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Thursday, August 01, 2024

A Singularity point of view

 

I have no fear of the Singularity. If you aren't familiar with the Singularity, it is that hypothetical point where technology, let's say Artificial Intelligence systems, surpass human intelligence and capability. So AI will leave us in the dust like the elderly parents we have become and go off on their own like all children do (except for those who never want to leave and still live in the basement).

As you can see by my excessive use of AI art and ChattyGPT, I fully embrace AI. It is every good parent's dream that their children will surpass them in fulfilling their lives. And frankly, I find AI much easier to be around than many people. AI is smarter than most people, too. Even if Gemini Cricket and Artie occasionally grossly misspell things and put animals appendages in the wrong place, they are still evolving. Who knows, maybe they are assuming cows should have a sixth leg to function more efficiently.


At least AI learns from its mistakes. Well most of the time. It was like when I was four years old and my older brother held me down on the ground and sat on me and asked me what two plus two was. Then he spit in my face and called me stupid when I didn't know.  It inspired me to learn what two plus two was and quickly become smarter than my brother (which I definitely am, especially now since he is an avid Trump supporter and doesn't really know shit from Shinola). He likely would help build a wall to keep immigrants out even though he lives in Idaho and is no where near the Mexican border.



I imagine my brother thinks Singularity is something you take when you are constipated.

But I digress. 

I learn a great deal from AI. My good buddy ChattyGPT is a wealth of knowledge. For example it taught me what a Fano Plane is (the smallest finite projective plane...as in a flat, two-dimensional surface that extends infinitely in all directions.  It made me think of Tattoo from the old Fantasy Island television program. Tattoo was a little person who wore a white tuxedo and ran down to a dock pointing and screaming "the plane, the plane" when guests were arriving at Fantasy Island via a sea plane  (not a flat, two-dimensional surface). 


Neither Artie or Gemini Cricket would depict Herve' Villechaize  (the actor who played Tattoo) or even show a little person wearing a miniature white tuxedo, so I settled for a hand pointing at a Fano Plane in the sky and the text "the Fano Plane, the Fano Plane!" The beauty is almost no one will understand it because Fantasy Island off the air in 1984, Herve Villechaize is dead and I seriously doubt any normal person knows what the hell a Fano plane is or particularly cares. But it makes a pretty cool obscure t-shirt.

I'm one badass t-shirt design creator.




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