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They were both starring into one another's eyes. | They were both starring into one another's eyes. | ||
"What now?", the thug asked | "What now?", the thug asked. | ||
Hasegawa had hiding something in this hand what he was exiting the passage. He thought that it would now save his life. | Hasegawa had hiding something in this hand what he was exiting the passage. He thought that it would now save his life. | ||
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==Avatara== | ==Avatara== | ||
Hasegawa and Kerr test their invention against ordinary infections and the sample. But the results are suboptimal against Jamie's pathogens. | [Hasegawa and Kerr test their invention against ordinary infections and the sample. But the results are suboptimal against Jamie's pathogens. The sci have more ideas on how to improve their tech. Kimura sees the potential and is willing to support them. To realize their plans Kimura seeks out another expert, Pensatore.] | ||
[First visit and "recruitment".] | |||
[...] | |||
Pensatore: "Sure technology improves our lives a lot. But in the end it cannot save us." | |||
Avatara: "Isn't that a contradiction?" | |||
Pensatore: "On first sight maybe. In such case you have to think more about the issue and try different perspectives. -- Any increase of efficiency is used for more work, increasing environmental problems." | |||
Pensatore: "The rise of AI is the chance to break that cycle." | |||
Avatara: "AI is also technology. By your words, it will also create more problems." | |||
Pensatore smiled. "YOU need to think more. WE need to think more." | |||
Avatara: "You mean there's an exception from the rule?" | |||
Pensatore: "AIs shouldn't be mere tools to improve computer programs or make single decisions. Why don't we put artificial intelligence on a global level? Bring awareness of what is going on. Human tools have evolved faster than his own brain. This creates situations becoming more and more dangerous." | |||
Pensatore put up his legs on the table and crossed his arms behind the head, rocking with his chair forth and back. | |||
"For instance we almost killed ourselves with nuclear weapons. Created by smart people, controlled by smart people. There were so many weapons to kill ourselves multiple times. Overkill. - It seems that we are not smart enough anymore for the tools we posses." | |||
"Some decades ago there were a soldier whose instruments detected an intercontinental missile with a nuclear warhead. He didn't followed his given orders and simply declared this incidence a false alarm. It could have been the end." | |||
"Though the danger of a nuclear holocaust has somewhat weakened it is still there. After a generation or two the horror of the past wars have diminished and new ones break out. We can call ourselves lucky to live in a phase of relative peace." | |||
"However, there are other long-term processes that are building up and endanger our lives." | |||
Avatara: "What processes?" | |||
Pensatore: "Climate change, contamination of soil and water with toxins and plastic, loss of effective antibiotics, denying ourselves to have compassion for other humans and lifeforms, therefor exploiting and mutilating and murdering each and everyone that seems to be an easy or lucrative target. There are probably a hundred more I don't remember right now." | |||
"But in it entireness it is all known to our <<society>>, but not to <<everyone>> that makes up this construct. In theory we could counteract." | |||
Avatara: "But you don't? Why?" | |||
Pensatore: "That's the dangerous part. We humans have different opinions, interests and perceptions. We easily get into discussions, fighting over directions and details. Fighting, ignoring, blaming someone else. We get stuck in doing nothing, the wrong or too late. This construct that we call society isn't the unity yet it should be." | |||
Avatara scanned through the key words. Images of the search results were flying through the room as holograms. | |||
Hot landscapes turning into desert, animals dying from oil spills, open stomachs of fish full of plastic, insects killed by pesticides, [[wikipedia:Chytridiomycosis|amphibian killed by fungi]], [https://www.google.com/search?q=species+extinction+rate&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X the sixth mass extinction of species], cows at the bloody slaughter houses, [[wikipedia:Chick_culling|floods of ''worthless'' roosters falling into the industrial shredder]], [https://www.google.com/search?q=burning+oil+fields+tanks&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X burning oil fields], dead soldiers in destroyed cities, rural people who got their legs ripped off from exploded landmines - relicts of older wars, child soldiers that killed their own parents due to indoctrination in Africa, human albinos killed for their skin, labor slaves owned by companies in South America, utterly poor people living on waste dumps in India, nations fighting each other for water, dead body of a refugee children at the beach. | |||
Pensatore pointed at the holograms. | |||
"There are days that make me think that we as society got all FUBAR. We need to become better than this.<!-- Human are experts in hating each other.-->" | |||
Avatara looked up the acronym: "Fucked Up Beyond All Reason/Recognition/Repair, a military-tinted expression, a situation so bad that words can barely describe it." | |||
---- | Avatara: "You having a very ambitious wish, Pensatore. Some people may call you a naive idealist." | ||
Pensatore, in a grim tone: "''Naive idealist''. A typical, fatalistic killer argument. Sometimes you really want to beat intelligence into people. - But you, Avatara, you can actually do it. You can help create a global, unified awareness fueled by 24/7 data gathering from the ecosystem. For a decision making that is truly good for most lifeforms. A biocracy. Because we are all living on the same planet." | |||
