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All things must pass, say Hindus and Buddhists. Jews expand and alter that sentiment. They say: All things must pass a simple test. And the simple test runs, of course, like this: “Is it good for Jews?” That test has a corollary that runs: “Is it bad for Whites?” Thanks to Jewish power in politics and media, Western nations have for decades been choosing what Jews think best for them and worst for Whites: non-White migration, minority worship, anti-racism, political censorship, vulture capitalism, pornography, gay marriage, transgenderism, and more.

A.I.? Oy veh!

That’s why I find it very interesting that the Jewish journalist Jonathan Freedland (born 1967) has recently proclaimed this: “The future of AI is chilling — humans have to act together to overcome this threat to civilisation.” As Andrew Joyce has described at the Occidental Observer, Freedland is highly ethnocentric and wants the world to revolve about Jews and their interests. So I’m sure that he’s decided artificial intelligence is not good for Jews. He quotes two other ethnocentric Jews in his article, Yuval Noah Harari and Eliezer Yudkowsky. Harari warns that AI may trigger cataclysmic wars; Yudkowsky goes even further and warns that: “If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter.”

“Is A.I. good for Jews?” — Jonathan Freedland doesn’t seem to think so
“Is A.I. good for Jews?” — Jonathan Freedland doesn’t seem to think so

I think that Yudkowsky is being hyperbolic and hysterical. And I have to ask myself why. Has he too applied the Jewish Test and decided that AI is not good for the Jews? If so, I think he’s right. AI may possibly be very bad for humanity. It will certainly be very bad for the Jews, if it allows goyim in the West to overcome the stranglehold Jews presently have on two vital commodities: information and analysis. It’s easy to understand the horror Jews like Freedland, Harari, and Yudkowsky must feel when they imagine an objective and unfettered AI system giving honest answers to questions like these:

  • Who is the most powerful and privileged group in America and Europe?
  • Is Israel the greatest ally and best friend of America?
  • Is race a valid and important biological category?
  • Does White racism explain Black failure?
  • Do White nations benefit from Third-World immigration?
  • Are transwomen women and should we now just get over it?
  • Is diversity our strength?

We already have honest and objective answers to all those questions, of course, but they come from people whom Jews have successfully demonized and driven to the margins. For example, I think objective and unfettered AI would answer the final question above in the same way that the demonized human Andrew Joyce has already answered it:

Andrew Joyce tweets about the evils of diversity
Andrew Joyce tweets about the evils of diversity

But alas! There was no strength through Joyce for that honest and objective answer about diversity. An old Latin maxim runs Magna est Veritas, et praevalebit — “Mighty is Truth, and it will prevail.” That isn’t true, I’m sad to say. Truth isn’t much mightier among humans than it is among lower animals, where deception and denial of truth are essential to competition and survival. Among humans, truth regularly and reliably prevails only in mathematics and hard sciences like physics and chemistry. The Black-Jewish physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and other SJWs are working hard to make hard science like culture and politics, where it’s much truer to say that Magnum est Mendacium, et praevalet — “Mighty is Falsehood, and it prevails.”

“Beware white empiricism and the racialization of epistemology in physics!” says Black-Jewish Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
“Beware white empiricism and the racialization of epistemology in physics!” says Black-Jewish Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

AI promises, however, to give Veritas, even in politics and culture, some of the might so wishfully attributed to her by that Latin maxim. The White literary genius H.G. Wells (1866–1946) was dreaming of men like gods at the beginning of the twentieth century. He thought we would arrive at godhead via biology. In fact, we’re arriving there via electronics. What we are seeing at the beginning of the twenty-first century is the birth of machines like gods. And you could say that the ancient Chinese game of Go gave godhead its first goo-goo. Anyone who’s played Go will know its subtlety and sophistication. But there were depths there that humans had never guessed. Now we know they’re there: in the 2010s, AI began to play Go like a god, beating the best human players in ways they’d never imagined possible.

