AI: Brains and Brawn

AI is here, awakened and active.

Messy like a baby, hungry. hungry for energy and infrastructure. And for food, AI will need resources like copper wire, stone, concrete, and steel. It needs energy resources. It needs people to fight for them.

Not just robots. People.

In the last 100 yards, it still comes down to a grunt with a gun. The tech may change, but current Artificial intelligence systems have a fundamental limit. They're merely inference engines.

AI cannot go beyond existing data.

AI cannot learn from itself. Current systems need fresh input. Otherwise, the model degrades and collapses. Only humans can get fresh data. We owe it to our ability for heuristic leaps, evolved over two million years. We can expand the dataset with unpredictable inputs. Especially in today’s automated battlefield. We see this in the “mad halfway house” of the battlefields of the Ukraine. Both sides are now deploying specialized battalions, a mix of Private Military Contractor, volunteer battalion and tech startup.

Startup regiments.

A Civilian-Military fusion with a mix of smart systems and new manufacturing techniques.  Innovation hubs close to the front. The ultimate test of reality. And the ultimate test of human ability. The Ukraine war reminded today's great powers to better take care of their own populations. Now, Americans want to “Make America Healthy Again”. In the Middle Empire, they began a Healthy China 2030 plan.

We're back to ancient Greece and Rome, when jocks were geeks. 

Indeed. And it's a bigger world, where we're looking for needle in an ever-growing haystack. The more we know, the more we need to understand. Prisoner of complacency, the dull become duller. Driven by ambition, the strong grow stronger.