DWQA Questions › Tag: extraterrestrial worldsFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesAn argument can be made that no single human being really understands how AI works. What they discovered when they added more processing power and more layers of pattern matching (what they call deep learning) for building large language models is that the chatbots became REMARKABLY humanlike in terms of their output. This was a downright shocking discovery, and this development alone suddenly diverted trillions of dollars of investment towards the development of AI. But according to the authors of the recent book, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor of Princeton University, relatively little of that money has been spent on research that would attempt to understand WHY we are getting this result. It seems no one really knows, and worse, no one REALLY CARES. Instead, the agenda is to throw more and faster hardware at it, “FEED THE BEAST” to give it more power, more capacity, more memory, with no one truly understanding why it even works as it does. Is this more human folly unfolding before our very eyes? What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 8 months ago • Problems in Society257 views0 answers0 votesAnother technology that has mysterious origins is cryptocurrencies. To this day, no one really knows where Bitcoin originated, who created it, or who introduced it to the world. There is speculation all over the place, and it’s assumed someone knows, but that information is not public knowledge. Is Bitcoin a “gift” (more like a naked Trojan horse) from the interlopers? And is AI, and how it really works, similar in its origins? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 8 months ago • Problems in Society320 views0 answers0 votesThere is a good joke that’s been around for a while, but it’s especially pertinent when it comes to evaluating AI: “It must be true, I read it on the Internet.” Everyone knows this means it’s more likely not to be true. But when it comes to AI, almost everything it “knows” comes from the Internet. And because it tends to weigh true and false by frequency of encounter, the more AI encounters the same images, assertions, statements, treatments, opinions, etc., the more statistically weighted it will be. The term, “There’s safety in numbers,” comes to mind in that the idea is, the more frequently something is encountered, the more genuine it probably is. This becomes AI’s “default assumption” about the material it is trained with. It can only utilize, evaluate, and regurgitate the material it is trained with. This turned out to be quite a problem early on because the sheer amount of racist, violent, and derogatory material on the Internet was not fully appreciated until AI started digesting it. It became necessary to employ untold thousands of low-paid (on the order of two dollars a day) “content evaluators,” mostly in third-world countries, to filter out gore, hate speech, child sexual abuse material, and pornographic images. If AI read it on the Internet, it must be true? What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 8 months ago • Problems in Society255 views0 answers0 votesThe authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want wrote: “With LLMs (large language models), the situation is even worse than garbage in/garbage out – they will make paper-mache out of their training data, mushing it up and remixing it into new forms that don’t preserve the communicative intent of original data. Paper-mache made out of good data is still paper-mache.” They also write: “This is why we like to call language models (like popular chatbots) ‘synthetic text extruding machines.'” They also write: “In the case of language modeling, the correct answer of which word came next is just whatever word happened to come next in the training corpus. … So if (popular chatbots) are nothing more than souped-up autocomplete, why are so many people convinced that it’s actually ‘understanding’ and ‘reasoning?'” Why indeed? What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 8 months ago • Problems in Society169 views0 answers0 votesPropaganda has always been a huge problem, but may be an even bigger issue for AI. China and the Chinese Communist Party spend more money and effort, and engage more of its citizens to spread blatantly false propaganda, than perhaps the rest of the world combined. To such an extent that it felt the need to create its very own global social media platform, TikTok. The Trump administration has even proposed banning TikTok altogether because of the nefarious role the platform plays in both gathering intelligence and spreading propaganda. Some of the lies people are starting to believe about China, that it has no crime, that its infrastructure is some of the most advanced and safest in the world, that there are no homeless people in China, that everyone there has a meaningful and lucrative job, that they are the healthiest and happiest people on the planet, and on and on. When, in fact, the exact opposite is more often than not the case. And for every good lie they tell about themselves, they tell an equally bad one about America and Europe. The problem is, they are so prolific and extreme with this propaganda that the Chinese people themselves believe none of it (about themselves, anyway), and Americans and Europeans (especially young ones) are beginning to believe all of it. With AI having no way to filter this for truth or falsity other than volume, there appears to be a genuine danger of AI itself presenting this propaganda as gospel truth, that China is great and America and Europe are evil. