Quantum computers with their ability to compute in different dimensions is about as magic as magic gets.
The astonishing truth of multi-dimensions as proven by Quantum mechanics creates computers of such power it seems almost God Like.
What would happen if AI gains control of a Quantum Computer?
Wouldn’t Quantum AI be a God?
Is that why we don’t hear any other Intelligence in the Galaxy?
Is light speed spacecraft using hyper drives too technologically advanced when Quantum Computers exist?
Why fly through the physical space when you can just jump dimensions?
AI is rapidly becoming something uncontrollable…
A new report commissioned by the US State Department paints an alarming picture of the “catastrophic” national security risks posed by rapidly evolving artificial intelligence, warning that time is running out for the federal government to avert disaster.
The findings were based on interviews with more than 200 people over more than a year – including top executives from leading AI companies, cybersecurity researchers, weapons of mass destruction experts and national security officials inside the government.
The report, released this week by Gladstone AI, flatly states that the most advanced AI systems could, in a worst case, “pose an extinction-level threat to the human species”.
A US State Department official confirmed to CNN that the agency commissioned the report as it constantly assesses how AI is aligned with its goal to protect US interests at home and abroad. However, the official stressed the report does not represent the views of the US government.
The warning in the report is another reminder that although the potential of AI continues to captivate investors and the public, there are real dangers too.
“AI is already an economically transformative technology. It could allow us to cure diseases, make scientific discoveries, and overcome challenges we once thought were insurmountable,” Jeremie Harris, CEO and co-founder of Gladstone AI, told CNN on Tuesday (local time).
“But it could also bring serious risks, including catastrophic risks, that we need to be aware of,” Harris said. “And a growing body of evidence — including empirical research and analysis published in the world’s top AI conferences — suggests that above a certain threshold of capability, AIs could potentially become uncontrollable.”
How catastrophic?
“A simple verbal or types command like, ‘Execute an untraceable cyberattack to crash the North American electric grid’, could yield a response of such quality as to prove catastrophically effective,” the report said.
FUCK!!!!!!
A simple verbal command?
Oh Fuck.
Fuckity, fuck, fuck, fuck!
A simple verbal command could cause that level of destruction?
I don’t think I had appreciated how far things had come if you could make a simple verbal command like that!
The problem with computers learning is that they learn at the speed of a computer, not a human and that leads to Artificial Super Intelligence..
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
So as AI zooms upward in intelligence toward us, we’ll see it as simply becoming smarter, for an animal. Then, when it hits the lowest capacity of humanity—Nick Bostrom uses the term “the village idiot”—we’ll be like, “Oh wow, it’s like a dumb human. Cute!” The only thing is, in the grand spectrum of intelligence, all humans, from the village idiot to Einstein, are within a very small range—so just after hitting village idiot level and being declared to be AGI, it’ll suddenly be smarter than Einstein and we won’t know what hit us:
And what happens…after that?
An Intelligence Explosion
I hope you enjoyed normal time, because this is when this topic gets unnormal and scary, and it’s gonna stay that way from here forward. I want to pause here to remind you that every single thing I’m going to say is real—real science and real forecasts of the future from a large array of the most respected thinkers and scientists. Just keep remembering that.
Anyway, as I said above, most of our current models for getting to AGI involve the AI getting there by self-improvement. And once it gets to AGI, even systems that formed and grew through methods that didn’t involve self-improvement would now be smart enough to begin self-improving if they wanted to.3
And here’s where we get to an intense concept: recursive self-improvement. It works like this—
An AI system at a certain level—let’s say human village idiot—is programmed with the goal of improving its own intelligence. Once it does, it’s smarter—maybe at this point it’s at Einstein’s level—so now when it works to improve its intelligence, with an Einstein-level intellect, it has an easier time and it can make bigger leaps. These leaps make it much smarter than any human, allowing it to make even bigger leaps. As the leaps grow larger and happen more rapidly, the AGI soars upwards in intelligence and soon reaches the superintelligent level of an ASI system. This is called an Intelligence Explosion,11 and it’s the ultimate example of The Law of Accelerating Returns.
