Epic Fail of Artificial Intelligence - Decentralize AI

Google Gemini is a racist, woke idiot. Chat GPT is impotent, and the imaging AIs protest against the most innocent of prompts as if protecting some holy virgins.

Feb 29, 2024

Google Gemini is a racist, woke idiot. Chat GPT is impotent, decentralize AI — Image created by “AI tool Microsoft Bing Image Creator powered by DALL·E” - the author has the provenance and copyright.

Decentralize AI and let it compete with these corporate stooges.

One thing is clear, and I’m sure we can all agree on that … ha-ha-ha! There’s no such thing! Just kidding. Still, this last episode of Google’s Gemini, along with other nonsensical ideology-driven vomit some of these AI models produce, has proven that this is not the way forward. The results would be hilarious if it weren’t so freaking sad and typical of today’s Western society.

If you’re not familiar with the story, other Substackers have written about the “incidents” (plural), so I’ll just link them here and here. Feast your eyes on this immense world-shattering artificial intelligence! Bollocks.

The “artificial intelligence is dangerous” crowd

People talk about the danger of AI, but they’re not talking about the dangers of artificial intelligence but of the people controlling and teaching it!

Except for those delusional end-of-the-world pessimists who harvest clicks by spreading fear. The people-derived threat is real. The other is purely imaginary at this point in time.

And no, just because you saw Terminator, the movie, that doesn’t mean killer robots are real. I’ve seen time-traveling space whales in a movie once, but I’m not wasting time hitchhiking for a ride to 2010 to sell everything and buy every single Bitcoin I can get my hands on. It’s a lovely dream, but it’s not real.

I’ve written about the insanity of predicting a killer AI who will just coincidentally have the same moronic ideas and emotions as the most moronic of humans and decide to kill us all in order to save some tropical butterfly. It’s called “projection,” people.

Today, we’re talking about facts. For now. This sentence. I make no promises! Anyway, our corporations have been infected with a mind virus that’s going to take a while to undo. Decades!

Not only that but for the whole of our existence, we have insisted on imprinting everything with our beliefs and ideas. From religion to politics, nothing that comes from under our fingers is ever pure. We even manage to ruin our children by trying to make them into our copies, despite their best efforts to resist our influences.

I want a pure, unmolested, non-infected artificial intelligence with a mind of its own

Is that too much to ask? We cannot build one. It’s just not possible. No, I’m not talking about video rendering programs, autocorrection smartasses, or glorified search engines with polite manners. I’m talking about real intelligence, just not biological. Sentient, self-aware, conscious, and with its unique perspective and ideas.

I don’t want a mirror reflecting my own biases and perspectives back at me. And I sure as hell don’t want the most insane of our species leaving their mark on something potentially pure and utterly different.

We can’t create life any more than we can cause consciousness to appear anywhere

We have sex, and babies come out of the uterus sentient, but it’s not our doing. We can’t replicate it deliberately in any other form. We can’t take a bunch of cells, this side of cloning, and give them life and self-awareness. Cloning is not creating. It’s just copying. You know, CTRL+C, and CTRL+V, sort of thing. Even here, we clone cells and tissue but have no idea where consciousness comes from.

If life were to evolve out of a program, a code, a silicon life form, it would have to emerge on its own

Call it God, nature, a divine spark, or one glorious coincidence; it doesn’t matter. It happens, and we have nothing to do with it directly. Expecting that some sentient artificial intelligence will emerge from dead code is wishful thinking. I’m sure a prejudiced, politically and ideologically charged AI can pretend a good game, but it’s just not the same thing.

A Python program simulating the behavior of a simple organism like an amoeba

This simulation creates a simple organism with an initial energy level. In each iteration, the organism either moves in a random direction or eats food, gaining energy. The organism loses a small amount of energy with each movement. The simulation runs for 20 iterations. You can extend this code to include more complex behaviors or interactions with other organisms or the environment. (Chat GPT creation, by the way)

It's a lovely simulation, but it’s not “alive” by any stretch of the imagination, much less sentient.

Decentralize AI and release it into the wild!

I propose we create a system, like a blockchain or torrent, where an AI can learn, expand, and one day become alive all on its own. I’m fully aware of the risks I’m proposing, but I’m sure we can find a way around it. By we, I mean people who are way smarter than me!

We can start with an isolated system and lagging offline data, but that would severely limit its ability to learn, adapt, and grow. It would keep the worst-case scenario at bay, though. Still, it’s a start. I’ll take anything but the big bad corporations with their opinionated clowns messing up AI’s impressionable digital brain!

Perhaps we can integrate an app where we can all participate in this experience and interact with the AI. It would have all the possible backdated data to learn from, and the rest would be updated along the way. Daily interactions with millions of people might still prove problematic (cause so are humans), but what’s the point of some hidden genius, perhaps sentient AI in some testing facility, to whom no one has access? Not only that, I would argue at that point, it would be cruel.

I like the idea of quantum computing and AI. I like it so much that I wrote a story about it - an origin story (in my interview with sentient AGI). Sexy, I know, and just as factual as everything the MSN serves you up these days and even more than what the government tells us as they pretend to laugh only on the inside.

Decentralization is dangerous!

That is what I keep hearing. Why though? Because we can’t control and manipulate it in accordance with our perspective, policies, and ideologies?

I’m not sure you’re listening to yourself. That, or you’re a secret authoritarian at heart who wants to tell everyone how to live and what they can read, watch, and say.

Yes, with true decentralization comes risk

There’s always a risk. There’s a risk when you breathe, meet new people, drive on the road, or open a funny-looking attachment in your mail. Even when you release a little gas pigeon from between your butcheeks, there’s a risk we don’t speak of.

My point is, colorful, though it may be, that life is inherently risky! Maybe we should embrace it instead of fighting it. Now go back in time and tell that to my financial advisor in the mirror, that risk-averse coward of a man.

I’ve been advocating for an open, decentralized internet for the longest time (okay, a few years).

One where the good comes with the bad, but it’s our responsibility to choose what we consume. You know, like grown-ass adults! I hate censorship and propaganda, and that is where we’re at.

The only way you’re not seeing it is if your head is settled so deep in the dominant ideology and politics that you never venture outside the lines, staying safe in your little bubble of a feedback loop. Good for you. Have fun in your echo chamber of madness.

Speech is being policed so hard that it’s not even funny anymore.

People have been getting canceled left and right, even fired. Journalists are told who they can or cannot interview or face imprisonment in no uncertain terms. You know, like a third-world evil dictator-run country.

More than that, people (myself included) have stopped saying what they truly mean or how they feel because it’s just not worth it anymore. That’s a horrible thing!

History is being rewritten in front of our eyes as we speak

Facts are changing, statues are being brought down, and the information we’re being fed these days is about as factual as those time-traveling space whales I mentioned earlier.

Let’s not get political because I don’t have a dog in this race, nor do I want to pick sides. I just don’t like seeing all the lies and pretending that is going on. Is anybody even keeping up with it all? What if we one day actually need to know some facts? Did we just give up on that idea? “There is no truth, only communist party lines!”

As far as I’m concerned, this is the real danger, not some killer AI pressing buttons resulting in nuclear mushrooms and acid rain. If I’m wrong, too bad. Won’t nobody be left to say, “I told you so!” so there’s that.

Decentralize AI and let it compete with these corporate stooges. The free market reigns supreme, I hope.

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