Monday, January 06, 2014

The Wall Street Code & Then Some


A week ago, BRT posted a blurb about AI titled Start Point for the Terminator whereby new developments in cheap and powerful artificial muscles could give AI the mobility of a terminator while gathering knowledge about the real world. Included in the piece was a blurb on Our Final Invention, a brilliant book describing the inherent unknowability of AI and what it could mean to our very existence on planet earth. In the work, James Barat touches on the fact Wall Street, among significant others, i.e. DARPA, IBM, Google etc., ect. is one of the prime drivers on achieving AGI/ASI (Artificial General Intelligence/Artificial Super Intelligence) because it's all about the money and silicon brains, combined with high speed trading, is a quick recipe to make even more money no matter what the cost may be. 

In the documentary The Wall Street Code (seen above), documentary filmmaker Marije Meerman shows why Barrat's conjecture rings true. Watch the video to learn just how powerful and dangerous this tech truly is as explained by Haim Bodek, a quant and whistle blower, formerly of Goldman Sachs, telling all why the market is rigged & then some.



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