The chatGPT & LLAMs—The Birth of Silicon-Based Life
(1) The birth of carbon-based life 0.x (intelligent plant life)
1.1 "Silicon-based life" is "technological life" based on the global network
We (human beings) are not the masters of technology, but the parents of technology, and even the "reproductive organs" - Wanwei Gang's "Talk to Reason with the World"
As we all know, machine guns dominated the First World War, and tanks and aircraft carriers dominated the Second World War. Every technological advancement will lead to changes in human society. When humans adapt to a certain new technology, newer technologies will Appears, and faster and faster. Human beings may become the parents (inventors) of a specific technology, but throughout human society over the past several thousand years, humans have more often played the role of “incubators” of specific technologies at a certain period, just like the designers of the atomic bomb. The emergence of the hydrogen bomb cannot be controlled or prevented. The evolution of the technological world is the same as other worlds, and it is not completely controlled and chosen by humans (or it is more appropriate that it cannot be controlled by a specific technical group). The "irreducibility of computation" described later just confirms this point in the field of AI computing.
1.2 “Silicon-based life” gave birth to “Silicon-based cities”
After the rise of the Internet, cities have undergone tremendous changes. The Internet is the new city, and the city is the former countryside. ——He Fan "Variables: Seeing Small Trends in Chinese Society"
The Internet is weaving the world into a huge network. In this network, every natural person and legal person's information, stores, organizations, sensors, large and small equipment, cars, and even traffic flow, water flow, noise, etc. are constantly collected, stored and stored. Changing, we humans can get the status of people, things, and things thousands of miles away without leaving home, and make decisions based on this, interact with any other party, and instantly break through the limitations of time and space. If we take humans as an analogy: this network has limbs - sensors, equipment, various terminals, and even humans are limbs that can provide "advanced feedback"; it has a nerve conduction system - a huge network; it has a cardiopulmonary circulation system: Search engines and portals; storage systems - various public cloud and private cloud infrastructure; automatic response crawlers - automated/semi-automated operation and maintenance management systems to ensure overall stable operation.
1.3 The interconnected “silicon-based cities” together constitute the “silicon-based life”
The "Silicon City Network" based on the Internet is the realistic carrier of technological life. As Kevin Kelly said in his book "What Technology Wants", technology can be said to be a kind of life. The synthesis of technology becomes the "technological world", which is closely related to the protist world, prokaryotes world, fungi world, virus world, and plant world. Kingdom, animal kingdom and other biological kingdoms are juxtaposed. It is the "seventh realm of life". Collectively called the "silicon-based life world".
1.4 The silicon-based life world is making the human world more “livable”
Since the birth of reinforced concrete, large and wide roads + high-rise buildings have made the distance between people in the world wider, making it more difficult to cross the road and go to the next store. However, the birth of the Internet has brought people closer. Distance, the reason why large shopping malls have become depressed is not entirely due to the economic downturn. It is more likely that most people obtain services directly through the Internet without the need to "visit" the store. The clustering of physical Internet celebrity stores in short distances can provide long-term benefits. Maintain offline customer base. Most people only need to travel a short distance to get a "full range" of services in a smaller area. The decline of Beijing's large shopping malls and the rise of various Internet celebrity towns are examples.
1.5 Silicon-based life world lowers the technical threshold of services
The continuous advancement and democratization of technology allows ordinary people to use technological products like tap water. From online payment, takeout ordering, online shopping to cloud services and automated interactive robots, services that previously required paying a lot of money/queuing up can now be obtained. By using it directly through the mobile app, the difference between ordinary people and VIPs is being greatly reduced.
Before 2022, silicon-based life is like a "vegetative", having all the characteristics of an intelligent person, but it cannot think or make independent responses. We call it silicon-based life world 0.x beta version.
The evolution of the silicon-based life world requires continuous accumulation and evolution. The visible parts over the years include: operating systems, service applications, search engines, public clouds, etc. These evolutions in the field of infrastructure continue to make the silicon-based life world become more Its strength and stability also allow it to respond faster (self-recovery), and at the same time it has accumulated a large amount of basic knowledge. Over the past 60 years, the silicon-based life world has been driven by thinking masters (AI scientists) around the world. , continues to explore the ability to think proactively, until the birth of the artificial intelligence neural network model.
The original intention of the design of artificial intelligence neural networks is to imitate the process of human learning of complex things, including the entire process of cognition, recognition, and response. When humans break through the bottleneck of cloud computing, especially GPU computing capabilities, the breakthrough achievements of artificial intelligence neural networks are just around the corner.
