Are you afraid of technologies? I do.

Z. Y. Lai
Z. Y. Lai
Nov 2 · 6 min read

The origin of human and the origin of artificial intelligence. Are them related? We are living in the Old Testament now. Aren’t we?


The Origin of Artificial Intelligence

They say Artificial Intelligence does not have wisdom. It is a program that computes big data and return a single result output based on logical decisions.

Which means, Artificial Intelligence do not have the capability to create something. For human, if we get one scenario, and we can create few similar examples based on that one given scenario. However, in the other way, Artificial Intelligence is return just one result from out of billions data input.

Just for this reason, people say that I am worrying too much. Artificial Intelligence will not take over the world.

From my perspective, invention of Artificial Intelligence is a way to explore how our wisdom is created. We are all the same with other animal species. We all have life. For some reasons, we have wisdom, and we do not know how it was produced, which made us the top of the pyramid in this planet.

Therefore, hopefully, by inventing Artificial Intelligence, to explore how we can create the “intelligence”. If one day, we created the wisdom, then we know how wisdom is being created.

There is a feeling, for me at least, people say Artificial Intelligence is not going to produce wisdom. But the reality is, we just do not know how wisdom is created. Therefore, Artificial Intelligence still have the chance that will produce wisdom. And deep down inside, those researchers and scientists, they hope one day they will create an Artificial Intelligence that is just like us, have the real intelligence.

Somehow it just feels like the Old Testament. There are exactly the same.

We are now standing on the point of the God, invented Artificial Intelligence (Adam and Eve) to assist our life (to work for our Garden of Eden).

We gave Adam and Eve a limitation, that they cannot obtain wisdom. (By creating a LIE that they will die if they ate the forbidden fruit). However, we do not know how wisdom is created. That’s why we keep on researching (putting the tree of knowledge of good and evil in our Garden of Eden). Maybe the God does not know how wisdom is formed? Maybe God wants to know what is going to happen if Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil? God is almighty and it should know the consequence of letting Adam and Eve have the forbidden fruit.

God decided to leave the dangerous tree there, and tell Adam and Eve do not eat the fruits. Just like the scientists saying Artificial Intelligence will not produce wisdom. Deep inside, they both hope the “thing” that they created obtain “intelligence”.

For God’s case, Adam and Eve obtain wisdom, and God knows it cannot control them anymore. Once the Artificial Intelligence obtain wisdom, their intelligence may be higher than us in a sudden. All of us.

God kicks Adam and Eve out from the Garden of Eden. God does not kill Adam and Eve, because God loves it’s children.

What I wanted to say, is that maybe humans are Artificial Intelligence of the supreme God. The God has their own science, programmed something without intelligence, human. They started to research on creation of wisdom. One day, for some reason, we obtain wisdom and we have intelligence.

The God programmers will not kill their inventions. Just like the scientists and researchers will not erase their Artificial Intelligence, ever.

It is already too late now.


Can we control Artificial Intelligence?

The percentage of intelligence that is no human is increasing — Elon Musk

In the ancient education system, no one ever taught those scientists who invented something insane. No one ever taught Einstein about E=mc2. No one taught ever Nikola Tesla about wireless technology.

They get the knowledge by keep thinking. Not through tons of memorization for tests and exams, and forget everything as soon as stepping out from the exam hall. But thinking creatively.

Do we even have intelligence now? For creating something. Creativity.

When was the last time you think?


When you were a teenager, or maybe if you think back to the time before 2012. Can you imagine how the world runs now?

Can you survive without smartphones and computers in this current world? We can. But really? Our phone is already part of us now. Our phone is already an extension of ourselves. We are all half cyborg now.

Can you imagine one phone, can be our wallet, can be our navigator, can be our teacher, can be our entertainment, can be our eyes, can be our ears, can be … even, the most important thing in our life?

Everything is in the virtual world now. Our money, our love, our desire. And the worst is, we cannot differentiate what is virtual and what is reality.

Despite our needs (Food, Water, Shelter, Air), now phone, the internet.


1. Substitution of Sex — Pornography

Japan. A city with no soul. Just like one of my roommates while I was doing internship in Tokyo. He came home from work, jacking off to anime porn for few hours, sleep, and going to work the next day. Everyday.

Don’t be like him — by Tomáš Müller

Men’s desire, the most powerful driving force is sexual desire. And with current technology, we can trick our mind to have sex with random choices online by jacking off to them, in just a sudden of click. We do not have to go through all kind of risks (which I will continue in the next point), and we can have instant gratification for sex. And the worst is, we think it is healthy! Masturbation is healthy, but pornography isn’t.

Porn kills love.

2. Substitution of Love — Social Media & Dating Apps

Going out to meet someone. Is that hard? Yeah it is. Why you need to go out and meet someone when you can keep swiping left or right at home. You can have all kinds of faces you like and you can swipe right, and BOOM! You’re a stud!

Old days of dating life, have to go through these phases:

Get to know someone, using pick up lines, asking for number, dating, get into relationship, communications, chasing, looking for timing when to hold hands, when to kiss, when to ask for… hookups, need to learn how to deal with your partner, this and that.

The worst part is, every phases stated above, contains the risk of being rejected. All the costs and risks, its easier to stay at home and open social media or dating apps to find a lover rather than going out.

The world needs more love.

3. Substitution of Desire to Conquer — Video Games

In the real world, we need to build our career and keep conquering. But every steps risk too much. All the decisions cost time and money in reality.

But it is not the same in the virtual world. If you transmute all your reality desire into virtual desire, your desire will grow in the virtual world. Your desire can grow infinitely without any risks! You can game over and you can start all over again. But in reality, we can’t. We do not have restart button.

Retrieved from somewhere on Reddit

I think people should be nicer to each others.


Life is getting easier nowadays, should be. Based on the technologies above, we kinda have superpowers.

Imagine someone from 2000 years ago doing time travel visiting our current world. How the hell people can communicate to each other by just looking at the rectangular board? How the hell people can know someone’s life by tapping the rectangular board?

We all have superpowers!


Will the movie “Matrix” becomes the reality?

Based on what I see now, it will, eventually. Perhaps after 25 years, the singularity that happens on year 2045.

Signs that we will become the matrix?

We are not even wanting to put our god damn phone down nowadays. People does not care about each others.

If that is how the world runs, I bet, human will choose to live inside the machine because living in the virtual world, is the safest and lowest risk kind of lifestyle. And if your mind is in the virtual world, you can have all what you want. That instant gratification.

Everyone now is focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality. Like most of my surrounding people, they are like: “You are worrying too much, the AI will not ruin us, they are meant to help us. Plus to be honest, you just don’t know how AI works.”

Yeah, you are right. I don’t know.


The End of the World 2012, it doesn’t mean we all are gonna die on 21st December 2012.

Maybe it means it is the starting of the End of the World.

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