Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, enjoyed about a third of the world’s energy resources and manufactured products …
Interview 1799 – Birds Aren’t Real, But Technocracy Is! – #NewWorldNextWeek
In this week’s edition of New World Next Week: 9/11 patsies’ CIA link is less of a bombshell, more of a squib; Google’s AI hallucinations sends shivers down Elon Musk’s neuralink-enabled spine; and dead birds get new life as taxinomic …
GPT-4 couldn’t resurrect my dad
Over the decade before he died, in 2014, my father sent me thousands of emails. Carefully-crafted little gems, their subjects ranged from general advice, drawn from his own hardscrabble existence, to musings about the matriarchal nature of orca society, the …
Why is my chatbot hitting on me?
It’s always great when your wife calls off a sex strike. This week, Travis Butterworth, who owns an artisan leather shop in Denver, Colorado, was overjoyed to learn that AI company Replika had restored its commercial chatbots’ capacity for “erotic …
Can Britain resist AI communism?
Can anyone compete with China’s Artificial Intelligence super-system? Sleepy government bureaucracies the world over are finally waking up to the hard reality that they have virtually no chance. China is galloping ahead. Only last month, it unveiled its latest rival …
Interview 1787 – “Ohio Chernobyl” – #NewWorldNextWeek
This week on the New World Next Week: Ohio Chernobyl produces the largest dioxin plume in history; sanctions on Syria interfere with earthquake relief aid; and the Bing Search AI chatbot goes rogue and starts threatening people.
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In defence of deepfakes
Philosophers of knowledge sometimes invoke a thought experiment involving “Fake Barn Country”, an imaginary land which for some reason is scattered with lots of convincing barn facades but very few real barns. Somewhat unusually, a man in Fake Barn Country …
Interview 1777 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: the Swiss Army deploys ahead of next week’s World Economic Forum in Davos; an AI lawyer tackles its first case in court; and a computer outage stops all flights in America.
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The philistine war on AI art
Among the most ingenious moments in Kraftwerk’s admirable oeuvre is the point in 1981’s “Pocket Calculator” when a human voice self-contentedly sings: “By pressing down a special key / It plays a little melody.” The melody follows in confirmation. The …
How BlackRock Conquered the World — Part 3: Aladdin’s Genie and the Future of the World
This week, we will examine the Aladdin system and the other creepy ways BlackRock is planning to use its power to mould society in its own interest.
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Mr Deepfakes can make you a porn star
It would be naive to assume that, because you’ve never performed in a porn video, you will never appear in one. In fact, these days, anyone with access to an image of your face can, in a matter of seconds …
Interview 1755 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: Trudeau is on the stand as the Emergencies Act inquiry gets underway in Ottawa; Japan to bring in an integrated digital ID card; and AI art is winning prizes now.
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How robots make us human
In 1770, the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa and her court were astonished by a true marvel of the modern age of engineering: a humanoid machine able to defeat a human opponent at chess.
The device consisted of a life-size figure, …
The rise of castration anxiety
Little is known about the ecstatic rites of Cybele, a pre-Hellenic goddess associated with nature and wildness. Shrines have been found throughout Europe, though she was originally from Mesopotamia. And numerous sources describe her mendicant priesthood: castrated men who bleached …