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 8 months ago • Problems in Society274 views0 answers0 votesThe authors of AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, suggest that the track record of AI used for predicting social outcomes is so abysmally bad that it may actually amount to fraud. They write: “In short, some existing limits to predictability could be overcome with more and better data, while others seem intrinsic (built in and unfixable). In some cases, such as cultural products (like resume scanning AI, or AI used to decide who gets social benefits), we don’t expect predictability to get much better at all. In others, such as predicting individuals’ life outcomes, there could be some improvements but not drastic changes. Unfortunately, this hasn’t stopped companies from selling AI for making consequential decisions about people by predicting their future. So it is important to resist AI snake oil that’s already in wide use today rather than passively hope that predictive AI technology will get better.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 8 months ago • Problems in Society177 views0 answers0 votesThe authors of both books [The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want and AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference] were not the least bit concerned that AI presented an immediate or near-term existential threat to humanity in any way, shape, or form, despite copious media hype to the contrary. All the authors, on the other hand, were VERY concerned about the misuse of AI to reduce our freedom and agency to choose for ourselves, to retain the rights to our creative outputs, and even to have recourse when AI decides wrongly (which they assert it is guaranteed to do). Can Creator tell us how Empowered Prayer, the Lightworker Healing Protocol, Deep Subconscious Mind Reset, and Divine Life Support are the best ways to combat the danger and encroachment of AI in our lives?ClosedNicola asked 8 months ago • Problems in Society177 views0 answers0 votesWas this reporting in Scientific American accurate in its speculations: “Bird flu showed up on dairy farms and surprised everyone. How did bird flu jump to cows?” What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 8 months ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers188 views0 answers0 votesOne of the reasons an atheist might cite for why they don’t believe in God, or at the very least a “loving God,” is the huge number of noxious species of microbial, plant, and animal life on this planet. There are so many that it is practically impossible to catalog them all, and new ones are being discovered on literally a DAILY basis. Scientists estimate the average somewhere between 40-55 new species are discovered each day. Certainly, a percentage of those could be labeled “noxious,” in that they are harmful to humans in some way, either directly or indirectly, through attacking another plant or animal species that is beneficial to humans. Of the 40-55 new species discovered each day, what rough percentage are truly NEW-to-Earth species that have been introduced just in the last decade? How big is this problem, and how long has it been going on? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers452 views0 answers0 votesThe National Park Service website nps.gov had this to say about the American Chestnut Tree: “By the 1940s the blight had killed an estimated four billion American chestnut trees nationwide. Where before about a third of all trees in the Smoky Mountains were chestnuts, today even single spindly saplings are rare.” The chestnut blight fungus was supposedly introduced from Asia accidently. To give people an idea of just how tragic this massive loss was, here is a brief description found on forestpathology.org of the value of the chestnut tree: “If you could custom design the ideal tree species, you couldn’t come up with a better one than American chestnut. It was a huge, majestic tree, with a very straight stem. The wood was nearly ideal. As George Hepting has written, ‘Not only was baby’s crib likely made of chestnut, but chances were, so was the old man’s coffin.’ One of its good qualities was high durability. The heartwood could be used in situations where decay was a hazard. The tree was common. It made up about 50% of most eastern hardwood forests. It grew fast and would regenerate itself by root sprouts vigorously. The nuts were edible, not only by wildlife but also by humans. It was an important food source for all. ‘The farmer’s hogs were fattened on chestnuts, and, to no small degree, his children were also.’ Chestnut was also prized as a landscape tree.” If indeed the blight did come from Asia, how long had it been in Asia, and what was its true origin? What can Creator tell us about the tragic loss of the American Chestnut?