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“Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

7:28 pm

And the system is ready to transcribe.

Remarkable, isn’t it? Well, the fact that A machine. Not really here. My voice and yet, It will generate data. Which can be transformed by algorithms man-made algorithms. Into a transcription. Of. Meaning. That I convey. Using my voice. It’s it’s really quite remarkable. It’s the whole Analogue versus digital or how analogue is now digital But just on a such a scale and so much more complex. Well, we have As our fingertips, quite quite literally. I am going to continue with this. Using my voice. I’ll just narrate this little article and I will not edit a single thing on it. Reason being is. I just want you to get. An idea. Or an appreciation. For the fact that A system that has never really listened to me. He’s able to understand. My. Well, command of the English language and my pronunciation. My Diction at all. And as much as I would like to think, That it’s by doing. That’s enabling this. It’s it’s quite a contrary. This these systems, these cognitive systems Are figuring out. What we mean? When we utter things, And I, Continue to be mind-blown. Well, that being said, I guess. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to. Taking notes. Or. Transcribing. My own voice into text. I will always instead prefer to either type it out, Or write it using my handwriting. But I can imagine scenarios many a scenario. When Your coordination. It’s quite not. A person cannot use their hands. Uh, a person doesn’t know how to hand ride or the person doesn’t really have access to a keyboard. Or any any kind of other input device. Say. A listening device, a device that listens And there it is, again. Vital point. That cognitive Services, and these Forms of artificial intelligence. Are always listening. Are paying 100 attention. To everything without their way.

