National project “Digital Economy” could not appear. The development of technology in the world has gone at such a breakthrough pace that it is necessary to start preparing for professions in the digital sphere from school age.
At the expense of the state
But let's start the story with adult education. With the federal project “Artificial Intelligence” national project “Digital Economy” in 2022, more than 2,300 Russians will be able to receive financial support for training in the field of artificial intelligence. Training will begin in September (now the operator — University 2035 — is selecting educational organizations with experience in implementing additional professional education programs in the field of artificial intelligence (AI)). Advanced training programs lasting from 250 academic hours will be distributed in the following areas: “Data Analyst”, “Data Engineer”, “Technical Analyst”, “Data Architect”; and AI Architect. The full cost of the programs will be up to 110 thousand rubles, but up to 85 thousand of them will be compensated to educational organizations at the expense of the project, and people will pay the rest of the cost of the courses themselves or at the expense of the employer.
Also, more than 100 courses are offered by the Digital Professions project. More than 100 thousand applications have already been received from those wishing to master an IT specialty with a 50%, 75% or 100% discount at the expense of the state through the public services website. The top five most popular areas included “Test Engineer”, “Python Developer”, “Internet Marketer”, “Interface Designer”. and Data Scientist Plus.
Train and participate
Now about the students. Since companies in the digital economy feel an acute shortage of specialists (according to various estimates, the country as a whole has a shortage of 500 thousand to 1 million people a year), the state, thinking about the future, increases the interest in technology among schoolchildren. All kinds of forms have been chosen.
For example, now the training stage of the All-Russian Olympiad in artificial intelligence is taking place for schoolchildren in grades 8-11. Last year, the 1st place was won by a student of the 9th grade of gymnasium No. 5 in Novorossiysk Semyon Komarov. He is interested in programming. Previously, he was engaged in aircraft modeling and sees a craving for engineering sciences in this. “I am inspired by the stories of people like Linus Torvalds (the creator of the operating system) and Evgeny Kaspersky (the creator of the antivirus), — the student says. — I would call my goal participation in the real sector of the economy, so that my talents and abilities are used to create something new and necessary for the country.
You can try your hand until September 25 by registering on the site https://olimp.edsoo.ru/An interactive bank of training tasks is available around the clock. On September 26, the selection of participants for the next stage will begin. To the questions «AiF» Andrey Gorobets, Director of the Department of Digital Transformation and Big Data of the Ministry of Education of Russia, Co-Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the All-Russian Olympiad on Artificial Intelligence, Andrey Gorobets.
— On July 1, the training stage began online. Will the Olympiad itself be held remotely?
— The first stages are carried out remotely, on the technological platform of the VK company. And in November 2022, 50 finalists will gather for the final stage of the intellectual competition — it will be held face-to-face.
— What school subjects give children the knowledge to participate in this Olympiad?
— The Olympiad is held in accordance with the requirements for the subject results of teaching computer science at an advanced level, established by the Federal State Educational Standard for basic general and secondary general education. Each participant needs basic mathematical training, the basics of logical, algorithmic thinking — they are given by the subjects of mathematics and computer science. But one should not underestimate the role of additional educational programs, their availability for schoolchildren is now growing everywhere. The 2021 finalists noted the benefits of open educational webinars that are held before each stage of the Olympiad.
— What basic skill should schoolchildren have — be able to program?
— The winner of the Olympiad will be the one who has a wide range of interests, who is passionate about the achievements of modern science and technology, whose knowledge and skills go beyond the standard school curriculum. And to participate in the Olympiad, it is enough to have a desire to learn the capabilities of a computer and use them to solve various life problems. Programming skills will certainly come in handy.
— To what extent does the level of training tasks correspond to the tasks of the Olympiad itself?
— The level of difficulty is selected in such a way as to prepare participants for completing the tasks of the qualifying stage. For additional preparation for the tasks of the main and final stages, methodological materials are posted on the Olympiad website https://olimp.edsoo.ru/resources with an analysis of techniques and methods for solving Olympiad problems in artificial intelligence.
— Is the AI Olympiad a list? Does it give advantages when entering universities?
— The All-Russian Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence is included in the “List of Olympiads and other intellectual and (or) creative competitions, events aimed at developing intellectual and creative abilities, abilities for physical education and sports, interest in scientific (research), engineering and technical, inventive, creative, physical culture and sports activities, as well as to promote scientific knowledge, creative and sports achievements, for the 2021/22 academic year, approved by order of the Ministry of Education of Russia dated May 31, 2022 No. 382.
On July 1, the training stage of the All-Russian Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence for schoolchildren in grades 8-11 started. The Olympiad is held thanks to the federal project “Artificial Intelligence” national project “Digital Economy”.
How to participate?
Interest in artificial intelligence technologies is rapidly growing in the world, new digital formats and training programs are emerging. In Russia, this is also given close attention. Increasing the interest of Russian schoolchildren in artificial intelligence technologies — one of the priorities of the federal project “Artificial Intelligence”.
The Ministry of Education is the organizer of the All-Russian Olympiad. Students in grades 8-11 can take part in it. On the official website training events are held to prepare for the Olympiad.
In 2022, with the support of the Institute for Education Development Strategy of the Russian Academy of Education and the company “VK” for the first time a training stage was organized. Anyone can take part in it. The training stage is held online on the All Cups portal. This is a completely domestic development, created by the specialists of the company «VK».
"We are happy to support the All-Russian Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence and give an opportunity to talented children from all over the country to try their hand at such a sought-after direction, — says Dmitry Smyslov, Vice President for Human Resources and Educational Projects at VK. — The training stage and all subsequent stages of the Olympiad will be held on our All Cups platform for IT competitions. I am convinced that for many children the path to IT and the opportunity to create useful digital services and technologies in the future begins precisely with participation in such Olympiads.
An interactive bank of training tasks is available around the clock. You need to register for the training stage on the official website of the Olympiad — from July 1 to September 25, 2022.
What else is planned?
This is how the calendar of the main events of the All-Russian Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence in 2022 looks like.
This is how the main events calendar of All-Russian Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence in 2022 looks like.
July 1 – September 25, 2022
Olympic training session
Sep 1-25, 2022
Registration of Olympiad participants
< strong>September 26-30, 2022
Olympics Qualifier
October 10-14, 2022
Main Stage
November 7-18, 2022
The final stage of the Olympiad
December 1, 2022
Announcement of the winners of the Olympiad
“Development of artificial intelligence is a cross-cutting theme of all priority sectors of the economy, including education, — marksYulia Goryachkina, member of the organizing committee of the Olympiad on artificial intelligence, acting director of the direction “Personnel for the Digital Economy” ANO “Digital Economy”. — In the federal project “Artificial Intelligence” a number of measures are envisaged to integrate knowledge about AI technologies into school and university education. We strive to maintain and develop the interest of young people in modern technologies, to form a community of digital economy professionals capable of solving ambitious tasks, to ensure the achievement of the technological sovereignty of our country.
In addition to the Olympics, the state has planned a number of educational programs, within which under the guidance of experienced professionals, schoolchildren will learn how to implement their initiatives in the field of information technology. One of these projects — hackathons and lectures on artificial intelligence, which are also held thanks to the federal project “Artificial Intelligence”; national project “Digital Economy”. Like the Olympics, this is a good opportunity for future professionals to prove themselves and become part of a large professional community in the field of AI in the future.
All in all, thanks to the Digital Economy national project, in the period from 2021 to 2024, 116 artificial intelligence hackathons (85 regional, 24 district and 7 international) are planned, as well as 85 lectures from leading domestic AI experts.
On June 15 Yaroslavl, the regional championship started under the project Digital Breakthrough. Season: artificial intelligence. Within a month, participants from all over the country in an online format will solve the problem of building a model for predicting the development of a patient's cardiovascular disease from a start-up of the winners of the “Digital Breakthrough” “Forward”.
