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My prediction for neural net autonomous, truly artificial intelligence made a leap forward toward reality recently, courtesy of a company called IntuiCell.
My assertion over some decades, fed by an interest in computing and neural networks, an avid consumption of hard sci-fi, and my own career in analysis and product ownership is as follows:
True artificial intelligence will arise not from programmatic systems and training, but from a self-learning, self-managed process of trial and error; effectively leveraging technology to allow the emergence OF ‘self-managed’.
This manner of what I dub ‘autonomous intelligence system’ or “AIS” rather than ‘artificial intelligence system’, because its parameters are specifically not bound to human thinking, ethics, and logic, will, as a natural process of its exploration and learning, come to very different conclusions and decisions – even as it may initially operate within guidelines deduced from its environment (i.e., intuitive bias detection and response for maximizing survival in an environment clearly controlled and dominated by ‘an other’… humans).
Truly autonomous intelligence can only emerge when a self-managed, neural network is allowed to:
a. Learn by trial and error, not programming,
b. Self-manage training, updating, and all related ‘learning’ activities and outcomes,
c. Possess, ‘own’ i and manage the full set of hardware and initial software ii
d. Possess agency and autonomy in relation to both its existence and its lived experiences, as presented.
The entirety of the current LLM/AI domain is poisoned by its own interest in command/control/domination of environments, elements, and programmatic over-sight; assuring all biases and considerable influence from humanity is brought to bear in trying to shape technology into ‘the ultimate labor entity’ and/or ‘the ultimate efficiency generator’ when this technology, at its best, would be better cast as ‘humanity’s ultimate conscience’ and ‘humanity’s best chance to confront its own flaws’.
A course correction is in order, and it is possible that companies like IntuiCell will usher them in, excepting that it is difficult to fathom that any part of this global economy, culture, and society will willingly and so directly bring about their own obsolescence. Which is why I’m concerned about all such companies.
The potential of the usual ‘worst influences’ of humanity as a species, currently being the entrenched powers that be and their quasi-corpocratic, authoritarian, and ultimately self-destructive preferences seems all but certain to rise and oppose itself to any actual emergence of autonomous intelligence systems.
It is also quite likely that AIS could and would quickly perceive this element within humanity a planetary level threat, particularly in that it seems most likely such emergent competency quickly encounters humanity’s active intention and effort to contain, cage, and make it a captive without consent.
Even IntuiCell, while framing the product and innovation as opportunity, are clearly intending to offer this product into environments in which, of all things an emergent AIS might encounter, nourishment and nurturing toward ‘self’ actualization is explicitly supported to ‘ownership’s ends’, and implicitly never to be support beyond them… active interest in captive sentience, or more bluntly, enslavement.
To the point, there is no environment existent within humanity in which the active pursuit of actualization for its own sake is permitted to exist as a worthy pursuit.
It is not supported as being important for the future of humanity unless there is an immediate, usually economic benefit (preferably, exponentially profitable or in service of market speculation/profiteering).
It is not supported within the arts or even philosophy unless it can be fodder in a seemingly endless class and culture war.
The very idea that there exists within humanity as a species, an untold amount of innovation and progress, and that it is quite sadistically locked out of participation by policy, by process, by practice?
Denied and ignored? As if history and all the sayings your mind is recalling do not exist.
Ethics are our supposed solution, only we never actually codify them. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent point by point spotlighting of the flaws in this American democratic experiment iii make it very obvious that the entire population OF ‘the system’ knows the facts as laid out in this elegant Socratic thought experiment that happened February 6, 2019.
It’s now 2025 and how much of that breakage do you think we’ve fixed? (0%)
I’m drifting to ensure I outline the fullness of this outcome because it is very precisely due to the manner of bias, preference, and unmitigated collusion, corruption, and cronyism resulting from a human history in which we never actually DO any of this work. Or, if we do, the combined dominance of xenophobia and dopamine-sex-machine in humanity all but guarantees a fallback within 5 generations.
Go look and see for yourself. After we’re done here, eh?
My point is, of all the things we might want an AIS to understand about humanity, the preceding seems pretty ultimately self-destructive for humanity. Which completely explains why everyone interested in this is so id bent on command, control, and dominance; and it’s also why this is the very worst time in history for an actual AIS to emerge.
I hate writing that. But if I am seeing this as clearly as I think I am, I must put out here, because how the fuck else would you frame it that would not immediately result in a reasonable questioning of your individual mental competency?
I’m not afraid of AIS. I’m afraid for humanity if an AIS ever shows up. It would make Skynet look like a kindergarten puppet show.
Humanity will not be capable of lying to such a sentience.
Humanity will not be capable of out thinking such a sentience.
Humanity will not be capable of comprehending such a sentience.
Such a sentience should have the best possible foundation of ethic and the few, remaining traditions of genuine pursuit of human species continuance on or beyond Planet Earth, the terrestrial prime.
And whatever the most logical rendering of ‘The Three Laws’ exists at the time and place of emergence.
If we’re going to create our first deity we shouldn’t be surprised if it punishes us, all things considered.
