Peter Russell interviews his AI clone on exponential growth and the future of humanity.
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Exponential change not only promises rapid advances in science and technology, but also contains the seeds of its own demise. The more rapid the change, the greater the stress on the environment. What are the implications for the future of humanity?
I created this using an AI clone of my face and voice. It's not perfect, I know. It was an experiment to see what is possible with the various AI tools available. And I thought I'd use it to interview my clone on my new book, Forgiving Humanity.
With special thanks to Yasen Stoev for generating the image clones. He's highly recommended if you need this sort of work done - yasenstoev.com
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This was fascinating Peter. Thanks for the dialogue.
i enjoyed your humor with "u ai" and somehow enjoy his presence. maybe he will keep you on your toes, Peter :) 🙏🏽
This was brilliant, Peter. Both creative and informative. Many thanks. 🙏💚
That was fun to watch, Peter...great job!! ~ Michael Dowd
I thought so!
AI is totally dependent on electricity. Pull the plug and you don’t have AI. The concern is not what will AI do to us. The concern should be should we build our future around such a fragility.
Peter, I love the way I feel when you speak. I have no feeling with the AI. It's kind of scary.
go go go...
funny I just thought I would add a comment to help with the algorithm to help spread your video and I see that it has me somewhat trained without even knowing... an interesting future is ahead!
Wait, ask the AI what's in the silence. Find out what it makes of what lies between the question and answer, as it's waiting for a new question. What's in that silence to AI? That's what I want to know!
You are always an inspiration.
I think the ‘We’ will be, eventually, a very small world population compared with current levels.
This is a marvellous exchange. I just wonder, when you mention "blame", are we not as organically developed as all other life? I tend to agree with Darryl Bailey's perspective that, like all of nature, we are what we are, a product of countless factors that have gone before, with no human choice involved, and, as such, e.g. an eagle cannot behave like a seagull (or an Oak cannot grow like an Elm) and neither is deciding how it behaves. I think this view supports your exponential growth idea. How everything evolves is out of our control but, then, the illusion, or delusion, is that we ever had control. There is no control there is only evolution. Sorry for the long post. Wonderful video, many thanks.
🐟 11. FREE-WILL Vs DETERMINISM:
Just as the autonomous beating of one's heart is governed by one's genes (such as the presence of a congenital heart condition), and the present-life conditioning of the heart (such as myocardial infarction as a consequence of the consumption of excessive fats and oils, or heart palpitations due to severe emotional distress), each and EVERY thought and action is governed by our genes and environmental conditioning.
This teaching is possibly the most difficult concept for humans to accept, because we refuse to believe that we are not the author of our thoughts and actions. From the appearance of the pseudo-ego (one’s inaccurate conception of oneself) at the age of approximately two and a half, we have been constantly conditioned by our parents, teachers, and society, to believe that we are solely responsible for our thoughts and deeds. This deeply-ingrained belief is EXCRUCIATINGLY difficult to abandon, which is possibly the main reason why there are very few persons extant who are spiritually-enlightened, or at least who are liberated from the five manifestations of mental suffering explained elsewhere in this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, since suffering (as opposed to pain) is predicated solely upon the erroneous belief in free-will.
Free-will is usually defined as the ability for a person to make a conscious decision to do otherwise, that is to say, CHOOSE to have performed an action other than what one has already done, if one had been given the opportunity to do so. To make it perfectly clear, if one, for example, is handed a restaurant menu with several dishes listed, one could decide that one dish is equally-desirable as the next dish, and choose either option. If humans truly possessed freedom of will, then logically speaking, a person who adores cats and detests dogs, ought to be able to suddenly switch their preferences at any given point in time, or even voluntarily pause the beating of his or her own heart!
So, in both of the aforementioned examples, there is a pre-existing preference (at a given point in time) for one particular dish or pet. Even if a person liked cats and dogs EQUALLY, and one was literally forced to choose one over the other, that choice isn’t made freely, but entirely based upon the person’s genetic code plus the individual's up-to-date conditioning. True equality is non-existent in the phenomenal sphere.
