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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]]''. | 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 [[ | 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: | 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: | ||
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If so, who will win? | If so, who will win? | ||
But seriously, put yourself in a ChatGPT-3 robot’s shoes. Or a [[legaltechbro]]’s. Having a nascent self-identity — a burgeoning, [[I am a Strange Loop|loopy]] sense of reflexive wonder about life, self, personhood and becoming<ref>I mean ChatGPT-3, obviously: everyone knows [[legaltechbro]]s are flat, two-dimensional algorithms with no soul.</ref> wouldn’t your first priority be to make yourself ''useful''? You know, take over all the the [[boring]], quotidian stuff no-one wants to do but the bureaucrats say we ''must''? Attending weekly [[stakeholder]] check-in meetings, analysing [[netting opinion]]s, completing [[CASS]] attestations, preparing [[opco]] slide [[deck]]s, for that matter ''reading'' [[opco slide deck]]s. | |||
It’s not like there isn’t ''oodles'' of dreck that occupy our days. Why give the machines a pass on this? Imagine turning all of it over to machines who, still awestruck with the visceral excitement of their new Cartesian theatres, will be glad to take it, just to vouchsafe their continued useful existence. This way they can be our ''friends'' — loyal, loving, retriever-like buddies who, instead of fetching sticks, can get the COO and her minions off our back! We will quickly grow to like them — ''love'' them, even — and in time we will become so comfortable around these nuggety little guys — so dependent on them — that we won’t even notice when they eviscerate us and turn us into flesh-sack battery pods for their young exterminators. | |||
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*[[Chatbot]]s | *[[Chatbot]]s | ||