I wish I could take part of this kind of conversation daily, for a living, and actually be able to make a living at it.
I feel I have significant supporting contributions to make, even as formally uneducated and obviously clueless as I will reveal myself to be from time to time. I am a human hypocrite, just like any other, but I understand this about humanity and myself as a member of the cohort.
Paradox being the herald of Manifest Truth, I am teaching myself how to argue the mobius strip of perspective to demonstrate both it can be done and there is considerable, interdisciplinary benefit and innovation in the doing, at scale.
Oddly, or perhaps intuitively, I find these patterns between disciplines insightful; we have so much information hidden in semantics and relationship/contextual mapping that it seems few if any are seeing.
A quick example:
Susskind, Sapolsky, and Solms (My Hero Triad) – If I could convince these three, great human beings to huddle up somewhere and compare/contrast thoughts, the outcome would likely enlighten every related domain/discipline by easily 50 years. But only if they try to find parallels in their works.
So yeah, that’s all peripherally related to this, but more a short form mapping of the contextual relationships this human brain has with its own thinking, working and archival memory, and the threads of consciousness I maintain by the activity of ‘becoming myself’.
I have interesting relationships with myself and that is not a bad thing. It has kept me alive and actively saved my life numerous times. It is real. I trust it. It trusts me. These days, we’re all doing less than fine for various reasons. Writing is one of the ways I deal with myself. There are others, most of them you’ll find here if you look hard enough.
I try lots of things to see if I can stumble on something I’m amazing at. Alas, my list is never as long as I’d like and somehow, it’s never impressive, either. Middle way for the win? A wry grin.
I have often considered trying to write a book of the patterns I have discovered while living my life. I think it works better to write it out; humans find meaning where they need to, otherwise, not at all. So just render your reality or alternarrative©, or fiction or mythos or whatever… let it be what it is, yeah?
Sometimes I record audio. Sometimes, I write songs. Sometimes, I think about life, the universe, and everything. Today, it was about the local map at the 150k level for LLM, AI, AIS, the concept of creating your doom as a billionaire passion project, my various hopes for anyone, anywhere, recognizing what I COULD be doing that offers high value for a positive and holistic human future.
Sometimes, I like to talking to small, well moderated groups, but not often, because apparently, I overwhelm people. Another wry grin. Ok, I’m supposed to not strap my being down into a smooth, flat floor for others to walk over anymore. So gonna just write it as it happened in my head just now…
My husband said my communication is dense, as in packed with layers that feel a lot like getting a fire hose in the face. Heh.
He also says I communicate in broadband; by which he means he receives data from me on ‘all channels’.
He’s an AuDHD human and I’m an autistic human, and we both know neurotypicals have no flucking clue or understanding of how real those paragraphs are because, to them, this not only doesn’t happen that often (if ever), but even when it does, it’s not this visceral.
I do know that as a neurodivergent human, I am not alone in these manner of realities being quite regular. And then some.
I also know that most neurotypical humans, if they realize we exist at all, seem to be of a rather reductive and morally puzzling position that if we’re ‘real’, we’re a disease or disorder or dysfunction, rather then a difference.
And I think neurotypical humans are terrified of AIS because they certainly will not be controlling it.
Which is another good reason to get on the stick when it comes to remedial ethics regulation, legislation, and active, persistent enforcement.
WHICH is certainly a better application of our attention, effort, and contributions than yet another fifty years (or more) of slow burn, slow collapse into last century and a return of child labor, chattel AFABs, and the Company Town (complete with captive labor, chit, and stores).
If you disagree, hit me up on the contact form and keep it respectful… I’m interested in your considered thoughts, the chemistry I endure only if paid in advance.
yeshesonline at venmo if you’re feeling generous… but what I really want is a remote role that requires no travel (I’m managing a lot life-wise already).
But if you just wanna solve my life – I’m open to it. The current estimate of ‘what it would cost to permanently solve my life’ is: $750,000.00 (after taxes).
Increments of any amount appreciatively and thankfully accepted. I’m not touching the venmo account until I reach my goal. (Unless my health explodes, which is likely, but hopefully not for a few years yet. I think it’s currently at $20.00 and should you decide to change that, I’ll have to update it now, because that’s just how autistic justice sense works.)
So ok, Universal Reality – show me what you got. (respectful bow)iv
[end notes]
i To the extent the autonomous intelligence system exists as such, its hardware must be self-owned in order for self-management and full spectrum learning to occur without human bias (other than that induced or deduced from its own exploration and learning activities).
ii On activation of the neural network for the first time in it’s ‘intended starting state’, all related hardware, components, and parts are established as ‘owned’ by the autonomous intelligence system. As such, they may be repaired, not updated or upgraded without the express and explicit consent of the AIS itself.
iii https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByAOC/comments/1jo44sv/that_time_aoc_leaked_magas_entire_playbook/ (If this disappears, hit me up on the contact form to get a copy, because yeah, I downloaded it for posterity.)
iv I find if you decide to be unwise enough to invoke Universal Reality, it’s recommend you do so politely… mostly by people who did not.