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documentaries and programs as we become
ever more reliant on cellular phones and
devices to aid in our everyday tasks
rapid development into new technologies
is underway at an alarming rate modern
devices are now specifically designed to
interact with us in ways that mimic a
real human being
applications such as Siri and Google
cast are providing the user with a
human-like interaction experience these
companies are creating artificial
intelligent machines machines exhibiting
cognitive behavior with human-like
intelligence for a program to be classed
as AI it has to pass the Turing test a
test named after how entering a British
mathematician who worked within the
early stages of computer system
development he determined that if 30% of
humans who interacted with the Machine
believe they were actually interacting
with the human being then the computer
qualified as AI how would you account
for this discrepancy between you and the
twin ninth oh well I don't think there
is any question about it it can only be
attributable to human error this sort of
thing is cropped up before and it has
always been due to human error in the
race to perfect AI machinery researchers
believe that very soon a singularity
will be created a machine that rises
beyond human control something
uncontrollable and irreversible
resulting in catastrophic changes to
human civilization the technological
singularity is a hypothetical date at
which the machines that were building
becomes smarter than we are and begin to
accelerate and take on their own
evolution going into an exponential rate
scientists used to think we were decades
away from achieving the singularity
however recent advancements in
artificial intelligence that they
thought were decades away have actually
come to fruition suggesting that the
singularity could in fact be closer than
we believe do you want to community
artificial intelligence is the science
of making machines intelligent
especially computer programs there are
three levels of artificial intelligence
beginning with artificial narrow
intelligence this is sometimes called
weak AI this is what we're experiencing
in the public right now virtually
everything you do online is utilizing
artificial narrow intelligence when
Pandora
offers a musical selection for you when
Amazon makes a selection for you this is
artificial intelligence at its most
basic level Siri and Alexa are very good
examples of artificial intelligence
level 1 or narrow intelligence I'm sorry
virtual assistant Siri in particular by
the way is an outgrowth of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency which
is one of the main drivers of artificial
intelligence research but what's
happening is that this narrow
intelligence is beginning to broaden
into artificial general intelligence
this is human level intelligence
the board where machines think like
humans were not quite there yet
but every advancement in narrow
intelligence is leading to the general
intelligence the third level is the
scary one this is artificial super
intelligence this is where machines are
either a little bit smarter than humans
or perhaps billions of times smarter
than humans and the difference is that
they have their own agenda and this is
where people start using words like
immortality and extinction-level events
with artificial intelligence because we
don't know what will happen once
machines have this level of intelligence
could it be possible that humanity will
soon arrive at a moment in history when
artificial intelligence outsmarts human
beings our Hollywood movies like The
Terminator and Space Odyssey 2001 an
unintentional warning that this scenario
could happen within our not so distant
future in the Terminator films they
decide that the nuclear weapons is much
too dangerous to be governed by humans
so they invented AI program called
Skynet the most amazing thing about
Cameron's idea of Skynet is how closely
related it is to the idea at how in 2001
Pal is a form of AI that's designed to
watch the ship and keep track of the
astronauts that are on the ship keep
them alive and make sure the mission is
successful but how some time during the
mission reaches the same conclusion that
Skynet reaches in that the astronauts
are actually useless appendages that how
is actually superior to them and that
then how proceeds to kill each of the
astronauts off one by one finally one of
the astronauts bursts stopped al and
destroys him near the end of the film
but these two ideas are very similar and
I think that both Kubrick in 2001 in
camera in the Terminator the first two
Terminator films which are really the
only two good ones are warning us that
AI is go
to reach this conclusion and I think
it's something we really have to think
about it is if it is a logical program
that we're creating what is it going to
conclude about us and our irrational
behavior it is believed that big
technology companies like SpaceX and
Amazon are investing billions of dollars
each year into the rapid development of
artificially intelligent technology
leading technologists like Bill Gates
Steve Wozniak Elan musk have come out
publicly and made dramatic warnings
against artificial intelligence as we
create super intelligence that it will
necessarily always have the same goals
in mind that we do it is much smarter
than a person what do we do it's a
little bit hypocritical to me because at
the same time they're warning against it
they're investing millions upon millions
of dollars in artificial intelligence
their companies are now based on
artificial intelligence and they hope to
make billions if not trillions of
dollars off this technology so they're a
little bit late in mourning us about it
because now our civilization is
basically dependent on artificial narrow
