Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once said “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
(Some bonus comments about that at the end of the post for all you ‘skeptics’ out there that are thematically related to this post)
So as it turns out perhaps we’ve may have jumped the gun a little, but does that Really mane we’re just shooting blanks..?
Google just dropped their ‘Gemini’ AI product and it looked super impressive, but as it turns out, Google, like everyone else, is just trying to win our Trust.
How it started:
Enter GoogleMan
Good Day to All my Friends following along on this whirlwind tour. Just a quick note today, as I don’t have a lot of time this Morning, but I saw this last night and I had to make a couple of points about it. it’s mind blowing, and I’ve had my Mind blown several times recently, so that’s saying something
How it’s going….
The clip is embedded in the screen shot. I suggest you watch it, it’s just over 2 minutes but necessary for the context of this post. I couldn’t let this one slide so I added my own comments.
I became aware of this latest round of fuckery last night so I thought I would clarify on my post from yesterday. Here’s a more thorough investigation .
The Summation of which can be adequately nutshelled with this wonderful screenshot, which will link you through to the video.
So basically, it was promotional materials that were crafted to look how Google Thinks their product is going to look in the near future, but actual results remain to be seen.
So picking up on just a couple of things that they tried to make us think they could do vs reality, let’s highlight a couple of important elements of this scam, where it’s difficult to say what is actually True.
the ability of Gemini to actually understand what’s happening in the real time video experiments are almost completely thrown out, as it was not honestly presented, so it’s impossible to know exactly how much background information was provided to Gemini, before or during the visual cues.
the segment where the soccer players was kicking the ball is almost certainly similarly tainted. We simply don’t know how much background priming was done, but they want us to Think it’s as capable as they presented, so we should ask ourselves why that’s the impression they desired to portray.
giving Birthday party plans isn’t impressive beyond already existing models. They basically just altered the presentation. Big whoop.
So the Main takeaway in my mind seems to be this:
Gemini is probably on par with ChatGPT, and maybe their model has a couple of different elements making it slightly better or slightly worse at some tasks, but we’re still looking at an LLM (Large language model) that purports to be able to duplicate the undeniably amazing results they’ve gotten out of those models, but with a new dimension, visual cognition, which appears to be at least in part a big fat Lie, but, it’s not like the direction that visual processing hasn’t actually been progressing, say in the World of self driving vehicles, so there’s some there there, but the real claim they’re attempting to make is that their model operates as a master panopticon AI that sees all and knows all, to frighten people. I cannot understand any other reason to present things in the way that they did, if they fabricated the results as badly as it appears.
I’ll add two more data points to make the case that supports my hypothesis, that Google is one of the thought leaders out there in terms of pretending they’re better and smarter than everyone else, and as such, they claim some authority they don’t actually have. This is the way that most ‘social justice’ reasoning works, so that’s where we need to focus on the real underlying point of their fakeout, so the question is, are they our ‘betters’, because they believe the ‘right’ things? They think so, and they really want us to think so too.
Here’s why.
I’m a huge fan of Thomas Sowell, and few people explain what is wrong with this mentality better than he does, and incredibly, and the ripe young age of 93 he’s just published a new book about it called “Social Justice Fallacies”.
So at the risk of ‘triggering’ people who have accepted certain frameworks as being the easy way to choose what ‘side’ they should listen to, which is sort of my specialty and the reason I’ll never really appeal to any ‘tribe’, or cult mentality, which means I’m literally doing this just for the record and hopefully one day when people are trying to clean up the mess we’re creating and they’re saying to themselves ‘how did this Happen??’, some AI that’s capable of actually thinking through the details will say ‘oh look, this guy was giving some answers. Huh’, but until that time, here’s Dr. Sowell talking to (trigger warning) Ben Shaprio.
I’ll just summarize the case he’s making, it’s not hard to understand:
‘Social justice’ as it currently exists is the argument that some problems are so big only the ‘state’, or some authority figurehead can possibly make sense of it. Unfortunately this is false, and leads to corruption, as all concentrations of power that get so big does, because no one can actually have a monopoly on ‘knowledge’, and anyone who makes that claim is not being honest. They’re telling you what they want you to believe, because it’s what they believe, not what is ‘true’, full stop.
The last data pint can be found in the original video I linked in my post yesterday, and starts with the initial opening comments about what Gemini is, what they were thinking when they designed it, and how they want it to be seen, and used.
Again, don’t be distracted by the bells and whistles of the presentation which we now know are Largely misrepresented. Listen to what they Say about how they think it will be used. The last line in this delivery will Illustrate the point perfectly if we Listen.
