www.economistdiary.vom Is English Language Modelling intelligent enough to sustain our human species? Great are 1990s Valley startups eg nvidia, musk's and googles exponentially linking much of whats humanly possible with machines engineered billion times mo(o)re maths brainpower than individuall human minds. But 1943 UK future shocks to.o. Geoffrey Crowther Economist Ed started debate keynes: were engineers deeper than economists in locking in futures next gens connect?. 1943 also saw dad norma cambridge studies interrupted serving last days as teen navigator allied bomber command burma. Surviving joyfully hired 1948 by Crowther to mediate engineers like Neumann Einstein Turing & Economist purpose. 3 generations apart, unfortunately Neumann-Einstein-Turing all left earth by early 1957: last coding notes Neumann's Computer and the Brain. Economist IQuiz disliked by EU but what to do with billion times more machine brainpower celebrated by Kennedy, & the royal families of UK & Japan. Whence not surprising greatest UK AI startups deep mind & arm influenced by royal societies & Cambridge business park ( crown property) & crick/watson open sources of dna, & cavendish lab 1920s influencing Taiwan's tech grandfather. see part 2
2025report 40 years in inteligence war between bad media and good education agents Market's futures : Cars Humanoids Cities Energy Water
Countries with good data sovereignty projects rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk UK Japan Taiwan India France Saudi UAE Korea S Singapore HK US 1 2
Continents are very challenging spaces to raise all human brains simultaneously though the 3 exponential technologies that billion times more matjematical braimpowe5r of machines have delivered us : chips, computers, satellites offers that data mapping possibility now
The AI suoerpowers of US and Chi9na both depended on 3 coastlamds: US West, China East and middle island coastland we dont see even though it gave the world the first borderless intelligence trading area. I refer to taiwan and its norther n partners Japan and Korea; and its southern partners HK and Singapore.
Do you know what moores law million fold increase in tech 1965 to 1995 developed. It was win win trading between west coast usa and taiwan kora japan, mediated to rest of Asia by by HK and Singapore. Coastal supercities connected 10 times more health and wealth across each other and poentially to both heartlands.
From 1995 taiwan amewricans gave us billion fold multiplier of machine brainpower and satellite connected space's data clouds
Can you help post what you love about super cioties or us west coast o0r japan korea-s taiwan hk singapore as well as China East Coast supercities. How cam the 2 continent heartlands link in and then linkin all other continet heartlands. Surely health and education are 2 inteligent multiplers to agent human productivity around?
I'm an optimist that loving human intelligence will win-win in designing AI (have been for 75 years when dad Norman Macrae was first pre-trained by von-neumann- see 75 years of chatting back from the future at this blog and 2025report.com)
but 2020 was one of life's worst years (aged 69 got covid before we in america were told transmission through breathing); other worst years when sister died of cancer aged about 32, when neice died during gap year in africa aged 18; one of my fanrite ways to start a presentaion- ask audience to stand up in threes - each spend 1 minute telling other 2 of moment that changed your life and what you did after that.)
I was privileged to start a talk at Europena Union HQ at a conference of emergency first responders knowledge management about 3 years after 9/11 - i wish we could have collected each of those 1 minute chats and founded an llm plugnin around them. I mention this because even in 2025 it could be something you did 20 years ago that most needs ai to listen to you now.
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which (unbderknown) tech/engineering people helped 9us ordinary community netozens)most in 2020
I'll vote for founders of lunchclub (kept many of us sane during lockdown years) - a co-production of andrew ng and others at aifund.com
as of 2025 , I recommend understaning what these engineers have open intelligences
Jensen Huang
Demis Hassabis
Yann Lecun
People like Andrew Ng, Fei-Fei Li. Anne Doerr about 15 others in and out of stanford are collectively citak in keeping Valley AI human but if you really understand one of the 3 above then i think intelligence will do you no harm
Of course dependuing where you live your way into applying AI to help millennilals be first renewanle (not first extinction ) generation varies
Many people have made ai humam out of taiwan since maurice chang landed their ro celebrate year 1 of going beyongd nultary rule
My family has found 2 royal familes care about all peoples future - ue uk and Japan but of course histirically what language you speak determines who you nbeed to trust most
I am a beliver in Ambanu meaning it that for india to be the best it could be at intelligence it will open source tramslations betrween chats of every language and needs zuckenberger, Lecun and Huang's help to do that
When people say is all the energy ai uses worth it; i start with friends of hassabis; in the next 5 years so many health and natural revolutions depend on the assabos branch of ai which decodes natires maths language 9eg 250 millioin proteins alphafold3); I am glad that hassabis is susatined by london and cnbridge toyal societies as much as he is by the Valley (google. stanfird,and their asian-american coding wizards)
it would be wonderful if macron hosting of the 3rd ai world summit in king chares ai series started nov 2023 couldbridge the english channel for the first time since 1066 and all that but mu suspicion is the eu having messed up its energy dependency on russia is going to need macron most
I am just a diaspora scot- in 70 trips to asia people were always good to me apart from a dew bad apples that I was hired to statistically expose; so i wish education and health intelligence could unite peoples communities everywhere beyond nations boundaries
find me at chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk or if you are passing through washington dc I have been arranging colaborationcafe for 20 years now
I expect that is the end game we humans needf to map before general artificial inteligence reughns- what do you hope humans medite first before AI mediates usall?
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