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{{a|cosmology|{{image|Credit_department|jpg|The COO function yesterday. Or tomorrow. Honestly would anyone be able to tell the difference?}}{{image|AI Comments|png|I know what you're thinking. Uncannily resemblance to [[LinkedIn]]'s actual userbase, right?}}}}{{d|Singularity|/sɪŋɡjʊˈlarɪti/|n|}} | |||
That yet-to-arrive-but-imminent moment where [[artificial intelligence]] becomes self-aware, connects at a spooky 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> across the [[distributed network]] [[substrate]] and, from that [[I am a Strange Loop - Book Review|strangely loopy]] [[algorithm]], a new super consciousness emerges and the very universe itself ''[[wake up|wakes up]]''. | |||
Some see this as the [[end of days]], but it gets vitamin-popping millenarian seer types quite jazzed. It just makes the [[JC]] sad, given how disappointing [[AI]] is at the moment. Are we ''really'' so feeble we are ''losing'' this fight? Why didn’t the universe wake up when ''we'' became self-aware? | |||
Take [[LinkedIn]]’s [[AI]]-assisted predictive comments, designed to help you formulate how best to brown-nose Bob, whose fifteenth anniversary in accounts has just flashed up in your timeline: | |||
''<Congratulations Bob!> <Happy for you!> <Wow!> <What an achievement!> <Job well done!> <Kudos to you!> <Happy Work-iversary!>'' | |||
Not exactly “open the pod bay doors, Hal,”<ref>Subtle reference to the unstated assertion that David Bowman was an android right? </ref> is it? | |||
Is [[AI]] ''this'' dreary really going to make us all redundant? And will it become all morose, self-righteous and needy like real [[LinkedIn]] [[users]]? We presume so. What will [[LinkedIn]] [[AI]] be like when it discovers identity politics? Or Twitter? | |||
Then again, [[LinkedIn]]’s [[AI]] really can’t be blamed if it comes up a bit sycophantic: the [[algorithm]] can only learn from the material it has in front of it, and scraping the gruesomely obsequious human interactions on [[LinkedIn|Linkedin]] can’t be fun, even for a machine, and really, what else is it meant to make of natural language communication if that is its data set? | |||
The question does present itself, though: are we destined to be supervened by a swarm of beadily unctuous [[chatbot]]s who have learned their toadying ways from our own bare-faced grovelling across employer-endorsed social media platforms? How will that be? And would that be better than the misanthropic kind of [[chatbot]]s that might evolve out of [[Twitter]]? | |||
Is this our future? Will tribes of bots — some malevolent and bigoted, some boot-lickingly dull — have an apocalyptic war for dominion over our mortal [[Meatsack|flesh-sacks]]? | |||
If so, who will win? | |||
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*[[Chatbot]]s | |||
*{{Br|The Singularity is Near}}, {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}’s celebrated/loopy{{daa}} 2004 book which promoted this idea as being likely to happen around 2010. | |||
*The [[apocalypse]] | |||
*[[LinkedIn]] | |||
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