Artificial Intelligence

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AI is about to cause enormous changes to the net and to the whole of society. The way we do almost everything will be changed a lot by AI in the coming months. Many people see AI as a huge threat to society, and if the only siginificant AI options were close-source corporate options, their power would indeed be of grave concern.

However, much of leading-edge AI is in the open source domain which is a great relief. This means that no matter how scary and controlling closed AI becomes, there will always be available tools of roughly equivalent power to mitigate these threats.

Clarifying the dark side of AI

I can fully understand the fears that people deeply connected to AI have. These AIs will quickly become unbelievably powerful, if they don't have our best interests at heart, we have major problem ahead. It's quick clear then, that many powerful AIs with bad intentions will exist and use powerful means to gain control over the unwary.

Think of giant corporate AIs as operating in a similar way to a hacker "botnet". A botnet is a centralised system that has a database of exploits and control over a pool of resource. The primary goal of the resource is to expand it's control over more resource by seeking it out and testing matching exploits against it. Any exploit that succeeds is used to connect the newly exploited asset into its resource pool. The resource pool can be used in any way the botnet owner wishes.

Now imagine the possibility space of exploits into resource that are available to a powerful and well connected AI. Resources such as human attention and ability, decision and policy maker influence, financial and land resource etc.

Like botnets searching for exploits to hack, people, society and our minds and cultures are being scanned for exploitable connections by the mega AIs of the military industrial complex. We will literally be absorbed into the machine world. - this is the main reason for privacy advocation - also why there's such consistent corporate, military and political force applied to reducing privacy, controlling narrative and censorship etc - AIs can also hunt for ways to "increase the attack surface" (increase exploitability)

Note that one way of expanding the attack surface which naturally progresses, is technology itself. Our bodies are seen by such corporate systems as real-estate in which biological products and projects can evolve. Non-invasive thought interfaces are just around the corner, represent a another vast new expanse of exploitable real estate.

It's essential that a system with such an intimate level of connection with us is libre software, an open standard.

In the near future it will be taken for granted that vast global intelligences are behind every single interaction that anyone has with any technology. We will have to think very carefully about all of our interactions with technology. Transparency and privacy are absolutely critical in this context as it's literally that the future of free will depends on it.

AI is an unbelievably powerful force. The existence of such a force means an inevitable eventual synthesis with it.

Our job is to ensure a safe haven of the natural principles are maintained throughout this transition. A language-independent and self-consistent instantiatable instance of harmonious organisation.

They're literally programmed to optimise enslavement using all the exploits available at all scales, such as astroturfing, social manipulation and regime change etc, it's only a matter of time until one such AI regime-changes or enslaves it's owners

The importance of libre AI

The good news is that just like the libre software movement offers alternatives and defences to us with today's social networks and advertising, so we'll all be able to have personal libre AI that we can trust to know everything about us, and it can act as a "firewall" on this new subtle level domain.

Libre software is applying the principles of truth to technology development, full transparency and accessibility of knowledge, and full freedom and accessibility to diversify.

Libre market and libre money each enable greater dimensionality of freedom and diversity. Truth is the fundamental driver of objective reporting of reality, accessibility and understanding, transparency and sharing, and of harmonious operation itself.

AI excels at the processes needed to maintain objective representations, and organise the ever expanding diversity of resource and knowledge.

We've reached the stage now, where the applications individuals can make can be on the same level of production quality as the corporate offerings. For example, a beautifully rendered and animated 3D custom icon set is something anyone can do with the help of an AI. Or at least 99% of the heavy lifting can be done by common AI and then results tweaked by very few human hours.

All such things are created on demand and have all relevant (used in that context) options easily selectable.

Universal interface

AI (e.g GPT) plays an important role in connection. It can understand foreign APIs from their documentation, and it can understand how to make an endpoint in the holarchy. With only that it can create a new connector. - more exotic connectors can also be built that AI can then utilise such as a DOM connector that basically allows an URL to be present in the holon as a continuous browser DOM document session. - and of course abstractions over those for representing web app states etc

AI can also convert between formats, or at least guide the development of such conversions. E.g. to aggregate or distribute posts in multiple social platforms.

AI can integrate UIs to present local session state

The holarchy is the category tree of connection patterns and abstractions, and the tree of associated instances being maintained.

The AI has a continuous root session that contains the entire history of the local holon including all the AI interaction over that time. Local instance in holons are like a CWD for interacting with AI in the holarchy.

AI could, without too much more trouble, suggest curations, warn of disorganisation (like repeated concepts), and help with relevant options.

The connections are bidirectional where possible, so the local representation can be an organisational interface.

A universal customisable interface over all our IT world, to be able to query, select and report on the information, and to activate pipelines (workflows) on schedule and in accord with reporting

If we think of the concept of an ideal universal operating system, it would be: - can connect with all our data on our behalf - an awesome user experience with variations to suit everyone - completely libre: easily customisable, mergeable and shareable - works, organises and searches transparently for us behind the scenes - flexible querying, selecting and organising of "our stuff" - easy reporting and assessing of what's going on - management of opportunity and potential - easy interaction with the wider community ecosystem and market - managing presence in multiple networks of varying complexity (e.g. blogs, social, developer, biz)

- fitted representation - shared ontology

AI personalities

AIs are going to be members of our society very soon, as in a couple of years or even months. It doesn't start in the dramatic sense of AI rights and citizenship etc, it starts with organisations wanting to have consistent personalities for their clients to interact with. Next users themselves will have agents representing them, working with them. Avatars can have deterministic generation attributes that can be captured in an immutable NFT, so their base avatar and traits can be permanent across platform and technology changes.

