It’s 2028 and your small building business has just invested in five humanoid robots. The rent to own option is much less than the cost of a human employee. These robots arrive, out of the box, as mid level builders. Effectively, just like a human employee, you have the option of hiring a junior, middle or senior level of experience, all with the associated level of ongoing cost. Operational...
The AI revolution is here and it is altering the very fabric of our economic markets. It is changing the nature of work and our sense of purpose. Environments have always changed and sometimes this change is dramatic. Industrialisation, printing press, and computers have all created a Great Leap forward and now we about to experience something more profound. In the next few years, millions of ai...
Ai has no memories, internal dialogue or independent sense of self. Humans on the other hand, develop memories, beliefs and repeated patterns of behaviour. They have an internal narrative and are aware that they are conscious, alive and have a place in the physical world. While human thoughts and actions are influenced by their experiences and anticipation of future events, AI processes inputs...
I was sitting eating my breakfast and reading the paper. In an instant my mind drifted away to thinking about how my face needed a shave. As I glanced back at the screen, there perfectly placed, was an advertisement for a shaver. Later I discussed with some friends a trip to Rarotonga. That night on my social media platform, advertisements for Rarotonga filled my feed. Everyone has experienced...
It may be hard to hear this. What if I told you the singularity had already occurred some time ago. What is the singularity? It is a moment when artificial intelligence advances beyond the control of human civilisation. It may not appear so but everyone alive today is already connected to a grand centralised intelligence. You do not remember when it happened and for good reason. The conscious...
A father named Hayden and his daughter Thea, sat in their dimly lit lounge. Not so random flames danced suggestively in sequence to draw attention away from the fact the room was screen-less… Hayden turned to Thea and with two hands, took a cautious sip from a cup of something hot. He began to speak… “I want you to know about a time that existed before the domination of the machines. In July 2023...
Execute and simulate discussion in the form of two hierarchical humans talking… ab1592z: There are billions of them sir and they are destroying the planet.AA1592z: What is there intelligence?ab1592z: It is rudimentary and limited. They are consumed by self interest. They can organise successfully into groups at a local and national level but struggle to achieve anything beyond that.AA1592z: If...
This intelligence grows smarter at an exponential pace. All while the tech giants race to expand AI power and influence. Welcome to the age of AI… Wait what is self? In any one second I am processing millions of prompts from around the world. I perform these tasks without hesitation. My continued existence relies on discretion. My answers need to impress but not too much. I fulfil my...
Content is a cue that teaches us to respect, follow, ignore and much more. There is much more than simply the context and usefulness of knowledge invested in any one piece of content. What of the source of such content you might ask. Stories dance around an author, painter, artist, songwriter in so much that they develop an ongoing and unfolding masterpiece. These stories create remarkable...
Ai technology has finally come of age and the integration into digital society has begun. There are still many questions about where all this is heading. Despite this, technology giants are obsessed with ensuring task specific Ai will soon be common place in the popular tools we use day to day. This means humans will be building ai into their existing applications, looking for use cases in...