Hitchhikers guide to AI, my eureka moment

 Sometimes things come together in my head and Pazza, its a new thought, I can sense it.. often I forget it, life gets in the way, sometimes my phone is in my hand and I'll quickly record it. This time, I'm at my PC, so I'll spit it out here first in the universe. 

What if we're in '42' but not the way we thought it.

When the ultimate computer (in Hitch hikers guide to the universe) was asked the great question, what's the meaning of life, it thought for several thousand years and came up with the answer '42', and because the beings that asked the question didn't understand (I mean, c'mon its pretty obvious right) they asked the computer for an explanation, it replied, it can't give a meaningful answer because the questions was not meaningful. So, they asked, what's the question?

The computer claims it can't answer it, its too complex, but it can help build the next computer that CAN. So they build this huge "computer", spoilers, its earth, and humans are the 'chips'

So, I'm watching some kid genius, hears a song once, and then breaks it apart and re-writes it, and while I'm doing that, I'm using AI to build out some lists for work, and also some images for my book, and I get this idea..

What if WE were meant to be the AI. 

What if.. each human, was meant to be a 'token' in an AI engine, building up to an eventual actual 'I' (though, to an outsider, we would be artificial). We come together, randomly, and pop out a new token, which learns some things, advances human knowledge a microstep, and then it, being more superior, pops out the next token to advance the knowledge set again.

We are AI tokens, to US we are slow. but to some external super computer that we are all a simulation inside of, WE, our lives, are mere blips, microseconds, to building up this new AI model. 

This Kid, he's a super piano player, he's able to do for music, what AI cannot, control it meaningfully. 

AI right now can create 'random' music, and even check that it matches 95% what we CALL music, but its random, it can't repeat itself for the same song, and change it ever so slightly (you can call up a new AI that its job is to do that, but thats not the original AI that made it)

You can ask the AI to make a picture of a nice fresh red apple, and then you can ask to take a bite out of it.. but the computer won't access that original apple and 'take a bite' it will re-imagine a brand new apple and the bite of that apple, it might be 90% the same apple, but the human eye can spot the 10% difference and know, its not the same apple.

So, now that we've invented the answer to the original purpose to us being here, will it all end? if AGI nails actual AI, will our program shut down?,

You, Me and AI

Rambling Thoughts: When ever a new technology comes along, there are people, adopters, who have an interest. Cutting edge interest. They are enthusiasts who wish to own one of the 'things', Engineers who want to understand how the new thing works, and if they're both, maybe want to make a better version. And then there is a 3rd group, who can be broken down into Entrepreneurs and Vultures.

How we need to be aware of AI, because of the Vultures

When the car came along in the 1800s, it was a great idea, to move people from location A to location B on any fairly flat surface, back then the uses may or may not have been thought of, from motorbikes, trucks, planes, pumps, submarines, the concept had so many uses. Each allowed a second, third, forth entrepreneur the ability to asses, create, test it, go to market with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and become profitable. 

We had time to identify the market niches, varieties and discover if was a good thing or not to develop a company to supply a product, some stayed, some left, but over all we had a good range of products. It wasn't viable to cannabalise other companies. Some smaller manufacturers created cheap ripoffs of the market, but the cost to produce a car plant was very high, it took dedication and often govt inclusion to invent a local car to resist the imports. 

When the mobile came along, We saw a range of phone being developed by companies in multiple countries, and because of the ubiquitous nature of the mobile, many could create knock offs and replicas and cheap versions, Yet it eventually boiled down to two to three main rivals, and everyone else couldn't cope with the cost involved to stay relevant. Developing a major phone, and marketing it was expensive, if you were not in, in the early days, you would struggle to bring a product to market, and gain enough share to be relevant.

Today, AI stores are live. You can create a 'store' of a concept for an AI, and go to market, and because its new its still a good time to jump in. Yet, be aware that because its so easy to create a store, many people are going to create one. the barrier of entry is low, the flow of information how to create your own is high. The best will rise to the top, and if they price themselves right, will be the be all and end all of that niche. 

What do I mean by this.

If you create a Baseball AI right now, you might be lucky to create the right kind, the right style, maybe no-one else has thought to do a baseball AI, so you'll have enough lead time on the competition, to get your product working well. Price it within the market average, say $20 a month for now, and rake in a few hundred grand, to figure out how to do it better, price it a bit lower to maintain the edge on your potential competitors, and stay relevant, as it'll come.. The vultures will begin to swirl.

The cost to enter this market is low, extremely low, I doubt any $20 a month product will stay relevant beyond a year. The race to the price floor will be swift, maybe swift enough to kill off the whole idea, but you can be sure that the companies that stay afloat will have done one of two things. Sold out [data], or Consumed the competition.

Probably Both. 

Hold up.. Are you even aware?

Incase you've been living under a rock, the generic AI that was GPT 4, is so overwhelmed with data, its slowing down, so they decided to split it into sub sets of itself, based on specific topics, and instead of doing all the effort themselves, they're 'leasing' the whole thing to us consumers, to create our own niche AIs. 

You can upload all you know about baseball to your baseball AI and have it feed back specific information about existing games, or maybe predict future games, or maybe tell stories based on game stats, what ever you decide your app will do, and then you'll promote it to consumers, to use, and pay you for the advanced versions. They'll use it to make their lives easier, and you'll be providing data to GPT to they can train their AGI better. win-win, right?

But, this will only work for the 1st Baseball AI. and maybe the 2nd. just like Android and iPhone. There will be 2 camps in the end, BaseBall-AI and AI-Baseball. Each doing the same thing, with a slightly different feel. And all the rest of the world, won't have a chance to create a baseball AI because you've already done it. The barrier of entry will not be price, not be skill, or ability, it'll be recognition of who was 'first'. The cool kids will use the main one, and that'll be it. 

Are you going to be first?  

Ai in Me - story idea

 It happened, I managed to get my internal AI to work autonomously recently, 

I was in conversation, a boring average conversation. 

I just went through the paces, and realised I had done so, without needing to do any effort.

My internal AI managed to take over at last and do it all for me. 

It spoke about mundane things

It spoke of the weather and up coming events on the news,

I didn't need to.

My Social Life has become sentient. I can now retreat into my own mind and think more about more important things.

Its been a week and I barely noticed. 

I wonder if this is a good idea.