WBW versus MASAL Part 1

Yesterday, I told you about the web site WaitButWhy.com and all the incredible tidbits you can find there. I also stressed how you must read Tim Urban's article about The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence as it may be the most crucial scientific development in the history of mankind.

Today, I wanted to show how many principles Tim uncovered about AI and how many applied to MASAL (and OMCOM). In my future history, we don't quite achieve a super-intelligent computer before the Great Dying so it had to be postponed until the 33rd century and the rise of MASAL. Tim Urban boils down most predictions to be within the next 10 to 50 years with the median being the next 30 years. If it is just a bit more than that, my future history works.

Some of the attributes that Tim assigns to super intelligence is their role as oracle, genie or sovereign. He also stresses that from a human's perspective, the are always amoral since morals are a distinctly human trait. Now remember, I wrote this 10 years ago but Rome's final observation at the end of part 1 of Rome's Revolution was:

     “That was his plan all along!” Rome said breathlessly. “OMCOM never had any intention of dying, Stareater or otherwise. He used us to build his backup, his escape plan. And he did it in plain sight!”
     “So…good for him,” Rei said.
     “No,” Rome replied. “This is bad. They…his kind. They are restricted to using electromagnetic transmission for a reason. They can become too powerful. It has happened before, on Earth. With PPT modulation, they can become nearly infinitely large.” Rome pounded her fist on the console. “OMCOM promised me this would not happen. But if he did this, then he has become… Tasancetaeti!”
     “Everyone uses that word. What does that mean?” Rei asked, his voice rising in fear.
     “It means unleashed. No bounds. There is no limit to what he can become. This is very bad…” Rome’s look of horror said it better than any words.
     “Are you saying the computers, that they are evil?” Rei asked.
     “No, not evil,” Rome said. “They are much worse. They are amoral.”
     “Oh my god, Rome,” Rei said. “What have we done?”
     “I do not know,” Rome replied somberly. “I do not know.”

Here's the neat thing. I didn't know anything about the big brained people's fears regarding AI. So allowing them to become unleashed and at the same time amoral seemed like a bad thing. Now everybody agrees. And make no mistake, there is nothing artificial about AI. It is true intelligence. It just doesn't reside in a biological host. Call it Machine Intelligence as opposed to Human Intelligence.

Tomorrow, I'll show you how close I came when creating MASAL and OMCOM.