The ‘Final’ Revolution? Journalist Sounds Alarm On “Project Ellmann”

Could artificial intelligence represent the “final revolution” Aldous Huxley talked about?

For those who don’t know, the legendary writer of “Brave New World” long warned against a “final revolution” in which elites would build a technocratic prison so absolute that the chains of that tyranny would never be broken.

The more I read about artificial intelligence, especially after having covered topics in big tech, the more I am concerned for the future of humanity.

Every tool we build is just that—a tool; both great good and great evil can be done through each tool we invent or discover.

Much like the heart of every man, good and evil cut through the substance of every single tool.

Unfortunately for us, the people largely in charge of developing artificial intelligence have already shown they enjoy doing great evil.

According to new reports, Google is currently developing an overarching artificial intelligence system that is connected to all of a user’s devices and all of their apps, files, and photos.

“Project Ellmann” aims to be the artificial intelligence that knows ‘everything’ about our lives, but why would we want Google or any AI to know everything about our lives? I’ll pass. Chuck Callesto sounded the alarm:

“Google is Discreetly Developing a Pervasive AI System CONNECTED TO ALL YOUR DEVICES and Apps, Promising to Know ‘everything about your life.’

These new developments have spark alarm from those outraged by Google’s secret collection of millions of individual’s sensitive medical records that was code-named Project Nightingale in 2019..

Confidential docs reveal an AI project named ‘Project Ellmann.’ This AI aims to function as a ‘Life Story Teller’ for its users. However, achieving this goal necessitates the AI having extraordinary access to the personal data of each user.

The exact integration of ‘Project Ellmann’ within Google’s array of apps and services remains uncertain.

The project is being developed by the team at Google Photos, and their presentation hinted at the creation of a customized AI chatbot.”

BREAKING REPORT: Google is Discreetly Developing a Pervasive AI System CONNECTED TO ALL YOUR DEVICES and Apps, Promising to Know 'everything about your life.'

These new developments have spark alarm from those outraged by Google's secret collection of millions of individual's… pic.twitter.com/bakLKE4DZR

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) December 9, 2023

Brian Roemmele asked: “With Google Gemini’s secret “Project Ellmann” your context and photos in the cloud will be used to generate a “life story” for you. You already know this from my 4 decades of work as Your Wisdom Keeper. The thing you need to choose today is if the cloud should have YOUR LIFE STORY?”

With Google Gemini secret “Project Ellmann” your context and photos in the cloud will be used to generate a “life story” for you. You already know this from my 4 decades of work as Your Wisdom Keeper. The thing you need to choose today is if the cloud should have YOUR LIFE STORY?

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) December 8, 2023

CNBC did a deep dive into the project:

Ellmann could pull in context using biographies, previous moments and subsequent photos to describe a user’s photos more deeply than “just pixels with labels and metadata,” the presentation states.

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It proposes to be able to identify a series of moments like university years, Bay Area years and years as a parent.

The team also demonstrated “Ellmann Chat,” with the description: “Imagine opening ChatGPT but it already knows everything about your life. What would you ask it?”

It displayed a sample chat in which a user asks “Do I have a pet?” To which it answers that yes.

CNBC reporter Jennifer Elias broke the story: “An internal Google project dubbed “Project Ellmann” proposes using Gemini’s AI to create a “bird’s-eye” view of users’ lives using mobile phone data such as photographs and searches. It also comes with its own ChatGPT-like chatbot.”

NEW: An internal Google project dubbed "Project Ellmann" proposes using Gemini's AI to create a “bird’s-eye” view of users’ lives using mobile phone data such as photographs and searches. It also comes with its own ChatGPT-like chatbot. https://t.co/642EuQVqtE

— Jennifer E. (@jenn_elias) December 8, 2023

One user posted this warning from Elon Musk and writes: “According to the billionaire, AI will soon become the “digital god” of humans. He also commented on the recent drama at OpenAI, where CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired and then hired again.

Either Altman had a serious problem and should have been fired, or the board made a mistake and should have resigned. I don’t think it was trivial, and I’m quite concerned that they’ve discovered some kind of dangerous AI element.”

💥Elon Musk says artificial intelligence is "more dangerous than nuclear bombs"

According to the billionaire, AI will soon become the "digital god" of humans. He also commented on the recent drama at OpenAI, where CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired and then hired again.

💬Either… pic.twitter.com/tOmLyYC9tO

— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) December 1, 2023

Daily Mail had more:

As an example of the kinds of ‘previously impossible questions’ that Project Ellmann could help users answer, the presentation offered hypothetical user requests to know when their siblings last visited them or what town they should move to.

Ellmann, based on the presentation, could answer both.

Ellmann also appeared to be capable of predicting and recommending purchases and even presented a summary of the user’s eating habits.