Sunday, August 25, 2019

Julian Assange/Red Adair


Someone who can extinguish AI fire.

Remember Red Adair?
He was called in to put out the fires in burning oil wells in Iraq after the Gulf war. He knew what he was doing, he’s been doing it all his life, fighting fires and oil blowouts.
Now lookout what’s happening to our planet and I put the blame firmly and squarely on the injudicious use of Artificial Intelligence as deployed by the rich and the greedy to gain control of the planet’s resources and data.
We’ve all seen The Great Hack, right? It shows the use of facebook data to target persuadable voters and usurp their votes by any means possible and I mean any means, hate speech, fear tactics, misinformation, you name it.
Now our house is quite literally on fire.  The Amazon rain forest is burning and funerals are being held for glaciers.
There are right wing autocrats in charge of the world’s biggest economies who are being held responsible by the people. What are they doing? I dunno.
One thing is apparent to me, and maybe others. Artificial Intelligence is dumb.
It has become the dog in the manger, guarding the resources precious to the rest of the farm whilst in fact in cannot stomach the hay itself.
AI’s now gather our thoughts, instincts, loves, hates, emotions and turn them into plastic and bubble gum while the planet literally burns. No remorse, kindness or love apparent, these qualities do not seem to be factored in by the programmers and builders of Artificial Intelligence.  
We have one hope, and I’d say one hope only, if it is not too late and his mental state has not deteriorated so far that he can’t even remember his own name, so we have to remember it for him: Julian Assange.
The truth will set us free
that’s what an angel said to me
and what more can there be
then the word?
Word up, if Julian Assange could please be given a decent cup of coffee, a haircut and a new suit and quite possibly more visits with the professionals of his choice, he may, and I say may, have some clues, as, just like Red Adair, he has been doing it all his life; he may have some clues on how to shut down these out of control AI driven blowouts that are an imminent threat to the existence of our universe.