From the ad engines of Google to the personalization and recommendation engines of Instagram and YouTube, from the music recommendation engines of Spotify and Apple Music to the product recommendation engines of Amazon, from the chatbots to the discrimination engines of dating apps, we are the lab rats, you and me, and we are being led blindly

it’s not hard to do the right thing. It’s just hard to know what the right thing is.

Selling, gambling, manipulation of the masses to maximize profits, then spying and killing to defend the profits made and the future prospects of more profits. We are telling the machines that this is what matters.

The second inevitable is that in the next few years, as we compete commercially and politically to create superior machine intelligence, AI will sooner or later become smarter than we are. That, too, is inevitable.

documentary titled Singularity or Bust, Hugo de Garis,

Appii, is aiming to build an app that is capable of understanding the underlying reasons for an individual’s unhappiness.

‘Change is the only constant.’ I’m sure you’ve heard that expression before. It’s inspiring but, unfortunately, not true. Any analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is not constant. It’s exponential. An exponential trend is a trend that rises, or expands, at an accelerating rate.

Committed acceptance is the ability to do what is needed to make things better while accepting the reality that things happen in our lives that we cannot change.

Our decisions are not driven by intelligence. Intelligence only enables us to make them, but . . . . . . the way we make decisions is entirely driven by the lens of our value system.