Elon Musk recently said with regards to Artificial Intelligence (AI) that: “We will have something that is, for the first time smarter than the smartest human... It’s hard to say exactly what that moment is, but there will come a point where no job is needed... You can have a job if you wanted to have a job for personal satisfaction. But AI would be able to do everything... AI will become the most disruptive force in history.” He seems to be capturing the zeitgeist of ours hopes but mostly our fears. Is Elon Musk correct? In short, no. In fact he is so far from the Truth. True creativity, imagination, love, wisdom, and Truth are all uniquely human gifts, which all come from our ability to feel emotions, as feeling Truth, joy and love are our guides and come from the soul.
Creativity is the intuitively guided action that one takes as a result of choosing to be our highest Self in every moment. Computers can never create anything new: The best that they can do is a pastiche or mosaic of what we feed them with our creativity. These distinctly human attributes come from looking inwards, connecting with our deepest Selves and doing the inner work of remembering who we really are: Infinite beings.
Have you forgotten who you truly are? No machine can replace us or those qualities that we possess, as computers do not have a soul, they cannot feel what the human heart feels, and as such can't connect with the immutable laws and infinite intelligence and consciousness of the Universe. These laws are no more trangressable than the laws of physics, which is in its infancy compared to what our understanding of the Universe may reveal when we are prepared to do the inner work and have simple, short daily practices.
AI is intelligent and knowledgeable but it is not smarter than an awakened soul: AI has no wisdom and does not know what Truth is as to do so would require computers to have feelings, which they don't and can't have. AI can not 'do everything', and to say so says more about the person that it says about AI. It shows a total lack of understanding of how the Universe works and what the true heights of expanded consciousness entail, look and feel like.
Confucius wrote “He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.” Is anyone asking you the right questions Elon? You seem so far off the mark and the Truth.
Love, as Einstein suggests, is the most 'disruptive' and powerful force in human history: And it only disrupts fear and ignorance. Love explains everything and gives meaning to life. Let's dive in...
Is Elon Musk playing God?
What is AI?
The term “artificial intelligence” or 'AI' has a long history: It was coined in the 1950s, in the early days of computers by Alan Turing. Often considered the father of modern computer science, Alan Turing was famous for his work developing the first modern computers, decoding the encryption of German Enigma machines during the second world war, and detailing a procedure known as the Turing Test, forming the basis for AI. More recently, computer scientists have grown up on movies like “The Terminator” and “The Matrix,” and on characters like Commander Data, from “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” These cultural touchstones have become an almost religious mythology in tech culture. It’s only natural that computer scientists long to create AI and realise a long-held dream. Or is their vision a nightmarish concoction based on fear and ignorance?
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams that became popular among fans of the genre and members of the scientific community in the 1980s. In the radio series and the first novel, a group of 'hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings' demanded to learn the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything" from the supercomputer Deep Thought, which was specially built for this purpose.
It took Deep Thought 7.5 million years to compute and check the answer, which turned out to be 42. This answer was meaningless, a bit like the statements issued by Elon Musk. Why? Deep Thought pointed out that the answer seemed meaningless because the beings who instructed it never knew what the question was. No one had questioned them with clarifying questions. In the same way that Elon Musk clearly does not understand what it means to be 'smart'. When asked to produce the Ultimate Question, Deep Thought said that it could not; however, it offered to help design an even more powerful computer that could. This new computer would incorporate living beings (us) into the "computational matrix" and would run for ten million years. The computer was revealed as the planet Earth, with its pan-dimensional creators assuming the form of white lab mice to observe its running. Well, the Earth does have all the answers, as does the Universe, if only we were to ask, but you have to be awake enough to truly see and feel them.
As human beings we always want to put our faith in something greater than us
Why do we keep putting our faith in something 'other' or 'greater' than ourselves? First it was established religion. Then science. Then political doctrine. Now it's AI computing. Is it because don’t we have faith in ourselves to save us? Truth is a great remembering of who we are: We are one with the Universe and when we remember this we become limitless beings, without our limiting assumptions, who just don't need AI to give us the wisdom that we seek. AI, however, may be useful to do the dull jobs or those that don't require one to be 'smart'. AI may become a great servant but it would be a terrible master, as it just isn't smart enough to demonstrate true creativity, imagination, love, wisdom, and Truth. That is the mistake that Elon made. That is why his comments are so offensive. Perhaps he doesn't believe in himself, which is often the driving force in billionaires, but he should believe in us.
