DNA, AI & Predictions

[August1991]

I am travelling abroad now so this may seem a strange OP.

In almost every international airport arrival, there is the machine that moves up/down to take our photo.

Note: No one cares about green/red lines baggage/customs.

Other note: When you leave Canada or the US, whatever your destination, there is no check whatsoever. The governments of the US and Canada do not register/check when you leave.

But then, when I go to Ontario - nobody checks either.

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In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke/Kubrick made many accurate predictions about the future. But they seriously got wrong how computers would get much, much smaller.

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I reckon that DNA identification will radically change the way that people in the future live.

At present, touch DNA is hard/costly to decipher. (Touch DNA is when you drink from a McDo cup.) It is used in criminal trials but costly to verify.

In the future, I predict this cost will dramatically fall. AI is designed/trained to recognize patterns and our individual DNA is a perfect data pool.

 

[August1991]

Predictions: I was dead wrong about cameras in cellphones. At the time, I wondered why anyone would want to use a phone to take a picture.

A real estate agent?

[August1991]

Years ago, I lived in Colombo: Clarke's house had a huge dish on the roof.

I met Arthur C. Clarke in person, once. In retrospect, it is now obvious to me.

[August1991]

The CEO, Jensen Huang  of NVDIA predicts (Google the quote) that English will replace coding. As if....

AI is very good at recognizing/deciphering patterns. Our DNA is filled with such.

AI is not good at extrapolation in a universe where the future is random.

 

 

 

[August1991]

Copilot is a bubble.