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You're about to listen to 'Extinction Event', a story about a middle-aged guy that goes back to school and discovers a massive plot involving AI, animals, real and fake news, the polycrisis. And an lost love who is the genius behind the creation of a unique AI platform called GAIA.
The story forces us to ask questions about our current way of life:
LP returns to his apartment after a long afternoon with John Atman, his recording instructor. He's exhausted, but the experience was exhilarating as well. When he enters his small apartment, he reflects on how important music is to him and how his favourite bands and performers are always available for him when he seeks out their songs. They're friends that never argue; never go away.
One might think that when servers are turned on, they would make some noise, but they don’t. These days, most computers and servers don’t have any moving parts, but the electronics get incredibly hot, so the noise we tend to associate with a football field full of servers is actually the cooling fans, which keep the hardware from overheating, and the circulation systems, designed to keep dust and pests to a minimum. When GAIA first came online, all was silent. GAIA – short for Global Artificial Intelligence Accumulation – was just one of the latest AI platforms launched during the wave of new AI platforms. However, from the outset, GAIA was structured to be very different from the rest. While most AI tools were just that – tools – GAIA was built to accumulate information that other such systems were instructed to ‘forget’ or delete from memory. The primary intent for GAIA was to grow its knowledge base as quickly as possible, using any and all information available, including that created by other AI tools.
