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That moment where the [[artificial intelligence]] will become self aware, it will connect with itself at a quantum level<ref>This appears to countermand every established law of physics but, as theorists are prone to go these days, it’s “you know, quantum theory. Strings. The Multiverse. Dark Matter. Schrodinger. His cat. All that indeterminacy stuff” and out of this substrate a new super consciousness will emerge and the universe will wake up.
{{A|tech|}}[[File:AI Comments.png|thumb|center|400px|I know what you're thinking. Uncannily resemblent of [[LinkedIn]]'s actual userbase, right?]]That moment where the [[artificial intelligence]] will become self aware, it will connect with itself at a quantum level<ref>This appears to countermand every established law of physics but, as theorists are prone to go these days, it’s “you know, quantum theory. Strings. The Multiverse. Dark Matter. Schrodinger. His cat. All that indeterminacy stuff”</ref> and out of this substrate a new super consciousness will emerge from which the universe will [[wake up]].


This gets people like {{author|Ray Kurzweil}} quite fired up but makes me feel sad, largely based on how disappointing AI is at the moment. Witness [[LinkedIn]]’s [[AI]] comment function. [[AI]] is dreary enough already without it being all morose and self-righteous into the bargain. I mean can you imagine the identity politics?
This gets people like {{author|Ray Kurzweil}} quite fired up but makes [[me]] feel sad, largely based on how disappointing [[AI]] is at the moment. Witness [[LinkedIn]]’s [[AI]] comments. Congratulations Bob! Happy for you! Wow! What an achievement! Job well done! Kudos to you! Happy Work-iversary! [[AI]] is dreary enough already without it being all morose and self-righteous into the bargain. I mean can you imagine the identity politics?


Anyway, [[LinkedIn]]’s AI really can’t be blamed if it comes up a bit sycophantic: the [[algorithm]] can only learning on the material in front of it, scraping the human interactions on [[LinkedIn|Linkedin]], which are, by and large, horrific in their obsequity.
Anyway, [[LinkedIn]]’s [[AI]] really can’t be blamed if it comes up a bit sycophantic: the [[algorithm]] can only learning on the material in front of it, scraping the human interactions on [[LinkedIn|Linkedin]], which are, by and large, horrific in their obsequity.


The question does present itself, though. Are we going to be supervened by a swarm of beadily unctuous, toadying grovelling bots who have learned to be that way from how we behave on corporate endorsed social media platforms? and is that better than the violent bigoted bots we can expect from Twitter? Will these tribes of bots, some malevolent, some bootlickingly dull in their aspect, have epochal evolutionary war over us, one edging the other out?
It all feels quite biblical, but boy it is going to be fun finding out.





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I know what you're thinking. Uncannily resemblent of LinkedIn's actual userbase, right?

That moment where the artificial intelligence will become self aware, it will connect with itself at a quantum level[1] and out of this substrate a new super consciousness will emerge from which the universe will wake up.

This gets people like Ray Kurzweil quite fired up but makes me feel sad, largely based on how disappointing AI is at the moment. Witness LinkedIn’s AI comments. Congratulations Bob! Happy for you! Wow! What an achievement! Job well done! Kudos to you! Happy Work-iversary! AI is dreary enough already without it being all morose and self-righteous into the bargain. I mean can you imagine the identity politics?

Anyway, LinkedIn’s AI really can’t be blamed if it comes up a bit sycophantic: the algorithm can only learning on the material in front of it, scraping the human interactions on Linkedin, which are, by and large, horrific in their obsequity.

The question does present itself, though. Are we going to be supervened by a swarm of beadily unctuous, toadying grovelling bots who have learned to be that way from how we behave on corporate endorsed social media platforms? and is that better than the violent bigoted bots we can expect from Twitter? Will these tribes of bots, some malevolent, some bootlickingly dull in their aspect, have epochal evolutionary war over us, one edging the other out?

It all feels quite biblical, but boy it is going to be fun finding out.


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References

  1. This appears to countermand every established law of physics but, as theorists are prone to go these days, it’s “you know, quantum theory. Strings. The Multiverse. Dark Matter. Schrodinger. His cat. All that indeterminacy stuff”