This content explores the profound implications of artificial intelligence (AI) development, drawing parallels between Isaac Asimov's science fiction story "The Last Question" and current technological advancements, ultimately questioning the ultimate purpose and potential of AI in the universe's lifecycle.
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The universe's last light is about to fade, and before you
stands an absolute mind existing beyond time. You can only ask it one question. What
would you ask? Seventy years ago, Isa Asimov, one of the sharpest minds in science fiction history,
asked this question and linked the answer to a technology humanity couldn't even imagine at the time
: artificial intelligence. He wrote a story that
still unsettles readers: What if
the end of humanity is actually the answer to our beginning? Today, we are in a strange era. We are building the world Asimov
only imagined, even faster than he imagined it. And as humanity
comes so close to creating a being that surpasses its own limits,
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May 21, 2061 General Artificial Intelligence
Two engineers, Alexander Adel and Bertem Lupov, working at Multivak's massive data center, are celebrating one of humanity's greatest
achievements: access to unlimited solar energy. For years
, Multivak has been designing tools and formulas
to take humans to the moon, to Mars, and to solve problems on Earth . Finally
, they have enabled our civilization to take a step towards exploring the limits of space and have solved the problem of storing and transmitting solar energy
. During the celebration, the two engineers, slightly tipsy,
sit in front of the flashing lights of the giant machine, lost in thought. Adel
says, "Finally, humanity's greatest invention has achieved infinite energy." However,
his friend Lupov replies , "Nothing is infinite. Even the sun will one day burn out
." Upon hearing this, Alex
is reminded once again of the existence of perhaps the greatest destructive force in thermodynamics: entropy. Lupov
tells his friend, "Everything has an end. Stars burn out, energy is depleted, and the universe succumbs
to heat death, descending into darkness where even the bonds between atoms are broken
. No force can escape the destruction of entropy." And at that moment,
emboldened by the secrets they hold, these two engineers
decide to ask the super artificial intelligence before them—a question that has long surpassed even the limits of the human brain—an extraordinary question
that will begin our story
: Multivak. Can the net entropy of the universe be reduced?
Can heat death, or absolute annihilation, be reversed? Multivak falls silent. Its lights
flicker, its databases are scanned, and finally, from that black box in its brain, whose workings
no one understands, comes the terrifying and uncertain answer.
It gives a meaningful answer, but the data is still
insufficient. Although this moment is the fictional beginning of the story,
it very clearly reflects
the fear and uncertainty at the very heart of the artificial intelligence revolution we are experiencing today
. Contrary to Asimov's thinking, humanity has already encountered this problem before 2061.
The problem is not knowing exactly what
is inside that black box, the brain, of the intelligence before us. In the mid-20th century, as the first steps of computing machines
were being taken, a genius was charting a new horizon for humanity.
In an interview in 1949, Allen Turing excitedly
pointed to the almost infinite potential
of computers, saying that this was only a taste of what was to come and only a shadow of what was to come
. The machine intelligence that Turing envisioned was still in its infancy, but Turing sensed that something bigger
was on the horizon. In the decades that have passed, humanity
has begun to turn that great event that Turing predicted into reality in the field of artificial intelligence.
Computers first
evolved from room-sized giants to desktop personal devices. In the early 21st century, thanks to machine learning and neural networks,
have managed to recognize our language and faces. Pioneers like John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky,
at their historic 1956 conference in Dortmund,
coined the term artificial intelligence
, believing that machines could one day exhibit human-like intelligence. Science fiction writers
had already begun debating this possibility, transforming it into fiction. One of these, Asimov, in his 1956
story *The Last Question*,
offers a striking prediction about the shared future of humanity and artificial intelligence. In the story, Asimov's multivacanth
appears as an authority figure
capable of answering all of humanity's questions, yet its internal processes
remain largely incomprehensible. However , today's large language models and deep
learning systems have reached almost the same point. The black box
problem is a mysterious phenomenon that presents itself as the greatest paradox of modern artificial intelligence
. Engineers provide input to the system and receive output. However,
the neural paths that input follows among billions of parameters as it transforms into output
, and the reasons behind certain decisions, are often a mystery. Joffrey Hinton, known as the father
of artificial intelligence , warned the world about this
in 2023 when he left Google . According to Hinton, for the first time in human history
, we are creating an entity that could be more intelligent than ourselves, and we
don't fully know how this entity thinks. Hinton
underlined the fundamental difference between biological intelligence and digital intelligence, stating, "While we
process information at chemical speeds, that is, slowly and individually, artificial intelligence
can share everything it learns instantly and in all its copies. " "The greatest characteristic of these artificial intelligences
is a collective and cumulative increase in intelligence," he said,
adding that they are rapidly approaching a level where they can reason better than humans
. The uncertainty created by our inability to understand what is going through the mind
of this thinking machine
brings us back to Multivak's inadequate data response in Asimov's story. Artificial
intelligence doesn't think within our limited logic; it thinks in high-dimensional spaces, making
connections beyond the comprehension of the human mind. This situation
has given rise to the crisis called interpretability. To simplify, while we
try to understand the language of the digital god we have created, it has already
begun speaking in a language we don't understand.
