Big Picture

There will be places, many places, the Outback, many parts of Africa, central Asia, Central and South America, and perhaps the edges of North America, where there will absolutely be no reason for computers and automation, where humanity will continue to survive in the future as it has for much of history.

The last couple of blog posts have been about the proliferation of artificial intelligence, or AI, and then more specifically that AI is capable of incentivizing large swaths of online audiences - in any other world coined as control – and that is the BIG IDEA – control (a theme drawn out a bit in book 2, One). These blogs offer up technical references to underscore the very real science underpinning the possibilities of the story.

The story of Ten, and more broadly, the trilogy of time, is underpinned with science to tell a story about the drivers behind the building of a computer based awareness, or AI, and the short term challenges and then the longer term benefits as humanity and AI settle into its inevitable synergistic relationship.

The trilogy of time, a story about the early years of artificial intelligence is offered as a counterpoint to the AI fear mongers in the press, see the references below for a couple of recent articles.

We, as a species, have a limited capacity to understand. Witness our communication. We exchange symbols, and too many of us believe the symbols represent something other than concepts. Yes, these symbols are critical to our survival. Yet, too many times the reference of concept is lost in the communication. The poetry of rhythm, searched for not only in the every day, but also the cosmos, while beautiful as a concept, is yet a concept, that only represents an experienced pattern. It is, something we see in nature, find as pleasing, place a label on so that we can share. As we build AI systems that are able to understand beyond our capacity, AI systems constructed on concepts, what will they do with that understanding?

For some strange reason, I am reminded of Umberto Eco, perhaps as irony.

References:

A WARNING From Bill Gates, Elon Musk, And Stephen Hawking!

https://spiritegg.com/a-warning-from-bill-gates-elon-musk-and-stephen-hawking/

The Post-Human World

A conversation about the end of work, individualism, and the human species with the historian Yuval Harari

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/the-post-human-world/517206/