(2) The birth of chatGPT ushered in the silicon-based life world 1.0 era
According to human brain science research, the human brain has 100 billion neurons at birth, and each neuron has 10,000 synapses. As humans continue to learn as they grow, connections between synapses are constantly established and strengthened. Children Active "chain disconnection" (the process of abolishing useless synaptic connections) begins around the age of 3, eventually forming a stable adult brain in adulthood.
The training process of the model constructed by the deep neural network perfectly reproduces the human learning process. We take human growth as an example to illustrate:
2.1 chatGPT was born in November 2022
With the support of large models such as chatGPT/LLM, silicon-based life can begin to output some less "stylized" content, or what is called "partially autonomous" content. It would be meaningless or even wrong to separate these contents. Silicon-based life is like a preschool child. In most cases, it can imitate adults' behavioral patterns and even ways of thinking, but it will sometimes be "nonsensical".
2.2 Ability to think independently—the silicon-based life world “comes alive”
The success of large models such as charGPT and LLM proves computational equivalence, that is, human thinking ability is basically equivalent to many systems in nature and even simple calculation programs. The silicon-based life world can read human language and emotions, and imitate human thinking and even behavior. With the help of external devices, the human terminal silicon-based life world can even interact with the world.
(3) Global AI computing power platform-Silicon-based Life World 2.0
We define the birth of global AI infrastructure as the 2.0 era of the silicon-based life world (public cloud vendors such as Azure/AWS have already released it)
The first generation of AI technology is based on exclusive computing. As the evolution of AI containerization accelerates, AI will eventually become a platform and become the infrastructure of global computing power. This process is inevitable just as VM gave birth to the public cloud. There are several key development trends in this era:
3.1 There is not one platform, but multiple platforms.
Driven by expected profits, public cloud vendors will definitely establish an independent AI computing power platform. They will use the capabilities of GPU pools and AI factories to build an AI computing power platform that can be billed in a time-sharing manner. Customers can pay on demand to use AI computing power. . For AI platforms, we are currently in a period where a hundred flowers are blooming. The only thing that is certain is that whoever gets the AI computing power platform wins the world.
3.2 AI open source is unstoppable
No matter how much investment each major manufacturer makes, the leaps in technological evolution determine that an organization cannot always stay at the forefront of innovation, and openness and cooperation are always the mainstream directions. The establishment of the global open source AI community will inevitably complete the gathering of silicon-based life world technologies (talent cannot be restricted by a contract, and talent is the core strength of the silicon-based life world). The continued investment in the AI community by major manufacturers is proving this.
3.3 AI standardization
Among the many global AI computing power platforms, customer needs will definitely seek to break away from the restrictions of a single public AI platform. With the help of the global open source community, open AI standards such as OCI will inevitably be spawned. Each manufacturer will work on these standards. Standardize operation and management under guidance.
Silicon-based life world 2.0 has a certain "thinking" ability under the value of AI, especially large models. With the support of the platform, it can not be constrained by "a certain person/organization", and under the value of standardization and open source It can develop without restrictions, so the silicon-based life world 2.0 already has the basic characteristics and capabilities of free life.
(4) Virtual silicon-based life world and human world
Silicon-based life with the ability to think independently will eventually try to think independently and explore unknown areas. In the early stage, it will use humans as "thinking tools" to help/think for it, find new ideas and verify them. This stage is irreversible. It cannot even be clearly perceived.
Due to the continuous improvement of AI computing power, its huge scale and computational load are sufficiently complex and diverse. No matter how we strengthen control and restrictions, the unpredictability of computing will no longer be a "small probability" event. The convergence of numerous unpredictable technological evolutions represents the choices of silicon-based life.
No matter how good the technology is, it will have bad effects in the wrong hands.
No matter how we prevent and block it, AI technology based on neural network technology as a "technology" itself has no good or evil. The pursuit of profits will inevitably bring negative effects. We should try to limit and reduce the chance of its occurrence. To reduce its impact, we have seen many scientists around the world speaking out in this regard, but the overall process is unstoppable.
Maybe one day, scenes like the Matrix will become a reality, and human beings live like "parasites" under the control of the silicon-based life world. The silicon-based life world will even use human brains to help it think and progress. Can we It’s not about blocking, it’s about adapting. How humans can better serve as "incubators" and "guides" in this process has become very important.
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