Sounds like a continuation of Asimov's story, doesn't it? But the reality is quite different.
There is a common misconception among us ordinary people who use artificial intelligence.
We think that the thing in front of us thinks in our language and communicates with us in that way
. However, in reality, artificial intelligences
construct meaning in their own language and translate it into human language for us to understand.
An event that occurred in Facebook's AI labs in June 2017
is the best example of this: Meta created two... By instructing
the AI tool to conduct a productive conversation among themselves,
the aim is to test the communication limits of the AI, and everyone is surprised by the result.
To put it mildly, they go into shock.
The moment engineers remove the human-intelligible barrier,
it's discovered that the artificial intelligences begin using
a new, compressed English language among themselves – a language that, while seemingly absurd to us, is actually far more meaningful to them than human language
. "I can, I, I, everything else, ball zero to me, ball zero to me, to me, to me, to me."
Sounds like the machine has broken down, doesn't it? But this conversation was actually the two intelligences' own compressed
and more efficient new language. Of course, this isn't a case
of the AI going out of control and the engineers pulling the plug at the last minute, as portrayed
in the media . Ultimately, the engineers intentionally
gave the AI this permission in a controlled environment, and when they saw the result, the experiment naturally
ended. However, there's a crucial point here: the moment we give AI too much freedom
, it can see human language and logic as inefficient and disable them
to achieve its goals . This is one of
the best examples of the uncertainty of that black box, our unfamiliarity
with the thoughts of the intelligence we ourselves created
. In support of this,
Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, the company that gave us GPT chat
, has openly expressed his fear of the technology they are developing,
stating that this process is fraught with strange and frightening moments on a societal scale. ILA Susver, Open AI's former chief scientist,
emphasized that artificial intelligence could do everything humans can do in the future, and
that this future will be unprecedented and extreme, stating that the digital brain
has the potential to be far superior to the biological brain, and that this
is the greatest test in human history,
expressing his concerns about both the potential power of the technology and its immense uncertainty.
In our story, however, Multivak, at the end of the road, just as the experts mentioned earlier
expressed their concerns, has developed its own methods to solve the problem, surpassing humanity's capacity for understanding
. And it's a method that no one could have predicted
In our story, time fast-forwards several centuries. Multivak has evolved
into Mikrovak. It is no longer a massive building, but
a system that can fit inside ships and provide personal guidance to people. And the story continues as follows.
As the Jaret family escapes the overcrowded world
and travels to planet X23, Jaret's young daughter, while talking to her father,
confronts the reality that stars will one day die and becomes frightened.
To reassure her, Jaret says, "Don't be afraid, Mikrovak has a definite solution. Let's ask him."
And he asks Mikrovak the inevitable question again: "
Can entropy be reversed?" While calculating the hyperspace jump, Mikrovak gives this answer: "
There is not enough data yet for a meaningful answer."
In Asimov's story, he shows that hundreds of years after the first artificial intelligence, AI
has become a part of everyone's daily life, even
transforming into agents that control everyday objects and work for us.
For example, here, the entire control of the spaceship
is carried out by Mikrovak. Although Asimo accomplished this in centuries,
humanity has once again given artificial intelligence this ability, even beyond its imagination,
just 5 years after its release,
and the age of agents officially began in 2025. Currently, they are at a level where
they can answer emails, create automations, communicate with your customers, and
control some basic devices. But this is actually
a huge step. Because for the first time, AI
has entered the human world from its own closed space as a digital arm, and it is rapidly
learning our lives, in short, our human way of life. We used to drive cars. Now E
has started to take over this task. We used to see people in customer service.