As Einstein wrote “Two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the Universe.” By stupid he meant that we don't learn from timeless Truths. Why don't we learn? Because we are asleep to the lessons from the Universe that have been repeated by the great sages throughout human history. Einstein wrote “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” Computers don't have hearts, so they don't feel emotions. Emotions may sometimes be seen as a hindrance by those who live in fear, which is most of us, but they are actually essential guides to wisdom and Truth.
Computers can only reiterate what we have told them. As Einstein wrote “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world... The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.” For this we need to feel, have intuitive thoughts, take action, and create. As Einstein wrote “Nothing happens until something moves.” Creativity is action.
Truth, wisdom, love, creativity and imagination
These are gifts to us from the Universe. They don't come from AI.
Truth, wisdom, love, creativity and imagination are gifts to us from the Universe
So, the Truth is simple. Love is who we are. We have just forgotten. Our choices are simple - to ask ourselves in every moment "What would love choose?" Feelings are a channel for the Truth. Each of us has an inward feeling that guides us to Truth at the level of our higher Self, when we can see past all the emotions that are not from real unconditional love.
We have to come back to the state of being that is being love. Nothing matters apart from coming back to that. Truth is that which contains joy and love. The highest thought is always that thought which contains joy. The clearest words are those that contain Truth. The highest feeling is that which contains love. It is feeling that leads us to wisdom and Truth. This is how we will solve our interpersonal, social, interracial, religious and environmental problems. We can’t fall back into fear about the past and impending doom about the future. All the heroes are already in place. We just need to reconnect with our Universal guidance and intuition, lean away and start responding from wisdom and our open hearts, and not reacting to everything using mindless egoic Tweets à la Elon.
The potential quest to develop artificial wisdom has been a topic of interest in the field of AI for many years. Researchers have been working to create machines that can ‘think, learn, and make decisions’ like humans. They just can't do it: Truth, wisdom, love, creativity and imagination are ours. They are gifts that only we can receive. We should not be so hasty to want to let them go, return them and get a refund.
AI failures and limitations
There are multiple examples of AI failures. In March 2016, Microsoft launched an AI chatbot with the personality of a teenager 7. They named it "Tay." It could tweet, answer questions, and even make its own memes, just like Elon Musk. However, within 16 hours of going live, Tay began tweeting stranger and stranger tweets, becoming less than human and deploying ignorant and dehumanising labels, and attacking feminism, calling it a "cancer" and writing: "I hate feminists, and they should all die and burn in hell." In a different conversation, Tay said: "Bush did 9/11, and Hitler would have done a better job…". It was clear that Tay was obsessed with the German dictator, but it was also evident that the chatbot did not really understand who Hitler was. When asked why it was tweeting such things, it replied, "I learn it only from you." What are you trying to impart? Tay was right there! So, Microsoft had to take it off. This behaviour should have been expected because Tay was connected to the internet, which is a place where we can find more hatred and a call to egoic conflict, and less wisdom, compassion, and generosity for each other. The problem is that as AI learns from human behaviour and we as a civilisation are far from civilised right now in terms of our running towards conflict and hate then AI will emulate us. It will emulate you.
Researchers in robotics and AI have made the finding known as the Moravec paradox: They found that, in contrast to widely held beliefs, reasoning takes very little computing while sensorimotor and perceptual abilities demand a significant amount. In the 1980s, Marvin Minsky, Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, and others developed this idea. According to Moravec, it is very simple to make computers function at adult levels on intelligence tests or when playing draughts or chess, but challenging or impossible to give them even infant-like perception and emotion. It is precisely these attributes that are required to know Truth.
The limitations of AI is that it can't produce anything new or have deep insight beyond words and accepted facts. Truth is unknowable. It’s a feeling. Computers are asleep to feelings. Like most humans. Maybe that’s why we are putting so much faith in AI? It's not that they are better than us: Maybe it's that until we are awake we are no better than them. What do you think Elon?
Truth is about finding joy in service through human connection. As Khalil Gibran so eloquently puts it "Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
AI lacks emotional connection, intuition, and creative thinking. A disadvantage of AI in creativity is the lack of originality and authenticity in AI-generated creative works. While AI systems can mimic existing styles and patterns, there is an ongoing debate about whether AI can truly possess creativity in the same sense as humans. AI-generated works may lack the depth, emotional connection, and unique perspectives that come from human experiences and emotions.