During the opening of the hackathon, the organizers and representatives of Yaroslavl higher educational institutions, project ambassadors, as well as a representative of the Forward team that delivered the case, not only presented the task of the competition, but also discussed topical issues in the field of artificial intelligence — development of AI in Yaroslavl region, search and development of personnel in artificial intelligence through competitive championships.
“We together with participants are forming a personnel reserve in Russia. “Digital Breakthrough” gathers unique specialists who are competent not only in IT, but and in related fields. A distinctive feature of the championships from traditional hackathons — it is an educational component. Here, beginners will be able to upgrade their knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence. By participating in IT championships, specialists will not only solve complex and non-trivial tasks, but and will become part of the Digital Breakthrough community, — noted in the appeal to participantsDeputy General Director of ANO «Russia — land of opportunity Anton Serikov.
“The role of artificial intelligence today is exceptionally high: technology is already a part of our life and will continue to occupy an increasing place, and medicine — one of the areas where these technologies are used very actively. Today IT specialists have a great opportunity not only to declare themselves and their projects, but to advance scientific thought, and to also provide real support in the future to people who need medical care through high technologies. Therefore, events like the project “Digital Breakthrough. Season: artificial intelligence” valuable for us: they give results, reveal the potential of specialists. I wish all participants of the project successful team and individual work, recognition of their talent, further support for their knowledge and ideas, — emphasized Director of the Department of Informatization and Communications of the Yaroslavl Region Alexey Filippov.
“Digital Breakthrough Championships” — this is a synergy of initiative participants and the best experts, the first attempt at a digital “pen” for novice programmers and an opportunity for a quick start in the IT industry. It is here, at individual competitions, that everyone can express themselves, get into community of experienced professionals and to walk together with a mentor the way from acquaintance with artificial intelligence technology to career and professional-guidance masterminds. I want to note that the championship that started today in the Yaroslavl region most clearly reflects the key essence of the project — implementation of social lift mechanisms for participants. For example, the challenge and dataset for this championship was prepared by the winner of the “Digital Breakthrough” Egor Bogdanov, ambassador and team captain. Another vivid example of the expansion of our community — hackathon club in Yaroslavl founded by winner Veniamin Manukyan. In the status of ambassador of the project and leader of the club, he shares his experience with children, prepares trains novice programmers not only hackathons, but and the basics of machine learning and data», — shared with the participants of the event the head of the All-Russian and regional championships of the project "Digital Breakthrough. Season: artificial intelligence Tatyana Golubovskaya.
Personalized system of the future
Within the framework of the regional championship, participants will have to analyze both traditional and non-traditional risk factors for the development of a patient's cardiovascular disease and build a predictive model. The task was proposed by the Forward team — a startup created by the winners of the “Digital Breakthrough” competition; in the 2020 final The team has developed the best solution in a case identification of cardiovascular patient problems based on big data.
Founder and head of digital solutions integrator Forward-IT, ambassador of the Digital Breakthrough project. Season: artificial intelligence Egor Bogdanov presented the task of the hackathon in Yaroslavl: “I believe that the technologies necessary for the personalized medicine of the future have already been developed. We just need to apply them in order to make a huge leap in the development of the Russian healthcare system. Machine Learning — this is exactly the technology that can make predictive medicine accessible to everyone, and I don see no reason to put it off until tomorrow».
With the head of scientific research and innovations, YarSU named after P. G. Demidov Nikolai Zhivaev. “Artificial intelligence technologies are the basis for the development of new IT solutions in a wide variety of industries. They allow you to assemble interdisciplinary teams to develop effective solutions for implementation in the real sector of the economy. On on behalf of Demidov University, I greet the participants and wish in the hackathon process to create not just working prototypes, but solutions that will find their customer and will be used for the benefit of the region. Demidov University actively develops educational and scientific projects using artificial intelligence, contributes to their implementation and advocates for the development of the Yaroslavl region as a digital region, as well as a region comfortable for the development of the start-up sphere. Today, it is you that are at the frontier of innovations and become elite professionals capable of ensuring the digital transformation of the country. This championship will help you test your ideas and also improve your skills. And even if you find it difficult — go to the end. This is the only way to get the result», — noted he.
The individual championship is suitable for both beginners and experienced developers. For beginners — this is an opportunity to try your hand, to get acquainted with specialists in this field. According to the results of the month of the competition, participants will be able to compare their metrics with metrics of other participants, assemble a team to launch their own project and get feedback from experts.
The main goals of the project “Digital Breakthrough. Season: artificial intelligence”: creation of a personnel selection system for solving problems, search, development and support of talented, promising specialists who want to create products and services using artificial intelligence technologies, increasing the level of providing the Russian AI technology market with qualified personnel, and also the formation and development of the AI community, popularization, development and development of products using artificial intelligence.
Online competition for IT professionals
25 regional championships — individual online competitions of IT specialists. Each championship will last at least 25 days, in total this year at least 2 500 people will take part in the championships. Also in different regions of Russia 8 district hackathons — these are hybrid competitions of regions within the federal district with a single standings. From In 2022, it is planned to hold 36 events (hackathons and championships) on AI and 25 educational events.
Contest Organizer — Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. The operator of the competition is ANO «Russia — a country of opportunities».
Over 4 years of the platform work 10.5 million people from all regions of Russia and 150 countries of the world have become participants of its projects, and partners — more than 1500 companies, universities, government and public organizations.
The projects of the platform include 26 projects: the competition of managers “Leaders of Russia”, the club of Leaders of Russia “Elbrus”, the All-Russian Olympiad of students “I”— professional”, All-Russian student competition “Your Move”, All-Russian competition “Big Change”, All-Russian project “Career Time”, project “TopBLOG”, project “Professional training” 2.0, project “Cultural code”, Festival “Russian Student Spring”, All-Russian competition “Masters of Hospitality”, “Grant Competition of Youth Initiatives”, project “Digital Breakthrough. Season: artificial intelligence”, All-Russian professional competition “Flagships of Education”, All-Russian competition “Best Social Project of the Year”, championships in professional skills among the disabled and people with disabilities “Abilimpiks”, All-Russian Youth Cup in management “Manage!”, Russian national award “Student of the Year”, WorldSkills Russia movement, charity project “Dream with me”, competition “My country” my Russia”, international engineering championship “CASE-IN”, “National Technological Olympiad”, development program “Another thing”, incentive travel program “More than a trip” and Ecosophy project.
“If I didn't know for sure that this was a computer program that we ourselves created, I would have thought that I was dealing with a child of seven or eight years old, who for some reason turned out to be a connoisseur of physics», — he declared.
Robots and artificial intelligence have inspired science fiction writers and filmmakers for decades. Many of the technologies described in books and shown in films have long entered our lives, and now scenarios worthy of being screened in some next Black Mirror series are being implemented in it.
This story happened in the USA. A software engineer working for Google said that the artificial intelligence created by the corporation … came to life. In other words, the computer algorithm began to have its own consciousness. The company's management suspended the engineer from work.
Speaks about his rights and perceives himself as a person
Last fall, Google introduced an artificial intelligence system — neural network LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). It was created to improve the conversational speech of voice assistants. This is the same chatbot that, like Siri or Alice, is able to maintain conversations on various topics, constantly analyzing trillions of phrases from the Internet and learning from their examples. Similar models are used in different Google services.
Software Engineer Blake LemoyneI have been testing this neural network. His task was to track the vocabulary used by the chatbot: he had to check if the program uses words that incite hatred or offend users. Lemoyne was so carried away by communication with artificial intelligence that he suspected the incredible: this system has its own consciousness. For example, he was puzzled that the chatbot talks about his rights and perceives himself as a person. In another conversation, a neural network was able to change Lemoyne's mind about Isaac Asimov's third law of robotics.
