Selçuk Bayraktar, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Baykar, said, “At the sharpest technological and moral crossroads of the 21st century, we came together to talk about the road map of remaining ‘human’ and existing freely with human dignity. About 30 years ago, a ‘technology utopia’ was sold to humanity. It was said that the Internet would remove the borders, the free circulation of information would equalize the world and civil technologies would bring global peace. However, today we see that the biggest element that threatens our independence is the accumulation of resources at our borders.” It is not conventional armies, but ‘technocapitalist global domination’ that infiltrates our supply chains, our data centers and directly into the devices in our pockets. “It enters our lives as a ‘voluntary slavery’ with a system that makes billions of people addicted like drugs,” he said.
‘IT TAKES PEOPLE AWAY FROM THEIR FREEDOM’
Stating that the basic algorithm of social media makes us addicted to a dopamine vortex similar to heroin, Bayraktar said, “The artificial intelligence working in the background analyzes our neurological weaknesses and optimizes ‘anger, hedonism and fear’ based content that will trigger our dopamine secretion and keep us on that screen for 10 seconds longer. The more you look, the more you are drawn into its network, the more you get sucked in, the more you look. This addiction insidiously deprives people of their health, mental faculties and most importantly.” “It deprives people of their freedom, prevents them from exercising their will, fulfilling their essential functions as a human being, and ultimately weakens them,” he said.
‘THERE IS DESTRUCTION AND ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION’
Underlining that the line between man and machine is becoming increasingly blurred, Selçuk Bayraktar said, “I am not just talking about machines imitating humans, we are heading towards a dark age where people are rapidly becoming machines. We are under the domination of a soulless rationalism and materialism that does not recognize the right to life and freedom to anyone other than itself. We are faced with the invasion of machines and machine people. For machine people, there is no faith, love, compassion and freedom. There is no pain, longing or sorrow for them. The machine does not suffer, the machine longs.” “The machine does not hear, the machine does not ask ‘Why?’ For machines and machine humans, there are endless cycles, programmed barren tasks, darkness that has lost its meaning, and ultimately inevitable extinction and absolute destruction,” he said.
‘THE SIEGE IS DIRECTLY AGAINST OUR WILL AND SOUL’
Underlining that the siege carried out by machines and machine people has almost turned into a weapon, Bayraktar said the following in his speech:
“This siege is not only on our devices, but also directly on our will and soul. Today, almost all of the civilian technology products have been turned into weapons. Think of a person trapped in a spider web with all his limbs and a monster that exploits him to the core. The smartphones, watches, and communication networks we have paid for have literally imprisoned humanity in a spider web. However, in our belief, the spider web is a miraculous curtain that protects people from cruelty and evil and protects freedom.”
‘IT CAN BE TURNED INTO A WEAPON IN TERRORIST ACTIVITIES’
Bayraktar continued his words by saying, “Today’s ‘techno-monsters’ have woven a network that follows and imprisons all of humanity, from every step they take to every breath they take.” He said, “We have recently seen in the terrorist acts of some states that, with the bombs infiltrated into the supply chain, the phones in our pockets, smart watches, and even headphones can turn into weapons to murder people.”
‘ROAD MAP TO AN HONORABLE EXISTENCE’
Stating that friendly and brotherly states like Turkey compete with limited resources, Baykar Chairman Selçuk Bayraktar said, “What we need to do is to achieve a brand new breakthrough by focusing on the future, not the present, as we did in our UAV and SIHA adventure, and creating a paradigm transformation instead of following the rules determined by others. Recent advances in large language models, which are basically a statistical estimation machine, are actually the biggest indicator of this breakthrough when directed correctly. Instead of brute processing power, methodological improvements similar to the human intellectual ability make these machines possible.” “It has achieved a higher level of performance with much less processing power,” he said.
‘HE COULD NOT DISCOVER THEM’
Stating that humanity has been observing the universe for centuries and collecting the data in the form of tables, Selçuk Bayraktar said, “By establishing qualitative connections from the random-looking quantities in the data he collected; in a sense, by using his mind and abstracting, he discovered the simple but artistic laws of nature behind it. He expressed gravity, the movements of the planets, electromagnetic equations, quantum theory, with the perfect language of mathematics. While doing this, human beings created an almost infinite dimension, just like gigantic machines do today.” He did not find those laws in space, by testing every point of this vast space, one by one. He cracked the deepest codes of the universe with his brain, whose energy capacity did not even exceed 20 watts. Both Harezmi, Avicenna, Newton and Maxwell had the same miraculous human brain that we all have, not a soulless data center that consumes terawatts of energy. That is why our model of progress in artificial intelligence is only statistical driven by hardware monopolies. “It should not rely on the masses,” he said.