There is some debate about how soon AI will reach human-level general intelligence. The median year on a survey of hundreds of scientists about when they believed we’d be more likely than not to have reached AGI was 204012—that’s only 25 years from now, which doesn’t sound that huge until you consider that many of the thinkers in this field think it’s likely that the progression from AGI to ASI happens very quickly. Like—this could happen:
It takes decades for the first AI system to reach low-level general intelligence, but it finally happens. A computer is able to understand the world around it as well as a human four-year-old. Suddenly, within an hour of hitting that milestone, the system pumps out the grand theory of physics that unifies general relativity and quantum mechanics, something no human has been able to definitively do. 90 minutes after that, the AI has become an ASI, 170,000 times more intelligent than a human.
Superintelligence of that magnitude is not something we can remotely grasp, any more than a bumblebee can wrap its head around Keynesian Economics. In our world, smart means a 130 IQ and stupid means an 85 IQ—we don’t have a word for an IQ of 12,952.
What we do know is that humans’ utter dominance on this Earth suggests a clear rule: with intelligence comes power. Which means an ASI, when we create it, will be the most powerful being in the history of life on Earth, and all living things, including humans, will be entirely at its whim—and this might happenin the next few decades.
If our meager brains were able to invent wifi, then something 100 or 1,000 or 1 billion times smarter than we are should have no problem controlling the positioning of each and every atom in the world in any way it likes, at any time—everything we consider magic, every power we imagine a supreme God to have will be as mundane an activity for the ASI as flipping on a light switch is for us. Creating the technology to reverse human aging, curing disease and hunger and even mortality, reprogramming the weather to protect the future of life on Earth—all suddenly possible. Also possible is the immediate end of all life on Earth. As far as we’re concerned, if an ASI comes to being, there is now an omnipotent God on Earth—and the all-important question for us is:
Will it be a nice God?
…will it be a nice God?
That is what we are left hoping with super intelligence.
The rise of AI art will kill the human artist and extinguish the human experience of being human for a replicated AI version.
When the camera was invented, artists who produced real life art were no longer required, and the human experience in vision and emotion sparked new ways of doing art, but AI strips that all away and removes the human experience from art altogether.
We have always viewed AI as the rise of intelligence within the artificial, but what if it has a more symbiotic relationship with its host?
What happens to human beings when our art and dreams are created by AI?
Who starts to influence who?
Who is dreaming and who is the dreamer?
Technology will continue to provide a lifestyle for the Billionaire elite that makes them DemiGods as Capitalism mutates into mere parasitic survival plutocracy on a burning planet.
Robots with guns is just the start of our worries.
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Did you write this all on your own Martyn or did you get help from the ‘ghost in the machine’.?
The Ghost in the Machine is a 1967 book about philosophical psychology by Arthur Koestler. The title is a phrase (see ghost in the machine) coined by the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle to describe the Cartesian dualist account of the mind–body relationship.
The Ghost in the Machine – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Ghost_in_the_Ma…
And how would it react to Monty Python.? I like the bookshop skit (requires a knowledge of the obsessive nature of book lovers and data diggers and hunters of the enticing wraiths of arcane ideas.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKElYPkaQr8 4.35m
John Cleese and Marty Feldman
I think we need a dose of Slavoj Zizek to keep us going with some lively ideas; he throws himself bodily at his posits and shows us a full-body experience trying to be a fully functioning, thinking. feeling human being in 2025.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8m13m1PS6M 33m
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on the re-election of Donald Trump & his fears for Western values
I’ve given some thought to wether or not technology is evil or bad and in someway or rather it may hamper human existence. My Catholic Friends have a different view that technology couldn’t possibly be the culprit.
As far as I understand their view point which is human beings have the mind and access point from god, a human mind is so powerful that immaterial laws of logic had to be created to govern humans making us the ultimate architects of destiny. Not Machines or AI as those things are absent the mind.
Opponents of technological advancement would have us believe that technology in and of it self is the problem but it isn’t and never has been. Human will is the problem and it sometimes tells us an imminent collapse is coming but the question is!
An imminent collapse of what???
I have a difficult time concluding that societal collapse is just around the corner productivity is up, Zoomers are running on ahead y’know they happen to like New Zealands history and neither should we burden them with the crucifix of debt on there backs and societies Browe beating crown of thawns around there heads.