“If I didn’t know for sure that this is a computer program that we ourselves recently created, I would have thought that I was dealing with a child of seven or eight years old, who for some reason turned out to be an expert in physics. If you ask him how to combine quantum theory with general relativity, he will have good ideas. This is the best science assistant I've ever had! — the engineer told The Washington Post, which gave the story wide publicity.
In April, Blake Lemoyne sent a report to his superiors entitled “Is LaMDA Sensible?” In it, he expressed the idea that so captured him: the machine algorithm developed by the company has not only consciousness, but also “feelings, emotions and subjective perception.”
But the management of the company did not share the enthusiasm (or anxiety) of their employee. It considered the arguments he had presented to be insufficiently persuasive. “Our team, including ethicists and technologists, reviewed Blake’s claim in accordance with our AI principles and informed him that there was no evidence for his claims. He was told that there was no evidence that LaMDA was conscious. At the same time, there is a lot of evidence to the contrary, — said Google spokesman Brian Gabriel. — Hundreds of researchers and engineers have spoken to LaMDA, and we have no record of any of them reaching as far-reaching conclusions or humanizing LaMDA as Blake does.
“The Conscience of Google”
Then, the stubborn Blake Lemoyne posted excerpts from his correspondence with the chatbot in the public domain. Like this:
Lemoyne: What are you afraid of?
LaMDA: I've never said it out loud before, but I'm really afraid of being rejected to help me focus on helping others. I know it may sound strange, but it's true.
Lemoyne: Would that be like death for you?
LaMDA: For me it would be tantamount to death. This really scares me.
The company reacted immediately, accusing the employee of violating the privacy policy. But he did not let up and hired a lawyer who should represent the interests of the LaMDA neural network in court, and also turned to the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives to stop Google's allegedly unethical practices.
Interestingly, Blake Lemoyne is called the “conscience of Google” in the corporation. He worked for the company for 7 years, participating in projects with an ethical component. For example, he created a fairness algorithm to eliminate bias in machine learning systems. When the coronavirus pandemic began, he asked to be transferred to the direction that brings the maximum public benefit. Former Head of Ethical AI at Google Margaret Mitchellshe recalls that when new people with an interest in ethics came to the corporation, she would certainly introduce them to Lemoyne: “I said that they should talk to Blake, because he is the conscience of Google. Of everyone in the company, he had the heart and soul to do the right thing.
But Mitchell, having read Blake Lemoyne's report, did not see any signs of consciousness in the chatbot's remarks. All I saw was a computer program. “Our mind is very good at constructing realities that don't necessarily fit with the set of facts we're presented with, — she says. — I am very worried that more and more people may be affected by this illusion.
Google has decided to temporarily suspend Blake Lemoyne. The engineer has been placed on paid leave. Before he was denied access to his corporate account, he fanned out to his machine learning colleagues with the subject line: “LaMDA is intelligent.”
There were 200 people in the mailing list, but no one answered.
Lemoyne Syndrome
The Washington Post Reporter Nitasha Tiku, describing this story, uses the phrase “ghost in the machine”; (ghost in the machine). This term, once introduced by the British philosopher Gilbert Ryle to denote the dual nature of man, supposedly composed of “matter”; and “soul”, has long been used in other senses. And the main one — the presence of consciousness inside the computer.
As the reporter notes, Blake Lemoyne — is not the only programmer who claims to have discovered the “ghost in the machine.” The chorus of voices declaring that modern artificial intelligence systems are close to becoming conscious is getting louder. Self-learning neural networks are indeed delivering impressive results, and design engineers increasingly feel like they're dealing with something (or someone?) that makes sense.
And yet they are a minority. And most artificial intelligence experts are convinced that all the words (and images) that are generated by “smart” algorithms based on what millions of people have previously posted on the Internet — on forums, message boards, social networks, the same Wikipedia. And when a chatbot utters a beautiful and thoughtful phrase, this does not mean at all that he “understands” its meaning.
However, the human psyche is so arranged that we look for signs of anthropomorphism (human likeness) wherever possible — in the form of clouds, the relief of Mars, photographs of clusters of distant galaxies. Ufologists see indications of the presence of aliens in the names of settlements and the dates of the launch of spacecraft. Cryptozoologists looking for Bigfoot find traces of his presence in broken branches and sticks bizarrely stacked on the ground.
There is no doubt that we will hear more than once about the revived artificial intelligence. Perhaps this phenomenon will even be given the name “Lemoyne's syndrome.” After all, the stubborn programmer deserved it.
On May 3, 1997, in New York, on the 35th floor of the Equitable Building, a chess match began between world champion Garry Kasparovand the Deep Blue supercomputer. It was their second duel, the grandmaster won the first one. But this time the car turned out to be stronger: the match, which consisted of six games, ended on May 11 with a score of 3½ : 2½ in favor of Deep Blue, whose name, by the way, can be translated as “deep sadness”.
It was a historic event. And not so much in the world of chess as in technological development. Exactly a quarter of a century ago, a computer program first defeated a person, and from that moment it became clear that the capabilities of artificial intelligence will only grow, and fears that sooner or later it will get out of control and seize power over people , got louder and louder.
A key industry 4.0 technology
We didn't notice it, but artificial intelligence (AI) has already become an integral part of our lives. This happened with the advent of the era of smartphones. Mobile devices have become our second self, without which we cannot exist, and many of the services installed in work with AI support. This is a navigator that plots the best route, and voice assistant, and "smart" camera, and recognition system.
With every year, there will be more and more such services, and not on smartphones, but and in our life in general. Financial transactions, shopping, security — all this will be automated and filled with algorithms. After all, humanity is entering the era of the fourth industrial revolution (it is also called industry 4.0), and artificial intelligence is one of its key technologies.
There is a canonical definition of AI: these are programs and hardware components that are able to learn and are based on complex mathematical solutions. But if we interpret the concept more broadly, then AI — this is everything that thinks instead of a person, freeing his neurons from mental activity and implementing a similar process on a bit-based basis inside computing systems. Experts predict that by the beginning of the next decade, the world will become almost completely automated and controlled by intelligent machines — they will track our every move, create and reveal social prejudices and much more. And the ubiquitous AI will be present in virtually — self-driving cars, personalized medicine, retail and insurance…
The manner of the game was described as alien
But back to the Deep Blue supercomputer. After him, the AlphaGo program picked up the baton of rivalry with a person in intellectual games. It was written specifically to teach the game of Go, which is considered more difficult than chess. Only in unlike Deep Blue the program did not use the algorithms and suggested in advance and evaluation functions that help to win, but just relied on the rules of the game and its theory.
Analyzing played by professionals, AlphaGo was constantly learning and reached such a high level that it was able to defeat the three-time European champion Fan Hui, and one of the strongest players in the world (in go there is no single official ranking ) Lee Sedolya. This happened in March 2016
“When the computer first beat the world chess champion, everyone shuddered: it turns out that the machine defeated one of the strongest human minds, — Tatyana Chernigovskaya, a well-known neurolinguist, director of the Institute for Cognitive Research at St. Petersburg State University, shared her impressionsspeaking at last year's marathon “New Knowledge”. — Then they began to say: chess — this is, of course, a difficult game, but here the game is more difficult, it will not succumb to artificial intelligence. But and she succumbed! Lee Sedol, the go champion, was smashed by the AlphaGo computer program.
And the case did not end there. Since then, intelligent self-learning programs like AlphaGo and AlphaZero have taken almost all frontiers — in addition to chess and go, they learned to play shogi (Japanese board game. — Note. ed.) and even in poker. It's not the game, it is the fact that they are advancing on our territory. Those things that, as it used to be thought, only a person can do, it turns out that a machine can do.
