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Let's keep things light and discuss the international artificial intelligence (A.I.) computing arms race that will create godlike powers. It may allow some country to control the world or simply start the next world war. I know that was a little bit of an over sensationalized introduction, but I do believe there is some merit in being careful with A.I. which I will detail.
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Right now the world's eyes are on North Korea as we're all dealing with a perilous situation which ultimately comes down to the struggle for U.S. world hegemony and U.S. petrodollar supremacy. You do not hear at all about this from the mainstream media but you can in our previous video that we did on Monday.
The situation in North Korea is a very serious one and shouldn’t be underplayed.
However, there are very influential figures in this world that are warning about a different danger. North Korea is answering back and threatening the United States. Russia is intervening and saying that we are at a risk of a global catastrophe that could result in massive losses of human life and at the same time is standing against the United States rejecting the idea of more sanctions on North Korea.
Putin is also verbally firing shots at the United States saying with regards to the current US administration that, “it's difficult to talk with people who confuse Austria and Australia.”
He also came out with a statement saying that Trump is not his wife and stated that he's mainly opposing “military hysteria” from the United States.
As we told you in yesterday's video, this is not just a conflict between the United States and North Korea but actually, the United States going versus China and Russia.
While these statements are making global headlines all around the world, there is one statement that's being undermined. I think it is extremely important that we talk about the greater potential conflicts and dangers facing the world.
That Vladimir Putin has come out and said that the nations that lead in artificial intelligence will be the rulers of this world.
Artificial intelligence is the advancement of computing to such a level where it will be at or even surpass human intelligence. That technology is advancing at a breakneck rate and as Putin says and predicts that whichever country leads the way in A.I. research will come to dominate global affairs. He said “artificial intelligence is the future not only for Russia and for all humankind. It comes with immense opportunities but also potential threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world”.
From my research on the subject, I don't think Vladimir Putin is wrong.
We have seen significant advancements in military weapons and drones that take human beings out of the reality of being able to kill and hurt someone. Artificial intelligence could be used to develop cyber weapons, control autonomous tools like drone swarms, fleets of low-cost quadrocopters, with a shared brain. They could be used for surveillance as well as attacking opponents. The entity that of course controls this kind of artificial intelligence that is smarter than human beings will naturally dominate.
It's not just Vladimir Putin warning us about this but also other tech innovators like Elon Musk who recently speculated that A.I. systems could even start or choose a war if they decide that a preemptive strike is a more probable path to victory. Elon Musk who himself worked with A.I. systems before said that North Korea “should be low on our list of concerns for civilizational existential risk” and that “competition for A.I. superiority at a national level most likely cause of World War 3 - in my opinion.”
Those are very grand speculative comments that some people will accuse Elon Musk of fear-mongering. Elon is taking this threat very seriously as he and 116 other technology leaders sent a petition to the United States calling for new regulations on how such A.I. weapons are developed.
Asking for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons which they say could become the third revolution in warfare. It's important to note here that most A.I. development is not in the hands of governments but private corporations like Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Elon pointed out that this will create a power struggle. States will obtain A.I. developed by companies at gunpoint if necessary. I know a lot of people play up to the fantasy of this transcendental super being.
For me, I am more concerned about machines that could carry out complex actions that could be in the hands of an unethical, immoral, selfish power driven corporation or government. These tools are developing at a swift rate as Elon Musk put it, “we have a double exponential at work. We have an exponential increase in hardware capability, and we have an exponential increase in the software talent that is going into AI. Whenever you have a double exponential spread, the prediction is almost always going to be too conservative. Regarding thinking it'll be further out than it is, people think defeating go would never happen or 20 years away. That was until the world's best Go player was defeated. Now, this same AlphaGo system can defeat the top 50 players simultaneously with zero percent of chance of a human winning.”