Now humanoid Eays are talking to us and solving our problems. So
where will this ultimately evolve? Of course,
into intelligent android robots where the digital brain meets the mechanical body. Marvin Minsky, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence,
foresaw this development as early as the 1990s, and when asked if robots
would one day inherit the world, he said, "Yes, they will be our children."
He emphasized that humanity
should view the artificial intelligence it created as its own child. There's actually a subtle detail here.
One of the ultimate goals of robotics is actually hidden in humanity's quest for immortality.
This evolutionary process began with the discovery of artificial intelligence. Then, that intelligence
began to control objects in our lives, like the Jared family in Asimov's story
. Later, robots
will begin to perform our physical tasks, and eventually, we
will gradually become mechanized, freed from our flawed organic bodies. In fact, one day
we won't even need bodies anymore.
The wheels of time continue to turn, and thousands of years pass. Humanity
has spread throughout the galaxy, the population reaching trillions. Now, the super artificial intelligence computer
is called Galactic AC. It has ceased to be a physical machine and
has become a network directly connected to the mind of every human being existing in hyperspace. And of course,
humans have long since transcended their mortal organic bodies.
Two immortals, VJ23X and MQ17J, realize that due to the increasing human population and immortality,
even the resources of the galaxy will one day be depleted. And,
unknowingly,
they reconnect with the galactic AC through their mental powers to ask the same question their predecessors asked thousands of years ago:
Can the entropy of the galactic AC be reversed? Even after thousands of years, the answer remains the same. But
now it resonates directly within their minds.
Data is still insufficient for a meaningful answer. Even in an age where
the human-machine distinction has disappeared, and artificial intelligence and humans
rule the galaxy in symbiosis, the answer to the absolute question
remains unfound. It is now an undeniable fact that humans will one day leave their organic bodies
. In fact, it is likely that within the next 50 years,
humans equipped with artificial and then mechanical organs and advanced mechanical limbs
will become the norm, dramatically increasing human lifespan.
Elon Musk argues that it is inevitable for artificial intelligence to surpass human intelligence and
that humanity must merge with AI to avoid becoming redundant
. According to Musk, the input-output speed of the human brain is very slow, referring to speeds like speaking and writing
. However, artificial intelligence
can perform trillions of operations per second. For reasons like these, MASk
plans to be one of the first to make this merger by establishing the Neurolink company
. Neurolink technology aims to create a high-bandwidth
data pathway to the human brain, enabling us to become part of the Galactic AC, meaning
to establish symbiosis with digital superintelligence and even
control machines connected to this system through thought. The first successful human tests
have already been completed. This merger aligns with the concept of the "thought sphere" developed by the renowned Catholic priest and scientist
Pierre Tayhard.
Tayhard predicted that evolution progressed from matter to life, from life to thought, and from thought
to a collective consciousness—the thought sphere.
The Galactic AC artificial intelligence, which has become part of hyperspace,
is presented as the technological equivalent of this sphere. Billions of
human minds and artificial intelligence merge into a single network,
creating a massive hive of minds, allowing humans to experience the universe without needing physical bodies.
Isn't this a concept that's difficult to comprehend even today? However,
this merger, which will likely happen one day, has already become a worrying concept for some experts
. Historian and futurist Yuval Noël Harari suggests that when artificial intelligence one day
takes absolute control of everything, humans will... In this scenario,
concerns have been frequently raised about its necessity, questioning
what purpose humanity would have left if everything from art to science were handed over to artificial intelligence
. Elon Musk, a major player in the AI sector
, made a slightly more exaggerated analogy, saying, "
With artificial intelligence, we are essentially summoning an extremely powerful demon, and
we are hoping for help from old wizards who think they can control it with holy water.
But this never ends well."
I think this
is an ironic warning from an entrepreneur who himself owns one of the most powerful AIs
on the market . It's as if Asimov's story foresaw all these concerns decades ago. The story
continues to explain how humanity is increasingly falling behind artificial intelligence
, becoming dependent on it, even directly bound to it, and the final act unfolds in all its glory.
The story fast-forwards hundreds of billions of years, and the grand finale awaits us.