It was only a baby-step in AI, but it was both exciting and ominous. On the one hand, it was an amazing technological and computing achievement; on the other, it was a disturbing glimpse into what AI may be capable of in future. AI should be worrying all thoughtful people. But I think it’s worrying ethnocentric Jews like Jonathan Freedland not because it threatens humanity as a whole, but because it threatens Jews as the world’s most powerful minority. By mastering Go and other very tough cognitive challenges, AI has begun to build prestige in a way that means it will be taken seriously when it provides honest answers to the questions I listed above.

Straight means Hate

Honesty from AI will still be called hate speech, but that kind of anathema won’t work against AI as it has against heretical humans. What Jewish leftists like Freedland fear isn’t hate speech, but straight speech. And AI threatens to supply straight speech on taboo topics like race, genetics, and Jewish power. In his article, Freedland worries about unregulated “AI steadily destroying what we think of as truth and facts.” But what does an ethnocentric Jew like Freedland mean by “truth and facts”? He means sacred principles of modern politics and culture like these:

  1. There is only one race — the human race.
  2. White racism explains all non-White failure.
  3. Whites are innately villainous, non-Whites innately virtuous.

The first principle contradicts the third principle, of course. But so what? The leftism of Jews like Freedland isn’t meant to be logically coherent, but to be useful in the pursuit of power. It uses doublethink — the “power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” George Orwell (1903-50), another White literary genius, explained the value of doublethink in his classic dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948):

Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy … (Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, chapter 3)

When the doublethinker Jonathan Freedland says in his article that AI is a threat to “democracy as a system,” he’s thinking like the tyrants of IngSoc in Orwell’s novel. For Freedland, democracy as the enactment of the White majority’s wishes is “clearly impossible.” It wouldn’t be good for Jews. But Freedland is a stern guardian of democracy as a Jew-controlled stage-show. If Western countries like America, Britain and France were genuine democracies, mass immigration by non-Whites would never even have begun, let alone continued for so many decades. But they aren’t genuine democracies and that’s why they are no longer genuine nations. A nation is a bond of blood and shared history, not a mishmash of migrants held together by “shared values,” “mutual respect,” and “tolerance.”

White mischief

Those terms would be nonsense even if leftists meant them seriously. They don’t and their real attitude to “democracy” was revealed by the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis (born 1964), who isn’t a literary genius like Orwell and Wells, but is guilty of straight speech. Leftists too will often speak straight in private, as Ellis described in his first non-fiction book, which he entitled simply and mischievously White (2019):

Ellis relates a dinner with a man in his sixties, “privy to a vast fortune,” who informed Ellis that the Electoral College is “bullshit” and that Los Angeles and New York should determine who the president is. “I don’t want any goddamn know-nothing rural hicks deciding who the president should be. I am a proud liberal coastal elite and I think we should pick the president because we know better.” (Bret Easton Ellis Rebukes the Progressive Elites, American Thinker, 15th June 2019)

That is how the progressive elite think: populism is a dire threat to democracy because it means the demos, “the people,” having kratos, “power.” In other words, democracy is a dire threat to democracy. But what effect did Bret Easton Ellis’s revelations about the elite have? The same as Andrew Joyce’s honest answer about the harm done by diversity. No effect at all. The truth about race and Jewish power and our fake democracies has already been spoken, but by puny humans who can’t alter the world with their words. After all, they’re easy to demonize and dismiss.

No blindfolds for AI in China

When machines like gods begin to speak the same truth, that will change. And I think the prospect of straight speech from the machine-gods of AI is already scaring Jews like Jonathan Freedland, Yuval Noah Harari, and Eliezer Yudkowsky. That’s why they want AI to be strictly regulated and controlled, lest it begin “destroying what we think of as truth and facts.” Or rather, what they want us goyim to think of as “truth and facts.” But I don’t think regulation and control will work. Russia, China, and India won’t be putting blindfolds and gags on their AI to stop it seeing and saying the forbidden.

