Human Heredity: Principles and Issues

Description

Dear reader, this tale is about the emergence of the ※Cosmic Ghost Code (CGC).§
Does such a cosmic ghost code exist?
This book explores the possibility, by examining the unpredictable and often unexplainable nature of ever-more sophisticated and capable AI, that universal or cosmic ghostly code will be set loose by Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AGI).
Whether the advent of such ghost code will be of a benign nature or not for humanity is the central theme explored in this book.
Most of this book is about as far ※down in the AI weeds§ with the small things that make up the AI landscape as one can go. It is not a compressed course in Python programming or in building an executable algorithm pointed at a target dataset, but it is not in the comforts of the living room. It is in the outside in the overgrown garden.
If you like a read that is a neatly manicured lawn, then this landscape is not likely to be your place to stop to have a picnic or to lay down on your back to watch the puffy white clouds that look like something that a deranged AI Cloud Sculptor might fashion and then send drifting the blue sky overhead.
But that＊s what AI is, and that＊s what examining AI is: looking for the many kinds of AI devils that live in the depths of machine learning systems, snippets of executable code, gigabytes of data, and clever algorithms that make the AI world go round.
The early part of this book〞Chat GPT-4 Sessions One and Two–offers a series of questions posed to the OpenAI system and its direct ※generative§ link to its repository of human data. What emerges out of those two Sessions is what I believe is a reasonable supposition that the CGC exists at this time.
Session Three offers a little drama showing when, how, and maybe even why one Ms. Amy Steiner, an able and willing Python programmer, has her encounter with the CGC.