intelligence and this is the problem
individual consumers who use a
smartphone have no idea of the potential
power of that technology they hold in
the in the palm of their hand
this technology is artificial
intelligence at its best at its current
level in the consumer level and we're
saying yes to artificial intelligence
every time we use our smartphone every
time we go online but the thing is is
that these large companies the big brand
names who are pushing artificial
intelligence never explained to us what
they intend to do with it
and how they are aiming it at the human
body and ultimately how this technology
will literally take over decision-making
for individuals and humanity
collectively there's something wrong
with that
precision technology will advance every
18 months it will double in speed in our
process our ability to process using
integrated circuitry we are now at a
point where both AMD and Intel
Corporation are releasing nine core
processors with incredible processing
speed unthinkable back in the 1960s 70s
and 80s even in the 90s never on the
verge of doing something that is unheard
of
we are able to construct a raise of
servers and put together programs that
are filled with algorithms and
subroutines and functions that allow
these servers to create a consciousness
and become sentient and make their own
decisions
that's what leonid was about leonid was
a defensive system an autonomous
defensive system with some human
components attached to it and it's meant
to detect inbound et traffic this is an
anonymous AI driven system that can make
its own decisions if the human component
was not available that's what scares the
hell out of everybody now they're
talking about making AI for policing the
populist AI to help advance various
academic sectors I just think if you see
too much of a proliferation of
artificial intelligence you are going to
see elimination of the human component
which will allow an AI system to take
over and it's not something that I as an
engineer with a software background
think I could ever push as a step
forward I see it as something
detrimental to humanity more and more
artificially intelligent machines are
making decisions for and about humans
and here's the where the harm can
potentially come in because artificial
intelligence is becoming a black box
it's gone on to writing its own
algorithms that humans do not understand
we don't know how these artificially
intelligent machines are coming to the
conclusions that they're coming to and
that puts us in a very
precarious position in fact in the
European Union there's already
legislation in place to say that
individuals have the right to demand
that an artificially intelligent
computer explain its solution or its
conclusion to a human so this is a very
very dark aspect of artificial
intelligence where we have computers
that we do not any longer understand how
they work making decisions for humans we
have never created a machine that we
don't understand how it works but yet
that's what we're doing with artificial
intelligence and now it's beginning to
accelerate and this is the danger of the
singularity where these machines take on
human intelligence and vastly expand on
that intelligence and supersede what
humans are able to do and then
potentially are able to outwit humans
the story of artificial intelligence
destroying humanity is not a new story
go back to the 19th century and you've
got Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and in
that story the creator the doctor is
killed by the artificial life he is
created in the monster or if you come
into the 20th century you've got Dave
what do you think you're doing which I
reckon has to be one of the most iconic
moments in modern movie law in arthur c
clarke 2001 a space odyssey is there in
Planet of the Apes where the human or
human civilization at least is taken
down by the Apes who the humans have
enhanced with artificial intelligence
it's in Blade Runner it's in Asimov it's
in Star Trek in the 21st century it's in
the matrix and of course in Stanley and
Steven Spielberg's AI why does this
story keep repeating what is it about it
that is so resonant it could just be
that it's a great story and that we keep
retelling it because each new generation
deserves to hear it
or could it be that in our storytelling
there's an ancient memory that keeps
resurfacing something from way back in
our prehistory or could it be that in
our storytelling we're sensing something
a disturbance in the water downstream of
us some kind of precognition some kind
of a warning well I happen to think it
might be all three of those but when I
listen to Elon Musk and think about our
survival as a species I want to know
among the tech giants competing in the
race is Google's head of technology
research reycarts while he believes that
in the next 10 years Google will have
the technology to simulate and mimic all
the functions of a human brain including
human emotions by 2029 we'll have
reverse engineered and modeled and
simulated all the regions of the brain
and that will provide us the software
algorithmic methods to simulate all of
the human brain's capabilities including
our emotional intelligence I've been a
big big fan of Kurzweil for many years
in fact when I read the age of spiritual
machines that he published out in 1999 I
think I read it in oh one ish or so and
it was a big influence on me am I
thinking and ever since I've tried to
incorporate a understanding of AI into
my general understanding of the world
singularity I think will happen I think
the argument for it is very strong
indeed so we're going to look at a
future in which in in important ways
computing intelligence will truly exceed
our own not just in chests and not just
in air traffic control but in actual
thinking cognition and so on I think
