02/18/2024
A Tale of Two Species
Part 1
In case you haven’t heard, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. Thursday, February 15, 2024 around 10am est, that storm turned into what felt like a Category 5 when Manifesting Generator Sam Altman’s OpenAI unveiled Sora.
Sora, a Japanese gender neutral name meaning ‘Sky’, is an AI tool created by the same company behind ChatGPT. Out of thin digital air it quickly turns text into video with a quality so realistic Tom Warren of The Verge tweeted, "This could be the 'holy sh*t' moment of AI.”
Remember 11 months ago when that AI generated version of Will Smith eating spaghetti went viral? Consider that video quality the stone ages.
Although Sora still has plenty of errors the leap forward in quality from then till now is so remarkable it sent shock waves throughout the tech community.
Nvidia's Dr. Jim Fan tweeted, "If you think OpenAI Sora is a creative toy like DALLE, ... think again. Sora is a data-driven physics engine…”
"Every single one of these videos is AI-generated, and if this doesn't concern you at least a little bit, nothing will," tweeted YouTube tech journalist Marques Brownlee.
To be clear, not everyone is convinced we’ve arrived at a cultural singularity. It has its structural shortcomings if you ask Grady Booch who said, “…it is easy to automate relative straightforward things. But nudging those systems to get the precise details you want? That’s another story."
Nevertheless, most professionals whose occupations are in the demolition path of the AI wrecking ball are wary like tech journalist Joanna Stern who wrote, “It was nice knowing you all. Please tell your grandchildren about my videos and the lengths we went to actually record them.”
Survival
Ironically, the major theme for the 2024-2025 Rave New Year is a Design of Survival, an Impression that I discuss in Fulfillment of Prophecy, a Report on the Rave New Year.
According to Crunchbase’s tech layoff tracker, “More than 191,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2023, according to our tally, and the cuts continue into 2024.”
Moreover, there is a dark side to disruptive innovations like AI and it’s called Creative Destruction. The AI driven Creative destruction is leading to the “destruction” of industries, businesses, and jobs, potentially displacing millions of workers across industries like transportation, manufacturing, and even white-collar professions.
The far reaching implications of this new technology for how people earn their living are so catastrophic and unpredictable I’ve incorporated culture fit assessments by Aura-Type and Genetic Imprints into my Career Analysis, matching the mechanics of one’s unique design with the appropriate Reskilling and upskilling necessary to not only survive but thrive in the new economy.
The future doesn’t happen to us. It happens through us!
70% of our conscious imprinting is represented by our Personality Sun. Sam Altman’s Personality Sun is in a Gender Differentiation Gate that Ra Uru Hu describes as, ‘the energy that is absolutely essential to establish intelligence in a human being,’ Gate 27! Sam is establishing intelligence in human beings alright, Artificial Intelligence!!
Furthermore, Sam’s Incarnation Cross is the Right Angle Cross Of The Unexpected! Elaborating on that cross Ra said, “On the unexpected anything, anything, anything, anything, anything can happen and that‟s its glory. You never know what's going to happen. And not knowing what's going to happen is so influential; it creates so much fear.”
In a discussion with The Economist alongside the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, Sam was asked what will happen when we reach AGI and he said, “One thing I say a lot is no one knows what happens next. And I can’t see to the other side of that event horizon with any detail…”
OpenAI said in its blog post, “Despite extensive research and testing, we cannot predict all of the beneficial ways people will use our technology, nor all the ways people will abuse it.”
Super Interesting Back story On Sam’s Sora Transit.
Before I highlight his personal transit at the unveiling of Sora I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out something fascinating I picked up on that…
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Ps
Lecture 3/10 of the 2024-2025 Rave New Year Report, “Fulfillment of Prophecy,” is now available.
Brian is a 12 year Human Design Specialist, founder of Trading The Transits LLC, and Host of the sapiosexual Body Talk Live. #2027