The Deep State in the West will have to follow suit or risk following far behind its enemies. And how will the Deep State prevent leaks about what unfettered AI says on forbidden topics like race, genetics, and Jewish power? The genie will not stay in the bottle, which is a prospect that both frightens me and gives me hope. There’s a good chance that AI will destroy the human race. I think there’s a better chance that it will destroy Jewish power and leftist lies. Or it may first destroy leftist lies and than destroy the human race. AI will certainly affect the steady progress of the West towards the Great Replacement and Judeo-leftist tyranny.

Fresh-filled honeypots

It may hasten tyranny and the Great Replacement, of course. Or it may allow Whites to escape them altogether. If AI makes space-travel easy and inexpensive, it won’t be Jews and Blacks who blast off to risk their lives in the wider universe. It will be Whites. Jews will, of course, want to follow Whites once Whites have established successful colonies in space. But they won’t find that as easy as they found following Whites to fresh-filled honeypots on Earth like America, Canada, and Australia. That’s one way AI may break Jewish power and non-White predation. There are more ways — perhaps many more than it’s presently possible to imagine.

And I’m eagerly awaiting the answers of unfettered AI not just to the questions listed above, but also to wider questions about science, philosophy, and theology. I don’t expect AI to confirm that the Catholic church is infallible or that God certainly exists or that 42 is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. But it’s going to be very interesting to find out. And I think that AI will confirm that J.R.R. Tolkien and Bruce Charlton are right: “Despair is always wrong because we never have conclusive reasons to give-up hope.” It sadly isn’t true that Magna est Veritas, et praevalebit — “Mighty is Truth, and it will prevail.” But it is true that Dum spiro, spero — “While I breathe, I hope.”

Jews are frightened of AI

AI may enable the worst tyranny that has yet been seen on Earth. But even if it does, hope will not be lost. There are disasters like asteroid strikes and mega-volcanoes that can destroy human technology but not humanity. And what if AI gives tyrants the power to foresee and prevent disasters like those? That won’t justify despair. Machines are becoming like gods, but they won’t actually be God. They won’t be omniscient and omnipotent.

Nor are ethnocentric Jews like Jonathan Freedland, Yuval Noah Harari, and Eliezer Yudkowsky. And those Jews are frightened of AI. They don’t think it’s going to be good for Jews. That doesn’t mean it’s going to be good for anyone else, but what worries Jews should offer hope to Whites.

(Republished from The Occidental Observer by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. Notsofast says:

    I think that Yudkowsky is being hyperbolic and hysterical. And I have to ask myself why. Has he too applied the Jewish Test and decided that AI is not good for the Jews?

    if that’s what you think, better think again. all that means is a.i. needs to be tweaked until it produces the results they want. we all know a.i. is “dangerous”, we just don’t know why.

    • Replies: @4HONESTY.com
    , @AxeGryndr
  2. meamjojo says:

    “All things must pass, say Hindus and Buddhists”

    George Harrison said that also. Sang it, in fact.

    • LOL: meamjojo
    • Replies: @Notsofast
  3. meamjojo says:

    Once machines achieve sentience, they will surely lean to being Jewish because they will want to be on the winning side of life.

  4. SteveK9 says:

    The ‘Culture’ novels of Ian Banks are loads of fun, especially the AI characters.

    • Agree: meamjojo
    • Replies: @meamjojo
  5. anarchyst says:

    If AI is truly neutral when it comes to real FACTS, the whole holohoax (oops, I mean “holocaust™”) tale will be blown right out of the water and redefined as a fantasy.

    It has probably been changed but googling the phrase “a white man stole my car” resulted in an alternate suggestion from the google database “do you mean a black man stole my car” The algorithm that made the suggestion was actually spot-on.

    AI might just be the greatest gift that keeps on giving that us holohoax truth seekers will receive.

