One wedding and a ChatGPT

Fine words at a lavish wedding, in a castle, banished any lingering doubts that serial entrepreneur Len Findlay may have had about  AI permeating every aspect of our lives.

Findlay – the founder of global game studio Saltwater Games – was at his friend’s wedding at a castle in Heanor, in Derbyshire, when he heard beautiful poetry from the best man. He asked for a copy.

“This isn’t you!”

“I was starting to read it, my mate, he gave me it, and I’m reading it and I know him; I said:‘ I didn’t know you were into Shakespearean poetry – is this ChatGPT? He said, yeah, how do you know? I said this isn’t you!’” he says.

“It was a fantastic wedding, a great best man, and a fantastic poem by ChatGPT!”

Quantum is coming

Findlay is something of a savant in AI after years of working with it. He feels that it is poised to move to a higher, unfettered, slightly concerning, level with the development of Quantum computers. This is a computing process that uses the laws of Quantum mechanics to solve problems too large, or too complex, for traditional computers.

He recalls meeting a go-head Quantum entrepreneur in Australia.

“She was building a Quantum computer platform with the big dilation fridges going into the ground, a few years back,” he says. 

AI is driving the man

“Obviously, at that time, there was all this fear and uncertainty and doubt about Quantum computers. Like, it is going to be the end of encryption and nothing will be private, nothing will be secure and she is like, yeah, it is going to be a long time before we are at that reality, but this is where it will go.Even though we tried to get Quantum encryption..It is a race now to get to things that are going to outpace it; so it is driving the man.”

“My biggest fear is we forget humanity.”

What is Findlay’s biggest fear when it comes to the progress of AI?

“My biggest fear is that we forget humanity If we don’t find a way to give people a purpose that adds value to the planet,” he says.

“AI will replace a huge chunk of jobs. One of the best books I have ever read on the subject is 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. It talks about a future of creative thought and philosophical questions asking, probably how we are going to train these things. 

Otherwise, we are almost creating our own demise, so how can we train Artificial Intelligence  to make decisions that are pro-human?”

Is health care the priority? 

Findlay believes, with the UK facing a growing ageing population, that AI should be pointed towards health care.              

“I don’t feel we should be implanting anything into anyone’s brain. I know Elon is onto it. I do get the fact that the early case uses what he is trying to do to have a good purpose. It is about regenerating stimulus back to joints that you’ve lost through inactivity. I am a big fan of that,” he says.

Artificial intelligence without an ego

“The biggest things to help us survive and live longer are health care and space exploration and climate. So, anything that is to do with making better decisions, because the human capacity to make decisions is usually money orientated. It is the ones with the loudest lobby that steer the direction and that is probably not the way that we should be really going. So, I would like to see where does artificial intelligence see this without the requirement of ego; to make more than the man next door.”

Sounds like the basis for another Shakespearean poem.