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Continual Learning is Consciousness.
My book A Level of Consciousness, was not about AI, it was about humans, but in several areas went deep into my thoughts on the mysteries of consciousness, with several parallels that translate to the singularity/sentient/not-sentient arguments raging today. I … Continue reading
Artificial Super-Intelligence May Require a Level of Trust We’re Not Willing to Give
If I (as user Alice) open an AI session (and choose your AI poison here) then type into it a unique statement of fact that neither the internet, nor anybody else in the universe knows. Then, at another computer, in … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Probably Bull-shit, Won't age well
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The Internet is Rotting from Within
As I mentioned at the end of my previous post, my 3 months trial of social media is currently at an end as I cannot get on X, basically because I cannot verify I am a human. I tick the … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Prove You're Human, Security
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Debugging (Yet Another) R2350 Dev Board!
Just like publishing a book and going to print, passing your Gerber files to a PCB assembly house usually results in days and days of checking everything is correct, pushing the button, and immediately finding an error somewhere when it … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, PicoMite, RP2350, Uncategorized
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All My Novels are Now Free to Download/Read
I am in no particular rush to finish my next novel, the timeline is this year, but it is not as if I have hoards of fans clamoring for it, so it will come when it is good and ready. … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, Books, Publishing, Science Fiction, writing
Tagged Free eBook, Free ePub, sci-fi, Techno-Thriller
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The X Factor
To do a good technical post that will get a few thousand clicks from a technical audience, you really need to do something interesting that has not been done before. Nobody is going to click on another digital alarm clock … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Philosophy, Publishing, The Ramblings of an Old Man, writing
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Three Technologies I want to see before I die:
Number 1: The ORAC Computer I will start with what I think is going to be the easiest, an AI Computer, that can interact with voice, gestures and understands every nuance of interacting with a human. When I was a … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Eagle Transporter, Fusion, Orac, Space 1999
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NOW is the Time to Eat Their Lunch
Not sure where to start on this one. We are in the most rapidly evolving time I have ever lived in, it seems like everything in the world is going crazy, then the icing on the cake, along comes AI. … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Critical Thinking, Efficiency, Management, New Zealand, Office Politics, Philosophy, Politics, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man
Tagged change, Go for it!, re-structuring, redundancy, singularity
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Random Emails from Strangers are Still Nice to Get.
The one positive aspect from having a blog site, and being an author is the occasional person who decides to write you an email out of the blue. The first time it happened was back in 2017, I had written … Continue reading
Preparing For the AI Future Should be Top of Your List!
Humans are creatures of habit, and you may not like this, but almost everything meaningful you do in your day to day life can be reduced to a series of prompts. Ditto for your work, especially if you are sat … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, New Zealand, Philosophy, Politics, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man
Tagged Disaster Planning, OpenClaw, Worst Case Scenarios
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AI Coding: 2022 Sci-Fi, Versus March 2026 Reality
I was researching some bare-metal assembly code for a 2D shooter RP2350 arcade board I am developing as a personal project, and got to a segue where things were going a bit too well on the coding front; so I … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Other Programming, Philosophy, RP2350, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Holy Shit!
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The Utopian AI Problem Few People are Talking About.
The current bunch of AI’s out there are smarter, and in some cases even more empathetic than many people I have dealt with, yet I would turn these AI’s off without a seconds though if needed. I would not however … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Philosophy, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged AGI, ASI, consciousness, life, Sentience
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