{"id":2637,"date":"2025-01-12T08:08:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2025-02-24T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:08:08","slug":"2637","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/?p=2637","title":{"rendered":"Here’s the CES 2025 winner, but at what cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As CES shows go, this was a fairly enjoyable one, albeit possibly the strangest one ever. Traditionally I pick the actual winner of the show with a bit of reflection, after<\/em> the show. But the clear winner was apparent before I even set foot inside the hallowed tech halls. Without question, the choice of the winner was the most obvious in the last 26 years of attendance.<\/p>\n

I am always more than a bit entertained by the lack of knowledge\/experience\/foresight shown by the usual YouTube folks and magazine writers attending CES, but even they can\u2019t have missed the elephant in the room \u2026 AI.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve previously posted about the issues and benefits of AI, but this show brought to life the hidden demons that exist within this tech \u2026 make no mistake, the Genie (re: bad Genie) is out of the bottle and the stopper has been tossed in the shredding machine. All the worst dreams of Orwell have come home metaphorically to roost. The movies by John Hurt: \u201cV\u201d and \u201c1984\u201d chronicled what is literally<\/em> happening now. While at the show I saw what the Chinese government is using to suppress anyone fighting for freedom. They have a software, that I personally witnessed<\/em>, fully capable of unmaking anyone in a crowd for future \u201ccorrection\u201d. Watching the software in action, I felt a genuine sickness in my stomach. The Chinese vendor ignored any questions I had that didn\u2019t fit into his obviously government-approved \u201ccorrect-speech\u201d. While I thought about the unmasking of the rioting Jew-haters and anarchists that hide behind masks at the liberal universities with a smile, that quickly faded when the realization occurred that it\u2019s a virtual certainty that more than a few evil doers have grasped at the potential for making life hell for the vast majority of folks that just want a \u201cnormal\u201d life. When you consider that the U.S. is the ONLY bulwark for freedom existing on this planet, and it\u2019s infested with depraved \u201cwoke\u201d ideology, anyone with the tiniest grasp of history should be terrified.<\/p>\n

When Plato wrote \u201cThe Republic\u201d around 375BC, there isn\u2019t the remotest chance that he could begin to imagine what tech we have today \u2026 but, he very, very clearly understood human nature. He watched his teacher, Socrates, being essentially murdered for telling the truth. In Plato\u2019s \u201cThe Republic\u201d, there is an allegory called \u201cThe Cave\u201d that absolutely lays out what humanity is in for with the rising of the liberal hive-mind. Without any exaggeration, we have people on TV\/radio\/podcasts\/newspaper and social media extolling the virtues of the very thing that will destroy their lives. Historically, the only cure for this insanity lies in two things: the passing of quite a bit of time and war.<\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s with a sadness that I can\u2019t extol the virtues of AI in improving human knowledge, medical and scientific breakthroughs. The potential, which now isn\u2019t only potential, bodes bad things when people like the dictators in Russia, China, North Korea and Iran want to use AI to mold their version of the worst dystopian future that no futurist could imagine. The movie \u201cColossus: The Forbin Project\u201d while disturbing, is made worse by the fact that in a future scenario there are people who would actually approve of using this kind of tech, as life (other than their own) has no significance to them.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, I saw IBM\u2019s \u201cQuantum\u201d computer and wondered how passwords\/digital keys and such would weather a quantum computer attack. This is a direct<\/em> quote from IBM \u2026 draw your conclusions from what they state: Quantum computers make most of the world\u2019s existing encryption algorithms obsolete. <\/em><\/p>\n

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With the rise of AI and this beast of a computer, I\u2019m genuinely concerned that we\u2019ll see firsthand how these are used to control people and start wars. If a bad world actor gets access to these combined, what are the odds that these advanced items won\u2019t be used for nastiness? What weapon ever developed was never used in war? I wish I could see a more positive outcome, but history is full of people like Putin and Xi \u2026 and seeing these items in person and having personal interactions with inventors\/engineers\/corporate heads leaves you with a rather permanent negative attitude as there doesn\u2019t seem to be anyway out \u2026 try to explain it to them and you get this response: if we don\u2019t develop it, others definitely will.<\/p>\n

When evil doers use it, and find they can\u2019t win without losing and don\u2019t care \u2026 will their AI using the quantum computers decide itself what is an appropriate nuclear response?<\/p>\n

My only prediction is this:\u00a0 After the wars are over, mankind realizes what they\u2019ve done wrong and try to take control of these dangerous tools. The alternative is too bleak \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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