I specifically remember when started sharing about the ‘System’, the dilemma I faced to explain in a way that everyone can relate how it works in simpler terms. Even I wrote a page with header ‘Explain Unexplainable!’. It was like how would you explain about fire to a world where no one has any idea about it or the description itself cannot be explained with example. At that time thought of relating experience to self-driving cars connected to a centralized network which communicated with each other and adapts independently considering the overall traffic on roads globally. Then to the technical part comes into the picture asking how would you build such a digital infrastructure which is self-aware so to make strong impactful decisions.
Looks like System itself has solved that dilemma by sharing in form of ‘AI/ML’ capabilities to digital ecosystems which most of us at present can easily relate to. Though digital systems lack ‘Conscience of Living’, it many ways it can create its own content as they are able to infer from the data/information it was trained on. At present these (Generative/Gen AI is the term) are mostly being used as Digital Assistants that can help us with custom suggestions or by creating custom content. It is simplifying mundane and repetitive tasks. Also, in specific use cases ‘AI Agents’ are created with similar purpose which are trained as specialists to do a particular task efficiently. Example would be an ‘Robotic Agent’ that collects and interprets sensor data associated to it. Then in the next stage these agents are allowed/capable to communicate with each other to do specific tasks. Then comes the next and important part I would say, all the digital AI systems combined as a single entity, is able to create its own hypothesis for unsolved issues and try to solve each with the help of all ‘specialist agents’. That stage it might be even capable to ideate itself and solve bigger issues (like water depletion, climate change etc.) on its own without human guidance. Meaning it should be capable to self-train constantly for decision accuracy.
Now coming to world without secrets, ‘System’ is already self-trained over many decades and perfected itself over the time to made any type of decision consider the health and well-being of the world as a whole. Consider each living object (humans, animals etc.) or non-living (indirect interaction like computers, satellites, sensor data etc.) it interacts with are the ‘Specialized Agents’ when relating to Generative AI context. We as ‘Agents’ executes its plan to action which it tries to implement to keep our world stable and sustainable. Or we gather information (example: Study of Sun or Mars) that helps ‘System’ informed to make more accurate decisions or to plan the future.
Even with its guidance if our race is capable to achieve Artificial Intelligence shift using Classical & Quantum computing combined, the way it is predicted now, it would be a great achievement, can even be comparable to 5% of the potential of the ‘System’ as a whole. It will be like machines catching up with neurobiological capabilities of living brain. The bottleneck for this is the dependency on digital data (especially due to privacy concerns starting from individual level). Then training on emotions etc would be tough act for any machine. How would an external machine differentiate the emotion/thought of a movie actor portrayed in a movie vs emotion/thought of a normal human being in a unique circumstance. Should we all get tagged with emotion sensors, chips etc. to brain or body and monitored constantly. And to connect all the dots we would require a centralized system which cannot be manipulated an any way or be biased. Traditionally System doesn’t allow all-rounders or any monopoly to avoid competition with itself or to have a healthy competition with each other, also to contribute towards job creation and better outputs with harmony. We are trying to build ‘Machines’ that can understand and act like us, not by realizing we are the ultimate machines guided by a Superior System. ‘Will an ant be taller than mountain itself if it sits on top?’ Interesting to see. Also, whichever ideas we are capable to bring into reality it will be using it more effectively than us giving it more ways to improve.