In my view, YouTube GPT or whatever they call it, will offer us some hilarious views of ourselves in the mirror, shown here as the phonies we sometimes seem to be, even to ourselves.
Deep fake pundits go on for hours, jabbering fluently, or so it sounds, about the events of the day, weaving in some analysis, plugging a product, handing off to another talking head. All done by AI, according to deep ruts in the existing corpus, using standard newspeak (includes intonation).
That machines have caught up with phony intelligence and get to mimic us, throws that old monkey wrench of self doubt into the picture. So we’re not gods after all. We’re back to being robots again, Pinocchios, all proud of our so-called “consciousness” only to discover we never had any.
That glass was empty, whereas the “unconscious” runneth over with nonsensical content.
Life is a tale told by an idiot and yadda yadda. Wait, am I cutting and pasting from a chatterbox right now?
What I’m really looking forward to is Quant TV GPT, meaning some Wall Street like nonsense with bulls against bears. Should we be looking at T-Bills or holding out for a better yield that’s also more secure? What would that be? Theranos? Just kidding.
But that’s the thing: we’re allowed to go bust on a mega scale. Humans make ruinous choices, but we often edit those out when writing official history. What’s historic, memorable, worth recording, are those few non-ruinous courses of action.
I’ve had my own bookkeeping language, influenced by the “sunshine school” (an elite of the astronomically minded).
On the assets side, sunshine begets flowing rivers and the “water wheels” i.e. the labor-saving devices (including electronics) employed by humans to augment their own potential. Photosynthesis, likewise fusion powered, begets both gas exchange and jungle formation.
On the liabilities side, we’re in a world of hurt, a Ghetto Planet, suffering from the consequences of our own inaction and/or wrong actions.
