THE WONDER OF A.I
- Edmund Thorold
- Mar 9, 2024
- 4 min read
*SPOILER ALERT, I DID NOT WRITE THIS , CHATGPT DID*
Corporate Espionage Thrills: The Hunt for AI Supremacy in a High-Stakes World
THE CHINESE UP TO THEIR TRICKS AGAIN....
Get ready for a cyber espionage thriller that reads like a Hollywood blockbuster!

Meet Linwei Ding, the former Google whiz-kid turned double agent,
accused of stealing the tech giant's AI secrets while moonlighting for Chinese companies.
Charged with swiping over 500 confidential files, Ding faces a potential 40-year sentence and massive fines if convicted.
Ding's daring escapades span continents as he juggles his day job at Google with lucrative offers from Chinese start-ups, all while building his own AI empire under the radar.
But when Google catches wind of his covert activities, the game changes.
From secret uploads to high-stakes investor meetings in China,
Ding's globe-trotting exploits blur the lines between loyalty and betrayal.

With the US Justice Department hot on his trail and tensions between superpowers reaching boiling point,
Ding finds himself at the center of a high-tech showdown.
Will he outsmart the authorities and evade capture, or will his quest for AI supremacy come crashing down?
Get ready for a pulse-pounding ride through the murky world of corporate espionage, where the stakes couldn't be higher and trust is a rare commodity.”
THE ORIGINAL BBC STORY CAN BE FOUND ON THIS LINK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68497508
This news broke a couple of days ago and contrary to what is written in ChatGPTs version of the full story, one assumes, factual and as reported on the BBC, Ding did not evade capture and is under arrest.
A good plot might indeed have him still on the run, having allegedly carried out his dastardly deeds with the Chinese authorities either complicit or turning a blind eye to any law breaking activity he may stand accused of.
Now why am I giving you a fictional account of a real life piece of news?
Well you guessed it.

I didn’t.
ChatGPT did it for me by writing something that in the writing world we call a book burb. Something you might find on the back cover of any paperback you pick up in the airport.
Let me apologise in advance for whetting your appetite about the not-so-elusive Mr Ding and his apparent success in getting hold of some valuable AI stuff from Google.
Not to say that Mr Ding’s story may evolve but I very much doubt it's going to turn into the next Hollywood blockbuster.

For that you have to continue reading the 'Eternal Blue Series' which is already getting attention from some experienced producers.
What this week’s blog is trying to tell you is that:
the hunt for the world’s best AI continues apace.
That the Chinese are actively part of this race; and that ChatGPT is not going to replace my story telling talent anytime soon.
But that’s not to say it never will.
It might be on it’s way.
I recently purchased a fairly new James Bond novel in the airport.
The writing and plot was so perfect that I had the suspicion that it must have been written by some kind of generative AI program.
But it wasn’t, I’m pretty sure it was written by an author with greater talents than I have, certainly as a wordsmith, a polished writer of commercial fiction.
But the plot was so predictable, the writing so polished and Bond so politically correct I could hardly plough my way through to the end.
Is that the future we have to look forward to, where AI will take over the creative industries, serving us up a generic dog’s breakfast of what we ask it for?

I hope not and that it will find it hard, at least for the next decade or so, to copy my rough and ready style.
At least that’s what I’m betting on and in the meantime, poking fun at its risible efforts is my only riposte.
The Chinese will not be standing idly by while we have this debate.
They know that whoever has the world’s best and most powerful AI will also be the master of it. They usually get what they want, sooner or later, by hook or by crook.
Let’s hope they use it wisely.
Otherwise ‘we’re doomed’ as Private Fraser predicted in the BBC’s ‘Dad’s Army’, perhaps a century too soon.
The words don’t sound as funny as they used to.
Imagine what could happen if the Russians were to get there first.
We just have to hope that Nastya is not quite as good as she thinks she is, or has a sudden burst of conscience.
Take your pick, it’s a story that’s running in the real world as it does in the parallel universe of Eternal Blue.
Never a dull moment in either universe at the moment.
Thanks for checking out this blog, I hope you enjoyed!
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HERE'S A FREE COPY OF MY BOOK!

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