I will now read between the lines so you can see what they’re actually attempting to sell us on, by again, attempting to scare us into fearing them, a typical tactic of a Bully, or, an Authoritarian who doesn’t see themselves as our equal, but our Superior :
1:02 “…. the launch of the Gemini era a first step towards a truly Universal AI model, the Gemini approach to multimodality is all the kinds of things you (THEY) want, uh, an artificial intelligence system to be able to do, and these are capabilities that haven't really existed in computers before traditionally, multimodal models are created by stitching together text only Vision only and audio only models in a suboptimal way at a secondary state Gemini is multimodal from the ground up so it can seamlessly have a conversation across modalities and give you the best possible response… Gemini is our largest and most capable model, it means that Gemini can understand the world around us in the way that we do, uh and absorb any type of input and output so not just text like most models but also code audio image and video…. what's amazing about Gemini is that it's so good at so many things… as we started getting to the end of the training, uh, we started seeing that Gemini was better than any other model out there on these very very important benchmarks for example each of the 50 different subject areas that we tested on um it's as good as the best expert humans in those areas… it's very rare that you can work on a technology at a foundational level and it simultaneously can impact all our products… we created a family of models that can run on everything from mobile devices access to data centers, Each of which is actually Best in Class…. Gemini will be available in three sizes Gemini Ultra are most capable and largest model highly complex tasks Gemini Pro are best performing model for a broad range of tasks and Gemini Nano are most efficient model for on device test we want to provide the best foundational building blocks and then we know um developers and Enterprise customers are going to figure out really creative ways to further refine our Gemini foundational models and the potential is almost Limitless….”
Here’s the real red meat. Pay attention to what these social justice advocates are Actually trying to convince us of, starting at approximately 3 minutes:
“… so at Google there's this healthy disregard for the impossible and that has oriented us to be both bold and “responsible” together as these systems become more capable all of those capabilities also raise new questions we have to think about what it means to have an image be a part of for example the input because an image might be innocuous on its own or text might be innocuous on its own but the combination could be offensive or hurtful… safety and responsibility has to be built in from the beginning and at Google deep mind that's what we've done with Gemini we develop proactive policies and adapt those to the unique considerations of multimodal capabilities we then do rigorous testing against those policies to prevent the harms that we've identified with approaches like classifiers and filters…. if I were to look at the foundational breakthroughs in AI over the past decade Google has been at the Forefront of many of those breakthroughs and I think Gemini continues that Rich tradition it's been an enormous sort of monumental engineering task which has been you know very challenging but also very exciting I have been at Google for quite a while and the reason I'm here is really I believe in the company's Mission and I think Gemini is a great step in that overall mission we end up with a world that has more knowledge and that people have more access to information that otherwise would not be available to them that's what excites me the chance to make AI “helpful” for everyone everywhere in the world…”
Okay, did you hear it? The main “mission” of Google is to act as gate keepers of what is ‘true’, and what They consider to be “ ….offensive or hurtful…”.
There is simply no greater indication that we’re dealing with ‘social justice’ warriors, than their attempts to be the arbiters of what is “Safe”, and what is, in their minds, Not.
So even though the point has been made, and the lie exposed for the intended impression, One more key example to really pound this home.
At approximately 19:17, we find two especially innocuous looking characters try to convince us that Gemini, again, is the way to the truth, that isn’t really the Truth at all, and I’ll tell you why after the comments.
19:17 “…. now let's take a look at how Gemini finds and extracts data from scientific research papers, a common problem “scientists” face is a need to find and use data extracted from the scientific literature this is difficult because “scientists” need to search among thousands of scientific papers for key information and extract them by hand, it's a very common workflow and very time consuming in fact some of our scientists at Google Deep Mind face this very problem they use Gemini to help with it because Gemini has an incredible “understanding” of “science”… Taylor will explain more… so we were looking at this study from 2022 the authors had created a data set by reviewing tens of thousands of scientific papers on genetics, they found a few hundred papers "that contained the “relevant” information, extracted it by hand and collected it in a table, studies like this can take a lot of time, we needed to update this data set with what's new over the last couple of years but that's over 200,000 new Open Access papers added to this domain since 2021 we couldn't do this manually so we asked Gemini to help us, out first, we needed to filter for “Relevant” scientific papers, we wrote a prompt just like this one telling Gemini exactly what to look for with its “Advanced read reasoning capabilities”, Gemini was able to distinguish between papers that were “relevant” to the study, and those that weren't, for the relevant papers we wrote a similar prompt asking Gemini to read the paper and extract the key data for us, we could even ask Gemini to add annotations this showed us exactly where in the paper Gemini found the information, we ran this at scale and over a lunch break Gemini read 200,000 papers for us filtered it down to 250 and extracted their data, so now we have a refreshed version of this data set, but because Gemini is multimodal not only can It reason about information from text it can also reason about figures…”
No I Hope that you’re hearing what they’re attempting to convince us of.
