11-14-2018 As society’s reliance on constant energy consumption continues to increase, Pacific Gas and Electric is investing in deep learning capabilities to enhance grid reliability and to integrate distributed energy resources at massive scales.
For the past decade, PG&E has been investing heavily in laying the ground work for applications of machine learning. As of 2014, PG&E had installed smart meters across its entire service territory, covering over 9 million properties. These meters generate massive quantities of data, over 2 terabytes per month and 100 billion meter readings per year, which exceed the capabilities of traditional analytics. [1] PG&E has started to develop applications in deep learning, a subset of machine learning that uses neural networks to enable more human-like and independent decision making, in order to pursue two primary process improvement goals: maximum grid reliability and integration of distributed energy resources. https://rctom.hbs.org/submission/no-more-blackouts-how-pge-is-using-machine-learning-to-strengthen-the-power-grid/
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What is the context of General Electric followed by other utilities such as PG&E so intensely automating, rushing into AI? Some history reveals:
1) fall 1985 General Electric is engaged in a broad range of research and development activities in artificial intelligence, with the dual objectives of improving the productivity of its internal operations and of enhancing future products and services in its aerospace, industrial, aircraft engine, commercial, and service sectors. Many of the applications projected for AI within GE will require significant advances in the state of the art in advanced inference, formal logic, and architectures for real-time systems.
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2) 6-27-2017 As part of its shift toward high-tech businesses, the 125-year-old company, number 40 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, is threading artificial intelligence throughout its operations, starting with its scientists. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607962/general-electric-builds-an-ai-workforce/
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Well, one look at GE's CDS shows that banks are growing more "confident" by the day that that $41 billion committed to GE, is money they will never see again...
-Business Finance https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-21/these-banks-now-have-41-billion-problem-ge
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4) Artificial intelligence perhaps could be called intensive automaton/robotization. Much of the IT world purssues this area nearly obsessively because of power, money, control. Is there a downside to this, a downside to robotics as well? Notice:
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5) Drug operators going rapidly anonymous through dark net: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzg-BnrUYXI&t=49s
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6) Intensive automation in politics is called dictatorship or absolute dictatorship. An example:
11-21-2018 Saudi Arabia has been part of why the world is so dangerous. Of the 19 terrorists who attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, 15 were from Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi government has been alleged to have played a supporting role in the attacks. Saudi Arabia has also been known to be a major source of funding for terrorist groups. What’s more, as Byman noted, the Saudi government’s backing of “an array of preachers and nongovernment organizations contributes to an overall climate of radicalization, making it far harder to counter violent extremism.”
The Saudis are, as Brookings’ William McCants told the Times in 2016, “both the arsonists and the firefighters” when it comes to terrorism….
“It’s the world’s biggest funder of terrorism,” Trump wrote before running for president. “Saudi Arabia funnels our petrodollars, our very own money, to fund the terrorists that seek to destroy our people while the Saudis rely on us to protect them.”
He continued to take a tough tone on Saudi Arabia as he ran for president, telling Chuck Todd in 2015 that the “primary reason we are with Saudi Arabia is because we need the oil.”
“Now, we don’t need the oil so much,” Trump said in the Meet the Press interview, suggesting that Saudi Arabia depends on the U.S. more than the U.S. depends on Saudi Arabia.
It’s not clear exactly what’s changed. Perhaps it’s his plans in Iran. Perhaps it’s his financial interests in Saudi Arabia https://mic.com/articles/192588/trump-america-first-saudi-arabia?mic_referral=article:latest:1
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7) 262. Half a century ago we were already concerned about the excessive increase of physical knowledge. Verily much as been attained in this direction, but at the same time the spiritual consciousness was lagging behind the physical. Ethics were lost amidst accumulations of formulas. Machines attracted man away from the art of thinking. Now
they are content to be robots! -Morya: Fiery World 1934
22. The significance of the heart is great; in the future it will replace the most complex apparatuses. Verily in the new era people will appear whose organisms accomplish this. At present people invent robots, but after this mechanical fever has abated man's attention will turn to the powers within himself.
-Kristine
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