So a while ago now, this dude wanted to collect all of human knowledge – he was a rich billionaire at the time, in fact he was a pharaoh (Ptolemy I Soter) to be exact. What he did was to create the great library of Alexandria.
Skip forward a few thousand years and we have a couple of ex Montessori school kids, Sergey, and Larry invented a pretty cool search engin and making a heap of money! But at least once they stated that the goal was not just search, but the creation of an AI. They (Google) have been scanning books for quite some time now (the original goal was to scan all books and make them freely available to humanity) but this is just one project that fascinates me.
Tesla cars are building a massive spatial database of all roads and streets on the planet! The information in this database in incredibly valuable because we will soon see not just vehicles but
robots navigating the physical world.
Also think about how your mobile phone is tracking you? Typically and especially with the detail that G5 will enable, this will mean it could track you within buildings and within office space and date and time stamp that information!
All of this data – if accessible would enable incredible facility and power, it would be the ultimate tool and being able to access that, would have some interesting possibility’s, both negative and not so.
Even my own knowledge is changing, I find that I often remember how to find things via search terms or an AI prompt that I used, not so much the end data but the process of getting to that information.
All of this begs the question are we evolving to a hive mind? I discovered a young person recently who could not use an analog watch (this person was in her 20’s with a university degree) What does this say about knowledge and the human state?
Putin predicted that whichever country leads the way in AI research will come to dominate global affairs. Lets not even start thinking about China…!
Are we regressing? I’ve often heard people discussing google as the hive mind. I think they may be on to something.