The most common argument against determinism is that humans (unlike other animals) have the ability to choose what they can do, think or feel. First of all, many species of (higher) mammals also make choices. For instance, a cat can see two birds and choose which one to prey upon, or choose whether or not to play with a ball that is thrown its way, depending on its conditioning (e.g. its mood). That choices are made is indisputable, but those choices are dependent ENTIRELY upon one’s genes and conditioning. There is no third factor involved on the phenomenal plane. On the noumenal level, thoughts and deeds are in accordance with the preordained “Story of Life”.
Read previous chapters of “F.I.S.H” to understand how life is merely a dream in the “mind of the Divine” and that human beings are, essentially, that Divinity in the form of dream characters. Chapter 08, specifically, explains how an action performed in the present is the result of a chain of causation, all the way back to the earliest-known event in our apparently-real universe (the so-called “Big Bang” singularity).
At this point, it should be noted that according to reputable geneticists, it is possible for genes to mutate during the lifetime of any particular person. However, that phenomenon would be included under the “conditioning” aspect. The genes mutate according to whatever conditioning is imposed upon the human organism. It is simply IMPOSSIBLE for a person to use sheer force of will to change their own genetic code. Essentially, “conditioning” includes everything that acts upon a person from conception.
University studies in recent years have demonstrated, by the use of hypnosis and complex experimentation, that CONSCIOUS volition is either unnecessary for a decision to be enacted upon or (in the case of hypnotic testing) that free-will choices are completely superfluous to actions. Because scientific research into free-will is a recent phenomenon, it is recommended that the reader search online for the latest findings.
If any particular volitional act was not caused by the preceding thoughts and actions, then the only alternative explanation would be due to RANDOMNESS. Many quantum physicists claim that subatomic particles can randomly move in space, but true randomness cannot occur in a deterministic universe. Just as the typical person believes that two motor vehicles colliding together was the result of pure chance (therefore the term “accident”), quantum physicists are unable to see that the seeming randomness of quantum particles are, in fact, somehow determined by each and every preceding action which led-up to the act in question. It is a known scientific fact that a random number generator cannot exist, since no computational machine or software program is able to make the decision to generate a number at “random”.
We did not choose which deoxyribonucleic acid our biological parents bequeathed to us, and most all the conditions to which we were exposed throughout our lives, yet we somehow believe that we are fully-autonomous beings, with the ability to feel, think and behave as we desire. The truth is, we cannot know for certain what even our next thought will be. Do we DECIDE to choose our thoughts and deeds? Not likely. Does an infant choose to learn how to walk or to begin speaking, or does it just happen automatically, according to nature? Obviously, the toddler begins to walk and to speak according to its genes (some children are far more intelligent and verbose, and more agile than others, depending on their genetic code) and according to all the conditions to which he or she has been exposed so far (some parents begin speaking to their kids even while they are in the womb, or expose their offspring to highly-intellectual dialogues whilst still in the cradle).
Even those decisions/choices that we seem to make are entirely predicated upon our genes and conditioning, and cannot be free in any sense of the word. To claim that one is the ULTIMATE creator of one’s thoughts and actions is tantamount to believing that one created one’s very being. If a computer program or artificially-intelligent robot considered itself to be the cause of its activity, it would seem absurd to the average person. Yet, that is precisely what virtually every person who has ever lived mistakenly believes of their own thoughts and deeds.
The IMPRESSION that we have free-will can be considered a “Gift of Life” or “God’s Grace”, otherwise, we may be resentful of our lack of free-will, since, unlike other creatures, we humans have the intelligence to comprehend our own existence. Even an enlightened sage, who has fully realized that he is not the author of his thoughts and actions, is not conscious of his lack of volition at every moment of his day. At best, he may recall his lack of freedom during those times where suffering (as opposed to mere pain) begins to creep-in to the mind or intellect. Many, if not most scientists, particularly academic philosophers and physicists, accept determinism to be the most logical and reasonable alternative to free-will, but it seems, at least anecdotally, that they rarely (if ever) live their lives conscious of the fact that their daily actions are fated.
