AI vs the Human Genome
Sorry tech savvy computer geeks.. you ain't quite there yet- probably never be.
The internet is all “a twitter” (chuckle) about CHAT-GPT and other AI bots. No it is not artificial intelligence. It is Augmented Intelligence. And granted, it is quite Amazing… And Granted I agree with Elon Musk in that it is dangerous beyond our comprehension and we should step back a bit from it.
First of all, it won’t work unless it is hooked to the internet/World Wide Web etc. One Solar flare CME, one or two nukes over Kansas at or above FL 180 (ask a pilot) and the internet goes down for America..and your cellphone doesn’t work, and your car dies, and your electric EV car REALLY dies, and gas won’t pump at the station and your credit cards don’t work, and in three days ALL the big cities in US will be “lights out” and thousands and even millions will die in the streets, cold dark and hungry- Yep, No Big Macs, no fried chicken stops.. Three days.. Think about that. Read a book by a former newsman Ted Koppel “Lights Out”… If you have an emergency generator think about the above. You may not want to run it at night to power the lights in your house and your refrigerator. Hungry people put two and two together and before long you could have a real home invasion situation. Think about it.
Of course AI won’t work in that environment of total electrical devastation.
So, let’s compare AI as it exists today to one man.. Sir Ernest Shackleford. If you went to publics school, they probably never said at word about him. He led an expedition towards the South Pole in 1914, didn’t make it, boat got caught in ice, crushed and only by his amazing leadership and knowledge did he NOT LOSE a single man to the disaster. You can afford a 9 dollar paperback from Amazon, so get one, or one of the audio books.What does Amazon say about it? The Book is titled “SOUTH”
“In 1914, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the continent of Antarctica. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a death-grip, crushing their craft, and marooning 28 men on a polar ice floe.”
On the other hand, The “AI computer” would have only been good as a “boat anchor” as we say in ham radio about big transmitters that don’t work… The grey matter between Sir Ernest Shackleford’s ears was sufficient to the task.
But let’s get down to some basics.. First of all, computers as we know them. They are chunks of silicon with electricity flowing through them. I remember back in high school when I was playing with radios and “tubes” or “valves” as the Brits call them, the size of a beer bottle or so. The rectifier tubes had mercury vapor in them and glowed oh so nicely blue. I talked all around the world with the amplifier I built. And then, my buddy Robert Metz brought over a small box he had built with the new “transistors”.. I don’t remember how many, but he had seven little lights on the front. HE turned it on and entered some information into it a the lights were either on or off. Let’s just say “0” was off and “1” was on. So immediately it had 0000001 (one light lit) I asked “what is that? He explained to me the binary coding system and that represented the number one..(remember I said it is binary, so don’t think smart and think a 2 came up!!!) so I said show me two and it was 0000010 (second light on). Wow I had seen my first computer in 1962 built by a guy I thought Smarter than Bill Gates. But then tubes to single transistors, to many transistors on one piece of silicon, then thousands then millions of transistors on that 3X3 inch “chip”- A former TI employee explained how they had circuits printed at Texas Instruments with blue prints that fit on the floor. They converted to a chip and we were buying hand held calculators for 120 dollars. But even today where your iPhone has more power than ALL the computers owned by NASA during the Shuttle days.. it is still limited to a Binary Code operating at the speed of light (but that is limited in silicon based upon temperature).. and we are amazed. RememberAugmented Intelligence uses this as it’s heart beat.
But what about the human, (or the ant) how do we “work” ? Well, we are still finding out all the time, but our “coding” is based upon the human “genome” - also a book written many years ago, but the scientists didn’t finally agree on the number of genes in our DNA until about 2021…. and I bet they still find more.. How does that circuitry work.???
We have cells with nuclei. Those nuclei contains these little twisted up genetic strings. Sorry all you woke people, but men and women truly are different - we have different genetic sequences between males and females…. look it up you nay sayers wanting to report me for mis-information. But back to the simple chemical mechanics. The DNA in the nucleus, grinds out millions, or billions of mRNA peptides. Oh, mRNA stands for messenger RNA) That is done with the direction of the gene by using not a binary code but a quaternary code using GCTA - (Ask your high school senior grandkid the names of those essential amino acids) Actually if they don’t know the answer, look for a different school. These four critical amino acids are spit out in certain sequence, and re-assemble to a peptide, or even a protein as a “work order” to make a certain peptide or protein in the cell. Most of that is done in the mitochondria - which is the chemical factory of the cell. There is where instructions in the mRNA are filled by producing a needed protein. Say Albumin, or hemoglobin. The list is nearly endless. More comments on exogenous, dangerous fake mRNA instructions with regard to the COVID jab in another post… but.. the cell basically does all this stuff.
Let’s compare data holding and handling.. I have already mentioned the limitations of binary code and speed of light stuff in silicone chips for the basis of computers and AI. What about this genome thing? Well if you take all the genetic material out of a single cell nucleus and untwist it and lay it out straight. it would be about 12 meters long (for the American schooled children. that is about 40 feet long) BUT. if one realizes we have say 50 trillion different cells in our human body, all doing their own thing (except for red blood cells that don’t have a nucleus- ) and we hook all those single cell data streams running at quaternary speed together, it would stretch across our solar system - THREE TIMES.. Yes in one human.
Isiah says—”Isaiah 49:16 New Living Translation 16 See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands. “ So that name is not Bob or Larry or Mary or Joseph. It is a name unknown to us. One thing I am sure of is that being omniscient, he knows what our genetic code is— and we don’t. Except for the expression of it in the faces of our kids and grandkids.
So I am very comfortable in saying the human brain is smarter than AI, but AI is still dangerous and we should be very careful how we use it. I am going to close with a reference to a “Ted Talk” about how AI can be used with medical imaging. Note that the speaker very carefully avoids the use of AI enhancement to medical imaging (MRI, CT) with regard to actually treating a living person in his examples. He shows amazing imaging with CT guided AI enhanced Autopsies. Or with teaching “young heart surgeons” how to do heart surgery better.. As a heart surgeon I can say what he shows “ain’t that good” But we are headed there. His description of the volumes of data generated, and the enhancement we can use to “look at it” is very good. But for me, if I need heart surgery, I want a person who has done 1000 to 2000 heart surgeries! Dr. Cooley did 50,000…. I did about 3000 open heart “pump” surgeries, and about 7000 cardiac operations total.
But - saying that, here is a use of AI (sort of) that is interesting. It is more useful than the improvement of the marriage between the search engines and the Dewey Decimal system in libraries that AI first started off as. Remember I was one of those doctors that told patients “Be careful about consulting Dr Google about your disease- while interesting, he did not go to medical school.”