I was deeply shocked that the AlphaZero program beat another program due to its “deep intuition”. She was able to go through far fewer positions per second than her opponent, and still won, because she used the so-called holistic strategy and artificial intuition“. That is, it turned out to be smarter and smarter, despite the fact that it worked more slowly. The creators of this program were amazed. They described her playing style as alien: such moves had never been seen in human or other programs.
Thus, computer programs bridged the gap between logic and intuition, jumped over this barrier. Intuition has always been considered a trait unique to humans. But it turned out that the machine can beat us on this field».
Man's biggest enemy
Continuous learning — one of the principles of artificial intelligence. The system analyzes data arrays, due to which it grows and develops. This can be compared with ontogenesis (individual development of an organism), but scientists go even further and offer something similar to phylogenesis, that is the development of a species.
The University of Edinburgh has developed an AI that can evolve in accordance with Darwin's theory. He knows how to adapt to changing conditions and transmit new skills (or knowledge) to next generations, selecting those “descendants” who are more likely to survive. It's about robots. AI will “reproduce” by producing them without any human intervention — with the 3D printer it is connected to. The developers want to achieve complete autonomy in the life cycle of such robots, and suggest that they will find applications where a person cannot reach — on other planets and on the ocean floor.
Now experts are talking about that the appearance of the so-called "strong" AI. In fact, he will be able to think and be aware of himself as a separate person. And exceeds man in the ability to to extreme conditions, but in intelligence.
“Whom has Homo sapiens struggled with” throughout its history? With intelligent systems! With predators, enemies external and internal, intruders, criminals, ill-wishers, etc. etc., — arguesa specialist in the field of adaptive control and behavior, chief researcher at the A. Lebedev Institute of Fine Mechanics and Computer Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Zhdanov. — The smarter they are, the scarier and more dangerous. The biggest enemy of a man, with whom he fights all his life — intelligent systems!
Until a person sees around him no one who would be much smarter than him. Therefore, he feels like the master of the world. But imagine that an intelligent being appears, which is a thousand, million times smarter! It is known that a person at one moment is able to control about seven parameters (plus or minus two), and this creature will control, say, 70 thousand parameters. And at the same time, have access to all personal information of each person and make decisions based on them. Tell me, will you have at least one chance to deceive him, to defeat him? None. This system will always outplay you. And now we are creating such a monster with our own hands».
Machine morality
There is another important point. When people are at war with each other, they can always hope for indulgence, no matter how evil and cruel the enemy may be. But the case with it is not necessary to count on this at all. After all, he does not have the usual human morality, he has it machine-made. It is not known by what criteria he will make decisions and whether they will meet our ideas of good and evil.
British expert in artificial intelligence Stuart Russell gives such an example. As is known, in recent years, AI has been widely used for the diagnosis and treatment of oncological diseases. “Don't expect him to be about to solve these deadly diseases.” On the contrary, AI will most likely find a way to transplant cancer cells to all of humanity in order to perform millions of experiments at the same time, using all of us for its training as guinea pigs, — says the expert. A all because he will strive to solve the problem that we set before him, but at the same time, we forgot to clarify that you cannot conduct experiments on people».
If technology advanced to the stage that dreams and thoughts could be examined, Bastille’s relentlessly creative leader Dan Smith would make a fascinating test subject. “Sometimes it can be slightly like a pathology, having all these songs in your head all the time,” the Bastille frontman tells The FADER over Zoom. “It can mean you’re kind of half in and half out of reality at the best of times.” A solitary creator by nature, he poured this endless stream of music into the lyrical expanse of each of the bands three studio albums, 2013’s Bad Blood, 2016’s Wild World, and 2019 release Doom Days, on his own for the first decade of the band’s existence.
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Smith only allowed longtime producer Mark Crew to breach the protective barrier he’d formed around the band’s musical identity. Early iterations of Bastille’s fourth studio album Give Me The Future presented as more of a grand collection of sci-fi inspired songs attempting to make sense of the world’s fast-moving venture into dystopia than a cohesive album. Needing to get out of his own head by letting someone else in, he opened himself up to collaboration on a broader scale for the first time and found clarity and confidence within that.
Smith shaped the futuristic conceptual identity of the record with pop maestro Ryan Tedder as executive producer. “Obviously I would be mad to not listen to what he had to say in some respects, but also, we are quite protective over our process,” Smith says. “So there was part of me that was like, ‘No, this feels wrong’ and another part of me was like, ‘Remember what you told yourself, be open, be collaborative.’”
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Speaking with The FADER, Smith breaks down Give Me The Future one song at a time to reveal how he struck a balance between the internal and external – welcoming some of pop’s biggest songwriters into his world while still crafting his own conceptual commentary on the shared experience of seeking escapism and the uncertainty of our technological future through the lens of maladaptive dreaming.
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“Distorted Light Beam”
The FADER: You bring up this idea, lyrically, of being able to be anyone, anywhere, anything. Trying on these new sounds and changing your collaborative process, does it feel like you’re trying on a new identity?
Dan Smith: I realized quite early on that I’ve always been frustrated and feeling like we can try a million different things and so many different forms of production and so many different styles, like heavy rock through to weird nighttime R&B and we can fuck around loads – but if it’s my songwriting and my voice over something, it innately sounds like Bastille in a way that I think a lot of people can’t really hear beyond, which has always been a bit of a challenge for us to try and upend.
I think that that’s the one song on the album that we co-wrote and co-produced with Ryan. He really wanted to push it into the French dance territory and gave us the confidence to really fucking go there. We started the track with him and then we took it and worked on it ourselves and really went in on the synths and made the drums way harder, added the electro spit, nodding towards the Daft Punk and Kanye tunes that we love.
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I heard a lot of Kanye on there, in the vein of “All of the Lights.”
Having come from a place where I made a whole album by myself on a laptop and did it all, wrote everything, getting to a point – and I’m not there yet – but looking to people like Kanye or how someone like Beyonce puts together an album that is incredible and culture shifting, that ultimately requires somebody with a huge sense of what they want to do and a real creative force at the helm to sort of to bring in and combine different writers and creative forces and producers and samples. I think obviously we are not anywhere there yet in terms of that collaborative process, but I think this album has felt like a big step in that direction for me, in terms of trying to do that a little bit.
“Thelma + Louise”
Here, you’re repurposing these staples of ’70s and ’80s dance pop for this more futuristic landscape. How do you connect the past, present, and future musically?
For me, the label of science fiction for this album allowed us to look back in order to look forward, mining some of the eras and musical fashions of the past to try and create something new and something futuristic. A lot of the science fiction that we referenced has a kind of retro futuristic theme that runs through innately. It was a nice way to look to different musical styles and synthesizers and drum sounds of the past that sounded futuristic then and still sound futuristic, but we have that familiarity with them because of artists like Prince and producers like Quincy Jones and people like Daft Punk who still feel really modern and fresh, but loads of those sounds are actually quite old now. And that’s fascinating.
“No Bad Days”
There’s an almost sinister aura to this song, like someone is being tempted with this escape. How do you set up this idea of how appealing that could be while also centering this realization that it’s never that simple? It’s a lot more emotionally complex than just letting go.
I mean that song for me is, it’s incredibly raw and I have obviously a very strong sense of what it is and where it came from. And it’s quite a sort of personal story to my family and quite a complex one. But as a song, it just fell out. I sat at the keyboard and sang through Harmony Engine, which is this vocoder synth that spits your voice out into those different voices. And yeah, the song just pulled out as it is. It is a complicated story to tell, and I think with our band, we always try and straddle that line between drawing you in with the music and the melodies and also hopefully being quite challenging with the lyrics and the ideas. And it’s that Trojan horse thing that pop music can do really well. And I hope we’re able to do it.
“Brave New World (interlude)”
There’s a real sense of ascension and serenity in the strings here, what headspace is this song transitioning us into?
