This post presents the notes and arguments I used during my interview with hosts Ned and Ethan for the Day Two Cloud podcast (https://daytwocloud.io/). The subject is the need for a public cloud that’s owned by governments as an alternative to the private Cloud Solution Providers – CSPs – (not a replacement for those services,…
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Introduction The fictional world of Star Trek, which depicts fanciful technologies such as warp drive, replicators and transporters, presents a surprisingly more realistic view of the potential uses for, and evolution of, advanced computation than the press releases of Google etc. and supportively breathless media accounts. I say more realistic, because, with notable exceptions (typically…
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As with death and taxes, you can be certain that whenever a video showing a Boston Dynamics robot is shared on Twitter, there are three reliable formulations: 1.) ‘Skynet’2.) Robot overlords3.) Techie admiration for engineering prowess Typically missing are considerations of BD’s business model; who are the customers and what are these robots actually good…
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What follows is a sketch, the foundation of a propaganda model, focused on what I’ll call the ‘AI Industrial Complex‘. By the term AI Industrial Complex, (AIIC) I mean the combination of technological capacity (or the lack thereof) with marketing promotion, media hype and capitalist activity that seeks to diminish the value of human labor…
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