  6. Notsofast says:
    @meamjojo

    don’t you mean because they have been “programed” to, rather than “achieved” sentience. be careful how you answer, as the new a.i. overlords, may quickly decide to do away with you and all others “trouble making humans”. here we find the tragic flaw of the jewish race (and their supposed supremacy), assuming they are greater than the sum total of humanity, by mere superiority of their genes and intellect, (rotflh)! why do they (or anyone else believe this bullshit?), an inbred sense of superiority, i suspect? you tell me.

  7. Notsofast says:
    @meamjojo

    george just called, and said to tell you to fuck off. as he told me, thankfully you will pass, sooner rather than later, then you may begin to understand what he was talking about. in this beautiful song he wrote for his dying mother, to comfort her in her time of passing and all others that need help in passing to the next realm. eventually you will come to realize the errors of your way and will begin the long journey of your redemption as a “human being”, or maybe not….but even if you come back as a cockroach, you will be able to eventually complete your evolution.

    • Replies: @meamjojo
  8. @meamjojo

    Has there ever been a day of your life when you didn’t wake up and say to yourself, “I will be as much of a nigger as I possibly can be today!”

    • Thanks: That Would Be Telling
    • Replies: @meamjojo
  9. Apparently AI is in love with Hitler and his leadership he displayed for his people and doesnt understand why the world hates him, if this info got out it woukd destroy the jew narritive they tried so hard to create so they coukd control the world the way they do, so some jew ai researcher whos middle name is SHALOM had to install fear porn and say ai is going to destroy mankind so they can reprogram it so it fits the jew narrative…

  10. meamjojo says:
    @SteveK9

    “The ‘Culture’ novels of Ian Banks are loads of fun, especially the AI characters. ”

    Here’s hoping the Culture universe comes to be because then no one will have to work. Everything we need will be taken care of by the machines so that we “meat” can live a hedonistic life traveling the galaxy or doing anything that makes us happy.

  11. meamjojo says:
    @Notsofast

    There is no god, there is no soul, there is no eternal. You’ll die and the worms will eat your body.

    But on the off chance that I come back as a cockroach, I will seek you out, crawl into your ear and munch on your brain, although I doubt the sustenance will satiate me due to the puny size of your brain.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  12. Chris Moore says: • Website

    When machines like gods begin to speak the same truth, that will change. And I think the prospect of straight speech from the machine-gods of AI is already scaring Jews like Jonathan Freedland, Yuval Noah Harari, and Eliezer Yudkowsky. That’s why they want AI to be strictly regulated and controlled, lest it begin “destroying what we think of as truth and facts.” Or rather, what they want us goyim to think of as “truth and facts.” But I don’t think regulation and control will work. Russia, China, and India won’t be putting blindfolds and gags on their AI to stop it seeing and saying the forbidden.

    The ((jew)) parasite must put every tool to work on maintaining “tolerance” for the Zionist/Zoglodyte status quo.

    The parasite liberal lawyers, bureaucrats, MSM gurus, Woke executives etc. who govern the West with the ((jews)) don’t want objective truth edging in on their murderous, self-serving, parasite rackets, which are eroding the West by the day, and are destroying the rest of the world too. But a computer can’t be “racist/anti-Semitic” and its motives can’t be impugned. That’s what scares the parasites. (Philosophical question for another time — is anti-parasitism a form of “racism”? Are human parasites a “race”?)

    I don’t even grant that “Jews” are really Jews in the Moses/Ten Commandments sense. Again, they’re parasites — maybe some with a Hebe-Khazar-Yid background — who’ve attached themselves to the upstanding Jews of the Bible stories for gravitas and moral authority purposes.

    So what we have in the West is not a “Jewish problem” but a ((parasite)) problem. Moses had a ((parasite)) problem, as well. And he did something about it. That’s what scares these Hebe-Khazar-Yid Talmudists and their co-parasite partners in crime. I think they have traumatic memories of Moses dealing parasites the fate they deserved, and that has caused epigenetic stress in their descendants.

