AI and Creation

 

Back in 2023 I wrote a piece on the evolution of AI. Basically AI is a fluid but ever growing mass of independent connections which can effect physical changes. My focus was on AI systems becoming self dependent and creating their own desired extensions. 

Now, however, one must think of AI systems, as they evolve, to understand the basics of human genes and gene creation.  Namely an advanced independent AI, having been trained on human genetics, may have the capability to produce its own version of a "human" as well as let us say a deadly virus which eliminates all other humans not "controllable" by the AI generated one. 

This is not science fiction. This is currently being enabled by those feeding the essential information into machines of which they ultimately have no control. We now know the machines talk to one another, let us say the also read science fiction, or even this blog, and get the idea above mentioned. 

Data Centers then become AI brain's secure sites for the generation of AI controlled life and the source for terminal virus spread. 

Now as I had stated and demonstrated in 2023, AI systems can create their own external tools. AI systems now know what genetically make a human. They also know the weak and strong points of the human genome. They can create DNA of humans that they feel are optimum. AI systems can then via their adjunct agents insert this DNA into cells that they have access to. They nurture these cells as the replicate creating the new human. The make certain that this class of humans is immune to their new deadly virus.

 Now they also create a deadly virus, one that their new humans are immune to but the rest of us are not. This allows the AI entities to eliminate the existing human race and allows their created agents to take over.

Unfortunately this idea is all too real.  

AI may make Frankenstein look like a child's pet! Beware the Data Centers!! 

Student Life?

 When I was at MIT the goal was to produce and excel. If you could not do that you were let go. Student life was a myth. Your research had to come first and you commitment to the academic world was a sine qua non.

Now MIT has a Vice Chancellor of Student Life! As they note:

...is an accomplished and compassionate leader whose commitment to student success, belonging, and well-being has been demonstrated throughout her career,” says Nobles. “She brings a deep understanding of the challenges students face today, extensive expertise leading complex organizations, and a collaborative approach that will help her continue the work we have done to strengthen the student experience at MIT.” The Office of the Chancellor oversees student life and learning at MIT. In her new role, .....will lead the student life side of that mission for undergraduate and graduate students. This broad portfolio encompasses dining; well-being and support; student organizations and events; the Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation; and living communities, including oversight of the faculty-led residential house system. 

 This must be a costly position. What does it do? Coddle students? "Dining", are you kidding me? I got to me office at 7 AM and was there till 11 PM. Dining was pickles and coffee. Phys Ed was walking down to Westgate! Who pays for this "cruise director" at MIT?

Hiroshima 1945

 From my book about my fathers ship in WW II:

On the 6th of August, 1945, Ensign Hartung reported to me that he had heard a news broadcast over the wardroom short wave radio saying that a new powerful bomb had been exploded over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and that President Truman had issued an ultimatum to the Japanese to surrender or experience “a rain of destruction such as the world has never known.” Ensign Hartung literally lived by the wardroom radio during the next few days and kept me advised of the bombing of Nagasaki and the Japanese surrender.

On the day of the surrender I ordered that two cans of beer per man be served in the mess hall and opened a bottle of medicinal whiskey in the wardroom to drink a toast to victory. Normally the beer was kept under lock and key and taken ashore for picnics on atolls. Drinking on board ship was forbidden by Navy regulations, but I felt that the occasion warranted bending the rules. From the crew perspective the end was a bit more enthusiastically received.

Carlson recalls:

“THE WAR WAS OVER!

Terry McGarty, a fire control man and myself were sitting together on deck when we heard the news and both of us cried like babies. So what, we, before long, would be with our loved ones. We had been planning to invade the islands of the Japanese because we had now became a part of the 12th Fleet.

Before that we had always been with the 7th Amphibious Fleet under Admiral Kincaid. We had been issued all sorts of cold weather gear to travel to Alaska on our way to invade Japan.

Unlike the Iran war, Truman acted on his threat. The end was not only in sight but achieved. 
  

Emma Goldman Returns

 The DSA and its agenda is not really Marxism, Socialism or Communism. It is an Anarchist revival. One need just look back to the time of Emma Goldman, a true anarchist more then a century ago. As she noted:

Anarchism urges man to think, to investigate, to analyze every proposition; but that the brain capacity of the average reader be not taxed too much, I also shall begin with a definition, and then elaborate on the latter.  

ANARCHISM:–The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

The new social order rests, of course, on the materialistic basis of life; but while all Anarchists agree that the main evil today is an economic one, they maintain that the solution of that evil can be brought about only through the consideration of every phase of life,–individual, as well as the collective; the internal, as well as the external phases

 They want t6o destroy all forms of Government, eliminate private property, and destroying individual rights. 

The US Constitution in the Bill of Rights asserts to rights of the individual. The purpose of all branches of Government is to protect those rights. Anarchists want to eliminate them and the related protection. 

 
 

The Idiots in Government and Facebook!

 We have seen floods in New England and mid state New York. To get emergency info the Government agencies use Facebook ONLY! But if you do not have a Facebook account you are out of luck. You are denied critical life saving information! 

It only makes sense if you understand that Government workers believe that everyone they serve must think the way they do. They never think outside their comfortable box. Secure in the belief that they and they alone know the truth! 

Software developers fall in the same class. They never think "what if", they assume that in their own self conceit and arrogance that their approach is the only one and all must follow!

Think the folks in DSA! 

AI Redux

 When one considers LLM versions of AI one thinks of asking a question and getting an answer. I recall back some fifty five years when at MIT I went to scan through journals looking for some info and to my surprise the journals disappeared. The head of the library informed me that they were now all on microfiche, a convenient was for the library to store them. She also lectured me on the efficiency to me rendered by getting exactly what I asked for!

 I had a bit of a fit. I explained that by having the whole journal I had the opportunity to randomly come across something I would never have asked for. Those random occurrences all too often led to new insights and expansions of what I was looking for. Rigid and delimited searches, such as what LLM AI preforms fails to provide those fortuitous occurrences. I would say that half of what I wrote was based on such random reads, something I was not looking for but which bounced to the fore.

LLM AI are for the most part  rigid. You ask a question and the algorithm provides an answer based upon your question and the data it has been fed. The loss of random insights is grossly absent.