Because it’s patently stupid.
Here’s why. We’re talking about a super advanced intelligence, that has to sift through some 250,000 papers, which only it can do, because it’s just so clever, But, the Main Goal of Gemini is to make it easier for the Humans to be able to find what is ‘true’, and what is ‘false’.
So how does it do that? Well, the ‘researchers, Tell it what They want to be “true”, and that is the information it “Looks”, for.
I hope I’m making this clear. If the job of Gemini is to be an arbiter of what is “true”, we have to Tel is what we think is “true”, and then that’s what it looks for.
All other information is by Definition, ‘false”, if it doesn’t fit our specified criteria, for what is “relevant” information. But it’s just a program that looks for similarities of outcome. So why is the first step so important? Because it’s the “Filter”, that the “researchers” apply, to rule out all other information they consider to be ‘irrelevant’.
So by taking the First step of filtering out papers that Disagree with what the “researchers”, Want to find, they ‘gate keep’ counter narratives.
But here’s the Real Point I’m attempting to drive home.
The Model, is by Definition, Completely Capable of “extracting” the True summation of the data. That’s why they Tell us they Built it.
so why do they cripple its capabilities, right at the beginning??
I hope This makes sense, because if not, then None of it does.
So we have to be able to see just what kind of trick or ‘narrative’, they’re attempting to pull here, in order to point out to the people around us that this is Completely Disingenuous, on it’s face, and Once we understand why that is so, we’re the Ones who actually empower ourselves with this tech. We just need to take out the ‘social justice’, gatekeepers, who are Obviously trying to use this tool against us, instead of for us, which is after all what they make the truth claim they are attempting to do.
And they Lie through their teeth about it, because useful idiots believe in things that are not True, so to them, Lying becomes the ‘truth’, they promote, and that’s not good for Anyone, not even them. So beware the useful idiots, because they’re so stuck in echo chambers full of dumb ideas, they can’t even make sense of their own.
Bonus Points!
I started off the post with a quote attributed to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Interestingly, there’s some debate as to whether or not he actually said this, and even more interestingly, this is exactly the kind of thing that LLM’s can do very well. So I asked ChatGPT about it, after a much longer conversation we were having about attempt to get to the “Truth”. You can go read that if you like. Naturally I think it’s important but I’m trying to keep from losing attention, the greatest of our ‘Modern’, problems.
Here, I’ll just extract the “relevant” information. Here’s how that went:
User
it is claimed that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once said “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.” What can you tell me about the truth of this claim?
ChatGPT
While this quote is widely attributed to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, there isn't clear evidence that he actually said or wrote these exact words. It's challenging to verify quotes, especially those that circulate online without a specific source or citation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer and dissident known for his works critical of the Soviet Union's totalitarian regime. He faced censorship and persecution for much of his life. While the sentiment expressed in the quote aligns with Solzhenitsyn's views on the Soviet government's propaganda and suppression of truth, the specific phrasing might be a paraphrase or a derivative of his ideas rather than a direct quote.
In general, when coming across quotes on the internet, especially those shared without a clear source, it's advisable to approach them with caution and verify their authenticity whenever possible. Without a reliable citation from Solzhenitsyn's works or speeches, it's challenging to confirm the accuracy of this particular quote.
The Point I’m again attempting to make is this. Finding the ‘truth’, is not an easy task. If someone tells you they know what it is, don’t just be a disagreeable skeptic, be a Real one. Disagreeable skeptics are just people who wish to make counterpoint, to literally try to score points on us, because they think this is a game.
Life, is not a game.
But when people like the extraordinarily capable and intelligent folks at Google try to tell us that their super computer knows all about all the important things in our Lives, just remember, they are people too. They have goals and agendas, and they offer their services to us for ‘free’, only, nothing in Life is “Free”, and the cost for allowing regular people with 4IR reset agendas and giant corporate networks to tell us otherwise is going to be the kind of bottom line people need to hear about, before we buy in, and that’s not their ‘fault’, it’s Actually Ours, and Our Responsibility.
So we better Start acting like it, before that ‘responsibility’, becomes these peoples ‘relevant’, ‘business’, because they’re telling us, Out Loud, that’s Exactly what they’re Doing.