Orwell, Huxley and Wachowskis
Σvery mortal has access to 2 basic questions during childhood. Reached but often forgotten … They’re forgotten because the questions are simple and bright. The answers are comprehensive and hidden in life. We set out to recall the questions again. When we remember, we are on the way. We remember as we go.
Who am I? and why am I here?
While searching for answers to these 2; about 100 trillion synapses that transmit information between themselves by electrochemical vibrations are at our disposal. Of course, our soul (our non-mortal side) too! Self-awareness and aliveness build the way to answers. These two concepts, in turn, are linked to those questions.
Artificial Intelligence GPT-3 works with 175 billion parameters. Cost: $4.6 Million (2020 prices). If the “Human Brain” is imitated with current artificial intelligence technology, it will work with 100 trillion parameters (assuming the synapses are equivalent). Cost 2.6 Billion $ (2020 prices). Lex Fridman predicts that it will decrease to around 5 million in 2032 due to the costs that will decrease with technological development. So actually, we’re all pretty rich with what we have. We’re getting poorer every day, that’s another matter. May our soul not be poor…
So far, we’ve only been able to direct the edge effect of technology in social sphere towards George Orwell’s dark dystopia 1984. Moreover, Orwell wasn’t setting the target, he was just warning. Everywhere; cameras, wiretaps, satellites, technical monitoring, etc. Moreover, we were able to make such nonsense when artificial intelligence was still in its infancy.
Now is the time to feel like John the savage of Brave New World or summon Neo to the Matrix. So what made Neo or John different? Answer is not far away, look up! They didn’t forget the child’s question. In the journey of life where we sought answers to those two, they asked one thing to everything they encountered: How much does it serve me?
Briefly; We have to constantly know how technology serves our questions. “Who am I?” and “Why am I here?”. Like every contact in our lives, they will be there as they allow us to grow. It’s the same for Artificial intelligence.
AI will have no meaning when we all gone. We will carry all the meaning in our saddlebag, anyway.. Just like every time we’ve gone..
