Posted on 12/02/2023 1:52:04 PM PST by RoosterRedux
Some of you folks might find this interesting. It is most a discussion of the current state of development of AI and the pace of development. The person being interviewed is the co-founder of an AI company, is immersed in the industry, and seems to have a pretty good grasp on what is going on behind the scenes.
Bio of Mitch Randall from source: Mitch has Master's Degrees in both Electrical Engineering & Physics, and has a long history in scientific instrumentation and radar - dating back to 1984. His experience includes roles at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), along with dozens of key inventions in radar technology widely used across industry. He co-founded Binet in the early 90s to bring bistatic 3D velocity measurement to research weather radars all over the world, and co-founded the Advanced Radar Corporation in the early 2000's to commercialize these innovations for applications in the commercial weather radar market, and in 2005 he co-founded WildCharge to commercialize wireless charging technology for consumer electronics. In 2018 Mitch co-founded Ascendant Artificial Intelligence (AAI) and is currently delivering state of the art custom AI solutions to global customers, and a Research Team member of Harvard’s Galileo Project, where he developed the proof of concept of the SkyWatch passive radar receiver. Mitch Randall is the CEO of Ascendant AI and innovator behind the SkyWatch Passive Radar UAP tracking system. Skywatch was developed through the Galileo Project and hopes to detect UAP using reflected signals from existing transmitters as an alternative to traditional radar technology.
From the video transcript: So it gave a kind of spatial Dimension to how a language model can just predict the next word. Some people say, "Oh it's just predict predicting the next word, how can it be smart or how can we say that's intelligence?" But I mean obviously a bunch of things emerged out of it that nobody expected. They were just trying to implement this thing that really does just predict the next word and out of it comes this emergent thing like reasoning. ... What people are saying is that Q* is a big step forward for artificial general intelligence. They're not saying that it is (AGI), they're saying that it's on this path to AGI and apparently this is a big step forward. Sam Altman himself has been quoted as saying AGI has been achieved internally back in late September and it's possible that this was related to this Q* software that they've been developing as you mentioned. The guardian wrote that Q* was so powerful and--again this is all under their veil of corporate secrecy--the guardian wrote that Q* was so powerful that it alarmed the staff. And this brings up a big concern that commercial interests are pushing AI at an unsafe rate right now. I mean imagine you you take a system that just predicts the next word and out of it emerges basically knowledge and reasoning to some degree, so now you take it one step further and make a system that's actually... Q* has to do with trying to solve math and math is really just the symbolic representation of concepts so it's really like thought and so now taking a machine and trying to make it into thought. What's going to emerge out of that is such that we might be quite surprised. This is all based on these large language models, all of which are more or less based on transformer technology which came out in 2017 as a translation tool to take one language and translate into another by being aware of how one word relates to another in a sentence either in front of it or behind it.
Well, as long as governments aren’t stupid enough to hook AI up to virus research or nuclear launch code systems or anything like that. I mean, they’ve never done anything that dumb before, right? /s
True, like the Industrial Revolution, there is no way to stop AI from advancing - the only thing we can do as individuals is fight for the rights and means to defend against it and/or abstain from it. Some cultures, like the Amish have tried to remain an agricultural society, untouched by the Industrial Revolution, with limited success.
And like a computer virus or internet pornography - the viruses and porn will be out there on the internet - you can’t do anything to change that. But you can at least destroy or disconnect your devices…
My devices are connected to the internet - but I turn off microphones and remove voice recognition features - that’s my choice - other people go further - putting their mobile phones and bank cards in Faraday bags, or by reverting to old flip phone technology.
Hopefully, it will be a while before you can’t refuse the chip implants, etc. but in the end I suspect - as the Borgs on Star Trek liked to say - “Resistance is futile”.
The “downloading” of ideas from “somewhere else” was a concept well described by Plato—even without aliens.
The “aliens” are a clue to a “universe” we really do not understand—at a very deep level.
Imho “disclosure” is not an end in itself—it is a beginning of seeing new horizons that we cannot yet even envision.
The deeper I dig on this stuff the more convinced I am that nobody knows what they are talking about—they create narratives to explain what they do not understand.
That said I do not accept for one nanosecond the .gov narrative “we don’t know what they are”.
That false narrative is not a philosophical one—it is just blatant lying and gaslighting about the information .gov and their corporate fascist partners do have. They may not “understand” everything about the aliens—but they do understand a million times more than they are publicly disclosing.
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