Neanderthals met Homo Sapiens. [FN1] Dr Who met daleks. [FN2] Dave met HAL [FN3] An AI drone has not refused orders from a human. [FN4] Moore’s law [FN5] has given way, it seems at light-speed, to other “laws” that describe how rapidly machine memory & speed develop. 1/6

Marshall McLuhan described how the ways people relay information have evolved. [FN6] In the past 200 years we went from travel only by foot, horseback or sail. We are able to travel to the Moon. And now we hear of quantum physics and quantum mechanics. Several points: 2/6

In 1997, an IBM “supercomputer” beat Garry Kasparov, then the world chess champion. In 2016, AlphaGo became the first computer to beat a human professional “Go” player. These computers are not quantum computers. Bose-Einstein condensate is a state of matter that allows code 3/6

far different from binary: one molecule can exist in four or five places simultaneously. There is nothing “artificial” about AI. We make a mistake to project a violent program on HAL. What we have created will be more focused on survival, not war. It’s evolved beyond us. 4/6

Footnotes: FN1. “Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out of Africa.” Cornell Chronicle, 6/7/23. FN2. BBC science fiction programme. FN3. “2001: A Space Odyssey.” FN4. Warpnews, 06/02/23. 5/6

Footnotes: FN5. The number of transistors on computer chips doubles approximately every two years. ourworldindata .org 03/28/23. FN6. McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Media (1964). FN7. ... relative to other creatures we so far have encountered. 6/6