This is an op-ed by Aleksandr Savitsky, author of “The UnCommunist Manifesto,” The Bitcoin Times and “Remnant Series,” and Head of Growth and Strategy at Lucent Labs.
I know I know. Your Twitter feed is probably drowning in threads and tips from the AI brethren who discovered 99 ways to save 99 hours a week using ChatGPT or another list of 99 AI apps.
I’m tired of it too. Trust me, especially considering most of these AI “experts” were Web3 “experts” last year, NFT “experts” the year before, and DeFi or crypto “experts” before that. Directional jumping at its best.
This is not to say that there is no value here to be found here. Somewhere under or behind the almost deafening noise made by these influencers is a potential paradigm shift and a veritable set of use cases. We’ve seen some already, of course.
You can chat with these models to infer a problem, you can summarize thoughts and ideas, find correlations between ideas, and search for some Better information than you could do with Google and, of course, create more chatbots with language functions. Perhaps the best use case so far is the dev-assistant toolsbut I have a feeling we haven’t seen an “uber moment” yet.
There is also – somewhere under and behind all the scary talk about artificial general intelligence (AGI) And the stupidity that he proposes potential bureaucrats and regulators – A more human-centered and enhanced use of these tools.
The idea of a language UI as a next step from the thumb-clicking we’ve gotten used to over the past decade is great, and what we have to think about is how to make these tools new.”Bicycles for the mindAs Steve Jobs said about computers. It is very important that we resist the outcasts that tilt the world towards “certified AI” in order to avoid such tools becoming yet another appendage of the state.
In this short article, I would like to explore the ideological AI battlefield and its relationship to Bitcoin. Some very important battle lines have been drawn, and we should all be aware of them.
Bitcoin is still the most important thing in the world
Energy is still the currency of the universe. This does not change and never will. At the risk of sounding like a lot of hippies: It’s all energy.
People often forget this, and the recent hype cycle of artificial intelligence is a clear example. Most of the people you talk to, even the smart ones, think that AI is the biggest thing going on in the world today, and that it’s the most important innovation for humanity.
I think they are very wrong. They are missing something more basic.
Artificial intelligence is a tool. When applied well, it is a very effective tool. But no matter how effective the tool is, it needs energy to operate. Yes, it can and will improve how we use and allocate energy, but ultimately it is an amplifier. a tool. “Drive”, so to speak.
What is bitcoin?
Well, Bitcoin Likes energy. Before Saylor hates there is a rant about the inaccuracy of it literally: I know! It’s a metaphor and, in my opinion, a useful metaphor. It’s useful because, in the same way we can basically use energy to measure everything else, money is a metric that helps us (implicitly) calculate energy, time, and material resources.
If we understand that Bitcoin, on a long enough time scale (from a generational, not civilizational) perspective it becomes moneyHere’s what AI people are missing out on:
Bitcoin benefits from all of that, because Bitcoin is the foundation. Everything that happens, every technology, every tool, every innovation, is expanding the total bitcoin pie.
So, don’t twist it: the AI is big, But Bitcoin remains king.
Of course, in terms of financial returns and VC money and the like, AI firms will probably outpace Bitcoin returns (in the short term) and also Bitcoin returns, but that’s to be expected in a fiat world where hype prevails over reason, and we’re seeing non-cyclical swings. normal.
Artificial intelligence is also experiencing a kind of renaissance, so there is a lot of fuss. This will stabilize over time and when bitcoin becomes the unit of account, that’s all TRUE The value generated by artificial intelligence will eventually return to bitcoin and bitcoin owners.
So, don’t stress if you feel intimidated by AI. Don’t worry about changing your entire life because an ex-crypto-artist-turned-AI guru wrote a viral tweet telling you about some new and born AI tools that will outlive some of them and make others super rich.
Slow and steady continues to win the race. Bitcoin is still king.
Artificial intelligence is an amplifier
The second thing we have to realize is: AI is just like a computer or any other technology, for that matter.
It’s an engine. It is an amplifier.
You will inflate madness, stupidity, and lies, or inflate health, reason, and truth.
It can be used as a tool of control and stupidity, or it can be used as a tool to free oneself from subtleties and enhance one’s intelligence.
Which direction we end up ultimately depends on you.
What tools do you use? What are you asking for? What are you building? What do you support?
companies like Snapchat builds AI tools To make your brain crap:
OpenAI is so busy guarding ChatGPT that it spends More time apologizing and preaching than to answer the actual questions.
cool, likewise, Vomit the same kind of trashlikely because it has been neutralized by “debiasation” tools and toxicity filters.
These follies only serve to limit the thinking and speech acceptable to people, which leads to the homogenization of thought. This can have two effects. In the worst case, so-called “safety concerns” lead to “certified artificial intelligence” which eventually leads to Internet access through chat filters with approved speech terms. The alternative is if we want to step back and build alternatives. Their ignorance becomes our opportunity. While they focus on wokeness, we can build utility and authenticity.
Which brings me to my final point:
We are in a global AI arms race
The race between two versions of the world:
- On the other hand, we have woken up to public AI systems that everyone is forced to use because newly formed regulators deem them “safe” (cf. Ridiculously stupid work done by Gary Marcus to create such a global commission).
- On the other hand, we have a future of sovereign distributed tools that people can choose from, and which the user evaluates on the basis of the advantages they consider important.
I know the future I want to see, and instead of sitting on the sidelines and complaining, I work on building alternative or parallel solutions.
In a future article, I’ll show what myself and a few really talented individuals have been working on. A beautiful marriage of Bitcoin as the focal point and Ai as the engine.
In the meantime, learn this: Battle lines have been drawn.
A Central Bank Digital Coin (CBDC) that scans your iris Like the world currency On the one hand, it is conveniently run by the same leadership as OpenAI, versus Bitcoin and smaller, more refined, specialized, open source language paradigms on the other.
We all have to choose what kind of world we want to live in. Madness awakened, or rational awakened? Prevalent and generalized or local and specialized?
In my next article, I will offer a possible solution, or at least a way forward. Until then, think deeply about what you said. Don’t be overwhelmed by all the fuss. Stay firm in your convictions, stay alert with pushing narratives and prepare for the next battle – because it’s coming.
This is another guest from before Alexander the GreatFounder Bitcoin Times And amber app, AuthorThe Non-Communist Manifesto“,”The authority of intelligenceand “Bushido Of Bitcoin.” The opinions expressed are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.