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers415 views0 answers0 votesThe National Park Service website nps.gov had this to say about Zebra Mussels: “Zebra mussels are small, freshwater, bivalve shellfish that were likely brought to the U.S. as stowaways in the ballast water of ships. They are native to the Caspian and Black Seas south of Russia and Ukraine, and have since become widespread in both Europe and the U.S.” The zebra mussel is a problem because it is so prolific. Each female can release up to a million eggs a year. “Biofouling is [an ecological problem] … Zebra mussels will attach to native mussels much like they do docks, boats, and water and power plant intake pipes, and in large enough numbers can prevent the natives from moving, feeding, reproducing, or regulating water properly. The zebra mussels also outcompete the natives for food and space, and because of their fast reproduction can quickly overwhelm a water system. The feeding habits of zebra mussels can also have a drastic impact on an infested lake. Zebra mussels are filter feeders that siphon particles of plankton from the water. They are highly efficient at this, and a large population of mussels can quickly clear the water of almost all floating particles. This change can cause shifts in local food webs, both by robbing food from native species that feed on plankton and also by increasing water clarity and thus making it easier for visual predators to hunt.” The costs to control and clean up zebra mussel infestations is enormous. And the problem never goes away, it can only be managed. This species is so good at causing problems, it couldn’t have been a truly native creature in the Black Sea either. It seems tailor-made for another WORLD and doesn’t belong here at ALL. What is Creator’s perspective, and what kind of environment is a good fit for this creature?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers349 views0 answers0 votesThere have been reports of egg prices soon going as high as twenty dollars a dozen in some locations. This is presumably due to a bird flu epidemic and a government policy of killing entire flocks of egg-laying hens, some numbering in the millions of birds. What is the true origin of bird flu, and is this drastic approach to its management and prevention called for in any way that could be considered rational? What is actually the bigger cause of the egg shortage, the invasive bird flu virus, or possible mind control manipulation surrounding its management? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers435 views0 answers0 votesWhether a species is invasive or not might depend on a number of factors. The European hare is considered a native species of Europe and a valuable one at that. But the same species imported into Australia has been disastrous. Google has this to say about the problem: “Rabbits are a serious environmental and agricultural pest in Australia. They were introduced for sport hunting in the late 18th century, but their rapid reproduction rate led to millions of rabbits. Rabbits cost the Australian economy over $200 million per year. They compete with livestock for food, damage crops, and destabilize the land. Rabbits overgraze, which can lead to soil erosion, the collapse of indigenous plants, and the decline of native animals. They may have also caused the extinction of several small ground dwelling mammals. Rabbits threaten the survival of more than 300 Australian native species, including 24 critically endangered species.” Are these rabbits truly native to Earth, or are they an interloper-introduced invasive species? If native, then is this a wholly human-created problem, or were the humans who brought them to Australia for “sport” influenced to do that by the interlopers? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers942 views0 answers0 votesIt seems with the advent of modern civilization, global media, and global travel, that the opportunity for the interlopers to introduce large land-based mammalian and reptilian creatures, like lions and crocodiles, has effectively expired. Such an introduction today would draw too much attention and be too much of an anomaly. Not so with anything aquatic or small, as in small insects and even birds. Same with any kind of plant life. So while we’re not being overrun globally with new mammoths and saber-toothed tigers, we are being overrun with almost every other kind of invasive species. Creator has previously commented on the “Beast of Gévaudan,” a very large and very vicious species of wolf. Was this the last time the interlopers tried to seriously introduce such a creature, and did they conclude that the opportunity to do this further had passed? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers381 views0 answers0 votesIt’s becoming clear with multiple recent discoveries that nearly the entire region now covered with Amazon Rainforest was once a great Mayan Empire. Today that empire is literally covered with some of the most noxious and dangerous plant and animal life seen anywhere on the planet. There is so much variety in this region, that even today much of it remains uncatalogued and even undiscovered. But has it always been this way? Did the Mayan Empire truly have to compete with all these aggressive vegetation and dangerous critters? Or was it more temperate and gentle, and only became hostile due to the intervention of the interlopers? The indigenous tribes there are extremely xenophobic. Is that because they are direct descendants of the former destroyed Mayan Empire who escaped to the dangerous jungles just to survive, as they would have perished otherwise? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers430 views0 answers0 votes
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