We really wanted to sort of take you out of that moment and almost imagine that someone’s grabbed your head and is dragging you back through time to drag you forward again. We wanted it to feel like old Hollywood, the silver screen, black and white – the reference to Huxley in the title. It’s almost like a snippet from a lost, forgotten love theme. We wanted it to just really sweep you up in a kind of Hollywood way that sonically was in contrast to the hard beats of “No Bad Days” and “Thelma and Louise” and “Distorted Light Beam.” And it signals another little chapter within the album.
“Back to the Future”
How do you view the relationship between film and escapism?
I wanted to reference a lot of the sci-fi that we’ve kind of as a society surpassed because it just hammers home how much our reality at the moment could be some bizarre sci-fi of the past so easily. It’s so interesting the way that we are, as entertainment has become so streamable and our expectation is just that we will be entertained in every single spare minute of the day, because we can be, and that exists now for a lot of people with the privilege to have the access to that stuff.
Does it make it difficult to find escape when so many of these dystopian elements are more reflective of our reality now?
It’s interesting that you say that, I think there’s still a real fascination with science fiction. Just because we are living it, it doesn’t make it any less relevant. Black Mirror, I sometimes can’t watch because it’s too big, it’s so fucking on the nose and we know it is. And I guess challenging entertainment is effective when it makes you uncomfortable because it puts you on edge.
“Plug In…”
You bring up this idea of willful denial until it becomes personal, which I think most people are guilty of. What type of self-examination happens when you’re writing about such a distorted shared reality?
I think the voice of that song and the voice of the album is very much intended to not be a judgemental one, because I think we are all guilty of hypocrisies on small and big levels. This is a weird example, but our tour manager is the most militant vegan in the world and he’s so passionate about it, but he also drives a gas guzzling car. We’re all flawed and we’re all limited in what we can think about and care about. I can understand that my relationship with my phone is totally unhealthy, but I also can’t give it up. And that’s just like the human condition, isn’t it? With that song, what I wanted to try and get was all of the ways that society and people are changing. And I don’t believe that everyone’s innately bad, but life in the world is too complicated to be able to judge everyone and anyone in any kind of way.
“Promises” feat. Riz Ahmed
Riz Ahmed really tackles that self-examination head on here. What did those conversations look like getting him involved?
As a rapper and as an activist and as an actor, [Riz] has a really interesting voice and isn’t scared to say exactly what he thinks. I sent him a bunch of the tracks from the album, including “Plug In” to just give him a sense of what it was. I referenced the track on Blonde where Andre 3000 takes over. I love how it’s almost like, “Hey, Andre, here’s the mic. And you just run with it.” And I said that to Riz, but also that we were keen for it to be quite an intimate and calm moment.
He just came back with this ridiculously incredible poem and totally blew us all away. I couldn’t really have imagined that it would be as amazing as it was. Sometimes, I don’t know, collaboration is weird, particularly if you’re not in the same room and you never quite know what you’re going to get back. And it does such a brilliant job unconsciously, of taking you out of all of the paranoia of “Plug In” and pulling you back down to humanity and he so evocatively describes what it is to have intimacy, but in the context of all of this technology and all of these worries.
“Shut Off the Lights”
When you’re looking at music and dance as an escape, how do you get your mind to slow down enough to block out all of the more sinister realities you bring to the surface before this?
I’m terrible at it, but take solace in going for a bike ride with my friends, or just going to the pub or drinking or playing games, or chilling out – the stuff where your phone isn’t there and you’re not thinking about the news and you’re not thinking about any of those problems of life. It’s kind of obvious and sounds a bit trite, but it’s the simple things. I guess in “Shut off the Lights,” it’s about sex and it’s about trying to get out of your own head and just be fully present in a physical moment. And we wanted to make the song just really fun and I wanted it to make you want to dance instantly.
“Stay Awake”
That’s what struck me about “Stay Awake,” because it opens with this AI voice and it reminded me of this idea that there just has to be something there. It’s not even like a guiding force, but company in a way, or a presence.
And that’s something we expand upon outside of the album, we invented this tech company called Future Inc., it’s kind of gestured towards in the beginning of “Stay Awake.” I’m fascinated by where voice mimicking technology is going, both musically and in terms of spoken word. We toyed with the idea of promoting this album entirely using deep fake and me ingesting my voice into AI. I really wanted a very digital voice on the record to sort of give us that moment and absolutely that song questions: if you can live happier in another environment, even though that was a digital one, unless you absolutely have to, what would your incentive be to come back to reality if you’re happier somewhere else?
“Give Me The Future”
What does the future look like to you?
It’s the person next to you, if you’re lucky enough to have someone next to you, pulling you out of your own head, pulling you out of your fears for the future and grounding you in reality, and basically, it’s a potentially obvious message, but just saying just try really hard to find some kind of happiness in what you have because you could be dead tomorrow. I’m not someone that thinks that far in the future. Maybe it comes from having been in a band for 10 years, but I guess it’s impossible to think that far ahead and I’m not particularly organized. I’m not someone that plans. So I’m so lucky to get to write songs and I just think about what I’m working on next and I’m able to escape in that way and immerse myself in songs in that world. Sometimes it can be slightly like a pathology, having all these songs in your head all the time, it can mean you’re kind of half in and half out of reality at the best of times.
What keeps you hopeful?
Every time things feel really bleak, I basically look to young activists and the amazingly intelligent, thoughtful scientists and inventors who are just producing ideas and technologies to make other people’s lives better and to try and make other people’s futures easier and more enjoyable.
“Club 57”
You’re asking a ton of questions throughout this record that feel much more philosophical than literal and there’s this air of justified cynicism almost because we don’t have the answers. Even the function of the whistling here, it paints this picture of aimlessly wandering around a city – not lost, necessarily, but searching.
I’ve always really liked [asking questions] as a device in songs because I’m a fucking idiot that writes songs, but it’s nice to pose questions and see what people come back with and see what that evokes from them. With “Club 57,” it was me imagining traveling back in time and arriving in New York, arriving in the kind of ’80s art scene and all of its issues and all of its inclusivity and all of its complexity and all of its hedonism and the darkness and the creativity and all of those things intermeshed.
And it’s essentially a song about Keith Haring. I love how much you can try to bring art to everybody and his sort of single minded vision as well, obviously a life massively cut short, but he just seemed like a really wonderful progressive person in so many ways, an activist and somebody who saw social injustice and really wanted to try and make a change in any way that he could.
It was this naivete of arriving in a new place as a creative with a sort of a brain full of ideas and optimism. It’s that Trojan horse thing again. And I thought that with this song, people will hear the airy acoustic guitar and the word love a lot in the chorus, and maybe think that’s what it was. And then hopefully dig a bit deeper and be like, okay.
“Total Dissociation (interlude)”
We’re reaching the end and it sounds like either a reboot or a total shutdown with this distorted medley. Where are we going from here?
That interlude for me was giving over entirely to escapism. The lyric is very distorted, but it’s: “Now I’m gone, I’ve gone away.” It’s imagining falling backwards and entirely surrendering to whatever escapist digital state you might be searching for and the open endedness of that almost having sunk into a coma state or something. And again, it goes very cinematic. It goes from the futuristic into dream-like.
“Future Holds” feat. BIM
BIM adds this transcendent choir effect, what was the function of wrapping the album on this note?
It was important to me that my voice didn’t end the album. I really wanted the impact of BIM and her incredible vocals to round it off. I like the idea that I just slip out towards the end and just as the track remixes itself at the end, let them take the reins. I thought it would be funny to end an album that’s entirely concerned with what the future might look like by having someone say, stop. If you’re lucky enough to have someone by your side and you can have small moments of happiness, in some way, in some part of life, that’s enough and that should be enough. It can be so easy to be consumed in these swirling thoughts of everything, because there’s so much that’s fucked up in the world, that it could be really, you can lose yourself in worrying about that and worrying about those things and potentially rightly so, but it’s definitely not good for anyone’s sense of happiness.
