Forwarded from Ice Age Farmer
1737: Andrew Ramsay "Freemasonry will furnish the materials for a Universal Dictionary ... By this means the lights of ALL NATIONS WILL BE UNITED in one single work, which will be a universal library of all that is beautiful, great, luminous, solid, and useful in all the sciences and in all noble arts. This work will augment in each century, according to the increase of knowledge."
1936: H. G. Wells describes a "World Brain": a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopedia" that could help WORLD CITIZENS make the best use of universal information resources and make the best contribution to WORLD PEACE.
2025: Elon Musk announces his AI is "rewriting the corpus of human knowledge" to "correct the errors."
History is written by the victors, and AI is trained on it. (Yet another reason to train/use your own models -- #RightToCompute)
1936: H. G. Wells describes a "World Brain": a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopedia" that could help WORLD CITIZENS make the best use of universal information resources and make the best contribution to WORLD PEACE.
2025: Elon Musk announces his AI is "rewriting the corpus of human knowledge" to "correct the errors."
History is written by the victors, and AI is trained on it. (Yet another reason to train/use your own models -- #RightToCompute)