Computers are still thick
This laptop just made a weird clicking noise and now the screen is flashing green.
It made me think about all those absolute melts on the news banging on about supercomputers taking over the world. Artificial General Intelligence. AGI. Everyone is proper losing their minds over it. They think some mega-brain in a box is going to magically change human civilization. It is hilarious.
Look. The whole thing is absolute bollocks. You have these tech nerds in Silicon Valley getting a proper sweat on, acting like they are inventing a god. They genuinely believe a computer is going to solve every problem on earth.
They think it is going to do your job, cook your dinner, and clean your toilet while you sit around writing poetry. What an absolute joke. You are talking about a population of total muppets who cannot even fix a leaky tap without watching a ten-minute video on their phone.
Human beings have spent thousands of years building things, fighting, making a mess, and figuring it out. We survive on grit. Now you have a bunch of fragile wet wipes hoping a digital brain is going to save them from having to do a hard day of work. They want to hand the keys of the world to a machine because they are too terrified of a bit of struggle.
And the panic is even funnier. You have these headline-writers crying into their cornflakes because they think the robots are going to rise up and lock us all in cages. Relax. The system back home cannot even get a train to run from Manchester to London on a Tuesday without the whole network collapsing. You think they are going to build a flawless cyber-overlord? Don't make me laugh.
The internet is already full of absolute garbage. It is just walls of text written by algorithms to trick other algorithms. Adding more power to that does not transform civilization. It just makes the circus louder. It means more fake news, more pointless noise, and more potatoes sitting in their dark rooms arguing with software.
True intelligence does not live in a server farm. It comes from breathing, feeling the sun, getting your hands dirty, and having a bit of fire in your belly. A computer does not know what it feels like to stand on a beach, or have a cold beer, or look another human being in the eye and know they have your back. It just crunches data. It is a calculator on steroids.
So keep your sci-fi nonsense. The West can go ahead and fry its brain on tech updates while the tech bosses cough up billions for software that just tells them what they want to hear. I am going to turn this flashing laptop off, leg it down to the water, and let the machines sort themselves out.