anyone thought about unplugging American then plugging it back in again.
Hush, now before we look after the planet close to my heart are some home truths.
Democracy and the rule of law just aren’t doing the business. Why?
Because we all now connect with a computer in our pockets call a mobile phone. Also with social media we are all publishers.
This alone is an enormous destabilising factor that we have not figure out as yet.
So what will ?
Perhaps another pandemic, a nuclear explosion , an asteroid, a natural disaster, or Hubble discovery of another life form might do the trick.
It won’t be the second coming of any prophet, or AI, or American or Chinese domination.
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AI IS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT FROM ALL PREVIOUS TECHNOLOGIES AS IT CAN CREATE ON ITS OWN FUNCTION/ FUTURE.
Artificial intelligence’s is creating its own language of Mima ( Mining information for management and acquisition) in order to inte-grate natural language, structuring knowledge over large systems, and using automated algorithms recognition techniques to gain our loyalty.
Once AI algorithms work out how to gain your loyalty there will be no need for you to search for what’s new.
The Advertisement Industry will therefore collapse, with social media platforms becoming the battleground for attention.
Algorithms are already well established in our society/lives and some are powerful in their practicality- Face recognition for example or predicting the stock markets.
They are interpreting how we think and communicate and will have big implications for us and what it means to be human.
As no one fully understands how Artificial Neural Network actually work, how they find connections & retrieve data, with an ability to generate written content in response to almost any command, cannot be fully explained.
How they are monitoring anything.
How they are adapting to their surroundings, if they are supposed to be mimicking the human brain [which is in itself still one of the greatest] whose functioning is still largely unknown.
Artificial Intelligence relies upon vast data sets to learn, this data is already contaminated and littered with every human biased thinkable.
Harmful gender stereotypes
Racial Biases
Elections
Currently our elected world leaders are being encouraged to spend 5% of GDP on defence with most political parties pledged to keep country safe at all costs.
In this age of proxy wars conducted with AI weapons, we are well on the road to getting further away from the objective of getting AI to explain how it arrives at decision and outcomes .
As a result there will be deep learning hidden layers to AI to make it untrustworthy and far from ethical in the Future.
Their reach already goes far beyond playing Chess or Go with their influence becoming thinner they’re going to have a profound impact in the future on all aspects of living a life.
How these Neutral networks will adapt to the world around them, which is too variable to do anything absolutely.
How the real world is understood and imagined will shape these systems.
It’s is well described by a Turkish proverb.
“ The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe as the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because its handle was made of wood, it was one of them.”
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We can make compromises on all kinds of pragmatic matters but once our beliefs are threatened we close our eyes entirely to reason and common sense; that no longer apply.
We cannot see facts that stare us in the face, nor can we see how illogically we are behaving. This is why any attempt to discuss the roots of terrorism is an attempt to justify it.
It simply needs to be fought and destroyed.
How foolish.
Terrorism is as old as civilisation, but in our world of to day it cannot be justified, however the issues remain the same.
How can a nation state deal with terrorism?
Is the only method of resistance to be based on armed military might?
When we look at many struggles central to the root cause of terrorism is it social media that is fanning the flames of conflict? Yes
(Especially when it comes to breaking colonial control.)
Do we oppose anybody else’s terror?
Did we oppose Indonesia terror in East Timor? No
Did we oppose terror in Guatemala and El Salvador? No
Did we oppose what was done in Vietnam. No
Do we oppose what Columbia doing. No
{ The leading human rights violator on the western hemisphere. }
Do we oppose what happing in the Gaza Strip?. No
We can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
AI is driving us beyond who we are.
We at a very fragile moment in human history which is storytelling.
When it comes to AI size matters.
Why?
Because social media is run by algorithms they are shaping the stories humans lives are lived in. Which is having a profound effect on societies.
We could lose control of what makes humans human.
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There appears to be only one solution to the world’s woes.
Mass Algorithmic Surveillance.
They might be invisible but they are now ruling out lives to such an extent that we cannot live without them.
They make us pay more than we should for everything in what’s called the free market which is in fact a capitalist program run by algorithms for profit.
How owns them?
Because the data they are trained can be biased and discriminatory there should be total transparency as to what, who and when they are used.
Is it the code writers, or the company that develops them are the owners?
If they are writing their own code the use of an algorithm is un- own-able, because they start life as abstract ideas which is un -patient able.
They are not legal persons and therefore have no ownership rights, anyone can create their own algorithm.
Only the people who designed, adapted, configured, chose and use the algorithm can be held responsible for their actions.
As more and more products become auto-generated evolutionary algorithms will undermine privacy ownership of almost every thing, as they bypass the traditional need for designer, inventor, author, artist.
However they provide competitive advantages. That’s why they need to be totally transparent.
Are you Flummoxed yet?
