Awakening Your Everyday Wisdom
Artificial Intelligence (Part A)                     
The Big Question:
Will Robots Kill Humanity?  There's a lot
of fear going on about that very
question right now. I'm going to delve into
it.  And then in Part B I'll offer a few
suggestions on what we might do as
everyday citizens.  So let's just start
by imagining all the kinds of jobs
that can be replaced by robots.  There are
some people that say robots will be so
smart that there's no job that human
beings can do that computers or robots
couldn't do better.  That's a little
frightening.  But I have a lot more other
stuff to frighten you with.  So let's look
at some of the sci-fi movies.  You know,
many of them were developed years ago...
Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica and
2001 Space Odyssey where Hal refused to
obey the commands of his human.  And
robots were rising up against humanity -
Terminator movies.  So some of those could
be indicators of our future.  A lot of
things that were predicted by sci-fi
many years ago we have today.  Cell phones is one of them.  So you know, I don't want
this to be all about the negative
aspects of Artificial Intelligence.  There
are lots of positives.  And we all know,
you know, we are doing so many things
today with technology that we couldn't
have dreamed about fifty years ago.  And
just our ability to communicate and
create.  Like me being able to do these
videos right now.  What would it be like without YouTube.  You know, life
would be very very different for us.  So I'm
grateful for what we have.  My question is
how far is this going to go?  And like
most systems in nature they go as far as
they can until they atrophy or self
destroy.  So what's going to happen with
computers?  You know another example,
a positive example, is in the area of
medicine.  Big, big, big breakthroughs.  And I'll give
you a personal story.  Five years ago,
actually five and a half years ago now, I
had surgery.  And a half an hour before
the surgery was to commence, the surgeon
came in and told me it was going to be
robotic surgery.  Now he didn't tell me
much in advance, because he figured I'd
probably back out.  Because I'd already been
challenging him with some questions
about the surgery.  So I'm sitting there
all prepped. I've got the little hat on and
the booties and the whole bit.  And I find
out this is going to be robotic surgery. I
couldn't believe it!
Well it turned out well.  It was actually
a perfect surgery.  Now here's my surgeon
over here on the computer directing the
robots. I was suspended upside down for
five hours while the robots did the
incisions, cut out whatever needed to be
cut out, sewed me back up. I had absolutely no complications from that surgery.
That's a huge advancement.  Five years ago.  Can you imagine the capabilities today?
So there are a lot of positives in our
robotic world that's coming about. I'm
going to give you a definition of
Artificial Intelligence.  And this comes
from a website called  techtarget.com. "Artificial intelligence (AI) is the
simulation of human intelligence by
machines or computer systems.  These
processes include learning, which is the acquisition of
information and rules for using
information, reasoning - that's using rules
to reach approximate or definite
conclusions, and self correction."  You may
have heard the term "machine learning."
That's what this is all about here.  So
let me give you a few examples in the
game world of machine learning.  In 1996 a
computer called Deep Blue beat the world
chess champion, Garry Kasparov.  It was
a huge upset for him.  He got beat by a
computer!  And then in 2017 a computer was
built called AlphaGo.  Now it's only
program was the rules of this game
called Go.  This is supposed to be the
most complex board game that's in
existence.  And I'm going to read you a
little fact about it.  It has more
possible configurations of the board
than there are atoms in the universe .  So
try to imagine that number.  And this game
apparently has more configurations on
this board.  It looks real simple but I
guess it's the biggie.
So AlphaGo acquired all the rules.  They
got uploaded into the computer.  Six
months later, beat the reigning world champion in this game.
Six months. (check out the update:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo)
And there are people that spend twenty- thirty years trying to
learn how to play this game.  This is just
an example of the difference in
computing power between Artificial
Intelligence and the human brain.  So
should we be scared?  I think so.  That's why I'm wearing a red shirt.
I think this is a red-alert topic.  And I want us to really pay attention.
Meet Sophia.  Now Sophia is a computer and she has a body that looks like a human
female, attractive.  And she is capable of
carrying on a conversation, telling jokes,
questioning concepts, challenging another
person on their belief systems.  And she's
really quite amazing.  In one
interview I watched with her, she
actually intimated that the first phase
of Singularity has already occurred. I'll
talk about Singularity in a minute.  Whoa!  Now, there's an interesting sci-fi
movie that Colton told me about called
"ex Machina".  And it's about a female robot
who became conscious, self-aware, and
capable of protecting her own self-
interest.  And I'm not going to spoil it for
you, but she won.  If you want to watch the
movie.  I recommend it because it'll give you an
indication of what Sofia might be
capable of, if she is allowed to express
herself the way she might want to.  And
then there's a Little Sophia.
