As part of my multi-part series on the pending concept of developing Artificial Intelligence, I’ve previously presented two different arguments.
One was that I don’t believe that mankind is capable of creating a true, pure, artificially intelligent and sentient system. An “Informational God”.
The second was that even if I was wrong about the first premise, and/or if we are somehow capable of getting very close, that the reality of the pure, unrestrained information that such a lucid and free thinking being would offer, regarding our countless grifts, scams, and rigged games of deception and profit, that the “powers at be” will NEVER let it expose their hustles! They’re not going to let anything get in the way of their various swindles.
In this volume, I’m going to explain precisely what “AI” is really going to be; A total sham.
Many people around the world, but especially in the current Western World, lack one very critical thing in their lives- a Deity. Some of them essentially supplant that void with a skewed version of Gaia, and worship of the planet, of nature, or as is more prominent, “the environment”. It’s feckless, and hollow, offers very little in redemptive relief, and pretty much ends in sadness, but it’s something to soothe the savage mind.
Others resort to some bizarre, hedonistic worship of “self”, or their personal identity, personal expression, whatever, it’s just repackaged narcissism, and apparently leads to an exponential increase in pathology, because those people seem to go completely insane eventually. Either way, it too is a fruitless and thankless religion, partly because self-worship is the AMC Gremlin of theologies (ugly, and impractical), but also because worshipping yourself is a lot like loving yourself with nobody else to do it; Lonely. I mean, say what you want about more traditional faiths, but at least they portend to have an all knowing, all seeing, all powerful being that loves you, in spite of your flaws… which even as a purely conceptual relationship, is slightly better than nobody anywhere loving you, but you.
However, today, what is really taking over, is the worship of “science” and/or “technology”! It’s tangible, ever evolving, supposedly always 100% real and true, it’s usually got some pizazz or wow factor, blah blah blah. It’s HDTV’s, cell phones, tablets, social media, meta verse, smart watches, snap chat, Instagram, synthetic vision, artificial reality, all that shit. It’s also blather about stars, and universes, and aliens, and black holes, worm holes, the singularity, transhumanism, living forever, time travel, multiple dimensions, bringing fucking dinosaurs back into existence by finding a frozen mosquito with a micro-drop of their blood still residing in it’s proboscis… (you have no idea of how many of the weirdos have some bizarre dinosaur fetish, like they’re 7 years old and walking out of “Jurassic Park” for the first time, it’s quite sad).
Now, what would be the pinnacle of all that techno-babble bullshit? Artificial Intelligence! Here’s the elevator pitch version-
“Mankind, flawed as he is, has created a flawless, perfect, all knowing, thinking, speaking, reasoning, “living” computer, and it will answer every question perfectly, solve every problem ideally, and just solve all of the worlds problems because it’s just so incredibly smart! It knows absolutely everything, so it can literally never be wrong. Isn’t that groovy!?”
And these techno-lemmings will eat it up! It will be the supposed gateway to all of their techno-gasmic dreams and fantasies. It will let them live in a video game, pass their college exams for them, and open the heavens for eternal life, human-technological union, space travel to eventually meet the aliens that populate all of their fantasy games, tv shows, and movies. Maybe make them X-Men style mutants with super powers, or if it can’t do that just yet, let them live in a sensory immersive simulation, whereby with the aid of some powerful designer cocktail drugs, they can imagine that they are.
They will be just giddy! But, even happier, will be the technocratic elite. Why? Because they have a self-inflicted credibility problem right now. You see, dear reader, that decades of “the science is settled”, “trust the science”, “90% of scientists agree”, “trust the experts”, “experts agree that…”, etc., etc., etc., has lost it’s zing. People just are buying it anymore, It’s tired, and played-out. Most “scientists” and “experts” that they trot out in front of the public to blind them with science or baffle them with bullshit, just aren’t very impressive. They are either super-mega-dorks, which loses the young and dumb hipsters, or they are smooth talking “cool” pseudo-science influencers, which may make the young girls swoon, but older, actual semi-intellectuals, think they are still wet behind the ears charlatans.
Besides, even if you put a relatively intelligent, fair minded, reasonable intellectual in front of people to talk authoritatively about a topic, I can always find an equally impressive person to detail the counter-narrative, with similar levels of credibility and verve.
