IBM desperately need s you now.

I atsrted at IBM in 1962 as am IBM Systems Engineer calculating on an IBM 604 calculating punch, before that IBM System/360computer

THe very basis of todays AI technlogy, as well as Tesls’s autonomus Full Self Driving (FSD) is capturing the informationin real-time, and IBM simply does not do that, and rejested doing that a decade ago.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6t4tusFZ5c

I think technology predates science by millennia. The Egyptians used advanced technology without resorting to the scientific method.

Hmmm seems to assume that all Ivy(ish) league school attendees are “rich”…Definitely not in the above case.

Let’s just look at this as an example of the out of whack US costs for “training” carbon-based life forms from say the era of the 1970s to the turn of the millennium. My 70’s CompSci program total 4 year cost (at a US state Uni) versus 1st year salary, perhaps $1 to $2 (in my favor).

Versus the above school (non-STEM program) of $1 to 25 cents. A horrible ratio inversion and speaks to the increasing cost of training aspiring US middle class, non-STEM office workers in the modern age (yeah definitely making the ROI for training silicon-based “life forms” look more attractive).

Technology is just an implementation of science.

“This is not fiction, but it is science.”

It’s about technology, not science. Science doesn’t alter the world; technology does.

I understand you.

But the big question is: Do we need AI? and the answer is yes and no. That leads to a much bigger question: How big the Yes, and how big is the NO?

I was making a general point, not specifics, and here in my home market where most of this hyperscaling and clouding is still going on.

But I see your points.

My point is that the argument will be made that people evolve and move too slowly, that things are more complex than people can handle, and that automation will be cheaper and easier. And that there is plenty of room to argue for cost efficiencies for deploying AI on a broad scale.

I did not wade even a little bit into the cultural and societal ramifications of this. I am aware of them, but that is not the task of The Next Platform. But I do feel that it is our job to establish the parameters of why certain kinds of computing are happening and the market forces at work. It’s 3 billion people in a workforce and heaven only knows how many billions of virtual and physical robots. We will see how this all shakes out.

Just for fun, when I asked Claude Sonnet what the implications might be for AI adoption, it dodged the question. Perhaps it has been taught to do that.

Well, rich people drive Bugattis, poor people drive a Kia. To get from point A to point B these two dissimilar vehicles have to take the same highway that imposes the same speed limit on both.

My point is there is diminished return in everything. Hyper-expensive universities won’t make rich kids more intelligent or get them faster to their destination(career). One thing for sure over-rated schools offer is they provide a lot of entertainment for bored spoiled brats; they are becoming more like 6-star resorts.

In the meantime there is a little guy who was born in Calcutta just got his dream job at OpenAI. How much did cost to get him there? I guess not much. Maybe India should teach America one or two things about efficiency.

And by the way, the brain consumes just 20 Watts. So, a team of 100 engineers who build technological marvels, collectively requires a mere 2000 Watts of power.

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“If you want to be at the top of the food chain on Earth, as human beings have ascended to after millions of years of evolution, …”
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“What has been clear for years – and what still is very clear – is just how far ahead Nvidia is compared to its competition in completeness of vision and implementation of that vision when it comes to AI in its many forms. Jensen Huang lives in the future, and that future reverberates with the science fiction that many of us have read. It remains to be seen how the rest of us will fare. This is not fiction, but it is science. And at some point, after it becomes economics, it will become politics. Perhaps faster than many think.

We shall see.”

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“And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.”
Genesis 2:2

Nobody cares what God says in his word (the truth), because we humans today know it better.

…what does God then?

…because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2 Thessalonians 2:10b-11

…they really MUST believe their dreams, visions, simulations, … as God let them come true and let them find new things from day to day, and does not let see them the truth.
“At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.” Matthew 11:25
That’s the biggest punishment.

How did Elon Musk say in an interview on Lex Fridman, when asked what he would ask an AGI if he would have one question (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEv99vxKjVI&t=1913s) after he thought some seconds?

“What’s outside the simulation.”

He is not that far away…and at the same time he is one of the main persons, which is deepest blinded by this simulation, or better said, by this lie God send to e.g. show him, who is God, and who not (we humans)…

At the end it’s still the old lie from the beginning, told by the already defeated devil: “…and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil….” Genesis 3:5

“Death is inevitable…” as Matthew MacDougall, Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink said (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbk9BiPhm7o&t=17637s).

…and still people live as if they would live forever and could not die every coming second…if they would be able to see this, to really see this, everybody would say: “First of all I have to make clear that I have peace with this God who will judge me at the end and decide, if I go to hell or heaven, as I do not know if I live anymore in some seconds.”
They would pray to God to let Him understand his word, know their sins (which can be seen by his commandments, which we do not do), and they would find Jesus Christ as the only one, as he paid for their sins, and they would let themselves being baptized (if not already baptized as a baby, which is fine, if not even better, also if false prophets like charismatic, pentecostal or baptism tell you:
“Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.” Mark 10:15)

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
2 Corinthians 5,21

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3,27

…and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1 Peter 1,13

…it is always sad for me to see, how people are, as I also was as this…and I loved my past life…when I was in the past…today, I hate it and every old “pings” from the past, and I’m relieved to not live in it anymore…but still (sadly it is true) a sinner, but having the righteousness put on like clothes…and have not to fear death, as God is my father…all of that I do not deserve at all…au contraire…
…that’s pure grace…