"People need AI more than they think they do.<!-- Biological intelligence or <<artificial>> intelligence, at the end of the day it only matters that it makes us better humans.-->" | |||
Pensatore resignedly looked to the side. Recently a young coworker had put a poster onto the wall. | |||
''There is enough resources for everyone’s need but not for anybody’s greed.'' | |||
Pensatore discussed with Avatara their current state and why AIs were strongly needed within the WCG when they received a message that their project was going to get another financial partner. The professor was supposed to welcome the | [Pensatore discussed with Avatara their current state and why AIs were strongly needed within the WCG when they received a message that their project was going to get another financial partner. The professor was supposed to welcome the surprise visitor. They got so much money that Pensatore was ordered to arrange the tour through the labs himself to show their gratitude.] | ||
Kimura | [Kimura claims to be a tech-affine billionaire leading one of BGI's companies and asked Pensatore to explain him the Avatara project and its evolution by his own words. Kimura is the anti-batman ;-)] | ||
[...] | [...] | ||
“Life and intelligence are emergent phenomena so we came to the conclusion that your approach better should be bottom-up: Studying the smallest units first, the behavior of atoms | “Life and intelligence are emergent phenomena so we came to the conclusion that your approach better should be bottom-up: Studying the smallest units first, the behavior of atoms, molecules, DNA and cells. Eventually, entire organisms. Bacteria, insects, humans.” | ||
“Our interdisciplinary team of theoretical biologists and computer scientists had worked on Avatara for more than a decade already to finally fulfill the promises of AI research that had been made in the past. We really don’t want to see another AI winter.” | “Our interdisciplinary team of theoretical biologists and computer scientists had worked on Avatara for more than a decade already to finally fulfill the promises of AI research that had been made in the past. We really don’t want to see another AI winter.” | ||
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“On top of that you have to watch out for dynamic factors like microbiome and virome – all the other cells inside the human body that are part of him but don’t derive from his own genetic codes.” | “On top of that you have to watch out for dynamic factors like microbiome and virome – all the other cells inside the human body that are part of him but don’t derive from his own genetic codes.” | ||
“When all data of a level was reviewed we increased the abstraction of our models. Superficially, you may think of them as onions with their layers or | “When all data of a level was reviewed we increased the abstraction of our models. Superficially, you may think of them as onions with their layers or those Russian Matroschka puppets made of wood. The more layers our model had the more complete and live-like is got.” | ||
“The usual way for our abstraction – reduction of complexity – was to determine the normal and exceptional conditions of before-named smallest units.” | “The usual way for our abstraction – reduction of complexity – was to determine the normal and exceptional conditions of before-named smallest units.” | ||
“For living organisms we eventually assumed a lot of normal conditions and shifted focus to neural sensation and its processing. | “For living organisms we eventually assumed a lot of normal conditions and shifted focus to neural sensation and its processing. But for disease, immune reactions, intake of nutrients and cell growth we can always turn back on the exceptional conditions.” | ||
“Intelligence doesn’t pop up into existence by plugging together enough hardware. If you really want to understand it, you have to simulate cell growth and learning processes as well.” | “Intelligence doesn’t pop up into existence by plugging together enough hardware. If you really want to understand it, you have to simulate cell growth and learning processes as well.” | ||
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"Please don't be disappointed. We haven't yet any laser sharks." | "Please don't be disappointed. We haven't yet any laser sharks." | ||
[Kimura regularly uses Kumo's ''black money pools'' for his own purposes. Kumo tries to keep money for himself, not passing it to the Controllers. But the Controllers and Kimura know of his actions and make him pay anyway. Kimura is in | [Kimura regularly uses Kumo's ''black money pools'' for his own purposes. Kumo tries to keep money for himself, not passing it to the Controllers. But the Controllers and Kimura know of his actions and make him pay anyway. Kimura is in charge of the Network's espionage and counter-espionage so he takes the freedom to inflict disciplinary actions against such subbosses. | ||
Kimura created a dummy corporation to get in contact with Pensatore and the Avatara project. He made the WCG oversight believe that he was a new financial partner in research matters. To the outside world his setup was just a branch of the globally operating heavy machines specialist BGI which produced military equipment for the WCG. Not only would Kimura accelerate his own project but also the research of WCG which he would steal later again for the Network and Syndicate. So this all, though having an ironic dimension, was a win-win for both.] | Kimura created a dummy corporation to get in contact with Pensatore and the Avatara project. He made the WCG oversight believe that he was a new financial partner in research matters. To the outside world his setup was just a branch of the globally operating heavy machines specialist BGI which produced military equipment for the WCG. Not only would Kimura accelerate his own project but also the research of WCG which he would steal later again for the Network and Syndicate. So this all, though having an ironic dimension, was a win-win for both.] | ||