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Pensatore: "Sure technology improves our lives a lot. But in the end it cannot save us." | Pensatore: "Sure, technology improves our lives a lot. But in the end it cannot save us." | ||
Avatara: "Isn't that a contradiction?" | Avatara: "Isn't that a contradiction?" | ||
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Pensatore put up his legs on the table and crossed his arms behind the head, rocking with his chair forth and back. | 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 | "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 possess." | ||
"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." | "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." | ||
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Avatara scanned through the key words. Images of the search results were flying through the room as holograms. | 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| | Hot landscapes turning into desert, animals dying from oil spills, open stomachs of fish full of plastic, insects killed by pesticides, [[wikipedia:Chytridiomycosis|amphibians 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 bodies of refugee children at the beach. | ||
Pensatore pointed at the holograms. | Pensatore pointed at the holograms. | ||
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"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.-->" | "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 | Pensatore resignedly looked to the side. Recently a young coworker had taped a poster to the wall. | ||
''There is enough resources for everyone’s need but not for anybody’s greed.'' | ''There is enough resources for everyone’s need but not for anybody’s greed.'' | ||
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“Single cell sims were mostly used to study metabolisms, gene networks and signaling pathways. On level of colonies we included emergent phenomena like quorum sensing – chemical communication among bacteria. Next we needed to incorporate the microbiome and virome before accurately simulate the lifecycle of whole populations of microbes. For our biologist this was interesting for studying the effects of transposomes, immune systems like CRISPR CAS and symbiotic relationships.” | “Single cell sims were mostly used to study metabolisms, gene networks and signaling pathways. On level of colonies we included emergent phenomena like quorum sensing – chemical communication among bacteria. Next we needed to incorporate the microbiome and virome before accurately simulate the lifecycle of whole populations of microbes. For our biologist this was interesting for studying the effects of transposomes, immune systems like CRISPR CAS and symbiotic relationships.” | ||
“I had to wait three more years before further | “I had to wait three more years before further layers could be added. We were so close to simulate organism on level of an animals and create AIs on their level.” | ||
“Eventually Avatara reached the mental capacities of a human child. Naturally, it had become more than a simulation of living cells. By now it had experienced its very own evolution insilico.” | “Eventually Avatara reached the mental capacities of a human child. Naturally, it had become more than a simulation of living cells. By now it had experienced its very own evolution insilico.” | ||
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The man reloaded his plasma pistols and aimed at her. | The man reloaded his plasma pistols and aimed at her. | ||
A moment of lethal tension passed. | |||
"You should be grateful that Griffin let you go so easily." | "You should be grateful that Griffin let you go so easily." | ||