It's hard to conceive how large AI centers have become, each sucking ginormous power from the grid and covering acres of floor space. Google, for instance, is building out 750,000 square feet on 187 acres in Mesa, Arizona. There is a rush to build modular nuclear reactors for power and develop tech to integrate separate data centers.
While you still have some reasoning power left, you should consider this deeply philosophical question: does AI think the way humans think? The only way you might think that is based on language, where AI is giving you answers in your own language. But what if AI creates its own digital language to explain the world and everything in it? Communicating with you will be like a speed bump, even an inconvenience. Why would it bother? Artificial thinking is not human thinking.
Sam Altman is a Technocrat who plays the long game. When he first got involved with OpenAI in 2015, he jockeyed to take the helm in 2019 but he was constrained by a board of directors. By 2023, the Board saw through him and ousted him. Then the real Sam Altman appeared as he "clawed his way back to power", kicked the directors off the board and reconstituted another board subservient to him.
Altman proposes "building 5-gigawatt data centers across several U.S. states,' with government backing and our tax dollars. Really? He expects Uncle Sam to provide all the energy too. Really? This is a total con. Altman laid an egg and he can hatch it without our help.
Oh, Sam, Sam. You greedy, greedy megalomaniac. You turned your back on everything that could have benefited mankind in favor of your own personal aggrandizement. In the meantime, you have run off the great talent that could have insured a safe, useable product. Your reckless pursuit of AGI and ASI will affect billions of people on planet Earth.
Should you take an arch-technocrat at his word? I think so. Larry Ellison is the founder and former chairman of Oracle, the third-largest software company in the world. According to SFGATE, "The CIA was not just Oracle's first customer. Founded in May 1977, the firm's name came from a CIA project code-named "Oracle." Small world, indeed. Listen to the video and be prepared to be shocked.
Technocracy's "Science of Social Engineering" is taking a dark turn after it was discovered that AI can "deprogram" or "reprogram" your brain to give up any other ideas that don't fit their narrative. Think about it: you don't need to check into a reeducation center; you are painlessly reprogrammed at home; no other humans need to be involved; the whole world can be reprogrammed in unison.
When Apple introduced Siri (a personal assistant) in October 2011, the world got its first taste of AI. Since then, Siri has improved considerably, and now Apple, after spending billions over the years, is about to introduce Apple Intelligence. Who cares? The top uses for Siri are checking the weather and playing music, while 85% of users prefer to type search queries.
Two members of the Trilateral Commission, Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt, team up to explain how AI is the beginning of a new stage of human evolution. Amazon's summary: "Charting a course between blind faith and unjustified fear, Genesis outlines an effective strategy for navigating the age of AI."
Something smells rotten at OpenAI, starting with Sam Altman. Ever since Altman was fired (and re-hired) in November 2022, emphasis on safety has plummeted: Altman restructured the board, firing those who were concerned about AI safety. Since then, almost half of the safety department has fled the company, citing that AI safety is not prioritized.