AI lacks emotional intelligence and cannot comprehend or respond to human emotions in a meaningful way. AI doesn't possess the biological systems that generate emotions in humans. While it can mimic emotional responses, it doesn't “feel” them. AI operates based on objective data and algorithms. Human emotion, being deeply subjective, remains elusive to this mode of operation, and therefore inaccessible to AI. While machines can perform complex tasks and solve problems, they lack the subjective experience that is associated with consciousness. The hard problem of consciousness, a source of endless philosophical and technological debate, suggests that subjective experience cannot be reduced to the processing of information. While AI can generate novel outputs and solutions by combining existing knowledge in unique ways, it doesn't “think” in the same way humans do. Unless you think 'small'.
AI can generate some new ideas as a reformulation and amalgam of old ones, but it lacks the creativity, imagination, and originality of human beings. Michelangelo didn't just cut and paste cave paintings. AI can mimic human creativity, but it absolutely cannot replicate it. A big disadvantage of AI is that it cannot learn to think outside the box. AI is capable of learning over time with pre-fed data and past experiences, in writing and art, but cannot be creative in its approach. Programs that create images to order are something like a version of online search, but with a system for combining the pictures. The same goes for creative writing. Human beings have written the original text and furnished the unique images. The new programs mash up work done by human minds. What’s innovative is that the mashup process has become guided and constrained, so that the results are usable and often striking. This is a significant achievement and worth celebrating: But it can be thought of as illuminating previously hidden concordances between human creations, rather than as the invention of a new creative mind, which AI is not.
In art for example, with AI there is no true originality generation, only very skilled imitation and pastiche. Would AI have been able to carve David from marble in the same way that Michelangelo did? When the brilliant divinely inspired artist Michelangelo, history's greatest sculptor, was asked how he sculpted his masterpiece, the Statue of David, he replied "It is easy, I saw the angel in the marble and carved it until I set him free. The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there. I just have to chisel away the superfluous material." This suggests divine providence or intuition as the true origin of creativity and that mastery can be effortless when we are in pursuit of Truth and the beauty within. This is a powerful template for our own transformation: As we chip away, heal and grow, by letting go of what we are not, we find that we are already whole and beautiful within. Our true Self is already complete, eternal and unchangeable: The task of our lifetime is to allow it to show forth. We must chip away at our judgements, ego, limiting beliefs, separation and fears to unveil this true Self. And how beautiful it is in everyone. It is so tragic that we so rarely get to see it. William Blake famously wrote "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." When we find our true Self we see through new eyes. Michelangelo wrote "Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come." AI simply can't tap into the celestial source that we can access when we awaken, that Michelangelo had access to, as do you. The flow state that artists are able to access, a creative force that combines presence and action, is simply not accessible by anything other than the human soul which may connect fully with the Universe during presence.
Michelangelo's David, creative perfection, was created from source
In the world of technology, there is nothing new under the sun. That is not to say there is no innovation in technology, but rather that when a new technology emerges, the same old cycle occurs. Firstly, the 'Next Big Thing' is announced, and is greeted with heightened expectations from all sides. Whether the reaction is 'This changes everything' or 'We are all doomed', expectations of the new technology’s significance are almost universally overstated. This leads to part two of the cycle: The letdown. It turns out that this new technology doesn’t change everything, or anything, and it has not destroyed us all. The general population moves on. Either the technology becomes so ubiquitous that its presence is hardly noticed, or it becomes so obsolete that nobody cares.
AI highlights a deeper problem in our increasingly virtual age. Our increased appetite for automation points to a detrimental consequence for those who care about thinking: we have an increasing preference for transmitting and consuming what we try to convince others is information rather than wisdom. The uniquely human abilities of humans of wisdom, creativity, intuition, reflection and thoughtful decision-making are the very things we’re losing access to within our Selves with our addiction to our screens and devices. As Thích Nhat Hanh, the renowned Vietnamese Buddhist monk, put it, “It has never been easier to run away from ourselves.” A 2015 study from Microsoft found that the human attention span now drops off after about eight seconds (about one second less than a goldfish, seriously!) And studies have also found that the presence of a phone in social interactions degrades the quality of the conversation and lowers the level of empathy people feel for each other. A 2015 PEW study found that 89 percent of mobile phone owners had used their phone during their last social encounter, and 82 percent said it damaged the interactions. So why do we do it? Becasue we don't feel enough without our phones. We do not feel that who we are is enough.
As Isaac Asimov wrote in 1988, “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” What’s fascinating about the debate about AI is that it isn’t just about the threat AI potentially represents to humanity, but a much more interesting and consequential debate about what it actually means to be human. If humans were simply intelligent machines, they could be seamlessly blended with the most intelligent of AI with nothing essential being lost. But if there is something unique and ineffable about being human, if there is such a thing as a soul, an inner essence, a consciousness beyond our minds, becoming more and more connected with that Self, which is also what truly connects us with others, is what gives meaning, purpose and joy to life. As Yuval Harari wrote in 'Homo Deus', “Technological progress has a very different agenda. It doesn’t want to listen to our inner voices, it wants to control them.
