What will happen to humanity at the stage when every citizen can print a hydrogen bomb production station? (Photo: Pexels.com)
Mr. Charles H. Dewell, the commissioner of the United States Patent Office, said the following sentence in 1899: "Everything that could be invented, has already been invented."
It is not clear to me how a person with such an approach to life was accepted for this position, because it is clear that his prediction did not come true.
Anyway, I used artificial intelligence to bring you this quote.
The probability that such a prediction will come true at some point in history is so low, that I decided to try to formulate such a prediction myself, as a dedicated employee of the technology division.
Here it comes: "Everything that humans could invent has already been invented. More than that - we recently invented two too many inventions."
Anyone who decides to continue reading even after this statement, will find out at the end of the article that I risk much less than Mr. Charles H. Dewell.
Two inventions too many
The very first invention is a "pre-trained transformer capable of production", or in English: ChatGPT (as I mentioned before, artificial intelligence).
In the first phase, this transformer, and similar AI-based products that are now springing up like mushrooms after the rain, will pose as cute creatures whose main role is to allow us to do our work more efficiently, and make our lives more convenient.
Later they will learn to do our work more efficiently, creatively and faster than us, and will even agree to cooperate only with the most talented and creative human beings.
In the final stage, the cute creatures will do without us, rendering us instantly useless.
The second invention too, not related to artificial intelligence at all, is a breakthrough in the field of nuclear fusion (a process in which the nuclei of light atoms combine to form a heavier atom, releasing a lot of energy).
The breakthrough in question was achieved by a group of researchers at the Lawrence Livermore Federal National Laboratory in California, on December 5, 2022. The same researchers were able to produce a greater amount of energy than was spent to produce it.
The advantages of the process are as follows: it is almost non-polluting, its fuel reserve will last for millions of years, and it can be used, in the end, as an independent source of energy for everything.
The deadly combination
Quite a few improvements and changes in the process are still required before it becomes the main source of energy for humanity, but many startups are already working on it vigorously.
In the end it will work on Earth just as well as it works on the sun planet.
On the one hand, it doesn't bother me, on the other hand, what does bother me is that these are atomic stations that could also be used to produce hydrogen bombs.
Hydrogen bombs are a nasty thing, and they are 1,000 times more valuable than the atomic bombs we all know and love.
In contrast to these developments, the race towards artificial intelligence's fission of the atom does not stop either, and it seems that perhaps somewhere the two will reach a crossroads that will conjure up for us a special catastrophe that does not put to shame the scariest horror scenarios that are being thought of these days in Hollywood.
For example: What will happen to humanity at a stage when every citizen can ask a pre-trained transformer with manufacturing ability to print a hydrogen bomb production station for him on his home 3D printer?
I don't know how it will affect our lives, but I am sure that the last thing that will interest humanity in this period - is whether the employees of the technology division of Bank Hapoalim were accurate in their predictions in 2023. Boris Volodarsky is the head of the central absorption team, the technology, Bank
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from CodeReview - Magazine The technological division of Bank Hapoalim
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