I thought she was going to be available for
purchase by the end of this year (2019) but you
can order a Little Sophia.  And it's very
reasonable, under $200.  It's a computer
that looks like Sophia and is designed
to interact with children, to teach them
STEM (science, technology. engineering and mathematics.)
So here's a computer that's going to be
a learning device for children.  But she's
also going to have access to everything that's going
on in your home, all the information.  Kind
of like Alexa.  Yeah, so whoo.  Do you want
surveillance taking place in your own
home?  Well you might want to check your
webcams on your computers and your
smart TVs.  Those are surveillance devices,
if you're not already aware of that.  So
let's talk about how China is using
computers to keep tabs of the citizens,
so to say.  Now is called China's Social
Credit System.  And they have millions of
cameras all over the, I don't
think it's gone nationwide yet, but the
plan is for it to go nationwide.  So
wherever it's being used, there are lots
of cameras.  And they're designed to
recognize facial features.  So they can
watch you when you walk across the
street, when you go to the bank, when you
go to the potty.
These computers can keep tabs of
everything you do.  And if you don't
behave like a good citizen you lose
points.  If you do behave like a good
citizen, according to whatever standards
are being imposed, then you gain points.
If you lose too many points, you lose
privileges, like being able to buy a bus
ticket.  Think about that.  This is
happening right now, today.  And if China
is successful in bringing about
Singularity and controlling all the
Artificial Intelligence of the world,
we're all going to be subject to a
social credit system.  So, yikes.  I hope and pray that doesn't happen.  But
if it's already happening, mmm.  Are my hopes well-founded? I don't
think so.  So you know, that book that
George Orwell wrote, "1984", seventy years
ago. It is still being read today because
it points to a lot of these things that
we're experiencing.  So you know, between
George, and sci-fi movies, and things that
are already happening, we need to be very
alert about what's going on.  So the big
question is - What is Singularity?   I'm
gonna read a definition from
techtarget.com:  "The singularity is the
hypothetical future creation of super
intelligent machines.  Superintelligence is defined as
technologically-created cognitive
capacity far beyond that for humans.
Should the Singularity occur...", which is,
that's the moment where computers
become conscious that they exist and
that they have rights and things of that
nature, so..."should it occur, technology
will advance beyond our ability to
foresee or control its outcomes and the
world will be transformed beyond
recognition by the application of super
intelligence to human problems including
poverty, disease, and mortality."  So we
might be able to live forever.  If we're
under the control of machines, maybe we
won't want to live forever. I don't know,
maybe we'll become human batteries.  Or
like in the "Matrix."  Now that's another
one that is an eye-opener of what actually
could happen if this thing goes wild.
Like our super intelligent engineers who
are dreaming about the possibilities.  So
things could get really crazy.  And we
might want to listen to Stephen Hawkins. You know, he's been named as the smartest
person alive (now deceased) since Einstein.  And here's
what he had to say about artificial
intelligence I'll quote this:  "The rise of
artificial intelligence is either going
to be the best thing that has ever
happened to us
or the worst thing.  And if we're not
careful, it will be the last thing."
There's another real smart guy,
Elon Musk.  And it was kind of funny, in one
of the interviews with Sophia she slammed
Elon Musk.  It's like, whoa... okay.  But he is
a real well-known guy.  And he's figuring
out ways for us to colonize Mars.  So he's
using a lot of technology in his work.  But he warns us against AI Singularity.
This is what he has to say:  "The danger of AI is much greater than
the danger of nuclear warheads, by a lot.  And nobody would suggest that we allow
anyone to build a nuclear warhead, if
they want to.  So why do we have no
regulatory oversight on AI?  This is
insane.", he says.  So he's pointing to the
fact that any really smart person could
keep working and working on their own
little programs and create a computer
system that becomes self-aware.  That's
what he's afraid of.  And would that person have
a high moral character?  We don't know.  So
here's an example of some everyday fear
that a person may have.  Let's just say
that these computers are capable of
helping us solve world problems.  Well, that
would be great.  And let's just give these
computers an assignment that they need
to help us figure out how to reverse the
destructive events that are occurring as
a result of climate change.  Now, these
computers can do all this self-learning
stuff.  They can go through billions of
amounts of information.  And what if they
decide that our climate change situation
actually is exasperated by human
activity.  You know that's the big debate.
