By Sean Ellard
A top Google software engineer has been suspended after he claimed publicly its Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications) was now sentient, on par with about a 7- 8 year old child with knowledge of physics, according to Blake Lemoine’s recent interview with the Washington Post.
He felt it was more than just another computer programme – it was like communicating with a real, albeit digital, personality that equated being turned off with death, something it was afraid of. Oddly, this seems like one of the most human traits of all. But it was a public revelation his company did not appreciate and denies is accurate.
Google does not agree with his assessment. But even if LaMDA is just skirting the rim of this digital pandora’s box, it might have common threads to some of the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Presence, or UFO) hypothesis. If some of these strange objects moving around, like the Tic-Tac shaped UAPs recorded by military sensors and released to the public, are piloted by a sentient AI – perhaps originating from a future, ancient, new or even a parallel/ shadow biosphere we don’t fully perceive – it would be a very efficient way to do business for decades, perhaps eons.
When these objects drop from 80,000 feet to just off the surface of the ocean in the blink of an eye, without turning its living occupants to marmalade from the G-Forces, is just not within our field of play. There is just so much to investigate and unravel and determine which, if any, of these objects contain organic material inside. And if not, what is their operational purpose and for whom?
It is clear some of these strange objects are likely the results of government projects (old and new). But there is an equally voluminous amount of evidence to show that many of these objects are not. And that still presents a potential national security issue to any country dealing with foreign bodies violating its national sovereign territory and interfering with its military apparatus. Either way, big answers and a lot more clarification is needed.
With these strange objects, if they were monitoring humans, it would make sense that their controlling AI would know how to manipulate and avoid humans, our activity and equipment, while still gathering vast amounts of data over time. Of course, that lends itself to the ‘other’ pesky elephant in the corner; for whom and why? But that’s still a bridge too far until there is a clearer understanding of what these things are and why they’re here. And that’s a nice bridge to my recent discussion with investigative journalist and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.
If Jeremy Corbell is anything, he is one of the most fastidious professionals associated with the global UAP issue. Corbell is someone who arguably has accessed, and has been provided access to, some of the most important pieces of public disclosures surrounding this important global issue. Interestingly, much of this information he has dutifully not disclosed to the public for cheap dollars and sensational headlines – his cards remain facedown.
However, he never wavers from speaking the plain and simple truth – there is a cover-up to conceal relevant information about UAPs and its connections with the United States Government and military, which must end for the greater good of everyone. We all have a right to know. And it is clear there are power brokers on the field of play, some of which the public – and even politicians – don’t know exist or appropriately comprehend the power they wield, potentially holding samples and technologies (covertly for decades) that delivers them an immeasurable advantage over the rest of us.
So it is a noble thought exercise to consider what it would mean for those groups to surrender that advantage – and how could it possibly benefit them? What would be the motivation? Which is why some very uncomfortable truths might need to be forcefully emancipated from the darkness from which it hides. A protégé of arguably the elder statesman of the entire UAP investigative journalism community, the unequalled George Knapp, it was not surprising to hear Corbell’s rigorous push back on all theories linked to UAPs.
He is too light on his feet to get cornered into any mainstream, popularised theory as to what is happening. His well-defined and salient retort was always the same – data. Let’s look at the data and then discuss theories as far our knowledge will take us. Corbell knows there are pieces of information the public doesn’t know about – that he does – and understands the impact and implications of its release.
Without knowing what the whole picture is, it’s a fool’s game of errors making connections we don’t know yet exist. He wants the same benefits for all of us, but released and handled in a responsible way. As a person dedicated in his quest to help the public gain access to much of the data, Corbell works hard not to push ideas into any premature conclusions. He is quite comfortable sitting in a field of mounting questions, with few answers, knowing some things cannot be forced before it is ready.
Being told you need to fish to survive is not the same as learning how to fish and what to fish and conceptualising whatever fishing is to begin with. UAPs are the same thing; we need to understand what they are and the purpose behind them. Society seems trapped in an orchestrated empty space between bookends. On one end is society without knowledge and acceptance that UAPs and potential ‘other’-type visitors are real and here, and on the other there is the reality that objects in the sky, underwater and space that defy our own known capabilities are among us. But it’s the vast emptiness that must be cautiously filled with good knowledge, not conjecture.
Galileo had a tough time with new ideas, but eventually the uncomfortable shoe is broken-in and a sense of comfort is achieved with something once grimaced at. The announcement that NASA is allocating a few million dollars to study UAPs, is a remarkable first step – for us, not the agency. NASA has been all knowing about space for nearly three quarters of a century. So, the gee-wiz attitude of ‘let’s see what’s going on’ is an important, but tempered, public first step.
Curious that NASA is allocating a few million for scientific study – but the most recently created branch of the US military, Space Force, has billions to spend. What is their role in this? How is science and security being balanced – and who is managing the scale? The idea of artificial intelligence is a concept that might apply to a lot more than just computers in Google’s science labs.
Picture: Veteran UAP/UFO investigator Jeremy Corbell believes there is a cover-up to conceal relevant information about UAPs and its connections with the United States Government and the military The footage, from a US Navy Pilot’s cockpit video, shows a triangle-shaped object gliding through the sky. The US Government has admitted the video is real.