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It’s the speed, everybody. This is what’s blowing us all away every day. The speed of the technology, the speed of deployments, the speed of investments, the speed of the upskilling courses being thrown at employees like brown burlap bags, the speed of businesses revamping everything about their strategies, operations, marketing, supply chain, sustainability pushes, and everything else to take square aim at using generative AI everywhere, maybe even in their underwear.
Or be left alone, behind, out of business, burned rye toast.
Mo Godawt, former technology leader with Google and now a podcast guest all over the Internetverse, says AI doubles in overall intelligence every six months or thereabouts. So if you believe current estimates, and Elon Musk’s IQ is around 155, a dunce compared with Albert Einstein at 162.34, our man Mo says AI could attain an IQ of 1500 within 10 years. Still won’t be as smart as Mike German, but nothing ever will be.
And so on. Forever, conceivably. Something conceivable and inconceivably all at once, which is true,e which is why all this is wild.
So smart that it almost won’t even matter anymore if you’re a typical human with an IQ of around 100. You’ll be able to process information six times slower than generative AI in a year or something like that.
What a bummer. Seriously. Dummies dancing on every street corner from Main Street to Side Street to Beaten Boulevard.
Then what?
Will Gen AI even bother conversing with us? It will be able to outsmart us in every way imaginable, and who likes to be outsmarted with no hope of ever competing? Dominated, cornered, and check-mated so severely it’s hard to even think about how that will feel? Numbing? Losing in chess, losing in life, is a drag.
Say you’re a high school student. So you scored a 1300 on the SAT. Really solid score except not really compared with ChatGPT, which throws down a 1410-1460 right now – better than 95 percent of test takers, which is like millions of teenagers, I guess. Another reason to despise the SAT – machines do it better than almost all humans.
Anxiety and therapist bills splattering inboxes like spam and eggs. Good businesses to hang a shingle out for: worried, insecure people. Cottage industry serving customers cottage cheese on plastic plates.
High schoolers with Ivy League/Stanford/MIT level aspirations and brain power may still beat ChatGPT by a few points for maybe another few months, or days, or minutes, but you know where this is going. They need about a 1470 to get in those bastions of brain boys and girls, on average. Will MIT only admit ChatGPTs within a few years and throw a bone to two or three humans in a nod to diversity policies?
How are these human brainiacs going to cope when a machine scores higher? Will they feel inferior? I think maybe. I think probably. I think yes.
The intelligence game has gotten away from the human race. What we thought of ourselves, assumed about ourselves – that we are the smartest species on Earth – is officially right now obliterated as a presumption and theorem and axiom and postulation. Picture a blackboard with chalk all over it. Now, mentally erase the chalk. That’s where we are – a blank blackboard with a charcoal-colored background. All that abyss. Ponder all this.
To purposely twist up metaphors – and why not while we still have intelligence of any relevance – sand in the hourglass has just a handful more grains to pour down.
Then what?
Go to Deauville Beach. More grains there. Take in some sun. Dip in the ocean. Chat up Peach. Watch “Jaws” at night. Munch boardwalk caramel popcorn, which costs $18 for a small. Forget about what’s happening in our world and go out to sea to spear that razor-toothed whale before it eats us. Bloody in the water, not for the first or last time.
I don’t mean to be a downer.
Mo Godawt says a lot of stuff on these podcasts that makes it seem everything about the world is going to inevitably change forever. Don’t blame generative AI, he urges. Intelligence is neither good nor bad. The real issue is the values and ethics of humans as we grapple with the harsh truth that we have zero chance of ever keeping up with the intelligence of ChatGPT, which already knows everything ever known, which is something I tell you.
Mo is actually hopeful that all this unbelievably smart stuff swallowing us whole will be a good thing because the incomprehensible intelligence will figure out how humans can be ethical and live with stronger, more amicable values and stop it from hurting and manipulating each other.
If you say so, Mo.
I kind of think people are getting freaked out by the AI tidal wave – about 99,999 feet high when surf’s up – now breaking on every shore, business cubicle, and Starbucks joint in our galaxy.
It’s not freaking out me, though. I’m looking forward to this change in the way the world functions. Can’t you tell?
Today, I spent a few hours asking generative AI all kinds of questions about a topic on my mind, which is why Internet browsers are fast becoming the most vulnerable to generative AI-powered cyberattacks. Why, I wanted to know? What is it about a browser and this new technology that is making them suddenly estranged bedfellows, to mix another metaphor, because who cares at this point?
It has to do with writing software code. Mo – gotta go to Mo again – says the biggest mistake the tech experts made when rolling out gen AI was giving all people who use it the ability to prompt the tech to write software code. This we should not have done, he says, because that’s like going out in the Wild West and then deciding you’re going to be the wildest cowboy of all the cowboys who have ever rode horses, chugged shots at the local saloon, and had gunfights out in the dirt street. Walter White is kind of like the software code. He outsmarted everyone in “Breaking Bad” until that last scene when he died, and that tune came on, “I Guess I Got What I Deserved.”
Simply put, writing software code takes a large amount of skill, and giving the vast sea of people the ability to use code already written makes it much easier and faster for them to hurl cyberattacks at browsers by the gazillions. The quick ability to get code is – here we go again – so fast that cybersecurity defenders can’t move fast enough to protect the browsers. Their only chance is to use the gen AI’s code to defend against attacks. But that won’t work, probably.
Forget all this. I’m really trying to tell you something different, that the experience asking a gen AI about 10 questions with various clarifications and explorations of nuances made me smarter about this topic than if I had had to search on Google and read 20 different articles to understand why browsers are hot targets now. I kept asking about exactly what I wanted to understand, right there in the prompt, without having to bounce around 20 websites like a kangaroo on a hopscotch speed gig, and got a deeper understanding quicker.
I got smarter faster.
All over the world today, and next Monday, and Tuesday, and Wednesday, and forevermore, I guess people will be getting smarter faster using gen AI to do just about everything they do.
Extrapolate my experience to everyone else using this technology the entire human race will get smarter faster.
That sounds like goodness, if you’re into getting smarter. Some people may not be, and we can’t forget them. No ignoramuses left behind.
Double-click on the healthcare field. Medical pros are getting smarter faster about how to cure cancer and all the other diseases we need to eradicate. Zoom in on education. A college student taking a Shakespeare class spends one hour asking gen AI all about Shakespeare and becomes much smarter, much faster than any student who has taken that class for hundreds of years, who didn’t have gen AI to help. A trip like shooting a needle into your vein and suddenly blowing up 50 IQ points in a few minutes, or maybe 10.
We get smarter quicker.
Yet bolt your britches on.
That speed burst – like a first-round cornerback breaking on the slant pattern – ain’t jack doodle stacked up alongside the speed at which generative AI is getting more intelligent. A totally different race and pace.
What a disgrace.
What is there left to chase?
A funnel cake on the boardwalk would be tasty. A bucket of greasy fries, too.
How about you?
Whatchu gonna do?
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