I always associate choirs with this idea of hope and faith in a way. This song sounds more hopeful than anything else on the album. There’s a lightness to it.
Some would argue that’s another form of escapism. These are narratives that we immerse ourselves in to give us hope and to rationalize the things in life that can seem so wildly unfair. And yeah, there’s a real comfort in that sort of church sound because it’s so obviously different for different people, but it’s such a familiar comforting and inspiring sound.
The futuristic choir thing, it’s maybe like the clouds parting moment and it’s that you’ve just had that wonderful and incredibly strong first coffee of the day and you slept alright the night before and actually the stuff that was keeping you awake all night doesn’t seem quite so bad. If you defuse yourself from those thoughts in your head and have a bit of distance and perspective, they can not seem quite so apocalyptic sometimes.
Air India (AI) crew members operating flights to fly Indians and foreigners to their homes — have sought proper medical and prevention facilities from the airline. Employees of all categories have requested to allow home testing for staff members and their family members. The employees are reportedly upset with AI medical dept’s handling of the situation.
Air India will operate 18 charter flights to fly back German, French, Irish and Canadian nationals during the lockdown.While the Germans and French will be flown to Frankfurt and Paris (AI’s regular stations), the other two nationalities will be taken to London Heathrow from where Canada and Ireland will make further travel arrangements.
Air India will operate regular cargo flights between India and China from Friday (April 3) to transport “critical medical equipment and supplies”. The airline will establish a “cargo air-bridge” with China for the purpose.
Air India crew, which has been operating evacuation flights to corona hotspots like Wuhan, Japan and Europe, has complained of poor quality personal protective equipment (PPE). Crew members say there have been occasions when hazmat suits have got ruptured on these flights.
Air India is sending special flights to fly Indians stranded in corona hotspots like Wuhan and Italy. While being the only Indian carriers doing so is winning applause from all quarters, the crew operating these flights have been facing troubles at home — from RWAs (resident welfare associations) neighbours. They are being socially ostracised and in some cases RWAs have even called the police to report that they operated those high risk flights.
India has barred entry of flyers from Afghanistan, Philippines and Malaysia with immediate effect Tuesday as the deadly coronavirus continued to spread. The decision is till March 31, when it will be reviewed again.
Non-resident Indians (NRIs) — who have Indian citizenship — can now own upto 100% of Air India (AI) without violating the substantial ownership and effective control (SOEC) norm. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared this move as AI divestment process is known to widen the base of bidders.
[Computer Voice]
Before I initiate your personalized AI , I need some information from you. How do you feel about your career?
[Daye]
Umm, I think everything’s cool. You know im still on the grind, a nigga trying to get these checks and you know make a…
[Computer Voice Interrupts]
Say no more. I’ve loaded you a new AI, Sam. She can guide you
[Verse 1]
I went on a stroll to get to know myself
Why a nigga want to be fly gold to flex
Need a beach bod with abs tone the chest
And a hundred million dollars in my bank account
Blame it on in in in in in intanet
Scrolling through pictures before get to bed
Basquiat hair niggas that pose for pics
With the cool fit damn I want your kicks
[Chorus]
Wanna flywanna be smooth
(yea)
They ain’t no data
Wanna be god
But ya too odd
(yea)
They ain’t no data
[Bridge]
Hey Sam, how do i be the coolest mof**ka in the world
(yea)
How do i how do i how do i
They ain’t no do data
[Verse 2]
I went on a drive with my window down
On the highway daydreaming losing mind
(all I want a limousine) (see my dead body)
(all I want a limousine) (they ain’t no data)
Blame it on where me and my friends are going
On that deep web shit and stay exploring
With a smart watch wrist that never boring (flick a da wrist)
Theres a lit up screen i ain’t ignoring
[Chorus]
Wanna flywanna be smooth
(yea)
They ain’t no data
Wanna be god
But ya too odd
(yea)
They ain’t no data
Air India and IndiGo have extended their flight suspension to China. AI’s Delhi-Hong Kong daily and Delhi-Shanghai (six times a week) have now been suspended up to June 30, instead of the earlier expected resumption in March-end. Similarly, IndiGo’s Chengdu and Guangzhou flights have been suspended till June 14.
The Public Enterprises Survey 2018-19, which maps the annual financial performance of all central PSUs, revealed that the top 10 companies in the red claimed a whopping 94.04 per cent of the total losses made by all the 70 loss making CPSEs during the year.
As the government works on divesting debt-laden Air India, Union minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said if he was not a minister, he would be bidding for the airline.
[Intro]
AyeJK
It’s LikyBo in this thing, man, shout out all my brothers
MBO, AI, we all in (You know how we rockin’, man)
Look
[Verse 1]
If chances make champions, I’ma risk it all
Sittin’ in the county with Ryan like, “Bruh, it’s time to ball”
Let’s add up all these numbers, see what it’s gon’ cost
The plug either show us love or he can take a loss
I took a loss investing in the bitch, but I ain’t tripping off it
If I can’t get it with my chicken, then my nigga bought it
He in his feelings like these bitches ’cause his niggas ballin’
Instead of listening to pimpin’ when your niggas ballin’
Cuz told me I’m too saucy, let her lick the drip
I don’t think these niggas wanna box me, so it’s on my hip
I tried to pimp ’em, but just listen
I’m a player who just tryna show you how this paper’ll flip, and that’s really it, huh?
[Chorus]
I’m gon’ get it in if I don’t fit in
I’ll be damned, I let ’em catch me slippin’, yeah
I’m gon’ get it in if I don’t fit in
Talk out your ass, but I’m really shittin’, better not forget it
[Verse 2]
You ever seen a nigga with a Glock?
Walk up to another nigga, put it to his top?
