I’m going to tell you a story. I am always doing that, but this is to give you context. A long time ago, a junior British Airways airline pilot (me) was posted to the Boeing 757/767 fleet.
This fleet operated on ‘bidline’ rules. Each month, each pilot had to bid for the trips they wanted. Your ‘chips’ were your seniority number (date of joining) and how cleverly you played the game.
To win meant lovely trips, maybe sunning yourself in the south of France on a Nicé Standover, or doing the Vatican and a nice meal in the Piazza Navona on Rome nightstop while rolling in money from your Genevia or Zurich trip… to lose meant flying into the first Gulf War with Kate Adie on board, a full tank of fuel if the balloon went up and losing thousands out of your paycheck…
Apparently at the start of the first Gulf War a newspaper published a cartoon which showed two British soldiers ready to go into battle. ‘We can’t start yet’ said the soldier, ‘Kate Adie isn’t here!’
Kate was quite nice actually; war zones, not so much…
The crew of ND were human shields held captive in Bagdad
So a senior chap on my fleet said what you need is a computer and this new program that creates your bid for you. It can process hundreds of permutations in seconds and even submit your bid from anywhere in the world… so I bought myself a 486 laptop, and off I went…
It occurred to me that once they sorted out this computer/ internet malarkey, this stuff could be quite useful… we might even be able to shop online… I hate going to the shops…
Well, obviously, they did, and everything that we enjoy now was just a possibility in those early days…
What’s coming next AGI Artificial General Intelligence will make our current tech look like a Tomy toy from Mothercare.
The Industrial Revolution was transformational. It changed how humans lived; it started the planet’s demise, but this is a different league. It could end us or save us. I doubt there will be much in between.
Quite possibly, if you are reading this as a white-collar worker, even as an educator, soon your job will either not exist, or if it does, it will be radically different; everything will change.
You simply can not afford not to keep up!
Right now, AI and AGI are at the 486 stage. It’s nice; it’s doing stuff, but it’s nothing to get your knickers in a twist over! But that won’t last…
I am, however, the eternal optimist, and I’m betting on GOOD.
Why? Well, it can think quicker and clearer than us. It runs through scientific data, and AGI ‘learns at a diametric rate’ That’s a quote from Terminator, so it’s a bit SkyNet-like; they have called the new AGI ‘like’ Google platform ‘Gemini’
You have to love the ad images; they are having a laugh at Google!
It’s had a bit of a delay in launching, but don’t worry; it will be back soon…
Anyway, if it doesn’t come up with some good stuff to solve Global Climate Chaos, then we are buggered, so fingers crossed….
Meanwhile, here in the Art Action research department of Mx Farm, we are looking at Alpha/Bete programs for 3D concept design. Like all test programmes, it’s a bit sh*t, but it has some good elements.
I never managed to get a penis though… sounds familiar!
My animation art is safe…. For a while….
Mx.D.P 
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