AI and our future

Pretty good example of what AI does that most people don't think that much about or understand. This is not large language model AI like ChatGPT, it's the "real" thing, that is specifically developed and programmed to guide automation to do things better than any human being, even a skilled person guiding advanced technology, can do. I honestly believe that human civilization is going to have to successfully transition from an economy of scarcity where labor is the principal value to an economy of abundance where for the most part the acquisition of resources and production of food, many services, resource extraction, and essentially all manufacturing will be done for humans by technology. Human time will be thought of as freedom, our birthright, and a fairly high degree of wealth will just come standard, for free. Most work will be unnecessary and most people will not "work." How coud this actually work? See... that word... deeply ingrained. Maybe it can't, and we'll fail to make this transition. But in the longer term, I'm convinced it's an existential imperative. What AI will not be able to do is compose songs worth listening to, write literature worth reading, or have genuine conscious feeling and experience. That is what we are for. Some may disagree, but I've heard AI music and it's all there in form, and it has no soul whatsoever (neither does some human music, but that's beside the point). 

  

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"The answer" to life, the universe & everything... (No, it's not 42, but it is a dimensionless real number): α (alpha), equal to the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles:

α = ⁠e²4πε₀ħc ⁠≅ 1/137

where 
e is the elementary charge (~1.602×10⁻¹⁹ C);
h is the Planck constant (~6.626×10⁻³⁴ J⋅Hz⁻¹);
ℏ is the reduced Planck constant, ⁠(h/2π⁠ (~1.055×10⁻³⁴ J⋅s);
c is the speed of light in a vacuum(~300Km⋅s⁻¹);
ε₀ is the electrical permittivity of space (~8.854×10⁻¹² F⋅m⁻¹).
As far as anyone knows, having no reason to suspect otherwise, this is and always has been and always will be true everywhere in the universe, but no one really knows why, if there is a why, this number has the value it does. 

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