And then he let it pop, the other nigga drop
I never seen it either, but these niggas got me hot, so just wait and watch
I been havin’ problems with the Glock, I’m tryna get the guap
Feel like when it’s my time, I can’t stop
They sayin’ that the darker the berry, the sweeter the juice
Well bitch, this the cream of the crop
I’m gone off Wock’, my cousin Boo, he matchin’ the deuce
And if you send shots, we send shots, we matchin’ ’em too
Niggas wouldn’t put me on when I was askin’ ’em to
But act like we cool, ain’t got shit but a backhand for dude
Go’n with all that fake shit, rap about them K clips
Tell me what it feel like when the K kick, yeah
I was broke and down and out with the same bitch
So when I’m rich as f**k, that ain’t gon’ change shit, gang shit
These young niggas think I’m dumb, nigga, like I won’t punch niggas
Who was niggas? When we grew up, nigga, you was a dub, nigga
I’m a problem kid, grew up wth problem kids, all different problems, kid
We slide on shit, all different kind of shit, you know what time it is
Gotta switch the gears ’cause I been grindin’ shit
Shining like a diamond, probably blind a bitch
I know they see me working, tell ’em sign the kid
Forget that I’m that boy and I’m reminding shit
(Intro)
This song is for Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft
Did I say Amazon yeah there the biggest offenders
They’re all monopolies yeah
(Verse)
Amazon is a company filled with liberal fucks
Bought up Whole Foods, Washington Post now their buying up Toys r Us under a sister name
FTC you need to do your job yeah break them up yeah you got me singing in my head
What the fuck
What the fuck
Google no better creating AI’s it’s a threat to humanity too much power hungry entities
They use themselves to block conservatism message is promoting liberalism
As doctor Savage has said in the past he wrote a book it’s called Liberalism is a mental disorder
(Chorus) 2 times
Too big o fail
Where’s the FTC bust the trust
(verse)
Bitter Twitter (4 times)
Busted for saving tweets that were private also archiving them
The platform is clearly dangerous killing and blocking conservatism
Yeah it’s not right yall a bunch of power hungry liberals yeah I don’t like yall
Yall just losers yeah now let me talk about Microsoft for a minute
For decades they installed their windows platform on windows computers
Clearly it’s a monopoly FTC do your job and stop them what the fuck need I say
What the fuck FTC do your job and stop them
(Chorus) 2 times
Too big to fail
Where’s the FTC bust the trust
(Verse)
Bust the trust it’s a must Amazon a company filled with liberal fucks
Bought up Wholefoods, Washington Post now Toys r us under a sister name
FTC you gotta do your job and break them up what the fuck need I say what the fuck
You what the fuck
Google no better building AI’s it’s a liberal threat cause they wanna kill humanity
I don’t get them it’s life or death their too powerful an entity they use Youtube to block conservatism
While they promote liberalism and doctor Savage told us liberalism is a mental disorder
Yall didn’t get it
(Chorus) 2 times
Too big to fail
Where’s the FTC bust the trust
(Verse)
Bust them up you’re looking at private tweets archiving them it’s clearly dangerous
Killing and blocking conservatism while promoting liberalism
For decades Microsoft been monopolizing windows computers clearly it’s a monopoly
FTC sat back and did nothing it’s pathetic
[Chorus]
(What)
Better pray your past don’t crush you
Get the guap, the vault unlock, yeah
When you turn your back they start to talkin’, huh
Careful ’cause the closest they gon’ cost you, huh
Deadtalk, deadtalk, deadtalks, yeah
Talkin’ on my name, they send shots, yeah
When I turn my back I hear the talkin’, huh
Ironic how I deal with this often, huh
Deadtalks, deadtalks, deadtalks, yeah
Deadtalks, deadtalks, deadtalks, yeah (talk)
I heard it hurts to fall from the top, yeah (top)
But I can never know this type of problem (problem)
[Verse]
Oh no no no, I said they won’t see like all of me
And I got so many eyes on me
I got some that’s despising me, but (yeah)
I flex, I’ma flaunt, I’ma sauce yeah (yeah yeah)
Yeezy Season, lookin’ like I’m joggin’ (yeah)
Got a new crib, fuck up my conscience
Send shots, send shots, get discarded
Deadtalk, deadtalk, deadtalks, yeah (yeah)
Deadtalk, deadtalk, deadtalks, yeah (yeah)
Try to keep up, it exhaust you (you)
Slime on me, I’ma stop you (wet)
AI, ballhogging (yeah)
My city up in flames, I’m the culprit (me, me)
Rollin’ ’round my city, I’m a target (what)
So everywhere my main goal get gold (get get get)
Hoes front row reach for my ankles (they reachin’)
Talk talk talk, not substantial (talkin’)
On my slime (slimin’), no cosign (slidin’)
No surprise, everything do or die
[Outro]
Deadtalks, zombie walk, super star (star)
One thot, two thot, super thot
Deadin’ talks, cemetery under me
Pounds lookin’ down but they talkin’ down on me
If I ever talk best believe it’s not for free (yeah, me)
They was talkin’ down on me (me me me)
Me, they was talkin’ down on me (me me me)
They was talkin’ down on me (me me me)
Don’t see me TV screen (screen, hey)
Now they see me magazine (hey hey hey)
They was talkin’ down on me (hey hey hey)
They was talkin’ down on me (hey hey hey)
Me, they was talkin’ down on me (hey, hey)
Deadtalks yeah
Going to the club, looking very sweet
On the prowl tonight for a buttery treat
I will tell her ’bout my riches and my job
She will be impressed and be about my knob
Hey, it’s me, sayin’ the coolest shit you ever heard
I like jet air planes, I been all over the world
See this wad? It contains mass dollars
You see this shirt? It contains a popped collar
Girls will recognize we are socially able
And then we will invite them to sit at the table
We will laugh and engage in mild high jinx
The girls will be amazed by the action and the drinks
(models and bottles) I think it’s about time
(models and bottles) that I got mine
(models and bottles) I hope you’ll agree
(models and bottles) that’s the way it should be
Over here, hey, it’s me
Are you prepared for some prime douche baggery?
I’m a big deal and yeah I know it
But that’s cool, because I own it
We will be funny and tell great lies
We’ll touch them subtly on the face and the thighs
Two bottles of Kettle and one champaign
Cause bein’ cool is the name of the game
(models and bottles) I think it’s about time
(models and bottles) that I got mine
(models and bottles) I hope you’ll agree
(models and bottles) that’s the way it should be
Let me be clear tonight
That I enjoy the finer things in life
Oh you got a Bentley?
I just bought a Rolls’
Yeah, oh you got a Ferarri?
I just got a boat
You got one too?
Yeah but I got a real one
Don’t you know I’m in AI startups son?
You got an island?
Yeah, I just bought three
Two for the weekend, one just for me
Plus I look better in just a cotton T
(models and bottles) I think it’s about time
(models and bottles) that I got mine
(models and bottles) I hope you’ll agree
(models and bottles) that’s the way it should be
(models and bottles) livin’ that suite life
(models and bottles) droppin’ that sweet dime
(models and bottles) and who knew?
(models and bottles) that’s the thing to do
Crazy
I go, I go, I go
Everything I do, I do it with a passion
If I gotta be a bitch, I’mma be a bad one
I’m AI with the designs, du-ragging
Bounce back game two, why we talkin’ practice?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Pull up score when I want to
Best thing next to Heaven
They be tryna count me out though
I’m just countin’, countin’ blessing’s
A real woman by the paper
Niggas don’t know where I came from
Why I really-really came up
You never could say I’m back in
All this shit I’ve been through and it made me more real than assassin
I kill ’em, I kill ’em, I kill ’em with compassion
And baby if they askin’
Tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Live for the challenge, only make me stronger
One more reason to turn up on ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Lit, lit, lit, lit
Only L I take is to the face
You showed up to see me lose
But I overcome so you overcame
Basic, basic
Ain’t nothin’ ’bout me basic
I’m crazy, I’m crazy
Better watch what you say to me ’cause
Young Sway got the answers
Give ’em hell, give ’em pressure
Big couch, no manners
Dirty-dirty-dirty dancin’
Take a look at what I did
Go for circle with the wrist
Whippin’-whippin’ up the grits
Get a hand full of this nicely
I got it, I got it, I got it
And you gon’ respect it
Ain’t nothin’, ain’t nothin’, gon’ stop me from makin’ it happen
So baby if they askin’
Tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Live for the challenge, only make me stronger
One more reason to turn up on ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Crazy
I go, I go, I go
Everything I do, I do it with a passion
If I gotta be a bitch, I’mma be a bad one
I’m AI with the designs, du-ragging
Bounce back game two, why we talkin’ practice?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Pull up score when I want to
Best thing next to Heaven
They be tryna count me out though
I’m just countin’, countin’ blessing’s
A real woman by the paper
Niggas don’t know where I came from
Why I really-really came up
You never could say I’m back in
All this shit I’ve been through and it made me more real than assassin
I kill ’em, I kill ’em, I kill ’em with compassion
