I'm kind of clever, kind of. I read
about stuff that matters and I ponder it and comment about it, online
usually as I find the interface of face to face a muddled and
confusing place.
I'm currently worried about artificial
intelligence and the impending Singularity. When it comes to
artificial intelligence, the Singularity is the point when computers
become more like humans only superior. It's quite concerning.
Although, maybe, maybe, yeah maybe, I was thinking, we should be
talking about things happening the other way around. We should be
talking about the impending Ytiralugnis. That's what's really going
to happen. The Ytiralugnis is the Singularity backwards, the point
when humans become more like computers only inferior. When we all
become the nodes of one great algorithmic consciousness. Led by the
#s and validated by the 'likes'. 101001000011010001ing our nodey
little heads off. All as one. Unified at last. A singular thing but
in a perverse kind of reverse. All with opinions on opinions we are
destined to have opinions on. Each of us will be a 'unique' series
of takes on whatever is trending.
This is Lord Shiva as a search engine
and us as anonymous voices emitting from the Cloud. We'll no longer
be people but blogs and Twitter accounts and Facebook walls and apps
and regular forum posters and viral uploads. We'll be multi-platform
experiences. We'll all be part of one great family. Our surname will
Dotcom. Our new family may be slightly dysfunctional,
somewhat divided. The upper caste will be those with high hit counts.
The lower caste the least hit. And newborns will be called noobs and
the elderly will be sneeringly referred to as Commodore 64s. And when
we die we'll be shipped off to a landfill in Ghana and stripped down
for reusable parts and then incinerated on pyres by kids with
emphysema, wearing homemade pollution filters,
that never logged on in their lives.
The #Ytiralugnis – it's going to
happen. It has happened. It's happening right now. Artificial
Intelligence, it's making us kind of clever, kind of; reading about
stuff that matters and pondering it and commenting about it online,
finding the faceless interface a muddled and confusing place.
2 comments:
The thing about Kurtzweil and his accelerating technology theory that strikes me as funny is his own keyboards.
Keyboard synthesizers have gotten a lot better over the years, but they plateau at a certain point and fail to replicate real instruments.
Let me know when the keyboard singularity happens, Kurtzweil.
It's the same with the Teasmade. Kurtzweil said that would replace women. Not just incorrect but an appalling display of male chauvinism.
He was right about Pacman eventually getting his own cartoon series though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR-QY9ldupQ
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