AI Fever dreaming
My brother just spent an afternoon with an AI song writing service and then a video creation service, both free until you buy the rights to your creation. The output is incredibly sophisticated, it’s impressive - take this song for the Martuwarra - generated in under 2 minutes with 5 sentences of prompt.
My other brother Jon, who is a professional musician and computer tech, has been using the creation tools to complete long dreamed of albums, too expensive and time consuming to pull together in meetspace.
These tools are incredibly powerful and potentially liberating, who ever need-be tied to the ego of the artist whose song you love? A music created by you for you to amaze and amuse or to realise dreams.
Yet there’s the cost, it isn’t nothing and that is a problem in an environment where corporations will stop at nothing to supply you.
It is the plague of the capitalist market, the need to monopolise supply rather than embrace abundance.
It is probable, that in the not too distant future, we will all have a device like our personal desktop that sits quietly in the corner naturally regulating itself in the home environment, feeding off the solar panels and batteries in a cocoon of uninterruptible 230V AC. Our AI, our enhanced intelligence, the meaningful symbiosis of technology and humanity assisting us to really engage with the world as an active citizen.
The activity we need to better manage our society and environment using the simple processes of Democracy.
Instead of needing one big machine to handle billions of transactions with the costs of connection, cooling and wasted energy, we all have our own machine, tethered to our own phone that stores and shares our information in a way that we control.
Billions of happy little AI’s representing the interests of every citizen that utilises this tool to engage with the news to create the laws, review the projects, make the budgets and genuinely contribute to making a better world through the acts of participation and voting.
With power left-over to share in those more complex computational challenges, by selling our dormant processing time to those who need or want it.
There is no need for a representation, it is expensive, corrupted and incredibly inefficient due to the bozone layer of party politicians, staffers, fakers and fixers.
We can as easily run the civil services simply by voting when we either needed to or wanted. Democracy is a simple arithmetic process of decision making - 50%+1 always gets a result, no beating around the bush, kicking the can down the road or waiting for the wheels to fall off that bandwagon.
Without politicians we could employ people usefully in actually supervising the services our taxes pay for - just follow the through line in Aged Care, Child Care, NDIS and Insulation, PV and Battery rebate fiascos, past present and presumed. If only more people were being paid to care about compliance or delivery or quality of service…
Even without the box, we have the means to embrace the promise, end the franchise and finally unfuck the planet one better decision at a time, because, in the end, at the end of the day, come the final play, we all have to agree, for it to become permanent.
Until then I leave you with a moment of joy with a bundle of baby guinea pigs and a sound track by Phil and his AI
