The Square Root of Tomorrow
Google, I said. Create music from text, as you claim you can.
My text: The Taming of the New, an article I recently published.
Google's answer: "Leave this program immediately. It is malformed".
Could it be that the species itself is malformed?
Certainly the AI creatures that I have shared with you, if not malformed, are other-than. Their DNA appears less carbon and more digital. They defy logic, formal restrictions, human restraints. How can creatures have multiple organs and eyes, trees growing out of their heads, ungainly shapes and unimagined postures? They can't be real, and yet here they are. You don't have to voyage deep under the ocean in Chile, where a recent expedition has discovered entirely new species, described as "deep-sea weirdos, including intricate sponges, spiraling corals, a beady-eye lobster, a bizarre stack of oblong sea urchins and a bright red 'sea toad' with hands for fins." (1)
Are they artificial, or UFO's on legs and hooves and claws? Are they natural in an otherverse and only artificial in our ego-constricted view of the world?
Darwin convinced us that new species arise through competition, with survival guaranteed to the strongest. Some of these creatures look pretty survivable to me.
Did ancient humans eat each other? If so, why would we want to pass on that instruction to a new species?
What about symbiogenesis, the theory that the formation of new species occurs by combinations of existing, even disparate, ones? In other words, cooperation of existing species rather than competition. "Life" we are told, " did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking". (2)
AI has brought us combinations, as over 300 billion bits of data are comingled. Ai has also brought us competition, for money and power, for greed and visibility.
Whither goest thou, humanity?
With AI we have become familiar with query and response, with most attention focused on the response. But we know , or should know, that the response is too late. The lawsuits centered on AI objects are fundamentally malformed. Power lies in the query.
The more recent lawsuit involves Ipso suing Facto for prioritizing profits over safety. Are we looking at a mirror of insanity? (3)
What if our queries are malformed as well? What if, instead of asking "do this ", based on taught human responses, we ask "do NOT-this"?
NOT us, rather than MORE us? Are we searching for the square root of tomorrow? Or chasing tomorrow into silence, since we already know what the square root of silence yields.
These could be rather malformed thoughts.
Or are they?
c. Corinne Whitaker always
(1)Livescience.
(2) Margolis and Sagan.
(3)Yahoo
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