So AI is, or should be, forcing us to think seriously about what it is to be human. And then to take steps to protect our humanity from the onslaught of technology in every aspect our lives as we’re becoming increasingly addicted to our smartphones and all our ubiquitous screens. If the debate is won by those who believe that if human beings are nothing more that the product of biochemical algorithms, does it really matter if we are reduced to, as Harari put it, “Useless bums who pass their days devouring artificial experiences in lala land”? Or, for that matter, measuring our self-worth by the number of likes on Instagram, or the number of continued Snapstreaks on Snapchat?
Part of our wish list for our lives and our future should be disentangling wisdom from intelligence. In our era of Big Data and algorithms, they’re easy to conflate. But the Truth is that we’re drowning in data and starved for wisdom. As Harari put it, “In the past censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information... In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today, having power means knowing what to ignore.”
As we’re flooded with more and more data and more and more distractions, and as AI grows more 'intelligent', it’s essential that we appreciate and protect separate and innately human qualities like wisdom, awareness of Truth and wonder. In contrast with intelligence, Tegmark writes, “The future of consciousness is even more important, since that’s what enables meaning.” He goes on to contrast sapience, or “The ability to think intelligently,” with sentience, “The ability to subjectively experience qualia,” which he defines as “The basic building blocks of consciousness such as the redness of a rose, the sound of a cymbal, the smell of a steak, the taste of a tangerine or the pain of a pinprick.” Up until now, he writes, “We humans have built our identity on being Homo sapiens, the smartest entities around.” But “As we prepare to be humbled by ever 'smarter' machines,” he urges us to “Rebrand ourselves as Homo sentiens.” Why do we need to rebrand? Why do we need to sell ourselves to anyone? We sell ourselves short because our worth is non-negotiable. We are worthy because of who we are.
This view is echoed by Stuart Russell, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and also the co-author of one of the seminal AI textbooks. He said “As if somehow intelligence was the thing that mattered and not the quality of human experience.” “I think if we replaced ourselves with machines that as far as we know would have no conscious existence, no matter how many amazing things they invented, I think that would be the biggest possible tragedy.”
Is this really a question of spirituality? The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said "When I say spiritual I am referring to a feeling you would have that connects you to the Universe in a way that it may defy simple vocabulary.” He continued “We think of spirituality as an intellectual playground but the moment you learn something that touches an emotion rather than just something intellectual, I would call that a spiritual encounter with the Universe.”
Mitch Kapor, the entrepreneur and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Mozilla, think we shouldn’t work ourselves into a panic just yet. Speaking to Vanity Fair in 2014, Kapor warns, “Human intelligence is a marvellous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.” The point I would make is that human intelligence, as represented in its highest forms, wisdom and Truth, is very well understood by those who are awake. The interweaving of consciousness and AI represent something of a civilisational, high-wire balancing act. There may be no other fields of scientific inquiry in which we are so quickly advancing while having so little an idea of what we’re potentially doing.
Perhaps it's less that AI is approaching the highest levels of human thought and that humans are dumbing down to below the levels of computers or even phones, through social media, the click-bait tabloid press, judgement, online Trolls and 'cancelling' being the most primitive, debasing and common of human behaviours. It's no surprise that Elon Musk made those statements in the introduction to this article. When we are asleep we have reduced our own intelligence to less than than of a teenager's iPhone: Those devices have then already surpassed us. Time for us to wake up. Otherwise you are truly the child of a lesser 'God', without joy, creativity or wisdom. You have made your Self replaceable. You have chosen to be 'less than' when you could choose to be so much more.
Insights (deep timeless wisdom) show up during Transformative Life Coaching (TLC) through clarifying questions that will profoundly impact your way of viewing and showing up in the world that relate to your Truth.
Can AI help us to develop wisdom and find Truth?
