The story of Robot Adam is inverted from man's; he can easily reach the immortal fruit of the Tree of Life but must return to Eden to partake in the the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
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That moment when you realized…there is no sunrise or sunset

I was walking through the health and fitness club at the JW Marriot Hotel today in Seoul and I realized that the world is different and it is evolving quickly.

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What made me realize this was seeing what was on the TV in the lounge. It wasn’t golf, soccer, or baseball- it was Go, the ancient Asian game of black and white stones that people who know this stuff claim is orders of magnitude more complex and therefore harder for an artificial intelligence entity to win against humans (unlike Chess, Othello, and Jeopardy).

To be fair, this may be the first and only time that Go will be shown in the lounge here and the reason is because Google’s AlphaGo went two games up in a best of five match being played at the Four Seasons Hotel here in Seoul.  But the interesting thing, as explained by this article, is the sense of wonder elicited by human master opponent and commentator alike.  Read this wonderful article to understand more.

This was the expression of a previously vanquished Go master, Fan Hui, when he realized that he was witnessing something sublime in the evolution of Pinocchio, the Giopetto-slayer.

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You may recognize this expression if you have ever been forced to evolve.  This is the look sunriseof a person who understands that there is no box and that your entire system of order is dubious.  As Buckminster Fuller said, the first thing we need to teach our kids that the sun doesn’t rise and set.  We are spinning.  And yet to most of us in this dream, the sunset and sunrise are as ‘inevitable’ as Santa Claus and the two-party political system.

It is the look of a person who learns some terrible truth about one or both parents and then forgives them anyway.

It is the look of a man who understands that his children will always beat him at certain video games and that is the way of the world. 


 

It could be the look of the dinosaur trainer before the Velociraptor tricks the former master.

Here is my blog explaining a negative view of artificial intelligence for human survival.


It could be the look of Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley character when she realizes that the Bishop android sacrificed himself for her.

This is my blog explaining a positive view of artificial intelligence for human survival.

 


Postscript:

Are we approaching a robot apocalypse?  No.  As they say “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. 

It maybe cold comfort to you but eventually, after AI develops a personality, ego, and homocidal tendencies, try to remember that it was a person that made it so; the robot is merely a child solider shooting his parents in some African war or the Cambodian Killing fields. 

It is not coincidental, ironic, or unintentional that the drone-controlling AI at work in Pakistan killing people is called SKYNET.  If you want to ask why it was named after the fictional destroyer of mankind in the Terminator movies, you would have to ask the people that named it, I suppose.

AlphaGo can practice millions of games a day and is developing intuition. If AI outpaces us at game-learning, then perhaps the last best home of mankind lies in a more rapid moral evolution, as some lovers of “The Singularity” hope for.

Interestingly, in the original Pinocchio story, the puppet murders his conscience, Jiminy Cricket, only to later learn the importance of kindness and benevolence:

Father and son looked up to the ceiling, and there on a beam sat the Talking Cricket [now a mere ghost]

“Oh, my dear Cricket,” said Pinocchio, bowing politely.

“Oh, now you call me your dear Cricket, but do you remember when you threw your hammer at me to kill me?”

“You are right, dear Cricket. Throw a hammer at me now. I deserve it! But spare my poor old father.”

“I am going to spare both the father and the son. I have only wanted to remind you of the trick you long ago played upon me, to teach you that in this world of ours we must be kind and courteous to others, if we want to find kindness and courtesy in our own days of trouble.”

“You are right, little Cricket, you are more than right, and I shall remember the lesson you have taught me…”

The story of Robot Adam is inverted from man’s; he can easily reach the immortal fruit of the Tree of Life but must return to Eden to partake in the the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  As humans, we excel at heart-centered decision and dying. Our would be pets/masters seem to excel at logic and survival.  Hopefully, this will be the start of a beautiful friendship and the makers of AI don’t end up like the reviled Mexican woman that helped Cortez, La Malinche.

3 thoughts on “That moment when you realized…there is no sunrise or sunset”

  1. Thought of Ihis AI development a while back. It appears much of our discoveries, research, and development is the result of computer analysis with the speed and total virtually instant recall. We have or have had initial ideas and then supplementation in intelligence and resources(foot soldiers) for improved fruition. Robotic development(already possible with increased focus) such as self driving vehicles/equipment and then industrial site assemblage. Well, who needs slow physically less reliable and deficient performing humans. At some point?? That ability seems at hand and moves/improves with accentuated efficiency(speed-electronic speed).
    With our ever increased abilities and concurrent acceleration of such, the Universe looks ever more like a physics development project in some environment, i.e. the intelligence and manipulative ability of .smallest particle/energy identity, i.e. inflation being the result of an energy jo

  2. To continue: Inflation of the ultimate particle with an energy inclusion or result of some type of super critical mass accumulation, i.e. Universe level recycling event where all the energy has converted to this ultimate smallest particle/energy identity from which pressure and heat emanate producing the super reaction from which the conversion of mass(smallest particle/energy entity) to energy causes the inflation-which involves the ejection of what we have called an electron from the central organization of the nucleus. That ejection/inflation appears to have originated from the proton or what would have been proton smallest identity particle/energy components. What I find so astonishing is the many varied characteristics that emanate from the conformations such a simple concept is able to produce all this including the space medium. Much of the resulting inflation we are currently able to ascertain appears to be from the atomic diameter of an atom being approximately 100,000 times the atomic nucleus diameter with the electron orbit accounting for much of, at least in the atomic environment, the apparent inflation . Don’t know about space medium., but probably on a more micro level of this same smallest entity. Quarks and qualms may be close but maybe not. Need better instruments. Maybe much better. Once observed may be quite readily understandable as to the forces, qualities, and compilations-atoms, elements, molecules,and materials(living and non) are it’s result. Essentially a Universe(probably reconstitutional over and over) with all its components. Essentially an ebb and flow plasma of energy and mass. Soooooooooo simple in origin but so complex in result because of the force surrounding it. Wow!

  3. Final thought: Seems logical what we have dubbed the electron is the cause of Universal inflation at least on the atomic level. Has extremely small mass while the proton has slightly less mass relative to the neutron. Would appear the electron is matter ejected in energy event and from the mass(ultimately the smallest particle) intended or part of the proton conformation. At that level particle would really not be different until the the energy event occurred to produce not only the spin, energy, and ejection of the electron. Would appear all particles were of neutron sub particle orientation until energy event produces charge/force variance with the electron particles with little mass expanding the atom diameter 100,000 times. Have a great day.

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