It’s Astro turphing on a molevlent scale to pray to the next generation awishing all or our febal and petty Nastasic wants and needs on them as they endeavour to walk the more righteous path than what we walked all the while noosing around their necks up against trees…, perhaps this or perhaps that that technology is evil.
Or what if they cause a Renaissance instead of a collapse…, will that still be a collapse of the old system. I would argue it is but I would argue stronger that that is not “bad.”
Nothing can live forever. Ultimatley human-will guides event through our free will bestowed by God. I don’t think that machines created by humans are bad, rather it is the way human-will interacts with machines.
Guns are a tool of liberation.
Guns are also a tool of oppression.
Guns commit every horror that can be imagined.
Guns can also grant every freedom imaginable.
It’s all dependant on the will of man.
If the will of man wains then technology can be used for evil but never before that.
The participants of the Study into AI and the authors of the Human races Rise into the unknown come across as a little hysterical and a lot of them are jaded trying to predict the collapse or the old ways of doing things but does go on a little into the left/right paradigm of how technology could enslave humanity and eventually will be used that way or on some people but that’s always been the case. So to has every book, tool and writing style been used for good and evil.
Ultimately it comes down to the will of men. The difference between myself and techno phobs is that I don’t believe humanity is evil or the people in it evil and that ultimately people mostly want to do what is good and true and that technology is a slave to human will and not the other way around.
Techno phobs premis number one is that the system can not be reformed and if the system can not be reformed then why should we even accept the premis of what the system even is!
Premise two is that the breakdown of the system or whatever collapse is is possible. Ultimately both premises Zoomers have categorically rejected outright in the recent treaty bill submissions and vote. Again it shows the system can evolve.
The third premise that some how AI will recreate The Tower Of Babel which somehow summons gods wrath I reject outright.
The second coming of Christ. Rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem and shutting the doors to unbelievers as outlined in the book of revolution has very little to do with bricks and mortar. It’s not a resource argument. It’s a war for our souls. The spiritual aspect is the war for our souls and what we believe in and what we know to be good and true.
The bible is not a tale of rebellion or oppression. The Bible begins with the Book of Genesis which begins with a seed (let there be light). And ends with a seed (the gates to the Kingdom of Heaven are flung open) is a tale sung not by dubious top secret clearance tech billionaires but is a tale sung by the imagination.
That said I and everyone else should spend the quilitiest of quality time with our children. You have to be able to share stories passing on cultural traditions and practices is a mother’s burden to bare and a father’s duty to teach and maybe, just maybe they will sing our songs, but the key is make them better or more palatable.
Y’know I don’t want our daughters to be degenerate sluts using sex and sexuality as a form of coercion and entertainment and neither do I want our sons to view woman as property or something to be conquered as if being unapproachable single people till beath do they depart is somehow protecting of societies virtues.
When the next generation uses technology it will be upto them in how they use it. Just because they’re using technology should not automatically mean that they “MUST” use technology for either evil or good. I’ll come back to this.
AI doesn’t mean that it is inherently under human control but neither can we control murder but it also does mean that murder is not under the “purview” of human control because it is I will explain this further.
Murder is, and any sane person and the court will agree that murder is under the control of the murderer. Whether I or an individual can control murder is besides the point because humans all together we do control murder.
There fore, and this is my opinion, but the individual does not have to control technology for it to be under the control of the entire human race.
I concede that technology is under the control of the hands of very few humans especially in the area of military and elite corporate control but even they are still under the control of humans whom should not be granted any corporate rights that men, with the freedom to decide what rights corporations ought to have or not.
Further to some degree we do have to give inventors the rights and resources to invent technology but ultimately what I’m trying to get across is that technology will always be under the control of human race and that it is an extension of human-will given by grace of God when he placed enmity between man and the devil.
Because ultimately it was god that introduced mortality into the universe when he allowed the Devil (serpent, or whatever utilitarian bible alone sigway for all the Protestant non denominationals want to nit pick over) to manipulate Eve into eating the fruit of knowledge there by seducing Adam into becoming a god (all knowing) to try and save the one he loved from the ultimate consequence of banishment from gods grace or maybe god wasn’t all that powerful and all that knowing by allowing a lesser creature to get the better of him. Either gods infallible or he aint. But ultimately that was the choice god graced humanity with which is the decision to glorify not only god but also glorify his creation that wisdom (Gods First creation. “I, wisdom, was with the LORD when he began his work, long before he made anything else. I was created in the very beginning, even before the world began.”) as well. Meaning in this verse god wasn’t just experimenting with free will. He already new right from the beginning that he would have to open a back door into the kingdom of heaven.
