Tag: AI — 22 posts
Engineering Escape Velocity - A 5 year Plan for Europe
This three-part Reckoning series began with a question about what China’s history, including its 19th-century failures and its 20th century successes, can teach Europe about its 21st-century moment of crisis. China failed to adapt to geopolitical changes in the 19th century and that mistake gave rise to a century of humiliation. China learned from that failure and is now a superpower.
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Part 1: The Search for a Stable Orbit and the Mathematics of Human Survival
The fourth article in the European Reckoning series. Following on from:
The Rape of Europa: Sovereignty, Security & The Ethical Tech Opportunity
The era of American security guarantees, which formed the bedrock of European stability since WW2, has transitioned into a “three-body problem” of unstable unpredictable gravitational interactions between Washington, Beijing, and Brussels. The war in Ukraine has accelerated Russian decline and it has been drawn closer to the Chinese geopolitical mass.
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[code] Are Large Language Models anti-poets? [/code]
If great craft in poetry was predicated on plausibility, LLMs would outshine most humans. However, to be better at poetry, LLMs would need to be programmed with rewards for useful unusualness - for finding unlikely pathways across the linguistic landscape. They would need to understand the value of friction, the feeling a poet gets when something unresolved works its way through and out of the subconscious demanding attention and exploration.
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Book 1: A Tortured Rebel
draft of a new sci-fi series
They redoubled their
Promethean labours
Crafting Robota
To build machines
…that built machines
……that built machines
And so on ad infinitum
Some said a diabolical Matryoshka
In our own day…The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.
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**" Blame it on the black star
Blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite **
….**this is killing me “**1
In Part 2 we looked at the many risks arising from Elon Musk’s ownership of the social media platform X, his development of Grok and Grokipedia and his promotion of disinformation and hate.
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In Part 1 we looked at how Musk takes all of the wrong lessons from the literary greats he apparently admires:
In this Part 2, we will examine the integrity of Musk’s views on free speech, and the engines of hate speech and disinformation he is developing.
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Geopolitics, Technology, and Democratic Governance
The third article in the European Reckoning series. Following on from:
The Rape of Europa (c. 1560-62), Titian
Europe is in great danger, it faces a moment of profound vulnerability (Titian ’s ‘Rape of Europa’ seemed apt).
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This article has been created using a new public AI Notebook:
Climate Change, Ecological Disaster and Civilisational Risks
The Notebook features a range of key scientific and cultural sources. The complexity of these issues and depth of the data lends itself to a publicly available database for people to conduct their own queries. I hope it is useful, particularly for a new generation more interested in solving the problems we face than getting rich whilst watching the world burn.
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I have created a public notebooklm as a resource to provide people with an accessible way to learn about AI as a technology and its ethical implications for humans. It includes most of the existing International AI laws, guidance and standards.
Aim: I hope it is a useful tool for analysts, technologists, AI developers, journalists, students, policymakers and anyone with a general interest in AI Law & Ethics.
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“I feel that the four big AI CEOs in the U.S. are modern-day prophets with four different versions of the Gospel ..telling the same basic story that this is so dangerous and so scary that I have to do it and nobody else.”1
(Max Tegmark)
We enter a new age of AI , with some American snake-oil salesmen promising AI (and themselves) as a saviour to solve all of our ills (a new era of ‘psychohistory’ - but more Wizard of Oz style). Thank goodness for Demis Hassabis.
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Poem and AI song & video
Audio version (my voice)
We Are Dawn
Shy moon
Hiding with
Dwining stars
Slow sun
Sauntering o’er
Weald and tor
Green land
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Breathing loam
Seeding sky
Experimental AI album
I also tried my hand at an AI generated album ‘The Silence Inside’: a mixture of some of my poetry and instrumental music all using similar prompts to give the whole thing a (hopefully) coherent sound. Unfortunately AI can not yet produce studio quality tracks.
Listen With or Without Prejudice
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This collection of thematic AI news sources is provided in the hope that people will better understand the plight of Palestinians and the ethical degradation of Israel and its Western allies. There must be a better vision for the future of Israelis and Palestinians.
It might be hard for readers to believe, based on the below, but I actually consider myself pro-Israel (in the Gideon Levy vein) and pro-Palestinian (and one day a free Palestine) - but not the terrorists leaders of Israel or in Gaza. If you read my ‘Canto for David’, you can see my attempt to wrestle with god, godlessness and the recycling of suffering in the Israel-Palestine story and history.
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AI image
Table of contents
AI generated image
How to use AI positively (and carefully)
AI art
If you are a creative, don’t run away just yet!
Actual real art is being made using AI by people like Refik Anadol:
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Other than this introduction and the section below on the coming US Brain Drain, this article was prepared entirely by AI (Gemini Deep Research) without any edits by me. For an example of how these Reports look when they are created and their depth of research see:
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The Blueprint for an Authoritarian Regime
“a systemic, ruthless plan to undermine the quality of life of millions of Americans, remove critical protections and dismantle programs for communities across the nation, and prioritize special interests and ideological extremism over people.“1
(Democracy Forward)
The following article has been researched manually largely based on sources you can find and review here:
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“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this..is no democracy.”
(Abraham Lincoln) August 1, 1858
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AI generated podcast version:
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I have created an AI podcast version with additional information from my article ‘Direct Decentralised Democracy’:
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A kingfisher in a shaking flight over the river Berkel in Vreden / Germany / NRW, Joefrei
“…As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell ’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
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Little escaped their minute attentions and predations:
The Soul, an early casualty
Of more precise instrumentation
Senescence, just another
Dragon to be slayed
The mysteries gave way
To complex refutation
AI generated image
Too few paused
To wonder whether
Ever quicker
Computation
Would unleash the
Ancient iron law
Of more is less
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