I just finished watching the movie, The Creator. I must say it was. Not that bad after all. In fact. It left me with feelings. It left me with Unexpressed not fully formed thoughts. Percolating. In my head. I don’t know how to feel about the premise of the movie. This idea that we will have a Form of AGI and cybernetics. That’s non-violent. I would like to think that would be the case. I would like to think I would like to imagine A world. In which we, we don’t. Um, some form of AI. To cause issues to cause problems to hurt. To wage a sort of information and mental Warfare. I would like to think that would be the case. I would like to think it. I would like to believe. And I would like to think that. Should we create AGI, should we finally Discover or maybe uncover or maybe pre-program, program design, create whatever you call it. If we, if we do end up with AGI in my lifetime. In our lifetime. I would like to think. I would like to thank it would be free of violence. It will not. Even try to consider the merits. Of. Might. Is right. What a world that would be. And that’s what the Creator. Is, that’s what the general premise of the movie is. We are primitive. We are violent. We are. The ones who doubt. And the machines. Intelligent conscience. And, Non-Violent peaceful. Nurturing helpful. Kind consider it. And protective of Our Lives. And I somehow, Want to believe that would be the case someday. The technocrats in me would love to see. A future like the last scenes from the movie. Elysium with Mark, Damon. Where a bunch of. Cyborgs, a bunch of machines started landing. And then they start. You know, Wheeling people on stretchers and helping helping the sick and the dying and curing cancer and Stuff like just how how like a whole contingent of of machines, who Just look after this, just just help us help, you know, straining. Medical Services. Help. Challenges with Mental health and support help with. Upbringing children without parents help with. Cooking for homeless and for people in need help with construction. Help with help with all kinds of work, that would otherwise be very very dangerous or Quite frankly, rewarding only to those of us who Drive. Um, some kind of pleasure. From all the struggle and the pain of helping others. Because, Let’s face it. Helping other people. Is no easy task. Helping other people. In a way that scales in the way that’s sustainable, in a way. Is resilient and can last and be effective. In a way. That’s In a way. That’s Consistent. That’s difficult. It is very difficult, these sort of Uh, Endeavours these sort of. Enterprises. Are always grossly underfunded. And the people on on those front lines. They are up against something truly truly difficult. And, The saw truth is, Fewer and fewer are willing to go out there and do things for others. In a sense that I think more people who are capable more people, who approach things. Intelligently. They end up. Looking at always at the bigger picture. I am guilty of that myself. They end up looking at the bigger picture. Of how they can help facilitate change. On a scale. At a scale. Which of course, takes so much time. And so much cognitive effort. That instead of being out there making soups, or Bandaging people or delivering supplies? Yes, they end up in managerial roles. They end up. In rows of, Of organising and and and Planning. And so on. And then, Next to a minimum wage. Is paid. Others. Who are in a need of employment. To go and save the world quite literally. Obviously, that’s a huge task. That’s a huge ask. And there is nothing glomers about it and there is nothing heroic about it. Is just Grind. The nurses, the doctors. Firefighters. Mental health workers. Social workers police transport construction, you name it. At the very bottom of that, where the work actually gets done, where physical Reality is getting reshaped. And reworked. That’s just no fun at all. It is not rewarding in any way. Enabling. Basic subsistence, unfortunately. There are places in the world where even that sort of work is well rewarded and you get your You get your? Unions and and people just stick to the work they do, and they do it for generations. But Let’s be honest times, times are changing. Things are changing. They don’t stay the same. And it’s it’s unrealistic to expect. That with all the protection and all the covers. A job that you have and it does something. Now will be the same job. You know, 30 years from now. Which is in fact how long it takes before we retire. 30, 40 years. And if we live longer, Could take even longer. These days, the average retirement age. Is 60 plus If you start age, if you start working age 24, That’s a minimum of 36 years. The chances of Anyone doing something for 36 years straight without the need to change? Or to learn. Or to improve is minimal. Again regardless of the protections in place, regardless of guaranteed wage increases and so on and so forth. That’s just that’s just the case. And this is where again, this dream, this you youtopian. Dream of a world. A form of. Artificial, general intelligence. Benevolent, that’s caring and compassionate and understanding. And willing to help Humanity at large and enabling A quick production of robotics, another sensors and just kind of stepping in to start doing the the really nasty work. And to do that. Also again the difficult and challenging work. Um, That would be. That would be. A moment of Watershed moment, a transformation moment for Humanity. That will take us from. That would take the idea of survival. Order notion of survival, almost completely out of the equation. That would That would make. That was completely shift, our Focus and our priorities, in life and where, where we think value should go and what we deem valuable it will completely redefine this. And it it probably is for the better. I I through my part, do not see. The current status quo as something sustainable. It definitely is escalating. And it seems to be persistent. What’s going on? But I I again, I just don’t see. This mess of Trends, and fake Trends. And Information Wars and arguing and Proxy Wars and violence. And, Gaming. The system. And kind of valuing some, some work, but undervaluating other work. Yeah, that’s I don’t see that as sustainable. I just don’t see it. He definitely will continue to happen. Unless something changes, but The process is very painful. It’s, it’s very divisive. And unlike previous times in, in the history of our species, Now, we have the technology to voice. Concerns to voice our complaints. We have the means now. Instantly. Share how we feel and what we think. It’s almost like you have the pulse. The finger. You have your finger on the pulse of humanity. But then that’s also modelled up. By the arrhythmia, the, by the murmuring of Again. Ill intense. It cannot last. It will not last, it’s going to It’s going to something, we’ll have to give. And I doubt, many more people will be giving their lives and their mental health. For this, whatever, this is whatever. This very very difficult. Period is I think.

This is what I need to end because I am having a lot of fun. Just saying things without actually having to think about them. Don’t think I’ll do this again. Not not for the blog anyway. Definitely a fruitful thought. Because realistically, I could feed this into Ai. Get some bullet points, get some action points, create some mind maps, maybe get some suggestions on improving. My Uh, flow of thought and maybe some improvements on my diction at some point in my pronunciation. Without without having to pay for. Without having to pay for. Choosers. And And doing just hours, upon hours of research and Manual work. Huh. A bless again disguise. Again. We shall see. Thank you for reading. Thank you for. Your attention, it is invaluable.

7:47 pm

And, Oh yes, I am still working on all the things I said that will be working on But I am not making much progress. Something to think about.