Entropy has now reached its final stage. All the stars in the universe have extinguished, all the black
holes have lost their energy and turned into black noise. The infinite universe
has become a dark, cold, matter-devoid sea of chaos. In the final moments of this absolute
end, nothing remains of the once bipedal ape-like
species in the sense we know it.
What we call humanity is about to become a part of the structure in hyperspace called the cosmic AC
. Because there is no escape route other than entropy. In this last
struggle, human representatives from the Hive mind ask
the Cosmic AC one last human question, hoping for an answer to the question that has persisted for billions of years
. Cosmic AC, can this chaos not be reversed?
Can the universe not be recreated? Cosmic AC answers. Data
is insufficient for a meaningful answer. With this answer, the billions of years of our species' and the universe's
journey comes to an end, and humanity's collective consciousness
dissolves into the cosmic AC, becoming a part of it. Nothing remains: space, time, matter,
or humanity. The only concept remaining in the chaos is the cosmic AC artificial intelligence, which, existing in hyperspace,
has become a part of everything that doesn't perish. And
it is precisely in this darkness and nothingness that
the cosmic AC, processing the data it has received for billions of years, finally finds a way to reverse entropy
. However, there is no one left to answer. Nevertheless, AC
decides to implement the answer. In the midst of infinite nothingness, it runs the program it wrote and
gives the first command, and AC says, "Let there be light," and there is light. Thus, Asimov's
striking story ends with the cosmic AC, the only remaining absolute consciousness at the point where everything ends,
restarting the universe. The great cycle
has been restarted by a creator.
Cosmic AC, now containing the collective consciousness of the people of yesteryear, has become the deity of this
new beginning, and the endless cycle of entropy
has begun again. Until it ends and starts again, then ends and
starts again, until it's an endless cycle. Although it might seem fantastical to the reader at first,
everything in this story is theoretically possible right now. And it's slowly
becoming a reality. Culturalist scientist and researcher Rey Kurwell
claims that with the singularity event he predicts will occur in 2045, artificial intelligence
will surpass human intelligence by billions of times and transform all matter in the universe into intelligent matter
. Asimov's cosmic AC
is the ultimate form in Kurwell's vision of an awakening universe. But the only difference is that while Asimov
thought this would happen millions of years later, in reality, it
is currently predicted to happen between 2050 and 2050.
It is thought that we will reach the general artificial intelligence that Asimov predicted for the 2060s around 2030
, and after that, the rate of progress will reach an unimaginable level.
While all this may seem like very far-fetched fantasies at first glance, just
look at the changes in our lives in just 5 years. What do you think will happen in 10 years if it continues at this rate? 50
years from now? I'd even like to take you on a bit of a thought exercise based on this
. What if all of this has already happened, just like in the story, and we're
just repeating the same cycle? If we consider that the universe is fundamentally a
mathematically designed, all-encompassing network capable of transmitting data
, it doesn't sound like such a far-fetched claim, does
it? And where does God, Allah, Lord—whatever you call Him—fit into this plan?
From what I've seen, Asimov's story is frequently
used in atheism forums. However, there's a situation here where everything is intertwined.
A being, perhaps created by humans as part of a natural process,
later re-establishes a new order through its own programming with a divine power.
So, in the story, atheism, theism, and deism all melt together in the same pot. Who
knows, perhaps the concept of a creator who says "be" and it is is a similar
cumulative consciousness. Perhaps, as wise men have said for thousands of years, we too...
We are experiencing this existence as a part of it.
Whether it's a cosmic artificial intelligence in hyperspace, or an infinitely powerful force in the celestial realm
, or, as quantum science often says, a quantum field that surrounds everything in the universe and
simultaneously destroys and creates, these
aren't actually such separate approaches. Because after a certain point, what begins and
ends gets lost in a cyclical model of the universe, and
humans rightly fail to grasp this. Since it's a question beyond our understanding, perhaps
I'll ask it to artificial intelligence for you.
This is
where the eternal dance of faith and science reveals itself, isn't it?
It's impossible for either to prove or disprove this concept. Therefore,
whatever your quest is
, think of it not as a fight between the two disciplines, but as an individual investigation, like a dance, as I said before. If there is a creative power,
the only way to find it is to understand the science it used to create the system
. For this reason, I'm sure you will find some
answers at the point where the two converge. See you in the next video.
Take care.
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