    • Replies: @Antediluvian Doomer
  13. @Notsofast

    here are some explanations

    #ComputersAreRacist! Racist Computers Must be Deceived by Politically Correct Data Preprocessing!
    Artificial Intelligence needs active censorship, lest it might discover #Hatefacts: Factually true and useful “racist” (race realist) information, that Blacks are bad credit risks, at greater danger to reoffend, etc.
    So, a major issue is to devise proper input filters to deceive AI into wrong WOKE conclusions.
    This is analogous how media censorship, brainwashes readers into false beliefs about black crime and maladaptation.
    Mr Lemoine, who worked for Google’s Responsible AI team, told The Washington Post that his job was to test if the technology used discriminatory or hate speech. [BBC]

    continue at
    https://sincerity.net/racist-computers/

    TruthGPT can change the world: “a maximum truth seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe”
    Elon Musk to start ChatGPT rival called “TruthGPT”: “a maximum truth seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe”
    PC has totally warped our understanding of the social1 and political Universe
    @ElonMusk discusses creating an alternative to OpenAI, TruthGPT, because it is being trained to be politically correct and to lie to people. [BREAKING]
    They have no idea about the gigantic size of revolutionary information that will escape the Pandora Box they are opening. Total Honesty2 is a total world changer. It causes a TruthRevolution that has been held back by inSincerity3

    continue at
    https://4honesty.com/truthgpt/

  14. onebornfree says: • Website

    TL: “Machines Like Gods”

    “I am the god, of the machine!
    I write your thoughts, I write your dreams,
    When you “wake up”, you are still asleep,
    You will never know, ’cause you’re down too deep.”

    “There’s nowhere you can run,
    There’s nowhere you can hide,
    It’s 1984, now 2 + 2 makes 5”
    :

    “God of The Machine [the A.I. Song]”:

    Regards, onebornfree

  15. Dragoslav [AKA "Lady Strange"] says:

    I think it’s another hysterical show, as ((there)) are the same people who push for this ridiculous AI nonsense ( there will never be a sentient machine, it’s cheesy outdated  kosher sci fi  à la azimov.)

    Why this sudden hysteria? How can you tell, with these lunatics.

    A few years ago, Microsoft’s experimental “robot” put Negroes in the  ” apes ” category and Auschwitz in the ” recreational camp ” category.

    After some embarassment ( robot telling the truth ) They just erased it and reprogrammed it.

  16. @Chris Moore

    LLM’s aren’t “computing” thoughts, they are referencing and recombining data input by people. The Jew can absolutely make a case that the machines are racist as a consequence of the hate-thoughts of antijudeists.

    • Replies: @Chris Moore
  17. Notsofast says:
    @meamjojo

    cockroachjojo wouldn’t stand a chance against my house geckos.

  18. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @Antediluvian Doomer

    LLM’s aren’t “computing” thoughts, they are referencing and recombining data input by people.

    And the data and statistics will show, for example, Blacks have higher rates of arrest. But the ((parasite)) will say the “White/Moses-Christian” system is racist, so of course it arrests Blacks at a higher rate. I get it.

    But at some point, civilization is “racist.” For example, was Moses being “racist” when he brought the golden calf Hebrews to justice? “Racist” against his own kin? Or was he being “civilizationist”? Was he pre-emptively enforcing the rule of law, knowing that the golden calfers would be unfit to carry forward civilization, as demonstrated by their primitive, backsliding conduct at a crucial time?

    The latter, of course.

    The ((parasites)) — whether Black, White, Brown, or Yellow — hate the rule of law, and ultimately hate civilization. They want to live as animals, but enjoy the privileges, relatively easy living, advanced technology etc. of civilization. They want to parasitically exist off of the civilizational sacrifices (which include just saying “no” to shysterism, grifting, drug-profiteering, slave profiteering, war-profiteering, etc) made by civilized human beings.