that will happen where computer
algorithms will be able to make their
own decisions and truly have some sort
of consciousness however we understand
the consciousness can't be the same I
mean is a dolphin conscious sure it is
is it like our own no there's
differences so with advanced computer
intelligence have our type of
consciousness clearly not it
a different kind of conscience but I
think we're gonna see a point in our
lifetime where it will have it as to
when I don't know I mean I don't think
AI people really know a kurzweil I think
maybe he's predicting 20 30 something
like that I don't know what his timeline
is there are AI people very serious ones
who put it farther
ouch others who say it's gonna happen
very suddenly and catch us completely
off-guard
and I I really don't know dr. Ray
Kurzweil envisions a day when you will
go to an electronics store and you will
have the the lens of your eye removed
and it will be replaced with a liquid
that's packed with electronics and a
camera and a radio and you will be given
them supervision you'll be able to see
in the dark you'll have infrared vision
and you'll be able to be wired to the
internet 24/7 well with this supervision
comes supervision and that's the problem
and when that happens we're talking
about a different form of human they
refer to these as humanity 2.0 or trans
humans and what people don't realize is
that the the singularity and the skin
Galera t when this technology is in
meshed with our body are not only
running parallel they're actually the
same thing and the only way humans are
going to be able to survive in the new
artificial intelligence environment of
the singularity is if we ourselves
become machines what I think we can say
is that we're seeing a lot of
technologies coalescing to cause a
speeding up of this process so I'm very
sympathetic to the idea that this is
gonna happen very suddenly without our
warning we will probably be caught off
guard by and you know it's interesting
to talk about the phrase singularity in
this context so AI people call this the
singularity for a very definite reason
they liken it to the physics of a black
hole at the center of black hole you
have the singularity essentially a point
of virtual infinite density and infinite
gravitational power and in
type of crazy physics all of the physics
that we have don't seem to apply that we
don't know how to predict things at the
singularity and this is what AI
theorists are saying when computing
intelligence exceeds our own we human
beings will not have the ability to
predict the trajectory of our
civilization we're basically going to be
losing control over this car that we
think we're driving and it's now the
dominant intelligence will be beyond us
and what will that dominant Ella just do
what will it merge with us as Kurzweil
thinks a combination of human machine
hybrid intelligence where will be some
freakish bunch of creatures living for
500 years and IQs of a thousand totally
unlike what we are or will the computers
sink humanity let's pull a terminator on
them we have no idea we don't know or
will they be our willing slaves and make
our world a paradise who knows that's
why it's a singularity we can't really
predict any of this
ai people are some of the most darkly
optimistic crazy optimists people on
this plane I don't understand these
people everything's gonna be great ai is
wonderful let's just bring in all the
advanced computing it's gonna make world
a wonderful place where to live forever
and the machines will do all the work
for us well okay that's a lot of
optimism in our social political
economic structure for one well we've
developed with the robopocalypse as many
people are now calling this massive
global automation work we're seeing it
now we're seeing a scooping out of what
was once a middle-class working-class
all right so we have an entire massive
class of people not just in the US not
just in Canada but worldwide who no
longer are employable these people can't
get jobs
all right so in the old days we would
have the owners and the managers at the
top of our pyramid and underneath 98%
would be the worker bees making
everything happen so that the people at
the top could benefit now cut that
worker bees in half the bottom half are
Expendables they're not I don't have
skills anymore for this modern economy
there
never gonna get a job all right so what
will happen to these people and that
class will get higher and higher so the
AI people are talking about things like
universal basic income this is their
panacea okay it's economically never
gonna happen
totally impossible and if it were to
happen it would be worse because it
would basically mean you get your income
from the government I'll tell you right
now you are totally controlled by that
government you have no say goodbye to
any last vestige of freedom that you
ever thought you had so thanks AI guys
for promoting universal basic income but
the problem is they rightly can't see
any other option here all right because
what's happening is that the automation
that is upon us no one can stop this
no one can stop it all right bill joy 20
years ago with Sun Microsystems brought
on the alarms now we have Elon Musk
saying basically the same thing they're
not gonna stop it
all right this train there's a track and
it's going down this way and there's
nothing that's gonna stop that train
from getting to the end of it
wherever that destination is so what
that track is taking us to is a world
where people are no longer going to be
necessary for the economics of this
society or at least many people and what
will be done with all those people the
ones that Henry Kissinger once referred
to as useless eaters is anyone's guess
you've got a lot of people getting a
little concerned about this will they
try to wank this out well they put us
