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AI on my Sci-Fi

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Solving Super Problems As you possibly know, I wrote a sci-fi book about Superintelligence (several notches up from current AI) exploring what such a self-aware, self-motivating, self-improving artificial intelligence would actually do with all that "brain" power.   Check me out HERE Being a giddy optimist, I had my Supe, named Lucas, use its mighty Mind to work on humanity's overwhelming problems. Whoo boy, did he ever get to work. One of the big probs he (OK, AIs don't have gender -- unless they want to) went to work on what was actually two problems that he lumped into one solution. PROBLEM ONE:     12 million hectares of agricultural soils are lost globally through soil degredation every year, becoming  unproductive and often abandoned. Looking at you, monoculture! Just try growing something in me. HAR! PROBLEM TWO : The fast-developing sargassum plague.   Climate change and direct human impact have led to an explosion of new rotting seaweed accumulating o...

Keeping AI From Getting Away From Us

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  Lotta Smart People Think AI is Going to Get Dangerous AI is suddenly all over the news and all it's variants on the Web. Talk is (of course) rampant that it's getting so smart so fast it might just   eat its creators. These concerns have been around since long before ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, Chat Bing and all the others about to blossom onto the scene.   We want wonderful, humane, empathetic, humble, wise, big-time-fans-of-humanity AI's, not the scary ones. Sci-fi types (I admit guilt there) have been saying it for decades. Remember HAL-9000’s, “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that.”  Then give the A.I. weapons and we have SkyNet, killing off the vermin humans in the Terminator movies. Grandmaster Isaac Asimov was the center of a cluster of sci-fi authors who recognized the threat back in the ‘40s and before. (Ahead of our time, we are.) Back here in reality, we are already on (or over!) the cusp of giving weapons to A.I.s.  HAROP DRONE AT THE 2013 PARIS AIR SHO...

Something Great from Facebook...

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 OK, ok, Meta ... ...MAYBE  (So far it's an aspiration) As an established superfan of A.I., I see the UT (universal translator) as a PA (providential application) of mankind's new supertool.  Emancipating, it would be for us mono-linguistic types.  I see me in, say, Costa Rica talking to my great new dentist, perfect Costa Rican Spanish going into his earbuds and perfect English translation into mine as we discuss implants and crowns.  Then I would chat with his Ukrainian tech. Be still my heart. A.I. is getting better by the minute -- on its way to S.I., superintelligence -- and I really have no doubt the Universal Translator is coming soon.  Meta has the bucks and the motivation to make it happen, so for once I am cheering for Mark Zuckerberg. I will cheer even louder when I can download the App. BTW, notice Zuck's new hairdo? What next, a hat? Read the piece on Babelfish. - - - - - - - - - CLICK HERE for   My newest Sci-Fi Novel. Guess what... ...