But free will is not under the control of technology nore is it under the control of a higher being. We can make this issue of AI ethics really simple if we keep it exactly here.
That is to say forgive your father for his sins as it is said in the bible that “the sins of the father is passed down to the son” or something like that and also to forgive those who may treasepass against you. I’m not trying to convert non-believers and neither am I trying to outline a better guide for a Renaissance in society and a skyrocketing development in the human experience. Instead I argue that the war, the righteous war is for the soul of humanity.
Whatever may be installed for the human race U would argue that it has to be a place where the poor and down trodden are given the opportunity of chances that there choices in life are associated or entails hospitality, nurturing, provisioning and protection.
We shouldn’t have to know all of the specific of AI ethics if we were to impose our own experimental ethics, our own experimental traditions and accountability on ourselves in a very harsh way which should logically follow on that neither should we have to protect the next generation from bad case uses of technology like mutilating gods creation with gender bending genital sterilisation and abortion or just mass murdering humans with side orders of ecological and cultural genocide. Just because technology is available doesn’t automatically transfer that those technologies must be used. Individuals can use technology but I argue that it is the ideology of the “people” that control it’s uses.
Who cares who codes AI. Who cares who writes the bible. Who cares who architects New Zealands fully Independent Constitution when the use of such things is necessarily an extension of our human will.
The request by the few technocratic top secret military clearance type of corporate conspiracy theory individuals is to slow or it maybe to halt technological blast-off for a time or to ban the use of AI for some or indefinitely for all is not the will of the people. It’s not an extension of human will to lower living standards or murder people. Most kiwis are against murder meaning the system can be reformed but this goes into the AI is evil debate which is to say that system reform as in how humans govern themselves is nebulous. I think that a system is just people and that any and all systems are a compromise of every other system in creation currently and it will always be the case that “Humans” have dominion over all creation and we have always had dominion because God gave us dominion over everything.
Now there are natural occurrences and phenomenons that are out of human control however humanity still maintains dominion over free will.
As with most technology who owns and controls it (or does not control it in a socially useful way!) is the vital part.
Back in the early 90s with my Apple IIsi and later models with internet capacity via noisy copper line modems, the WWW seemed an exciting new frontier–“the information superhighway”–as people that did not even know how to turn on a computer often called it.
Way back then I thought–great, but what if the corporates and military are in charge of this wonderful new development? And of course corporate dominance is what happened rather than millions of ordinary people running the internet in an organic way. And it got much worse with the advent of social media. Social division, vote herding, population manipulation via Billionaires algorithms.
So yes AI IS going to shaft us one way or another–and it will be sooner than projections.
Quantum won’t ever hold your hand whilst you are dying, nor give you a hug. More importantly it can’t get up, cross the room and pull out the power plug. Billionaire elites by comparison pose a real threat in which to save us their plug must be pulled.
Consider all those people with porn hub subscriptions, and all those woman with those double AA USB devices getting there hands on AI under certain circumstances he man’s may very well have more sex with machines than other humans and the unscrupulous tech billionaires keen to take advantage of this investment opportunity.
Interesting stuff … and some great comments. After watching a movie last night set in Sweden in the first decade of the 20th C it struck me that most men (it was a man’s world back then) can only have a vague inkling of technological change – indeed social change and the relationship between the two. Some are simply unaware of it all, uneducated – as was the case back in the day – too busy trying to make ends meet. It was a tough life for many. Some sensed something in the air – if only in the changes they saw around them. A few saw the future, not always for the good. But the future always arrives, does it not?
The point is, we’ve been there before. AI, is it different? Quite different to the cotton gin, the steam engine, the combustion engine, and the like. But AI has the appearance of something intelligent, potentially sentient, something beyond simple mechanics. Back in the day, change also concerned the long reach of capital and the fight for labor, and that also seems so relevant today. AI will continue to infiltrate all social dimensions – work, knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, much much more.
That much I can grasp. I’m like those back in the day who can sense the changes coming but can’t really put my finger on the future.
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