This is a little bit worrying to me. Understanding the fundamental laws of nature you know that you don't have as much muscle mass as tigers or claws or teeth as big as tigers. The only thing allowing us to be able to subjugate and be more dominant than bigger species in our natural environment is the fact that we're more intelligent than they are. If there is an entity that is created that will be more intelligent than us who is to say that creation won't subjugate us. It's a speculative theory, but I think one worth considering especially if you look at the record of some of these corporations and governments who are building this kind of super intelligence.
I can understand why Elon Musk sees artificial intelligence as an existential risk because there are no public safeguards. There are no regulations, and there's no accountability, or transparency with someone building godlike powers in a machine.
Elon Musk has been very critical of other AI developers like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. He even came out and said that Zuckerberg's understanding of AI is limited.
Sadly this only made Mark Zuckerberg double down, and he responded by saying, “well now, how you build it, you need to be careful about what you build, and how it's going to be used but people were arguing for slowing down the process of building A.I. I just find that really questionable. Right, I have a hard time wrapping my head around that because if you're arguing against A.I. then you're arguing against you know safer cars that aren't gonna have accidents, and you're arguing against being able to better diagnose people when they're sick. I just don't see how in good conscience some people can do that. I'm just much more optimistic on this in general.”
Yeah, trust us you have nothing to worry about. Be optimistic said the unethical cutthroat billionaire businessman who ran psychological experiments to control the emotions of his users.
They unknowingly participated in this psychological test where Facebook users had their emotions manipulated. All of this in secret. They were seeing what would happen if they could make their users sad or happy. As we know from the basic rules of marketing if you could make someone feel insignificant, insecure, and sad, it's a lot easier for them to sell you useless crap that you don't need to fill that empty void.
It's not just the bad practices of these major corporations that we have to worry about but also their connections to intelligence agencies. Major companies that are funded are often started, and receive contracts from these same intelligence agencies.
Facebook has not backed down or become more careful but has continued to work on their A.I. projects and experiments. Recently Facebook's artificial intelligence for BOTS had to be shut down after they started talking to each other in a new language they created.
This story is multi-faceted and much more complicated than just that headline. Facebook came out said that this wasn't a big deal at all. Again how would we ever know since there's no regulations or safeguards? We have to trust the corporations whose interests are of course financial. Corporations that never have your interests at heart but their financial needs. If they did something that was very dangerous they, of course, wouldn't take responsibility or let you know about it.
It’s not only Facebook that we have to worry about but of course Google that's currently building an artificial intelligence team in China.
Keep in mind this is the same CIA funded monopoly corporation whose sphere of influence is encroaching on our daily lives. Many experts claim by 2030 that we will be living in a world that's run by Google. Larry Page, one of Googles two co-founders, once said offhandedly that Google is not about building a search engine as he said, “Oh we're making an A.I.” Google right now is all about building the world brain that will take care of every person, all the time and everywhere.
Today where we look at the world it's already heavily dominated by Google you could surely see the repercussions and dangers facing us. They have shown a political bias against their opponents and anyone who questions the status quo all the while they are cooperating with governments and their demands on them violating our privacy.
Governments who are taking away more of our freedoms and destroying our civil liberties in the advancing technological world that we all live in. We saw recently in Australia where the police now have the authority to turn on your phone, your refrigerators, microwave, home surveillance systems, which has software that allows them to monitor you even without a warrant.
That's the world that we're living in. Crap I really don't know what else to say. Yeah oh yeah, don't go running into the woods with your tinfoil hat on just yet. Don't despair don't give up hope. Some of the things we talked about today are kind of scary but try to not to feed into some of the fear and understand that the power of your reaction is one of the most important powers we have in this world. A lot of these corporations that are building these A.I. systems are supported by us and our usage of them. We could take that power away from them any day as we see a surge in alternative search engine platforms like DuckDuckGo who don't sell your information to the CIA.
The number of people using them is directly correlated with more people finding out how horrible Google is. I'm optimistic because I fully understand the power is really within all of our hands and we can make a big difference or maybe I'm just a dumbass.
Let me know in the comment section below what you think.
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