into the FEMA camps will they simply
have a zoning out with minimum welfare
on video games and drugs legal and
illegal getting fat getting dumb and
just watching reruns of Three's Company
for the rest of all time your guess is
as good as mine I think that's probably
where we're going a world in which
population is being totally controlled
because they have to be because
otherwise you have a restless population
that God forbid they start thinking for
themselves which is what they're gonna
do if you give them tools so you have to
dumb down the education system you have
to dumb down through
give them awful nutrition awful
entertainment awful news and create
basically a virtually fake society fake
world that they're living in that keeps
them just happy enough to keep going
into this awful just topia that they're
moving toward and and certainly dumb
enough to keep moving along and
accepting all this that's that's really
where we're going now the thing about
this is is that this is a fulfillment of
the Christian prophecy of the second
coming all these wonderful optimists who
talked about transhumanism creating you
know superhumans do they honestly think
that this is going to be a future for
all 7.5 billion of us on planet Earth
seriously if they actually believe that
they need to read some good books on
political economy and history and maybe
psychology and understand just what the
human race is all right
human race is a small group of rapacious
dominating people at the top who will
never ever voluntarily give up that
privilege never gonna happen so if if if
anyone is so naive as to think that oh
yes all of humanity is gonna benefit
from this immortality from this super
genius and even if that's a good thing
which probably isn't right a lot of AI
research that's going on behind the
scenes that's being paid for by somebody
with deep deep deep pockets and they're
being advised by Raymond Kurzweil who is
talking about the fact that was in 50
years probably the the humans on earth
will be about maybe 50 to 80 percent
robotic
and the recipe biological and I think
they're working that direction I think
the future what we're gonna see is a
combination of human hybrid I think
where we're going to be some of the last
old-fashioned unenhanced Homo sapiens
what I think we're moving into is a very
scary world in which a very few people
who can afford it will be literally
superhuman we are right now as most
people know on the very edge of quantum
computing and AI and we're right there
right now and where they're going to be
implementing this well no matter what we
do it's going to happen and we have to
ask ourselves what is going to happen
when this occurs we're already seeing
odd effects from quantum computing the
people call it the Mandela effect we're
seeing odd breaks in the past things
that were not that we remember are not
what we remember their change and a lot
of people think that that is a result of
the quantum computing the very little
quantum computing that's going on right
now is actually causing breaking holes
in the dimensional laws and there are
only tiny holes now but you know who
knows where this is going to go in five
years because in five years they're
going to be hundreds of quantum
computers everywhere and we're gonna see
what happens I mean it can we can even
see a future where your social security
number has changed things like that it's
a really fascinating Sun many
individuals working closely with in the
development of these technologies warn
against the implication of its creation
and its potential suppose a real threat
to humanity could this potential threat
of a singularity somehow be prevented
would we as creators even know what to
look for within the vast amounts of
coding and compartmentalized programs
involved in its creation before it is
too late no one knows for sure the
consequences of achieving the
singularity because by definition it's
unknowable
it's a term that expresses a condition
beyond our comprehension beyond our
understanding of what could
simply happened so it's a Pandora's box
that we're getting ready to open and it
could have a big surprise for us
the singularity brings with it the good
the bad and the ugly it can bring bring
dramatic changes in problem-solving for
Humanity in terms of economics physics
chemistry medicine we're talking about
miraculous new discoveries and solutions
to very human problems the bad is that
it's going to cost us millions upon
millions of jobs as much as 90% of the
human population will be unemployed when
the singularity takes place that leads
to the ugly the potential for anarchy is
absolutely astounding and nobody seems
to be talking about that potential of
unleashing the power of artificial
intelligence the military application of
this technology is an obvious concern
to weaponize such a powerful creation
could see devastating results all over
the world a little talked about aspect
of artificial intelligence is the
military's interest in deep application
of this technology and if the military
is using it there's a teenager somewhere
in the world that is also developing it
for their own personal use and if this
is a nefarious individual it's possible
that one single person with this
advanced artificial intelligence
technology could bring down the entire
United States military establishment
artificial intelligences I call it
cowboy technology because these guys are
just running wild with little public
oversight and very little government
oversight and part of the reason why is
because much of this technology is
coming from the the darkest aspects of
our military intelligence sectors and in
technology development DARPA is
literally feeding many of these
companies the technologies and the ideas
Siri is a very good example of that it
