G&B, aka The Wire Mill ...

Gilbert & Bennett, AKA The Wire Mill, is packed with history showing a different America where hardware was king with this instance being the making of wire fencing shipped all over the world from a small CT entity known as Georgetown. Video to follow before the long awaited EPA Brownfield Cleanup begins. :)

No trespassing

The passing of time

Checking things out :)

A vault of a different kind

Thinking of Italy

The game of baseball comes to mind :)

The dam

The eyes have it :)

Channeling the Bauhaus, American style

Air Conditioning

Chimney

Aperture

The Sawtooth ...

In transit

Infrastructure :)

I can see for miles :)

4th floor/view 2

The Singularity ... redux

Crystal Logic ... via Gemeni & R.E. 2024

Now we have it. The word's out. ASI, aka Artificial Super Intelligence,
is coming whether we like it or not. We are not ready for this. 

To whit.

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the "godfathers" of AI, is adamant that AI will surpass human intelligence — and worries that we aren't being safe enough about its development.

This isn't just his opinion, though it certainly carries weight on its own. In an interview with the BBC's Newsnight program, Hinton claimed that the idea of AI surpassing human intelligence as an inevitability is in fact the consensus of leaders in the field.

"Very few of the experts are in doubt about that," Hinton told the BBC. "Almost everybody I know who is an expert on AI believes that they will exceed human intelligence — it's just a question of when."

The Singularity ...

1993 - Verner Vinge: Within thirty years, we will have the technological means
to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

What is The Singularity?

The acceleration of technological progress has been the central

feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge

of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise

cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of

entities with greater than human intelligence. There are several means

by which science may achieve this breakthrough (and this is another

reason for having confidence that the event will occur):

The development of computers that are "awake" and

superhumanly intelligent. (To date, most controversy in the

area of AI relates to whether we can create human equivalence

 in a machine. But if the answer is "yes, we can", then there

is little doubt that beings more intelligent can be constructed

shortly thereafter.

Large computer networks (and their associated users) may
"wake up" as a superhumanly intelligent entity.

Computer/human interfaces may become so intimate
that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent.

Biological science may find ways to improve upon the natural human intellect.

Vinge's right. 2029/30's a viable time frame for AGI to make its presence known. ASI will rise soon after as it's a just a degree of intelligence above AGI as AGI's programming infrastructure will already be in place, able to make ASI a reality sooner rather than later because tech never sleeps, ever.

Focus Point - 2020

Sounds

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing

Glenn Gould - Bach: The Goldberg Variations

Miles Davis -  So What/Kind of Blue

Ravi Shankar - Monterey Pop 

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - The Sinister Minister

Frank Zappa - Inca Roads

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

Steely Dan - Aja

Robert Johnson - Crossroad

Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. Wikipedia The definition's technically accurate but says little as to what music truly is. The tiny sample, seen above, reflects yours truly's take on music from rock to raga and beyond but as stated before, this is but a tiny sample of the kind of sounds I enjoy. 

Rock on. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure :)

Party on dudes. :)

Road Trip

Science rules. :)

Escape from ...

Theatrical release poster

Snake Plissken lives! Great cast, terrific action and awesome script, the Escape from New York crew  gets into it when NYC becomes the ultimate max prison colony for the ages, complete with the central  plot of getting the president  (Donald Pleasance) out of dodge from a city that's truly lost it's way. The reason for this segue centers on the fact Agent Orange could yet again become president, a notion both terrifying and extraordinary considering just how insane and corrupt this man truly is. With this in mind, an escape from America may be in the cards as quite frankly, the survival of democracy comes into play if The Donald succeeds in becoming POTUS yet again.

It has become the topic of the season at Washington dinner parties and receptions. Where would you go if it really happens?

Portugal, says a former member of Congress. Australia, says a former agency director. Canada, says a Biden administration official. France, says a liberal columnist. Poland, says a former investigator.

They’re joking. Sort of. At least in most cases. It’s a gallows humor with a dark edge. Much of official Washington is bracing for the possibility that former President Donald J. Trump really could return — this time with “retribution” as his avowed mission, the discussion is where people might go into a sort of self-imposed exile.

Canada's looking better all the time ...