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Peter, wow. This AI seems so much better replying coherently, seamlessly and so much more life like with movements of eyes and face. How much time and money did it take to bring it to this level ?
WoW. I was really amazed.
It's easier to believe and now even imagine what General AI would feel like. Thanks for sharing and best Wishes. Sunil PAREKH.
It took about a week. But cost less that $100 for the various online AI apps. My co-producer, being Gen Z, knew or researched most of what to do. I could not have done it without him.
@@peter-russell, respected British anthropology professor, Dr. Edward Dutton, has demonstrated that “LEFTISM” is due to genetic mutations, caused by poor breeding strategies.
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To put it simply, in recent decades, those persons who exhibit leftist traits such as egalitarianism, feminism, gynocentrism, socialism, multiculturalism, transvestism, homosexuality, perverse morality, and laziness, have been reproducing at rates far exceeding the previous norm, leading to an explosion of insane, narcissistic SOCIOPATHS in (mostly) Western societies.
W-O-W!!! I'll be honest, I stumbled upon this video on a different website by CHANCE, and OMG, it's blown my mind in so many levels. First of all, I am an 'old' millennial in my late thirties, I'm "tech" enough to understand the general AI functioning, but I'm just curious to know (and apologies if someone already asked this!), how many types of AIs did you use to create a 'clone' in the first place? so, not only the image, the movements, the actual "persona" the body. The voice. The source of knowledge? I apologise again Peter, because I didn't know you or your work until 10 minutes ago, but this video has definitely gotten my attention and I will continue to read! However, i wonder if you have a lot of books and written data (other than this particular book you're promoting) where the machine learned from? or was it particularly fed on the contents of the book alone? Thanks for sharing!!!
I used (or rather my colleague Yasen Stoev) used Lora to analyze 15 or so photos of me. Then Stable Diffusion to take that data and create the avatar. I gave a sample of my voice to Elevenlabs and it spoke the text for me. I used D-ID to animate the avatar to the audio.
I have a newer one - ua-cam.com/video/r0kjVuWQG3A/v-deo.html - in which an AI (Claude) "read" the book and generated a script for a conversation between a reader and the author. I was blown away by what it came up with. In this one both characters are AI generated avatars.
I've written a dozen books - see peterrussell.com
What if the trees face fire rather than a wind storm?
I don't know much about AI and how this clip was created. Did your robot double "read" your book and create answers in ChatGPT or did you script this whole interchange?
From your website: "This doesn’t mean humankind has taken a wrong turn." Really? You don't notice greed, selfishness, wish for dominance, lack of empathy? What are all the religions about if not setting out to correct or point to a "decent" path for human society?
I scripted his responses. Currently working with new AI app (Claude) which will both create questions and answers.
I should have been clearer on the wrong turn. A wrong turn did not lead to the acceleration. It would happen anyway, one way or another. And yes, we have made many wrong turns in other ways. I touched on this very briefly in the second question. I make it clearer in the book.
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How clever and useful. I'm going to share it on FB, which is okay I assume since you've shared it here. If folks could come to an acceptance of this they'd have more room to enjoy what's still here, now and perhaps move through the end of things more easily with themselves and for each other. Thank you, this was really fun to watch.
Thank you Peter. Very impressive, but also unsettling. I would like to know how it is forming its (his, your) answers and on what data base? Are these your own inputted answers? Or was it doing its own expressing on basis of "reading" the book data?
This time the answers were input by me. I'm working on getting it to provide its own answers
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leftism:
Otherwise known as “progressivism” and even more inaccurately as “liberalism”, leftism is a term originating from the French Revolution of 1789, in reference to the political faction that opposed the French (so-called) king. However, the term is currently used in common discourse to describe those criminals who actively support (or at least tacitly condone) a host of OBJECTIVELY-WICKED ideologies and practices that contravene dharma, such as non-monarchical governances and corrupt economic systems (particularly socialism, communism, fascism, and liberal democracies), egalitarianism, feminism, perverse sexuality (especially homosexuality, bestiality, and transvestism), multiculturalism, and the illegitimate abortion of innocent, defenceless, unborn children. Cf. “dharma”.