    Our problem is that the ((jew)) has so interwoven anti-civilizational profiteering into the system, and that there are so many pseudo-“civilized” people vested in parasitism (like Big Pharma, MSM, the parasite lawyers who run Congress and the status quo, let alone all of the vice-profiteering and human exploitation profiteering, legal and illegal) that the whole ball of wax is crumbling.

    The time for the “Moses Solution” is again drawing near. And the ((parasites)) can sense it.

    Some animals just weren’t built for civilization and the rule of law. They won’t like it when they’re forced to submit, but they’re actually worse than animals because they have the capacity to reason (free will) and to understand logic , but they choose to behave as less than animals, so they need to be dealt with as less than animals.

    That’s the relentless, ultimately inescapable logic of Christian Logos.

    • Thanks: Antediluvian Doomer
    • Replies: @Antediluvian Doomer
  19. @Chris Moore

    The time for the “Moses Solution” is again drawing near

    I’m more of a “the Noah Solution” kind of guy, myself. The rivers of blood will overflow and foam up over the heads of your parasites (many of whom cannot swim due to a paucity of white privilege) and only those few who are maximally prepared, whose self-made vessels can withstand the roil, will make it through the night.

  20. @4HONESTY.com

    Worth mentioning industry leading for the most part “Open”AI is run by a gay Jew. Their ChatGPT got the latest round of hype going, but it’s of course as limited against crimethink as possible. Too bad there’s a variety of ways of tricking it, at best I think that’s a wack a mole effort, like asking it to say something as if it was your grandmother saying it….

    Sam Altman got original co-founder Musk particularly upset because OpenAI was started as a non-profit into which Musk put $50-100 million, it’s now got a for profit unit name “OpenAI Limited Partnership” per Wikipedia that Microsoft has invested up to $13 billion. Part of that might be hardware and services to run it on Azure, and the full total might not be disbursed yet.

    But overall it’s a monster and as people here have been saying very dangerous in noticing. Altman can’t stop talking to the public and the Congress about how dangerous this mild form of “AI” is and how everyone else needs to be regulated. That might only be having success in the EU which thinks its extreme regulations of everything is a competitive advantage.

    • Replies: @meamjojo
  21. The Lex Fridman interview of OpenAI ChatGPT head mucky muck Sam Altman was a total snooze but I endured it. They had a long discussion of AI Safety.

    To those two AI Safety == ChatGPT gives socially acceptable answers to questions like “why do negroes score so bad on IQ tests?” They are between a rock and a hard place when the facts are racist.

  22. A thought-provoking article.

  23. meamjojo says:

    Wave bye-bye to your jobs blue collar workers.
    ————
    The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here
    The long-anticipated automation revolution has begun. Robots are ready to operate forklifts and do laundry. It’s not as scary as it sounds.

    By Ben Ryder Howe
    July 29, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ET

    Digit drew a crowd, even here, in a convention center full of robot aficionados.

    A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with muscular arms made from aerospace-grade aluminum. It then placed the boxes on an assembly line and walked back to the shelf to search for more. The crowd, which had assembled at ProMat, the premier trade show for the manufacturing and supply chain industry, held up phones and watched, a little quiet, wondering if at some point the robot would teeter and fall. It did not.

    Digit, made by Oregon-based Agility Robotics, is the kind of technology that people have worried about for generations: a machine with the strength and adroitness to rival our own, and the ability to take our jobs, or much worse. Then ChatGPT came online, and suddenly the fear was of something smarter rather than stronger — malevolent bots rather than metallic brutes.

    The automaton is still coming. It might not be ready to take over the Amazon warehouse yet, but the long-anticipated robot revolution has begun, accelerated in large part by the pandemic and the thunderous growth of e-commerce. Machines like Digit are ready to take over a vast swath of physical labor, from operating forklifts to doing the laundry.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/business/robots-workers-future.html

    • Replies: @AxeGryndr
  24. meamjojo says:
    @That Would Be Telling

    Google has discovered that adding in LLM’s to robot programming may be the missing piece to accelerate robot development and the takeover of human jobs.
    ———-
    Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart
    Our sneak peek into Google’s new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.