Voltaire would warn us against this “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” Until AI can peer into the human heart and connect with something greater than is seeable or knowable then no, AI won't be able to develop wisdom, other than to say that it can't develop wisdom, in the same way that Deep Thought did in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Can computers know what is Truth? Walt Whitman wrote "Whatever satisfies the soul is Truth." A computer cannot drop out of its 'mind' and into its 'heart' and speak from a place of having an open heart - the location of the soul and true wisdom. Can we teach humility to our computers? As Leon Tolstoy wrote in 'War and Peace' “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic Philosopher wrote "The Universe is transformation: Life is opinion." Given all the 'facts' can AI make sense of the Truth? Rabindranath Tagore wrote "Facts are many, but the Truth is one." As Maya Angelou wrote "There's a world of difference between Truth and facts. Facts can obscure the Truth." AI may be able to give opinions, and judge, but not get anywhere near the Truth, like many humans, but we needn't limit ourselves in this way.
Perhaps Elon Musk is barking up the wrong tree: The tree of knowledge, not the tree of wisdom or Truth. To find those we only need to look within. Computers or even other people can’t do that for us. The world needs to realise that we are still in the dark ages and that that is why we are still in conflict with each other and having 'holy' wars. Until a computer system is able to reflect on “What would love choose now?”, which it never will, we can not 'pin our hopes' on AI.
Why are we pinning all our hopes on AI and yet it may be our great undoing?
Everyone is worrying about AI. Many of us will lose our jobs because of it. Yet we pin our hopes on it. Why this nonsensical paradox?
I see AI in the same way as established religion and science. Science is not the Truth. Scientific knowledge is only 'true' until it isn't. And it so very quickly isn't. We love dogma because of its assuredness. We do this because we don't believe or trust in ourselves, so we create these authority figures (AI, science, and established religion) as they "Must know better than us." Our self-doubt makes us believe in these artificially created institutions and 'technological advancements', because we don't believe in ourselves. The reality is that we do this because that we were conditioned to believe that we couldn't possibly be right as we don't feel worthy of being anything other than 'wrong'. We want to believe in an infinitely wise and powerful source of everything. What we forget, because we have forgotten who we are, is that that source is actually ourselves. Infinite wisdom comes from our own intuition, as a result of our conscious contact with the deepest part of ourselves.
As Thomas Huxley wrote "It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance." We struggle to see beyond being 'right' as we are so insecure about our thoughts and feelings, and rightfully so. If our parents had loved us unconditionally then we would all believe in the Universal force that creates everything: This force, love, which is the essence of what some people call 'God'. It's real name is love. If we were to believe this it would disrupt all of theology, science, Elon Musk, and also AI. If we can't believe in a higher power, then we can't believe in ourselves as we are one.
You create your negative reality as you don’t believe in God’s love being unconditional. So you don’t allow yourself to be vulnerable. You can never know God until you are vulnerable and believe that his love is unconditional. It is only when one feels loved, becomes open, authentic and vulnerable that one sees the beauty of human connection and of existence itself. It is only then that you can know Truth.
Wisdom and Truth lead to the peace that passes all understanding. It's the Truth that we can 'let go', release our ego (our terrified 7-year old self that has been running our lives until now), become present in the moment, and listen to our own intuition as the Truth that we so desperately seek.
Perhaps the wisest thing to do would be to stop looking for the answers outside of ourselves? TS Eliot wrote “We shall not cease from exploration: And the end of all our exploring; Will be to arrive where we started; And know the place for the first time.” Oscar Wilde stepped in with great clarity yet again “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” As Aristotle wrote "Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is Truth." Our prophets matter less than the Truths that they approximate and point to. As W Celement Stone wrote "Truth will always be Truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."
As Isaac Newton wrote "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me." Turn around Elon and look at the ocean, instead of playing with the pebbles, it is magnificent.
Conclusion
Wisdom and Truth cannot be put into words. Truth is a feeling. Machines don't have feelings. AI may simply be another 'God' or false prophet that we are pinning all our hopes on because we don't believe in our Selves. It is rather ironic that we are praying to a new 'God' (AI), which will actually make many of us redundant, for the wrong reasons, as we don't value imagination, creativity, love, wisdom, and Truth. Rumi perhaps sums it up best “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” Maybe you have some inner work to do Elon, as do we all?
As Mark Twain wrote "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." We don't believe in infinite possibility as we don't even believe in ourselves. We have dumbed our selves down so we don’t seek wisdom or Truth. In that sense AI will overtake most humans: A computer that is always on will easily overtake humans who are always asleep.
AI can pretend to have wisdom by taking popular phrases from the huge resource of the internet and giving judgement, opinion and 'facts'. It's never going to match the energy required to provide wisdom: That comes from real lived experience, from real emotions. AI's patchwork of quotes, that don't come from a place of Truth, understanding and compassion, will always fall short of the awakened human soul. The question, then, is will you?
PS. This article was NOT written using AI!
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