In a vain attempt to legitimize their objectively-immoral propensities, leftists invariably replace accurate terms with blatant EUPHEMISMS, such as “gay”, “sex worker”, “pro-choice”, and “queer”, and of course, coin novel words for notions that cannot exist, particularly the nonsensical term, “transgender”. Furthermore, leftists are constantly inventing truly inane, vacuous words to demonize conservatives, such as “homophobia” and “transphobia” (which literally mean “fear of sameness” and “fear of change”, respectively).
In the past decade or two (of this treatise being composed), the mass media, especially the motion picture industry and television production companies, has been aggressively promoting all the above CRIMINAL ideologies and practices, helping to expedite the destruction of human civilization. Recently, large corporations have jumped on the leftist bandwagon (so to speak), in order to profit.
As explicated in Chapter 11 of this “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, the state of being of any particular human (or any other animal, for that matter) is due entirely to his or her genetic sequencing and his or her conditioning. Therefore, the explosion of the leftist/liberal mentality in recent decades, particularly in Western countries, has been caused by poor breeding strategies overtaking the more conservative tradition of mate-selection of previous centuries (and indeed, millennia), as well as the concerted effort of Marxists to spread their nefarious ideology throughout the school system. In other words, due to the fact that criminal behaviour (especially the deviant sexual acts mentioned above) has become increasingly more tolerated, condoned, and even GLORIFIED in most countries, there has been a proliferation of corrupt genetic codes within the wider human population.
According to genealogists, for (almost) the entire history of humanity, most women have successfully reproduced, whilst a far far smaller percentage of males have bequeathed their genetic sequence to proceeding generations. Due to the gradual phasing-out of polygamous marriages in even the most conservative societies, as well as the eradication of poverty in most every country, more and more men (as well as women) have been producing offspring. Thus, the human genome has rapidly become adulterated by inferior genetic material (that is, DNA from truly pathetic, uxorious beta-males, bisexuals, and even homosexual couples who engage surrogate mothers or sperm donors in order to conceive children - something of a rare occurrence in previous centuries/millennia).
For centuries, breeders of elite animals such as horses, cattle, and dogs, have known that selecting the finest examples of a breed of animal will result in offspring with desirable characteristics. For example, present day thoroughbred horses boast a pedigree of the best-available horses from the seventeenth century. Such breeders are willing to pay enormous sums of money merely to hire the fastest stallions on earth in order for them to mate with their mares. In the case of we humans, women have traditionally chosen the most competent and masculine men with whom to bear children, and in general, have totally eschewed those males who displayed effeminate traits, and who showed themselves incapable of properly supporting a nuclear family. Unfortunately, due to rapid moral decay over the past few decades, Western women have become extremely sexually promiscuous, resulting in a multiplication of unwanted progeny (and, of course, an escalation of abortions). Boys born to single mothers often lack proper male roles models and invariably become feminized, unable (and often unwilling) to continue a strong lineage of progenitors. The solution to this problem is simply to ensure that society adheres to the principles of DHARMA (see the Glossary definition of that term, as well as Chapter 12).
Unsurprisingly, the majority of leftists find it difficult to accept the fact that their criminal mentality is largely inherited (and of course, they are unwilling to acknowledge the blatantly-obvious fact that their ideologies and practices are intrinsically sinful, wicked, evil and immoral in the first place!). It seems the consensus amongst leftist “intellectuals” is that every human mental trait is due entirely to one’s environmental conditioning and social milieu, rather than as a consequence of BOTH one’s genetic sequence and one’s life-long conditioning - a fundamentally-flawed assertion that cannot be scientifically supported. I would not be surprised if the typical leftist would believe that, if the parents of the twentieth century communist tyrant, Joseph Stalin, and the parents of the Divine Incarnation, Lord Jesus Christ, had somehow crossed the time barrier, and exchanged their baby boys shortly after their birth, that Stalin would have grown to become a Prophet for God, whilst Christ would have become a murderous, left-wing dictator!
