So That’s Why Alien Tech Was Like That?

 

I know this is not about AI, but I still think that is relevant.

The advent of AI, I believe, is going to lead to the systematic decoupling of much technology from WIFI. Who here is annoyed that their new toaster, their new fridge, or their new treadmill, needs to update occasionally to work properly? I read the other day that a woman’s printer was updated to reject off brand cartridges. People are annoyed enough as it is with an overconnected world.

But now? Look what hackers can already do. Destroying supermarket stock with a hack.

AI just recently rendered video game copyright redundant, with decompiling and recompiling made exponentially easier and possible with AI tools.

The music industry is reeling, as music is able to be produced at a quality that shocks most people when they actually here.

Hollywood is next. From replacing long CGI processes, to eventually creating personalized entertainment, massive disruption is coming.

The interconnected hyper tech world is going to be impossible now that AI can exploit programs the way it does. Everything is too exposed, like villages without walls across eastern Europe in the days of the wandering steppe tribes; everything is an easy target.  

Imagine what AI directed by hackers could do to a network of self-driving Tesla's?

I think the future will be more analogue than we expected. Maybe not Butlerian Jihad analogue, but more analogue. Maybe Alien style.

If you are not sure what I am referring to there, I’ll explain. The Butlerian Jihad was a war in the Dune universe where humanity overthrew sentient machines and outlawed most computer technology because it was too dangerous. Instead, they used genetically engineered people who have computer like minds for such tasks. They are called Mentats.

And of course all the computers in the Alien universe are not that different to the types that existed in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Very basic machines, that look far behind anything that you would find in the average person’s home today.

Maybe this explains why in these universes technology appears so backward, because they lived through what we are likely about to see?

Who needs a fridge to be connected to the internet anyway? What are the possible advantages? Why does a treadmill need to be updated every few months to work? A lot of this interconnected technology was made to look cool in movies, but in reality it is just more trouble than it is worth. I think we are going to see a great decoupling from the internet of many devices in our lifetime.