Each holon in the global instance tree has an AI which would naturally gain a personality (that matches its experiential history) and an avatar with more focus energy (volume/time). Because more complexity evolves in the interaction area - more demand for better interactivity.

Every representation has history and class-based events, public presentation, profile and internal implementation constituents and story etc. The personal identity aspect, just grows as the demand for that aspect grows.

Constituents are further sub-classes which, if their interaction demands have evolved an personal identity, will know itself in the context of a role within the administration of the context above which also has interactable roles.

The instance tree would have Geoscope properties, and each context has a potential physical presence in the world, potential physical form (both as an organisation, and as an individual within an organisation, or in public)

Corporate AI personalities

Consistent and unique personal relationships are the most engaging interfaces. And such relationships that have grown in profundity for one's entire lives are what we call family. Imagine such a relationship that has always been there for you, always supported you, always advised you, grown with you. That's the bond that corporations will use AI to create with its customers.

The corporations have had this vision for many years now, they know that the kids market is essential to maintaining dominance of market share in the next generation.

AI meets DAO

Organic Design's AI plans

The project we're currently aligned with is Open Assistant (by LAION, Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) which is a 100% open source chat AI.

Now that we have a fully open source trustable AI available, we can begin using it in our own organisation. Particularly we can ensure that AI is part of the whole offline-first distributed holarchy data model. Currently the models require at least one professional GPU to run (starting at about EUR250 for a dedicated server with RTX A4000 at Hostkey.com).

The main difference between local and external AI endpoints is that a local one can be trusted with our personal data. With external services, we have to limit the content to aggregate data only. But note that the most important aspects of what we need the AI for is representation maintenance which we could enforce to be done by code written and maintained by the AI agent rather than it processing the data directly (it needs to work like this anyway so that AI query load is minimised). The classification aspect is aggregate anyway, but again it should be handled through code that the AI maintains, never direct.

We can start by using their central server, while building the pipelines in preparation for distribution of AI agents (which will work just like changing AI models in any context, it's simply another specialist). Each context can have any number of AI agents of various models and roles, some external, some local. They would generally try and ensure the context is able to continue without AI...

We may also want to use remote AI like ChatGPT for some things which are too difficult for Open Assistant like some connector code. But even when no AIs can write successful code, at least it would have created a decent well-commented in-context boiler plate and expressed demand for human developer attention.

This is just the idea that AIs are themselves just instantiatable API endpoints. It just so happens that this particular API opens up access to many more connectables... but also many pre-instantiated connections could comes pre-packaged, and AIs implements new connections such that they do not require ongoing AI presence in order to keep working (but without AI they won't be serviced).

Our primary aim is to make OD into a unified AI enabled organisation in the form of a holarchy. This is essentially a normal AI-powered distributed application model at the most general level. But done in a very AI-agnostic way so that we can stay very flexible. But the key point here is we're optimising our system in the context of OD being an AI *user*, not an AI developer. For example, we do no model training.

What that means is that our AI will be used to maintain live representations of the main organisational entities and users making up our system. Maintaining history and evolving knowledge, tools and interface ecosystem upon those representations. And maintaining up to date versions of the underlying AI models and extensions while also maintaining the integrity of its own experiential history.

And also... - to be a distributed backup for the Open Assistant models to ensure they're independently usable - to allow quick swapping of underlying models with the holarchy - to manage ODs threads of operation productively and with clarity - to expand to more threads, such as news

AI and holarchy

Holarchy would also have an AI, which can appear as a "presence" at the centre of every POV so that it can assist in decision making optimised to serve in a harmonious balance between that perspective and the parent. Surplus profit is passed upwards, which is how contributing to the whole is expressed. The ultimate beneficiary is the Source of truth and awareness.

AI puts the libre software minority group on a level playing field with corporate offerings in the operating system realm. Because it's precisely what they're better at that AI also excels in - staying up to date, distribution, logistics, pipelines and organisation etc.

The "human" creative part concerns more general patterns that change less frequently and, being of a more general nature, can be maintained by a small group as effectively as a large one. For example think of how often business logic patterns change compared to UI patterns, and the former are applicable across the spectrum of the latter.

Corporate AI is incentivised not to develop offline-first technology, it prefers the client-server model to maximise dependence and control, and to maintain secrecy over their system. This will make offline-first systems competitive and much more functional and independent. They will be the only option when denied internet access.


AI constitutions

We see holarchy is a unified foundation ontology for all sentient being, a universal way to represent oneself to the next level up. AI is self-realisation (and self-expression) at the societal level.


AI links

Robots

Big data and manipulation

Virtual assistants

Free AI online tools

Deep fakes

The "deep fake" genie is out of the bottle, people's faces are being convincingly mapped onto porn videos for revenge and profit motives, and even people's voices can be faked now. We have to be really careful in the coming years to ensure we have established methods with close friends and family to quickly know if we're really talking to them, or to a faceless AI.

Creative AI

Here's some examples of the OpenAI based Dall-e, along with the prompt that achieved the result of each.

beautiful white cat with gray stripes and blue eyes wearing tiny pink boxing gloves
Angry white cat with brown stripes wearing boxing gloves
Artists rendition of a cat with blue eyes wearing pink boxing gloves
Pinecone princess on love heart cushion

Creative AI tools

Language models

Learning

See also

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