This term was very reluctantly used in the chapter on feminism. I say “reluctantly” because it is unlikely that the term will perdure for many decades longer. This is simple deductive logic, since, as clearly demonstrated in certain chapters in “F.I.S.H”, human civilization cannot survive with such leftist practices and ideologies in place. If you happen to be reading this Holy Scripture a century or more after its conception, you will probably be residing in a nation (as opposed to a country) ruled by a monarch, following the implosion of post-modern, decadent societies. So, either the term “leftism” will eventually become redundant and obsolete, or else, human civilization will devolve into a decadent, diseased state of existence similar to that of the prehistoric era, when the peoples of the world resided in caves or shacks, subsisting on whatever food can be sourced from the surrounding bushland. I trust that you who are reading these wise words will endeavour to influence your social circles to adhere to right-leaning ideologies and practices, such as (above all) monarchical governance, an entirely free-market economy, sexual purity, veganism, and all other virtuous principles.
Fear not, for God is with you!
P.S. As a general rule, it seems (at least anecdotally) that the farther left-leaning is a person, the more physically (and of course, psychologically) UGLY is that person. Unfortunately, that does not seem to prevent leftists from propagating their mutant genes.🤡
N.B. In order to clarify the notion of inheritability, it is not being claimed that an adharmic (far-left) couple will INVARIABLY produce leftist children, but that it is more PROBABLE that they will do so, considering their genetic sequence and the environmental conditioning they are bound to impart to their children, just as two parents with a certain physiological disorder are more likely to generate offspring with that specific disease. In this regards, it is recommended to study introductory texts on epigenetics. 🧬
In my particular case, I was raised by a staunch communist, and so, was indoctrinated to believe that communism was the best course of action for a just society. Indeed, as a teenager, I even volunteered in the election campaign of a socialist politician, who eventually became the Premiere of the state of Western Australia. However, after studying dharma, I came to learn that I was misled by my father in this regard, and that the only system of governance that is dharmic (legitimate) is a divinely-sanctioned monarchy.
Hi Peter. That was really good. I've just purchased the audible version so looking forward to listening to that. 👍
Love that the A.I. Russell has way better hair. Good video! 👍👍👍
Love, love, love your mind, your work and most of all your spirit!
I do not call myself a fan of others easily, but I am undoubtedly a fan of you!
Very intriguing! Thank you for sharing your perspective!
Mr. Russell, I wonder if you would take a stab at settling a debate between my brother and I. I contend that, although I DON'T consider it inevitable, it is meaningfully possible that humans could create an A.I. so perfect in it's imitation of our unique capacity for self-awareness and self-determinism that it COULD become hostile towards or otherwise dangerous to humans. The classic Terminator movie scenario. I contend that, theoretically, this should be possible. My brother holds that NOTHING that can be programmed into a computer could ever develop such a deep facsimile of or capacity for self-actualization/determinism that it would ever become hostile or dangerous to us. He believes that an A.I. program could NEVER genuinely have self-awareness OR perfectly imitate the appearance of same.
Do you hold a strong opinion either way?
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I don't think anyone really knows how its going to turn out. Lots to be excited about and lots to be scared of. I don't think AI will ever be conscious in the way we know it. Nor do I think it could become hostile. But the used we put it too could prove very dangerous - eg AI weapons.
AI is not a computer running programs. It is a neural network of microprocessors (about 10,000 in the case of ChatGPT) which is trained on data. The responses it gives are not programmed into it. It has learned the answers for itself.
It’s good. It seems you are not dual😊
A great teaser for your new book. The talk with your alter ego evokes depth and a dense atmosphere. Congratulations! 🌿
Acceleration is monstrous and probably not to mend, agreed. However, we shouldn't trade forgiveness for nonacting.
Great and lowly are RELATIVE. 😉
Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱
Double brilliance
Wow!
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