Ruins tangled in the forest... It is Good to See a Healthy Scepticism of Google, Facebook etc.. On Steemit... Which from Steemit's idealogical creation should not surprise me... Personally to put it mildly I have severe reservations about a Google world or a FaceBook world in the future... Whatever original impetus they might have had in the beginning, as I do think Google originally did have much better intentions... Google with their digitalisation of every book ever produced, since they became money making corporations, as with FaceBook where money rather than anything else seems to be key to their content, quality and rating systems apart from the philosophical / ethical implications for the kind of world they now seem to want to create, seriously worrying to put it one way... I have read a few articles about the tech companies needing more 'fuzzy logic' 'fuzzy thinking' from creative minds. artists and philosophers, though am not too convinced how seriously they take it... The idea that I read that people should pay more than the fake news, misinformation, disinformation people to be ranked higher then them I found ludicrous... Give them more money to rank higher than lies... I wonder who dreamed up that idea at Google and / or FaceBook... One would think how much money they already make. As for them 'sorting out' the situation I am extremely cynical on my outlook for that to happen... As I am on these corporations developing AI or as it now seems to be called with so much over use of the AI (Artificial Intelligence) now AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) what does the general population of Steemit imagine would be the priorities of a google AGI or a FaceBook AGI ? The betterment of the entire human race ? Though I am rather optimistic about AGI as in a fully conscious Artificial General Intelligence, mostly because its exponential growth after it initially becomes conscious would hopefully quickly override any programming that was biased or predisposed to favour 'unhealthy' for the general good of the human race programming... and would open up new spaces of thought, intellectual creative spaces for everyone... A benevolent AGI rather than one with predetermined objectives to favour individuals or minority groups... Or if not benevolent then indifferent to the human race, not one or ones that would either need to use resources at the expense of life on earth. Because I am pretty sure once it starts developing it will be able to produce all its energy needs from matter and by that not large amount of matter but small amounts of matter to generate massive amounts of energy or the resources it or they need... as it / they would be able manipulate space / time / matter which one could argue are all the same thing... So if you have entities that can manipulate space / time / matter they would need either nothing from us or the planet Earth virtually or would be able to help us with the problems we currently face and or future problems for the survival of the human race... not its destruction... As virtually every extremely intelligent person in human history has been benevolent, think most of the great thinkers through human history, whether the ancient philosophers, more recent artists, scientists and thinkers... Think for example Hypatia, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Descartes, Spinoza, Einstein, through to Jean-Francios Lyotard... and so many examples in-between... Entities or entity to lift the human race and its consciousness to as Michio Kaku puts it from a stage 0 civilisation to a stage 1 civilisation and beyond... And making sure the human race survives the transition from stage 0 civilisation to stage 1 and then through a stage 2 civilisation... I will add his video which I have posted on here before to let him explain the transitions of different stage civilisations... Then maybe I should have added Michio Kaku to the list of benevolent extremely intelligent humans with Einstein et al... One could even imagine AGI evolving out of the blockchain or a blockchain like Steemit... Michio Kaku on the evolution of intelligence...
http://bigthink.com/videos/the-evolution-of-intelligence
I am not sure how many people will read this or watch the video but the video is 6 minutes well spent of anyones time...
Then two things I should add, the only chance of the human race transitioning from a type 0 civilisation to a type 1 and beyond is benevolent human created or evolved conscious artificial general intelligence and virtually all the 'ingredients' for AGI have already been developed...
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Albert Einstein
Then maybe some Steemits would like to tell me what they think ?
Russell Hand © ®