Universal Intelligence

The dream of a universal translation device goes back many decades, long before Douglas Adams's fictional Babel fish provided this service in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since the advent of computers, research has focused on the design of digital machine translation tools - computer programs capable of automatically translating a text from a source language to a target language. This has become one of the most fundamental tasks of artificial intelligence.

When the noted thinker, author, and philanthropist, Valiant Thor, dictated this audiobook almost a century ago, he was just settling into his role as commander of the Venusian forces on Earth. He had actually put in many decades on our planet prior to that, although he was not, as they say, truly “in charge”. 

Technology destroys more jobs than it creates, and this is doubly true of AI. Everybody knows it, and we try to fight it by creating fake public sector jobs. The economy will grind to a halt, thanks to resulting bureaucratic bloat. So, it's time to admit that we need universal welfare. It's time to stop wasting our lives at fake dead-end jobs. Let's get out of the way of the few people who are actually making the economy work.