It is a dimwitted fantasy to treat Artificial Intelligence and robots as sentient human beings, when they are not, nor can they ever be. Yet, as Japanese men are having sex with silicon dolls, others are trying to teach morals to robots using 'parenting skills.'
Repeated surveillance abuse by the CIA, violates the law and the Constitution. In spite of repeated slap-downs by Congress and Federal Courts, the CIA (and their counterparts) has belligerently increased surveillance instead of obeying the law. In short, the Intel community in the U.S. has gone rogue. It is uncontrollable, has a mind and agenda of its own, and has no intent of changing. This is a must-read story.
Michael Mann is an unrepentant and belligerent Technocrat who deceived the whole world with his so-called 'hockey stick' temperature model. His humiliation in a Canadian court should be a fatal blow to the entire climate change scam. Defying a judges direct order, Mann has refused to provide his data for public scrutiny.
The hysteria over solar and wind power as the only feasible source of future 'renewable' energy flies in the face of the facts. Wood and animal feces are both renewable, and account for almost 73% of the world's renewable energy, but you never hear about planting more trees. Of course, the Technocrats cannot control wood or feces as energy, so it is completely ignored.
Hawking's alarmist speech has the audience in tears and near-panic. When Science is held up as a god, and scientists as its priesthood, then any imaginable proposition can be made, no matter how outrageous or illogical. In this case, Hawking has lost his scientific mojo.
The grass was not greener on the other side of the ocean, and turns out to be a cheap plastic imitation. Companies are not looking for cheaper labor markets since it is cheaper to invest in robotics right where they are. This trend will hit the west like a ton of bricks over time. Read the entire story and pull out the displacement numbers for China alone.
In another attempt to outwit and out-perform nature, artificial lab-grown meat is deemed the next big food technology. It is unclear if there will be any market acceptance of this product. For those consumers who already reject GMO foods, artificial meat should prove repulsive.
With sex already down sharply in Japan, men are turning to sex dolls to find 'true love'. This is demographic suicide because reproduction is impossible. Technocrats who build lifelike sex dolls do so because they can, not because there is even one shred of evidence that they will be good for mankind.
AI will be used to fast-track new drugs and combinations of drugs and thus create more profits for Big Pharma. However, given their poor track record of safeguarding patients from unintended consequences, the use of AI and super-computers may only speed up that process.
Solar and wind power are the key elements of 'renewable power' but both are fraught with economic and environmental problems that are seldom discussed, especially by the technocrats who are pushing them. However, it is the public that is financing and subsidizing these foolish investments.