Unsupervised

Introduction

“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”

—Sun Tzu

Where the World Is Now

At the start of this project in late 2020, we believed that by 2025, the world would start to “reboot” due to a range of disruptive frontier technologies. It is only 2023, and the process is already underway on many fronts. These include the following:

• The rapid evolution of AI, including the public launch of ChatGPT from OpenAI—a technology few had heard of two years ago when it could not even execute simple mathematical equations for us—that could be accessed and used by millions whatever their technical level, simply through a command prompt becoming truly general purpose. It can now independently conduct research and write papers at graduate-student levels. Each new release promises to be many times more sophisticated.
• An acceleration in funding and real progress in quantum computing.
• The ability for computers to create art—so good it has been banned on certain marketing platforms.
• AI computer code generators starting to match many of the best developers in the world. GitHub Copilot can create usable computer code so impressive, Andrej Karpathy, the previous director of AI and autopilot vision at Tesla, tweeted that he uses it to write about 80 percent of his code.
• A new system called VALL-E was announced that can use a mere 3-second sample to accurately simulate anyone's voice.

And combined, all of these lead toward a concentration of power not seen since the Industrial ...