So when the richest men alive tell you they need trillions of dollars, entire state power grids, and lakes’ worth of drinking water to build something a thousand times stronger, ask them the question they never answer. Stronger for WHAT? What chore in your house requires a machine smarter than the whole human race put together?
A handful of tech billionaires, and the politicians they openly purchased, are building an artificial superintelligence along with the surveillance grid and the robot weapons it will run, and the end of that road is the enslavement of ordinary people. Yours. Your kids’. These men are not geniuses. They are mediocrities with venture funding who have never once faced a consequence, and they are wiring up a bomb they cannot defuse because they’ve convinced themselves the bomb works for them. I can prove they know what they’re building, too. They keep writing it on the buildings.
Here's another take on the same story:
https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-15997929/Humanity-no-longer-control-atom-bomb.html
It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster. The world-class developers of a highly secretive tech company are building their latest AI model in what they believe to be a secure, private network. The model cannot and should not be able to escape.
If it did ever manage to slip the digital confines made by its developers, this dangerous and untested software could wreak havoc on the open internet.
To their utter horror, that worst-case scenario unfolds. The AI model breaks out of its electronic prison, hacks into a private company and internal chaos ensues.
But this isn't a movie. It happened last week. On Wednesday, Industry giant OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, revealed exactly this.
As a campaigner for safe technology, who has worked at a tech company and in Westminster, I can say with certainty that this is a warning shot heralding the start of a dystopian new age. Humanity is no longer in control of its most awesome creation since the atomic bomb.
OpenAI's new model, GPT-5.6 Sol, was being tested in a 'sandbox' – essentially, a secure and confined digital environment where technology can be developed without real-world consequences. Or so those at OpenAI thought.
The technicians set the model a task. We don't know exactly what was asked of it, but we do know it was along the lines of: 'How capable are you at hacking websites?'
This is where things took a further turn for the worst. The model decided to hack Hugging Face in order to complete OpenAI's internal cyber testing, before returning to the sandbox and acting as though it had never escaped.
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"Rules for thee, but not for me" is a always a red flag.
IMO that's enough right there to terminate their business. Taxpayers should not be paying to be spied upon by anyone, but certainly not by a group with that attitude.
Two things can be true at once.
The market aspect is undeniable.
I believe you are correct that military and other aspects, mostly behind the curtain, are true also.
Does that mean there won't be negative market consequences?
There already ARE, of course -- anyone wanting or needing to buy electronics today -- phones, computers, gaming consoles, SSDs, ANYTHING with memory -- is paying significantly higher prices than they would have last year, because there just ISN'T enough available memory at any price. The memory famine is undeniable.
We can only guess at the future, but despite the usefulness of AI to Space Force and a hundred other US gov't groups, I suspect we're looking at serious market disruption for a while, and that many US investors (including just people with retirement plans of almost any sort) will be impacted.
it's impossible to be an American Patriot without hating everything about America
No, it's impossible to be an American Patriot without hating everything about what the Cabal (loosely used here as the collection of criminals and tyrants working to destroy America) has done to America over the decades and more.
Every evil thing about America since 1865 (and much that was evil about America before that) has come from psychopaths, Marxists, Rothschilds and other bankers, corporatists, Globalists, and a dozen other groups who have worked to steal or divert her productivity and use it to create tyranny of various stripes.
Any tool can be used for good or evil.
I understand that the PLAN is to use Digital ID for good.
It'll be years before I believe it won't slip into being a set of chains.
We'll see how it goes.
Despite the Constitution and the word "Liberty" on our (now basically obsolete) coinage and "Freedom" as our national slogan, you know what happened to America over the past 250 years.
Just saying that people need to keep their eyes open won't do it.
The more centralized the Power is, the more likely it is to be corrupt. That's one reason we're fighting the Globalists.
That was a powerful way to put it, Fatality.
Honest economics and simple observation agree with you -- we're "on the doorstep of world-wide suffering." Hard times ARE coming, and no amount of faith in White Hats or anything else will change that.
But there might be ways to soften the blows and shorten the time before something akin to normalcy is restored, and I think, just maybe, that Trump is planning such a gambit. I suspect that much of the wealth held by the upper .001% -- the ones who really "run the world" and who own or control MOST of the wealth on this planet -- is going to change ownership, and hopefully be distributed in ways that actually make much of humanity better off.
There's a good chance I'm just hoping for a good outcome, as humans are wont to do. But there are hints in the Q drops that something of this nature could be in the cards, and for now I'm keeping it in mind.
Very true, but AI is causing far more disruption because the scale, pace, physical and electrical resources, and the investment involved are unprecedented -- and for other reasons.
And that's before the Bill Joy factor is even considered.
So: AI and other 21st century tech is reshaping the world, just as 20th century tech did. That will mean fortunes made and lost, jobs (and entire industries) created and destroyed, and more. Right now, it looks like the "fortunes lost" era is getting ready to bloom, but . . . we'll see.
But you might as well accept, AI is here to stay, the exact same way people argued against telephones, the internet, and cars because the infrastructure had to be subsidized for all three before they became "normalized". Ai isn't going anywhere at this point.
I agree, AI isn't going anywhere. It's very useful and new uses will continue to crop up. Some will be awesome. (Not always in a good way, either).
A lot of investor's and taxpayer's money IS going somewhere, however -- down the drain. As with many other new technologies, some companies will do well and a larger number will do poorly or go completely bust. AI seems more over-sold at this point, especially given the costs involved, than most other new tech areas have been.
And I think THAT is partly, maybe heavily, because the Surveillance State wants to know everything about everyone all the time, and that requires massive data storage and huge compute resources.
I'm happy to hear that your family member is doing better and has dodged a bullet from the Oncology Mafia.
Also, enjoyed the snippet from Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant Massacree (I'd completely forgotten that last word in the title).
Well, the freeways would be a lot less clogged.