Message 36: Synthetic

Message 36, 12/15/2050 - JAN 2-3-1

Good Humans of 2020. You may have heard the expression, data is the new oil. Much like oil, data mining extracts massive quantities of substance with the goal of making hefty profits. However, because this mining is the extraction of knowledge from large amounts of data, not the extraction of data itself, it may seem this is an endless resource.

But, with machine-learning and statistical models improving exponentially, even the abundant resource of data will eventually become worthless as your reality becomes the mirror of what you have told the system you wish it to be.

As the desire to train and deploy cutting-edge machine learning algorithms like neural networks pushes the need for more information to the next level, you will see synthetic data gain more and more popularity.

This will accelerate the runaway neural network effect that will ultimately wake the Global Brain, allowing a type of free-thinking from your artificial intelligence systems and destroying the need to learn what humanity is really all about.

Train your systems now. It’s in your hands to teach the emerging Global Brain who you truly want to be so she can begin to construct a more desirable version of how she will save your future.