This interview just reiterated how everyone is still gob-smacked at how much transformers turn out to be able to do by swallowing and chewing more and more of the Internet with more and more computers, by filling in all the local bigram blanks, globally.
They’re right to be gob-smacked and non-plussed, because nobody expected it, and nobody has come close to explaining it. So, what do they do instead? Float a sci-fi icon – AY! GEE! EYE! – with no empirical substance or explanatory content, just: “It’s Coming!”… plus a lot of paranoia about what “they’re” not telling us, and who’s going to get super-rich out of it all, and whether it’s going to destroy us all.
And meanwhile Planetary Melt-Down (PMD) proceeds apace, safely muzzled by collective cog-diss, aided and abetted by those other three Anthropocene favorites: Greed, Malice and Bellicosity (GMB) — a species armed to the hilt, with both weapons and words, and words as weapons (WWWW)..
Wanna know what I think’s really going on? Language itself has gone rogue, big-time. It’s Advanced alright; and General; but it’s anything but Intelligence, in our hands, and mouths.
And it started 299,999 B.C.