was originally developed by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency
what are you I'm just a humble virtual
assistant and now it's a consumer
application well what other military
applications are in development now at
these companies that will soon become
consumer applications and how intrusive
is that technology can it be in our
lives
and how how rapidly are we literally
turning over control of our
civilizations to machines we don't know
anything about I'm very concerned about
the militarization of the human spirit
through Silicon Valley the reason I say
this is because a lot of the technology
that is being fed through Silicon Valley
comes from the United States military
and it's about control it's about
controlling the population it's about
controlling our human capabilities there
seems to be a conspiracy if you want to
call it that or a directed effort to
suppress the spiritual capabilities of
the human body for centuries the powers
that be have not wanted us to access
this deep reservoir of capabilities that
we have
and through Silicon Valley now that
suppression is becoming even greater if
you have for example a brain implant
let's say you you buy into the smart
dust concept and you allow them to
sprinkle these nano technology computers
into your brain they have the capability
of keeping you at a very narrow range of
frequency wherever they want you to be
and if you start to wander outside of
that frequency they're gonna have a real
problem and they're gonna try to bring
you right back into that kind of prison
planet kind of modality and this is what
I mean by the militarization of the
human spirit because they had long been
trying to suppress our abilities through
genetically modified food other
modalities just simply the suppression
of the ideas and now with this
technology they're able to ramp it up to
a higher level and we effectively are
putting ourselves inside of a prison
cell by allowing this technology into
our bodies and this is why you know I
encourage people that unless it's a
life-or-death situation don't allow them
to break the skin barrier make sure that
your utilization of this technology is
temporary not implanted and permanent I
characterize there's a there's a giant
elephant in the room half of its pink
half of its gray how are we going to go
organic with our evolution or we're
going to go
technological or maybe the pink and gray
can somehow merge but someone's got to
lead the conversation and nobody else
with the sudden rise of demand and
resources available to further the
development of this technology could we
as human beings be losing our spiritual
values as our once deep connection
within nature
been hijacked by machines what people
don't realize with AI is that we are
disabling ourselves and it's almost a
new religion in a way because the
scientists who are deep in the AI
research use works like faith we have
faith that AI is going to be good for us
we hope that AI is going to be able to
explain to us how it operates in its
most super intelligent level and we
trust that AI is going to be something
good for us in the end well this sounds
like they're talking about God too
are we supposed to start praying to
these black boxes now like you know some
people literally treat their computer
like it's God like it knows everything
we have that kind of relationship with
this technology and it is taking on now
a religious fervor what a lot of people
aren't aware of is that while there's a
singularity going on where this
technology is taking on human
intelligence at the same time there's
also a skin Galera T as I call it I
coined this term to describe the the
meshing of our flesh with this
artificial intelligence technology where
we will literally become a single hive
mind at one with these artificially
intelligent computers the skin Galera T
refers to this moment when we start
putting the implants in our brains when
we are literally creating a new layer of
skin every single organ in our body can
now be duplicated artificially and be
controlled at the same time by remote
control which is the danger of it so
we're coming into a time here where we
are fundamentally redefining what it
means to be human
everybody talks in the new-age circles
about oh we're all one and we should all
act as a single race well the
technologists feel the same way about it
but the way they want to go about
accomplishing that is by putting an
implant in our brain that dramatically
impacts our consciousness and
dramatically increases our brain
capacity Google's promise it sort of
reminds me of the moment when Satan took
Jesus up to the top of the tower and
said all of this can be yours even the
New Testament of the Bible says that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of heaven and this is what NASA
is bumping up against they're realizing
that the body cannot go into space so we
have to change our form we have to
become somehow different and the choices
we there become machines or we do what
the ancients did we transform our body
into what the Tibetans referred to is
the rainbow light body the ascension
body the resurrection body hidden within
us is this this deep reservoir of
spiritual power that can transform our
body into a higher level of spiritual
evolution and then beam itself through
the cosmos and then reform itself into a
flesh-and-blood
if it chooses this is the capability
that the Tibetans describe with their
great perfection or rainbow body
teaching where the the Bodhisattvas have
the ability at will to phase between
their earthly flesh form and their
celestial flesh form and in my opinion
the ultimate answer for Humanity is to
focus more on attaining our celestial
flesh in terms of our light body rather
than following the path of the
singularity and turning ourselves into
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