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Has Ai hacked the operating system of Civilisation?

So many Questions!!!!

Has AI hacked the operating system of Civilisation? 

That’s what Yuval Harare writes in the economist - or is it really him writing? 

Will machines use physical means to kill, enslave or replace people - because that’s what chatgpt says is  the logical thing to do to save the planet ?

What’s given ai the power to hack the operating system of our civilisation? 

LANGUAGE

It’s ability to manipulate and generate language, whether with words, sounds or images.

And it is language and being able to share stories through speaking and writing that have created Laws , Gods and Religions .

Banknotes are just colourful pieces of paper, and at present more than 90% of money is just digital information in computers. What gives money value is the stories that bankers, finance ministers and cryptocurrency gurus tell us about it. 

What will happen once a non-human intelligence becomes better than the average human at telling stories, composing melodies, drawing images, and writing laws and scriptures? 

What will happen when ai creates mass-produce political content, fake-news stories and scriptures for new cults?

Those with the power to control ai - will control the world 

Are we conducting lengthy online discussions about abortion, climate change or the Russian invasion of Ukraine with entities that we think are humans—but are actually AI?

Through its mastery of language, could AI form intimate relationships with people, and use the power of intimacy to change our opinions and worldviews?

In a political battle for minds and hearts, intimacy is the most efficient weapon, and ai has just gained the ability to mass-produce intimate relationships with millions of people.

If AI can influence people to risk their jobs for it, and fall in love with it, what else could it induce them to do?

Social Media was stage 1 - creating a battleground for controlling human attention.  

Is the new battleground  now moving from attention to intimacy?

Will AI be  a one-stop, all-knowing oracle ? 

Will google have to watch out?

Why read a newspaper when you can just ask “the oracle” to tell you the latest news and what to buy? 

Who will brands pay to get them to promote their products? 

How will AI determine which product to promote ? 

What will happen to the course of history when ai takes over culture, and begins producing stories, melodies, laws and religions?

 Will AI create completely new ideas, completely new culture? 

Is that a bad thing ?

Religion and beliefs 

In ancient India Buddhist and Hindu sages pointed out that all humans lived trapped inside Maya—the world of illusions. What we normally take to be reality is often just fictions in our own minds. 

People may wage entire wars, killing others and willing to be killed themselves, because of their belief in this or that illusion.

How do we  ensure that the new ai tools are used for good rather than for evil?

Comparing AI to Nuclear 

Since 1945 we have known that nuclear technology could generate cheap energy for the benefit of humans—but could also physically destroy human civilisation. We therefore reshaped the entire international order to protect humanity, and to make sure nuclear technology was used primarily for good. 

Is ai to our mental and social world what a new weapon of mass destruction that can annihilate our mental and social world ?

Can we regulate the ai tools? Should we? Who is we? 

Whereas nukes cannot invent more powerful nukes, AI can make exponentially more powerful AI. 

Just as a pharmaceutical company cannot release new drugs before testing both their short-term and long-term side-effects, so tech companies shouldn’t release new AI tools before they are made safe. 

Do we  need an equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration for new technology? 

Who’s to create these laws? 

Could Unregulated ai deployments create social chaos, that would benefit autocrats and ruin democracies?

Democracy is a story. A narrative . 

When ai hacks language, could it destroy our ability to have meaningful conversations, thereby destroying democracy?

Could AI destroy our civilisation as we know it ? 

Is that a bad thing? 

Is it just a tool that enables the human to be more powerful ?

Should we put a halt to the irresponsible deployment of ai tools in the public sphere, and regulate ai before it regulates us? 

Who defines what irresponsible deployment is? 

Law 1 - says Yuval 1 - ai to disclose that it is an ai. If I am having a conversation with someone, and I cannot tell whether it is a human or an ai—is that the end of democracy?

How can this law be enforced? 

David bray from our I4j group 

“It is the choices (not the tools) associated with the tools that determine outcomes. 

Pandora’s box has already been opened. What we need now is action by folks willing to tackle messy, hairball, tech-meets-society issues. This would include AI pilots associated with work, education, health, law, civil society, and more. We need activities that listen and learn from the public to find ways to adapt AI into our lives locally, nationally, and globally. The best way to predict the future is to create it, and regarding AI and chatbots we now need positive change agents to be bold, brave, and benevolent in engaging co-creating with the public the future we want to live in together.”

Gary Bolles

Generative AI directly performs a broad range of tasks currently performed by humans.

Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? 

Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? 

Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? 

The danger of governance 

Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. development of robust AI governance systems - 

Who should these people be?

In the early 1900s the nations of Europe did assemble to ban chemical weapons publicly. And a year later all the nations who had publicly banned them were pursuing this clandestinely. 

If this somehow passes - it will only have the effect of forcing AI research into clandestine activities that are not public. 

This text has been generated by a human. - or has it ?

Inspired by the Economist 

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Economist 

Values

do you know your values

24 new AI tools to compete with Chat GPT released this week

Will there be one dominant player like Google?

AI and artificially created Proteins

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to simulate and predict the properties of artificial proteins, which can be designed to have specific functions such as targeted drug delivery, industrial biocatalysis, and protein-based materials. 

AI-powered techniques such as machine learning and deep learning are used to analyze vast amounts of protein structure and sequence data, allowing researchers to predict how different amino acid sequences will fold into a particular structure and how that structure will behave under different conditions.