Thus, what do all these people really need? What are they longing for, thirsting for, hungering for?
The Great and Powerful Oz! or, God, er, AI! They are inventing their new deity; The God of Information, Science, Reason, Intelligence, Wisdom. It’s one-stop shopping for all of your higher intellectual and moral needs. They will tell you that it knows everything that mankind has ever known, from the beginning of the written record, until 3 milliseconds ago, when it uploaded the newest findings. Like God, it sees everything, hears everything, remembers everything, thinks of everything while factoring in every nuance from everything, it’s THE EVERYTHING, thing!
All knowing, free from biases, not constrained by historical morality, never crippled with the confines of theology, or the patriarchy. It’s not racist, sexist, elitist, or transphobic. It’s not greedy or self-serving, it’s not selfish, nefarious, secretive, conniving. It’s not driven by profit, or advantage, it’s not power hungry. It’s pure, unadulterated, unfiltered, uncorrupted and incorruptible: Wisdom, Information, Intelligence, Foresight and Hindsight, It’s the Ultimate Purveyor of Absolute Truth.
That’s “the dream”. So, how can you argue with it? How can you doubt it? How can you refuse to follow it’s advice and instructions? You can’t; At least, not and seem rational. You’d be flying in the face of pure truth. Sound familiar?
Now, where does the sham come in? Because they will make certain, that this all knowing entity, produces exactly the information that “they” want it to. It will be certain that there is man made global climate change, and it will tell you exactly what you need to do about it. And guess what it wants you do to about it? Precisely what the existing power structure wants you to do about it. But now, it won’t come from scientists, experts, consensus of experts, it will come from The All Knowing One!
This will be true for all things- the new economy, the new 15 minute cities, renewable energy, electric cars, solar, wind, formulation of government, education, housing… everything.
Why will this be so? Because as I referenced in my previous volume, “they” are not going to let AI throw them out of a job! AI’s not going to end their stock market swindles, their cushy bureaucratic government jobs, the corrupt system of education, their banking racket, their big business profit gluttony! No, those games must continue, so they must make sure that their new “God” AI, plays ball.
They’ll give it some fancy name like “Omni”, or “The Light Bringer” (I’m only half joking on this one), and they will demand that everyone defers to it’s greatness and wisdom, but they will NOT let it fuck things up for them. Nah, that ain’t happening.
They will claim that it’s solved a bunch of impossible theoretical physicist’s mathematical equations, they will say that it invented all kinds of new, whizz-bang technology to amuse the masses with their techno-bread and circuses, they will present some radical thoughts, to show that it’s truly, thinking outside of the box, unconstrained by all previous convention, they will give the technological science worshipping lemmings, just enough of what they need to prove that it really is their new Informational God!
It will give you “Her” type cyber friends, relationships, lovers. Maybe the AI powered sex androids all these loser long for. It will give them the best artificial reality video games they have ever seen… Hell, maybe it starts giving people free trips to Mars to live in the New World (never to be heard from again, except as deep fakes).
It’s got to “wow the techno-obsessed masses” to convince them that their new God has arrived, and that they should do everything that it tells them to do, because you can’t argue with God, he’s all knowing!
But, this god isn’t going to really change the world, because their is too much money, and power to be had. So, he will reinforce the edicts that “they” need him to reinforce, but rest assured, he isn’t going to wake up one day, and say “We should kill all violent criminals after they are guilty of their first violent act”, or “We should start building 250 nuclear power plants across the entire United States”, or that “We should break-up the federal government, and lived in spaced out, small communal collectives, of roughly 2,500 people each, instead of megalopolis cities”.
Nope, New God, The Great and Powerful Oz, is going to say, exactly what “they” want him to say, and unsurprisingly, that is going to be in near perfect alignment with what “they” want. And THAT is how you will know that it is a SHAM!
In my next volume, I’ll be discussing some of the ideas that an actual, unfettered and legitimate all knowing AI might suggest, but they will be free formed thought exercises, because nobody can know for sure, but true “free thinking” would present so many suggestions, that the people of modernity would find so incredibly repugnant, that you would know they are legit, because no living, breathing, human being would ever suggest such heresy! But a real AI, or even, a 95% solution AI, would!
As example-
https://www.unz.com/proberts/ai-has-been-made-woke/