Russian President Vladimir Putin (RT photo / Semyon Khorunzhy)
WNU Editor: For more on Putin's remarks go here .... Putin: Leader in artificial intelligence will rule world (Houston Chronicle/AP). What's my take .... about 20 years ago I read a commentary by Bill Gates where he predicted that the first company that develops artificial will also be a company that will be worth multi-trillions of dollars. Both Bill Gates and Russian President Putin are right .... AI will revolutionise the world, and to the first one to accomplish such an incredible feat will go the spoils.
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Putin maybe should reconsider what he wishes for.
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I am not vouching for the accuracy of the story.
There is a story about a teamster out west, who wanted a monopoly. He threatened and beat up other teamsters until they Left town. Subsequently, he was the only teamster able to haul good into the small town. After running off other teamsters he intimidated store owners, so they would not try to hire new teamsters and pay his rates.
A boy/young man was apprenticed to a store owner and saw the teamster regularly ruffing up is employer. The store own shrugged it off. The store owner taught him how to run a store and gave him other advice.
The 1st winter after the teamster 'won' his monopoly he was found frozen to death outside of town during a supply run. The townspeople could not figure out how this man, the teamster could have frozen to death. He knew better.
Later the apprentice wondered why the store owner had bought more wood alcohol than would be need in a year. It made no sense. His curiosity piqued, the apprentice looked over the barrel of wood alcohol and notice a wood plug. The teamster had often stolen supplies such as by siphoning off alcohol from barrel and "cleverly" plugging the hole with a wood plug.
The apprentice confronted the store owner about the 'over' order. His boss said only one thing, "It is good to know how to read."
The teamster was only semi-literate. That is to say he was functionally illiterate. He knew a word here or there. Some word were 'important' to him like the word 'alcohol'.
Then there is the old Chinese proverb ...
"AI will revolutionise the world, and to the first one to accomplish such an incredible feat will go the spoils."
I am not so sure on this.
We live in a very fluid and dynamic age of digital supremacy that any breakthrough in AI development will be a knowledge that will be shared throughout the world. It matters not if that knowledge is kept a secret, for we live in an age where secrets are short-lived and end up in the most unexpected places.
Whoever achieves that knowledge will reap the spoils of it first, but they will not reign supreme for long, and will hardly 'rule the world' as Putin put it.
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