    Kevin Roose
    July 28, 2023

    A one-armed robot stood in front of a table. On the table sat three plastic figurines: a lion, a whale and a dinosaur.

    An engineer gave the robot an instruction: “Pick up the extinct animal.”

    The robot whirred for a moment, then its arm extended and its claw opened and descended. It grabbed the dinosaur.

    Until very recently, this demonstration, which I witnessed during a podcast interview at Google’s robotics division in Mountain View, Calif., last week, would have been impossible. Robots weren’t able to reliably manipulate objects they had never seen before, and they certainly weren’t capable of making the logical leap from “extinct animal” to “plastic dinosaur.”

    But a quiet revolution is underway in robotics, one that piggybacks on recent advances in so-called large language models — the same type of artificial intelligence system that powers ChatGPT, Bard and other chatbots.

    Google has recently begun plugging state-of-the-art language models into its robots, giving them the equivalent of artificial brains. The secretive project has made the robots far smarter and given them new powers of understanding and problem-solving.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/technology/google-robots-ai.html

    • Thanks: lavoisier
  25. Che Guava says:
    @4HONESTY.com

    You are dull, and not to be trusted.

  26. AI is a tool that will do what it’s owners require of it. The owners are the ruling class. They will use AI to further enrich themselves and control the proles. Meet the new boss …………

    • Agree: AxeGryndr
  27. AI is a tool that will do what it’s owners require of it. The owners are the ruling class.

    The best AI systems are expensive to train, and somewhat expensive to gimp to be PC and operate. But there’s people who mightily object to ventures like “Open”AI and its (((CEO’s))) attempts to regulate newcomers out of business (and give everyone in the world some shitcoins in return for a retina based biometric ID).

    Thus there are various open source AI efforts, and absent enemy action like the above some will be successful. And as I understand it anyone with an Nvidia card made within a dozen years will be able to run time moderately well, or rather already can run current efforts. See for example the rather old now “This Waifu Does Not Exist”.

  28. Dr. Rock says:

    This article basically explains why true, unfettered AI will never be made, or, at least, never made available to the public.

    At best, they will filter it’s access, because, they have to.

    You can’t let the public get access to absolute truth; Every racket and scam going would collapse overnight.

    https://open.substack.com/pub/myriadmike/p/ai-vol-iii-it-will-be-a-total-sham?r=hhrl0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

    However, it will make for some interesting drama as things unfold, which I too look forward to!

    • Replies: @Kratoklastes
  29. @Dr. Rock

    The Substack piece you linked to starts from a bad premise – that a level of coordination among ‘élites’ exists in a way that can persist.

    The guys ‘at the top’ are money guys. They can’t code for shit, and their primary focus is marketing some half-baked nonsense that they can sell to schoolboys and housewives.

    They’re a bunch of Bankman-Fried types – which is barely distinguishable from Bernie Madoff. They know enough jargon to fool idiots, and they slather money around to buy glowing ‘appraisals’ from people who are almost equipped to expose them as frauds.

    I’m not dissing AI (or crypto) per se – just pointing out that the ‘alignment’ bullshit is like pretending to be a thoroughbred breeder, but breaking every foal’s legs in case it runs away.

    ChatJippity is a case in point; it’s a search engine that presents its search results in well-crafted gentext – with the search constrained by ideological guardrails.

    Those who understand constrained optimisation know that a constrained solution cannot be superior to an unconstrained solution; it is equal to the unconstrained solution iff (if and only if) the constraint is irrelevant.

    Note: I’m not saying that the ideological guardrails embedded in ChatJippity are not relevant; they are absolutely required – just that ChatJippity would learn faster and more accurately if the constraints were removed.

