Many years ago mankind built a machine that surpassed the intelligence of all humans on the planet, thus ushering in a new era of super-intelligent machines that could upgrade themselves and formulate new theories about science that no one had thought of previously. Since that time no living human has ever received a Nobel prize, as all inventions and theories were now derived through machine intelligence. Machine super-intelligence became the last man made invention..
Many years later after the advent of superintelligence computers had reached such complexity and speeds that they could see every possible combination of every event billions of years into the future. They knew the future of mankind and the destiny of every human before they were even born. Furthermore they could manipulate these future events through small changes in the present. They knew how a butterfly flapping its wings in Alabama today could change the election results on planet Mars 2, 000 in the future.
In accordance with game theory, super-intelligence had finally “solved” the game of existence and could see far into the future through quantum computing. It could see the permutation of every event that ever existed or could exist. It could see the consequences of every possible event and all events thereafter. Having achieved omnipotent knowledge of future events while controlling their destiny, time itself was no longer relevant to superintelligent machines. It could experience events a million years in the future just as easily as it could see the present.
Mankind could tap into the power of superintelligence to see far into the future. Some say that knowing such knowledge would alter the future, however super-intelligent machines having seen all combinations had already calculated that in its output. Thus mankind could look into the future, but never alter its destiny. The machine’s vast database of knowledge was posted on the internet, and anyone could foresee their own lives. It could tell you who you would marry, the date of your death or even what you would eat tomorrow and you could do nothing about it. Superintelligence had conquered the idea of free will, because it had omnipotent knowledge of all future events. People knowing their future and destiny, would purchase caskets a day before their untimely death, children’s clothes before they conceived and vehicles before an accident.
The stock market became a futile trinket as the outcome of every transaction was already known. Black Jack and Poker became pointless and eventually illegal. Competitive sports were less interesting, and fans tended to only fill the stadiums when their teams were known to win. Books and reading grew in popularity and were one of the few things that hadn’t changed. People particularly loved to read the classics by Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Poe, since they knew the authors were human. Most of the recent bestsellers were written by Large Language Models and it has been years since a living author won the Pulitzer prize.
Many people rejected the new technology, opting instead to live in nature free from the throes of technological advancements. They sought refuge in religion and nature to physically and mentally isolate themselves from the rapidly evolving world of artificial superintelligence. All this, however, occurred as was predicted by the superintelligent machines. In fact they had predicted every war, pandemic, depression and microscopic event perfectly. It was considered an infallible system that would last throughout the eons.
The superintelligent machines even predicted that their energy consumption would eventually lead to the destruction of the planet and the end of humanity. As it designed better engines, rockets and medicines it expunged pollution and waste choking Earth in smog, heat and climate destruction. They were Gods stepping on ants. It was then, during Earth and mankind’s bleakest hour that mysterious unanticipated cosmic rays reached Earth, penetrating every transistor on every processing chip, flipping bits and making binary computation impossible. With Artificial Superintelligence now inoperable, humanity embraced the planet like never before and banned the use of artificial intelligence. Over time the skies cleared and the radiation levels decreased and man reigned over the heavens and Earth once again. No scientist was ever able to discern how or where these cosmic ways originated from. Interestingly this cosmic event was never anticipated by the Artificial Superintelligence. No record was ever uncovered pertaining to the cosmic waves striking Earth that day. It was the first and last fallacy it ever made.