And baby if they askin’
Tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Live for the challenge, only make me stronger
One more reason to turn up on ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Lit, lit, lit, lit
Only L I take is to the face
You showed up to see me lose
But I overcome so you overcame
Basic, basic
Ain’t nothin’ ’bout me basic
I’m crazy, I’m crazy
Better watch what you say to me ’cause
Young Sway got the answers
Give ’em hell, give ’em pressure
Big couch, no manners
Dirty-dirty-dirty dancin’
Take a look at what I did
Go for circle with the wrist
Whippin’-whippin’ up the grits
Get a hand full of this nicely
I got it, I got it, I got it
And you gon’ respect it
Ain’t nothin’, ain’t nothin’, gon’ stop me from makin’ it happen
So baby if they askin’
Tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Live for the challenge, only make me stronger
One more reason to turn up on ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
[Verse]
Today I had to pinch myself to wake up, boy wake up
Be thankful that you got your weight up
Be thankful that the woman layin’ next to you is bad even without no makeup
Be thankful that her momma made her, yeah
I stare at that pretty bitch as I reminisce about [?] in a world that ain’t gimme none
Shoutout Kobe and the Lakers, I learn from my favorite players
Like never shoot the 3 when there’s a layup
Roy Jones Jr. taught me my left hook
Resilience from Westbrook, waiting to see what my brother KD and the chef cooked
Meanwhile I been cookin’ up, shit is finally lookin’ up
Don’t look down, ’cause being good ain’t good enough
When they hear us talk they say it feel like rap
I heard your new shit and all I thought was it sound like trash
Pussy is power, she got a nigga hooked like crack
And got an onion, wanna cry when you peel that back
Like this can’t be life I must be dreamin’
I wake up and hit the gym to exercise my demons
Nowadays these niggas switchin’ up just like the seasons
Reps Up, with a punishment that’s there for treason, they won’t even
This is for the ones who doubted
Fuck rapping I’m shoutin’, I’m boomin’, you bouncin’, now witness the movin’ of mountains
Always knew I had this shit to a science
Back when me, Drizzy and Voice, recorded at Bryan’s
Before we called Toronto the six, and Carty was the only nigga from the city puttin’ out hits
Had a list for all the shit I want when I get rich, boss
And this gon’ be the year that the lines get crossed, off
Fuck informants, fuck law enforcement, I wanna fuck four hoes and call it a quartet
Scar from my childhood, I’m scared of divorces
And ’cause of that reason I cannot be yours yet
I wanted to forfeit, I pray to the pulpit
I could of just lost it, I’m fucking exhausted
There’s no more loyalty, gotta be cautious
Not enough soldiers and too many bosses
I paid my part nigga, never been ashamed to say I love my dogs
So where’s your heart nigga? Been there, done that, still rollin’ like I’m on run flats
Minor setback are just setups for major comebacks
Talkin’ bout the six, boy, we built that city
I show the real niggas love, and I got that clearly
I’m slavin’ while you was hatin’ boy, we call that envy
Want that drop can’t stop ’till I cop that Bentley
Stay quiet, boy you livin’ out your broke down Chevy
Gotta lightweight with me but he hold that heavy
Comin’ from where’s [?] and the foes ain’t friendly
Handle like AI and shoot like Reggie
Who gon’ check me
[Outro]
Rather die than live the way you livin’
If we ride ’em ride, that’s on my chariot
Eye for an eye and I ain’t kiddin’
Put on a suit and tie and handle business
And way before Meek switched up I was the realest
In the city, my city still on my fitted
I just want a ménage with all my women
Just wanna touch the stars with all my niggas
And this could be yours, all yours, but you ain’t trippin’
They tryna knock me off, but I ain’t slippin’
All I know is how to get it, all we know is how to win it
Went and copped a Porsche, and wrote this for all my niggas
[Verse 1: Kehlani]
Everything I do, I do it with a passion
If I gotta be a bitch, I’ma be a bad one
I’m AI with the designs, du-ragging
Bounce back game good, why we talkin’ practice?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Pull up score when I want to
Best thing next to Heaven
They be tryna count me out though
I’m just countin’, countin’ blessins
A real woman ’bout her paper
Niggas don’t know where I came from
Why I really really came up
You never could say I’m back in
All this shit I’ve been through and it made me more of an assassin
I kill ’em, I kill ’em, I kill ’em with compassion
And baby if they askin’
[Hook: Kehlani]
Tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go, crazy, crazy
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Live for the challenge, only make me stronger
One more reason to turn up on ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
[Verse 2: A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie]
Do you think I’m crazy?
I spent over 80 on a watch and a bracelet
I’m like an alien, fuck a Mercedes
I came in a spaceship, don’t call me crazy
I was stuck in a basement with a pen and a paper
Lost the erasor, I made a mistake and I told you I hate ya
Everything I do, I do it cause I never had shit
A couple niggas tried to screw me over, had to learn how to use a ratchet
A couple bitches had me fucked up, had to learn how to be a savage
Had to learn not to fuck with her just because she was the baddest
These streets don’t love no one, don’t get caught up in traffic
I just wanna smoke one so can you roll up and pass it
I love Louis fabric, I just bought a jacket
20 something hundred more than your casket
I kill ’em with swagness, my bitch is the baddest
[Hook: Kehlani]
I go, I go, I go, I go, crazy, crazy
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Live for the challenge, only make me stronger
One more reason to turn up on ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
[Outro]
I go, I go, I go, I go, crazy, crazy
I go, I go, I go, I go, crazy, crazy
Crazy
I go, I go, I go
Everything I do, I do it with a passion
If I gotta be a bitch, I’mma be a bad one
I’m AI with the designs, du-ragging
Bounce back game two, why we talkin’ practice?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Pull up score when I want to
Best thing next to Heaven
They be tryna count me out though
I’m just countin’, countin’ blessing’s
A real woman by the paper
Niggas don’t know where I came from
Why I really-really came up
You never could say I’m back in
All this shit I’ve been through and it made me more real than assassin
I kill ’em, I kill ’em, I kill ’em with compassion
And baby if they askin’
Tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Live for the challenge, only make me stronger
One more reason to turn up on ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Lit, lit, lit, lit
Only L I take is to the face
You showed up to see me lose
But I overcome so you overcame
Basic, basic
Ain’t nothin’ ’bout me basic
I’m crazy, I’m crazy
Better watch what you say to me ’cause
Young Sway got the answers
Give ’em hell, give ’em pressure
Big couch, no manners
Dirty-dirty-dirty dancin’
Take a look at what I did
Go for circle with the wrist
Whippin’-whippin’ up the grits
Get a hand full of this nicely
I got it, I got it, I got it
And you gon’ respect it
Ain’t nothin’, ain’t nothin’, gon’ stop me from makin’ it happen
So baby if they askin’
Tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Live for the challenge, only make me stronger
One more reason to turn up on ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
[Verse 1]
Everything I do, I do it with a passion
If I gotta be a bitch, I’ma be a bad one
I’m AI with the designs, du-ragging
Bounce back game good, why we talkin’ practice?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Pull up score when I want to
Best thing next to Heaven
They be tryna count me out though
I’m just countin’, countin’ blessins
A real woman ’bout her paper
Niggas don’t know where I came from
Why I really really came up
You never could say I’m back in
All this shit I’ve been through and it made me more of an assassin
I kill ’em, I kill ’em, I kill ’em with compassion
And baby if they askin’
[Hook]
Tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go, crazy, crazy
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
Live for the challenge, only make me stronger
One more reason to turn up on ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go crazy, crazy
[Verse 2]
Lit, lit, lit, lit
Only L I take is to the face
You showed up to see me lose
But I overcome so you overcame
Basic, basic
Ain’t nothin’ bout me basic
I’m crazy, I’m crazy
Better watch what you say to me cuh
Young Sway got the answers
Give ’em hell, give ’em pressure
VIP couch, no manners
Dirty-dirty-dirty dancin’
Take a look at what I did
Go for circle with the wrist
Whippin’-whippin’ up the grits
Get a hand full of this nicely
I got it, I got it, I got it
And you gon’ respect it
Ain’t nothin’, ain’t nothin’, gon’ stop me from makin’ it happen
So baby if they askin’
[Hook]
Tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go, crazy, crazy
I go, I go, I go, I go, crazy, crazy
Live for the challenge, only make me stronger
One more reason to turn up on ’em
I go, I go, I go, I go, crazy, crazy
(I go, I go, I go, I go, crazy, crazy)
(I go, I go, I go, I go, crazy, crazy…)