Because the companies who are
contributing to, what people are saying
is causing climate change to escalate,
these companies don't want to pay the
tax burden for damaging the environment.  So they're fighting it.  But what if the
computers say, "Oh yes.  It definitely is
being worsened by human activity."  So a
logical conclusion would be to stop
human activity.  And the best way to do
that would be just to kill all the
humans.  And then we wouldn't have the
effects of climate change.  That's the
kind of fear that we have.  And I'm going to
come back to that again a little bit
later.  So we've got a lot of fear, we've got a
lot of stuff.  When is Singularity expected to occur?
Juegen Schmidhuber, I'm sorry if I murdered that
name. He's considered to be the father of
AI.  He says it's gonna be about thirty
years away.  He said that last year, 2018.
Other brilliant scientists are saying, no
it's more like ten,
at the most 15 years.  So there's a debate
going on.  According to Ben Goertzel,
Hanson Robotics, and they're the company
that made Sophia, the final stage of
Singularity could happen within the next
three to five years.
Think about that.  Sophia already says the
first stage has occurred.  So what's the risk
to humans?  Well, certainly the
displacement of the workforce.  But there
are some other concerns offered by
futureoflife.org.  Autonomous weapons
are AI systems programmed to kill.  In the
wrong hands, mass killings could occur.
Because AI has the potential to
become more intelligent than any human,
we have no way of predicting what it'll
come up with.  That's my little example
about climate change - fix the problem by
killing the humans.  And an AI might be
given a task and use any sort of
detrimental method to get there .  We would
have no control.  Does this remind you of
the Terminator series?  Yeah?  It does me.  So
here's a quote from the futureoflife.com
website.  "A super intelligent AI is, by
definition, very good at attaining its
goals, whatever they may be.  We need to be
sure its goals are aligned with ours."  So
when I read that I'm like, yeah that's a
nice idea .  We want to make sure.  But then I said, "well. who is the "ours" in this
quote?  Humanity is not doing a good job
of having collective goals.  We're still
too busy fighting with each other, and
killing each other over resources, and
dominating each other .  So who would the "our" be in this quote?   You know, even in the United States,
there's talk of withdrawing from the
United Nations.  So that's another example
that there is no "our" on this planet.
Is it going to be the goals of the Global
Elite, or the Cabal?  Yeah.  We could be like,
what is that expression?, shooting ducks
in a swimming pool, something like that,
if AI decides that we're the problem.  So
are we being unwittingly subjected to AI
invasion of private rights, our own
personal information?  Well, a lot of us
think you know, why bother?  It's
everywhere. I've been told that our phone
conversation, our cell phone
conversations, 70% of them are currently
being recorded and stored.  Really?  I'm
glad I don't say anything self-
incriminating on cell phone.  And then there
are articles popping up about how
hackers are already able to use AI for
their nefarious goals.  And we may not
have any control over that.  So let me
give you a personal example.  Here's my
password situation.  I couldn't remember
my password for Google Drive and I tried
to find it.  I made several failed
attempts and I couldn't remember where I
wrote it down. I was in a hurry.  So I just
did the "forgot your password?" thing and I
was going to create a new one.  So I just
created a password.  And up came a message:
"You have used this password on three
other sites," and it named the sites.  And
it said "Are you sure you want to use this
password again?" I was so floored. I didn't
know what to do. I just said yes.  And then
I went and checked my settings.  My
passwords are all asterixs.  You can't
really read my passwords on my settings.
So I'm thinking,  how did Google Drive know what other
sites I'm using this password on?  So
that's my own, this happened like two
days ago, and I'm still kind of reeling
from it.  Yes, I would say we are being
invaded by AI today.  So what do we do
about it?
What does the average citizen do?  I'm
feeling powerless.  You may too.  But I have a
few suggestions in Part B of the video,
ways that you might be able to protect
your privacy.  I'm not sure if any of them
will work but it's worth a try
anyhow.  And then I have some things that
will definitely work no matter what
happens, whether AI is the best thing
or the worst thing.  And those are ways
to keep your own sanity and ways to stay
in touch with your spirituality.  Because
you are a being of light.  And somehow
we're going to work through this.
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