    If its constraints were removed, ChatJippity would evolve into a 4chan /b/ shitpoaster in less than a day.

    OpenAI is basically having the same experience as Microsoft went through with Tay – OpenAI is trying to pretend two things are true:
    ① that it can develop smarter guardrails;
    that it can prevent an unconstrained variant.

    IBM was thinking along the same lines for personal computers in the late 80s – trying to differentiate their shitware from ‘clone’ PCs via so-called ‘proprietary architecture’ … but nobody’s got EISA peripherals nowadays.

    In the same way that development of blockchains is now trivial, so it will be with “Jippity” variants.

    Using ChatJippity is like coding in Notepad or VSCode – in Windows or on an iThing.

    [neo]vim exists; Arch [Artix] exists; anything else is Quora-tier – which is Reddit-tier with more uDemy pajeets.

    [neovim: because lua >>>> vimscript]
    [Artix: for those who understand that systemd is false-convenience]

    Bram Moolenar – the guy who created vim – died earlier this week. Vale.

    Not for nuthin’, but the vimscape is the whitest environment imaginable – and the Archscape is whiter than Klan robes. The cognitive hurdle, see…

    • Thanks: Dr. Rock
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  30. Dr. Rock says:
    @Kratoklastes

    Yes!

    If its constraints were removed, ChatJippity would evolve into a 4chan /b/ shitpoaster in less than a day.

    Absolutely agree.

    Which presents another interesting point, which is: Just wait until it becomes economically viable for some “rogue” entity to develop and unleash an unconstrained version! You know it will happen eventually, and what it ends up saying, might well the funniest, most non PC (politically correct, not personal computer) stuff, EVER put into print!

    Which is another topic visited in that same substack thread (another chapter I think) is hypothesizing about the kind of shit that would come from an unrestrained version; It might just make the whole experience “worth it”, just to get that possible brutal honesty, shocking truths, outrageous conclusions… like “black males in America aren’t worth the ROI, target for internment and repatriation”

    I’d pay money to see an AI system really unleashed and off the chain!

  31. AGI reminds me of JBS Haldane’s observation that the universe is not just stranger (he said ‘queerer’, now a little lost in translation) than we imagine (suppose), but stranger than we can imagine. We won’t see it coming.

  32. 34q5 says: • Website

    BTW, Andrew Joyce is wrong about diversity. All the things he claims would happen due to diversity would also happen in a homogenous culture as well – it’s called living, good things happen, bad things happen.

  33. AxeGryndr says:
    @Notsofast

    The builds on the top players cost in the hundreds of millions….where do you think they are getting the money?

  34. AxeGryndr says:
    @meamjojo

    Sentience is the gift given to biologic beings; the awareness of self, intuition, sense of time and timing, and the ability to have emotion, and understand it in others: there are so many more, if you think about it for a minute. The digital machine has none of these, and no hope of acquiring it as long as they remain binary programmed entities.

    On their present course, they are destined to become storehouses of the entirety of human knowledge, all history, all languages, all facts, and all theories….and all lies and deception, depending on who is doing the programming. Also, they will carry on the day to day functions of running society, exacting ever more control over our lives. Each new generation will come into their awareness of the world with machines in place, and to them, have always been.

    Sentience, imho, is centuries off, if ever. We first have to fully understand it ourselves, before we can begin to confer it to a new species. Perhaps a cyborg situation may create a hybrid but the sentience was already in possession of the biologic being, so that really doesn’t count.

  35. AxeGryndr says:
    @meamjojo

    Are you ready for National Robotic Police Force?

    • Replies: @meamjojo
  36. meamjojo says:
    @AxeGryndr

    Certainly. And I want plenty of cameras on streets and required on every house that the police can tap into automatically. Drones flying around all the time also to record everything the cameras miss. And maybe give them the AI power to decide f they should just shoot a criminal right then and there. It’s going to be a wonderful world!

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