For some time now, the members of the tech synod have been considered to be the smartest guys in the room. They seem to just know what’s best for the world on all fronts and never mind that there is a difference between science and computer science.

For example, a Mexico-based startup will next week launch sulfur particles into the stratosphere in a “rogue” move to create a “mini-volcano” effect it says could help cool the planet…But experts in geoengineering say the launches set a dangerous precedent for private companies or governments to interfere with the planet’s atmosphere,” MSN reported (Climate change activist goes rogue releasing ‘mini volcanoes’ to cool atmosphere (msn.com)).

Well, consider volcanoes. Massive volcanic eruptions spew billowing clouds of chemicals into the atmosphere and block out the sun, as these ‘scientists’ are attempting to do – which tends to lead to failing crops and starvation.

As Tom Lehrer said, “Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department!” says Wernher von Braun Releasing sulfur into the atmosphere and unless we’re wrong, sulfur and oxygen equals…sulfur dioxide.

Nothing to see much less worry about here!

Bill Gates has been attempting to affect ‘climate change’ for quite some time now, with his ‘chemtrails’ (A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong?), as Forbes reported.

As a reminder, when Bill Gates headed up Microsoft, it was known as the ‘evil empire’ and released faulty products or ‘upgrades’ that often led to that blue screen of death. The term du jour was ‘shovelware.’ Through his ‘philanthropic’ efforts, he meddled in education with Common Core, which even he later admitted in so many words was a disaster. Next up: Gates’s strong endorsement of the Covid vaccines and we make no judgements here: just the facts. As The Hill pointed out, Gates made 10x on his investment of $50M to $500M, then recently admitted “they’re not effective, do not protect other than the person who is vaxxed, and offer short protection.” Now Bill Gates has radical plans to change our food. What’s on the menu? And let’s not forget all that farmland and the seed vaults he’s been purchasing over the last several years. Note to self and as the article points out, “Plants are capable of growing more vaccines.”

Truth be told, while Gates is one of the wealthiest men on the planet, he does have a history of releasing or backing faulty products aka crap. Now says Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates: ChatGPT ‘will change our world,’ (and he didn’t say ‘for the better’) but then, wasn’t MSFT an early investor in ChatGPT – and licensor of the technology? From what we’ve witnessed of Bill Gates’s record to date, if he endorses something, run.

According to Business Insider and this is a must-read, Google and Microsoft’s ChatGPT clones will destroy internet search. “Sure, Google’s answer to ChatGPT will save you time. But it’ll also lie to you,” and at the end of the day, it’s all about money and controlling the conversation and what you’re permitted to see. “For one thing, chatbots lie. Not on purpose! It’s just that they don’t understand what they’re saying. They’re just recapitulating things they’ve absorbed elsewhere. And sometimes that stuff is wrong. Researchers describe this as a tendency to “hallucinate” — “producing highly pathological translations that are completely untethered from the source material…At a conference in 2011, its chairman at the time, Eric Schmidt, declared that search’s endgame was to use AI to “literally compute the right answer” to queries rather than identify relevant pages…Conversational answers generated automatically by chatbots will pretty much eliminate that human element of bullshit detection.”

The Wall Street Journal called this new era in tech The AI Boom That Could Make Google and Microsoft Even More Powerful “Relying on tech giants for both answers and assistance, rather than just information, could entrench them into our lives more deeply than ever…The only reason ChatGPT and other foundational models are so bad at bias and even fundamental facts is they are closed systems, and there is no opportunity for feedback,” says Tinglong Dai, a professor of operations management at Johns Hopkins University who studies human-AI interaction. Big tech companies like Google have decades of practice at soliciting feedback to improve their algorithmically-generated results. Avenues for such feedback have, for example, long been a feature of both Google Search and Google Maps.” Not so in this case! In this era of deepfakes, they want you to believe that seeing is believing.

“When AI is delivering answers, and not just information for us to base decisions on, we’re going to have to trust it much more deeply than we have before,” and when it comes to the synod, ‘trust’ is not top of mind… “Because of the financial, intellectual and computational resources needed to develop and run the technology are so enormous, the companies that control these AI systems will be the largest, richest companies.” They forgot ‘most powerful,’ too.

Speaking of which, if you think Google had a horrible, terrible, very bad week with Bard, Microsoft just bungled its $13 billion debut of AI-powered Bing “With new ChatGPT-like features, the Bing app is about to get its star turn. It better clean up its design first,” said Fast Company.

Tech does have a way of leaving a trail of collateral damage. Re the various chemtrails, as the MSN piece notes, “If conducted on a large scale, there are concerns the technique could deplete the ozone layer, or change precipitation patterns. Hundreds of scientists have signed a call for a global non-use agreement to stop the development and potential use of all large-scale solar geoengineering technologies.”

Have we gone from software eating the world to tech being willing to chew up and spit it out?

To quote an old adage, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail and dollars to donuts with all new ‘science’ coming from the tech community, there’s a software program running at least somewhere in the background, and bugger all to long term consequence. Science today is based on computer modeling rather than being evidence-based, as it once was. On another front, hockey stick growth lasts just so long, so bring on the next ‘improvement’/control mechanism. Despite all the chatter about bettering the world or improving our lives, tech is a language of zeros and ones and well we know at this point that at the end of the day, it’s all simply a numbers game. Onward and forward.