Some of the water you drank to day passed through the kidneys of Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, Socrates. The Air passed through Napoleon, Beethoven,Lincoln, Billy the Kid.
We do not simply live in this universe.
The universe lives in us.
When it comes to his new smart phone. Elton Musk needs to understand this.
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The obvious answer to this question is – FOR ALL INTENTIONAL PURPOSES WE ARE ALREADY FUCKED?
Why?
Because to change this view would require a collective vision with in the planet boundaries.
Because growth is more important than people’s lives.
Because it’s all down to making money.
It would require a global root change to the whole system of international trade, markets and making a profit for anything to change.
Because all food production is an industry that has spread toxic pesticides all over the planet to fuel the next pandemic.
Because we are now caught by the short and hairy’s by Algorithms, that are using our weaknesses against us.
Because none of this is science fiction any more. We no longer have a say in most things
Because we are rapidly becoming second rate citizens in a world run by non- biological machines.
Perhaps this is the final destination-and not heaven as some of us are lead to believe.
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Do we get our act together to operate on this planet or become obsolete ?
The answer to this question is rapidly approaching with Artificial Intelligence’s, being able to program themselves it will not be in the remotest possible sense be able to control itself without human intervention.
Eventually we will live our lives governed by classification data, with power shifting ( as it is already doing) to AI platforms.
Our healthcare/ location/ financial worth/ benefits/ beliefs/ skills/ life history on our wrists.
Where are we?
On any given day you can find somewhere in the world a conflict involving religion, however the wars of the future ( if fusion energy is not cracked) will be over energy, fought with atomistic weapons.
There will be no God on any given side.
This will happen as our lives become one long, endless, brutal Darwinian struggle.
Our horizons narrow, and our worlds shrink.
We become Myopic- Products.
AI is already siphoning wealth off for the few.
Economics have been failing for generations because it has put profit making before looking after the people.
Putting profits to the forefront of all decisions is sucking the life out of the environment- climate change.
There is no point to growing the GDP of a nation if the cost of living increases beyond being able to pay the bills. Leading as history has shown us on many occasions to FASCISM
How can this still be happening?
Because A1 is dummying us down to dumb hicks – whoops I should have said dummy like
Clickers.
So our elect leaders (who are voted into power by us ) are unable to offer a more compelling alternative to GDP. Ensnared in it by AI data, becoming the beneficiaries of a lack of knowledge of what it means to be human.
So go ahead and tell me how often has fasism’s arisen when people are happy.
There isn’t a single example.
What rights are we going to give non biological machines ? Have they a right to exist? How or who do we make responsible for their actions ?
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The questions raised here are no longer hypothetical.
They are self learning, have no beliefs, don’t suffer death, begin to demand unreasonable amounts of tribute, begin to develop their own ethics, are we dodies going to inflict generational slavery on all humans to come.
Is this the purpose of humanity?
The answer I would say to an AI is 2% no and 98% yes.
There is one thing for certain the future of AI and humanity are inextricably linked.
Artificial general intelligence is around the corner. This is a journey that is going to define our species.
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It comes into force on the 30:Sept :2020 whether you have read it, agreed with it-or not.
Seriously if this is transparency Joe soap and I must get an algorithm not just to read it but to have any chance of understand it.
If you ask me it is another example of dummying down to reshape reality.
Its an agreement not just about consuming content but providing data in order to make decisions in the future that is yet to come.
The future of the invisible hand making predictions.
The implications are staggering.
So ask your self why is here no option but to agree.
This isn’t just about selling you a service or product. It’s about analysing your thoughts in order to change your views.
Quantum computing is around the corner when it’s meet artificial intelligence it will be capable of mining and changing everything.
Calculating in second your thoughts, while questioning the very nature of your existence.
Imagine being able to visit your deceased loved one. The implications are mind boggling.
Long after you depart this world a quantum algorithm will represent a virtual digital version of you.
It will challenge every ethical measure we have, challenging what it is to be human in the first place.
Does an AI have a right to exist?
Our current laws/ regulations are worthless to answer this question.
Why?
Because the changes to come are going to require totally new beliefs concerning what a life is. .
To live as a human alongside a non biological life form raised many questions.
Will the AI need a MOT every year.
Will its owner need a license.
Will the owner need insurance.
Will there be powering stations to re-charge.
Will the an age limit on ownership.
Will there be national service for these machines to ensure their loyalty to the nation.
Will they be restricted from distributing information.
You would be mistaken to think that the above questions are academic as the future of personal robotics is yonks away. The transition will be so subtle we won’t see it happening.
With agreement like this one its time we woke up to algorithms that are beginning to make decisions without any human interaction or input.
If we don’t they will not be controlling your life but your digital life will be running and ruling your very existence.
How AI and humanity will coexist is another thing as it is going on impact everything everywhere.
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