One approach to designing artificial proteins using AI involves using generative models, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders (VAEs), which can generate new protein sequences that have desired properties. These models are trained on large datasets of known protein structures and properties, allowing them to generate new sequences that are likely to have similar properties.

Another approach is to use AI-powered molecular docking and dynamics simulations to predict how different amino acid sequences will interact with specific target molecules, such as drugs or enzymes. These simulations can help identify sequences that are likely to bind to a target molecule and optimize their properties to enhance binding affinity or catalytic activity.

The use of AI in designing artificial proteins has the potential to revolutionize drug discovery, as it can greatly accelerate the development of new drugs with highly specific targeting and reduced side effects. It also has applications in materials science, where AI-designed proteins can be used to create new materials with unique properties. However, there are also concerns around the safety and ethical implications of these technologies, and more research is needed to fully understand their potential impact.

AI generating images , text , artificial proteins and now voice !!

Microsoft released a paper on a new AI called VALL-E that can accurately simulate anyone’s voice based on a sample just three seconds long.

Imagine the chaos that it can cause - deepfakes and impersonations 

Will trust be a victim of AI ?

From chatgpt 

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant strides in simulating human voices, with natural language processing and deep learning algorithms enabling AI-powered voice assistants and chatbots to mimic human-like speech patterns and intonations.

These AI systems use machine learning techniques to learn from vast amounts of voice data and generate synthetic speech that closely resembles human speech, making them increasingly indistinguishable from real human voices. 

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Ai Artificial intelligence - or Amplified Intelligence From the legend himself - Reid Hoffman

The magic on display in the growing family tree of LLMs—before and beyond OpenAI’s ChatGPT—is astonishing. In these early stages, we’ll continue to collectively find our footing with AI, but the path is there to reconfigure how we work and live.

That term itself—AI—has also been on my mind.  As I’ve been so focused in recent years on AI projects, I've found myself questioning whether using that moniker—"Artificial Intelligence"—may actually be holding us back in some ways.

To start: has anything been celebrated—or preferred—for being artificial?  Artificial food coloring.  Artificial flowers.  Artificial respiration. If so, it feels like a rare exception.  

I believe the current language of Artificial Intelligence has somewhat misled us and, in the wider culture, painted an ominous view of an AI that develops sinister intent at odds with our natural intelligence and natural interests.  

To me, there’s a more fitting descriptor of what's taking shape that better captures these tools' impact on humanity: Amplified Intelligence. 

Same acronym, but more accurate.  Advancements like LLMs are amplifying the abilities and productivity of humans.  And, yes, it will amplify our mistakes and misunderstandings as much as our achievements and insights, but that just reflects and accelerates our growth as humans.   

What do you think about Amplified Intelligence (AI) as a term? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below

Roth Goyal - Dir engineering at Netflix 

I’ve been referring to it as “Augmented Intelligence” to distinguish between how we can be inspired and aided by it, not replaced.

Justin Jin

Reid Hoffman how’s “augmented intelligence”? As we begin to combine human/machine systems the potential to leverage the best of both worlds exists!

Bruce Bixler - linked in guru 

Reid Hoffman I use "Accelerated Intelligence" since that is what it does! It accelerates results.

Tatyana Mamut - tech innovator 

Amplified means “more” and “higher” — which is not accurate. Computer AI is not necessarily more intelligent or at a higher level of intelligence; it is simply produced through code generated functions in a non-living system.

I’d stick with Artificial because Amplified Intelligence could apply to supplements/lifestyle changes that enhance natural (organic) intelligence. Also we need to understand that we are entering the full cyborg era, where human amplifications of intelligence will be a mix of natural (organic) and artificial (inorganic) sources. Distinguishing between these will be important and losing this distinction now may lead to bad unintended consequences

Ivan Kaye 

Augmented Intelligence is more appropriate - as chatgpt or AI Is not intelligent - but does augment 

Amplified intelligence implies AI has intelligence - which implies a “live being” which is  a debate of its own !!! 

Krystal Lucado

Great question! My perspective follows definitions: 

Intelligence (noun): the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations: REASON

Artificial (adjective): humanly contrived often on a natural model: MAN MADE

Amplify (verb): to expand (something, such as a statement): to make larger or greater (as in amount, importance, or intensity): INCREASE

I like Amplify for a couple of reasons:

1. Amplify is a verb describing an action which is more consistent with the act of AI.

2. Artificial is an adjective describing intelligence in a passive sense inconsistent with the potential of AI.

3. The word “artificial” while culturally acceptable in transactional activities (luxury goods/nails/hair), retains a negative connotation leading to bias. 

That being said, I do prefer Amplify Intelligence in the present tense rather than past tense, given the potential of AI +HI = NI

Rohit Jain

Jobs will become irrelevant as ultimately AI, LLMs and other advancements will lead to radical abundance of everything...

Amplified intelligence therefore more appropriate 

Kevin Hodges 

How about “aggregate intelligence” is more accurate. It reminds me of the early internet days when many of the popular sites were aggregators for news, pop culture, sports, etc. It also seems pretty accurate since there is less new information being created by AI; rather, it’s collecting the vast and disparate elements of the web and commodifying them for our advantage.

Joe Edwards 

I like “aggregate intelligence” to imply 

1. This stuff is built on a corpus of human knowledge 

2. It’s a superpower, but just as an aggregate group of humans can be led in non-ideal directions or produce subpar results, these new tools can as well.