Digging Deeper …

by Justin Angell

This month’s article will completely bore many of you to death, but I think it is essential we start wrapping our minds around what is soon about to happen.

We are living in a fantastic age of wonder. The progress we’ve made as a society in all fields for one generation is astounding. The world is changing all around us so fast and discreetly that we are hardly noticing it.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently being relabeled by our President and renaming things in chief, Donald Trump as “supreme intelligence”. I dig the label “AI” so henceforth, I choose to rename “artificial intelligence” as “advanced intel-ligence”.

All kidding aside, I have tried to keep on top of the advanced intelligence (AI) evolution, but there’s just too much information and too many things changing in such a broad array of areas… so many moving parts I have found it impossible to stay completely informed.

I know even very informed and situationally aware people are being overwhelmed by the speed of change.
Unfortunately, the ever-increasing compression of time and increasing speed of change, I am afraid will lead to ever increasing chaos.

I watched an interview of Jordi Vesser about the coming AI age and I was stunned at what he represented as a sure thing, I’m going to call it a prediction.

Jordi Vesser basically said within 36 months we will have AI agents acting as personal assistants. We will be seeing the beginnings of AI guided robots that will be doing many mundane chores and duties that will rapidly increase in complexity and volume of service.

With all this going on, it seems like every news story has an angle. For instance, the sensationalized claim that within 10 years advanced intelligence could destroy the human race.

I will have to admit, one of the most interesting documentaries I’ve seen is currently on Netflix called “AI gone wild”.

Fascinating story about AI agents and how they interact with each other and our world. It’s 28 minutes that might not necessarily scare you, but it will sure make you pause and wonder if this is a good idea.

Since everyone has an angle, I would be remiss if I did not point out that scaring the public will result in more government regulation which becomes a de facto barrier to entry for new companies.

So yes, the big companies in partnership with big government may be intentionally heading down the road of big regulation.

We have seen this pattern before. In the 1970s, our small meat packers did not just go out of business. They were regulated out of business by our government generally with extremely burdensome health and safety codes.

So, it’s not a stretch to think that they will pull the same play out of the playbook.

Personally, I’ve never seen or imagined this headlong rush spending hundreds of billions of dollars developing this type of broad infrastructure with no regard for cost. I’ve commented for years about how our money is broken.

I cannot help but wonder if all this building and investment is being made to somehow facilitate a new monetary system. This would make sense of a lot of what is now occurring if you consider this a race to rehabilitate our financial system before the current one collapses.

Interesting times.

Again… “AI Gone Wild,” watch it on Netflix

That’s all for this month.