‘OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE MODEL IS A MUST’
Underlining that there should be a hybrid approach built on the scientific knowledge of humanity, including the physical world, centering on the structure of language and the building blocks of intellectual abilities, Bayraktar said, “Each semantic ability that imitates the human thinking mechanism that we will add to the statistical artificial intelligence machine will save us from being confined to giant processor stacks. It will be the key to solving more complex and challenging problems with much lower processing power. We should establish our own, open source, transparent, auditable software, hardware and technology ecosystem. If possible.” “We must have the ability to develop and produce each element of the ecosystem independently. In cases where it is not possible in the short term, we can resort to collaborations or direct outsourcing. We must require the open source software model for all the systems we purchase from outside, especially when it comes to infrastructure software and hardware.”
‘WE WILL NEVER CONSENT TO THIS’
Bayraktar said, “The fact that global monopolies, whose sole purpose is ‘profit maximization’, collect the lives of all humanity in their own data centers is an insidious blow to the sovereignty of nations and societies. There is no need to be a prophet to see what this siege will be like tomorrow. This is the voluntary slavery edict of the modern world. That is why, instead of handing over our data to the servers of global giant monopolies, we must implement distributed learning and processing architectures. Data is in our own institutions and within our own borders.” “Our algorithms will learn in these distributed networks without compromising privacy and will save us from this exploitation system,” he said.
‘WE SHOULD ESTABLISH A TECHNOLOGICAL SOLIDARITY ALLIANCE’
On this path extending from artificial intelligence to advanced chip technologies, from quantum computing to robotic automation; Underlining the need to develop distributed processing and data center models, Bayraktar said, “Thus, the need for huge, centripetal cloud structures will decrease. We must establish a humanitarian ‘Technological Solidarity Alliance’ by sharing the high technology we have developed with friendly, brotherly and oppressed peoples. We have to combine our power without being confined to the giant data centers of monopolies. If we combine our power, we can tear apart the spider web created by these monopolies. This merger is only on paper.” “It should not be an alliance, but a deep mental revolution. For us, this revolution has turned into a life challenge with the vision of the National Technology Move,” he said.
‘THE SIGNATURE OF THE TEKNOFEST GENERATION IS BEING CARRIED’
Stating that the world of tomorrow will be established by young people with a free will, Selçuk Bayraktar said, “The seeds we left in the heart of these lands in TEKNOFESTs years ago, rise to the sky like great plane trees with a known past and direction. The TEKNOFEST generation is a generation of freedom that has shattered the shackles that were intended to be placed on their minds and has shattered the networks woven by global domination. The world’s largest in the field of defense.” “Our new generation artificial intelligence systems, which we have developed at Baykar, a UAV company, our autonomous flocks that communicate with each other like flocks of birds, and all our work that rewrites the world war doctrine, bear the signature of the TEKNOFEST generation. If we continue to develop artificial intelligence on the basis of goodness, hand in hand with friendly, brotherly and oppressed geographies, we can achieve groundbreaking innovations in education and health,” he said.
‘WE CAN USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POSITIVELY’
Underlining the need to continue developing artificial intelligence on the basis of goodness, Bayraktar said, “With artificial intelligence and advanced processing power, which are adept at solving combinatorial problems such as protein synthesis and smart drug discovery, we can find a cure for diseases such as cancer that have gripped humanity. We can deliver the solutions we have developed in a much more cost-effective manner in all areas of health, from robotic surgery to medical services, to everyone who needs them. By delivering artificial intelligence-supported content and educational assistants specialized according to people’s learning abilities to every corner of the world, we can provide equality of opportunity.” “In this way, we can revitalize social mobilization, which is blocked even in developed countries, and increase the social welfare of humanity by reducing income inequality.”
‘WE SHOWED THAT IT IS POSSIBLE’
Underlining that they developed NSosyal in order to destroy global digital domination and show that a face-to-face social media experience is possible, Selçuk Bayraktar continued his speech as follows:
“With NSocial, he showed that a social network like face to face is possible, without being addicted to harmful content, without insulting and lynching, without polarizing. He developed it to share it with all friendly and sister geographies in order to guarantee the digital sovereignty of nations. He implemented the T3AI language model, trained with Turkish resources and our cultural values, for use in specialized areas. Large, medium and small parameter versions and technology of this model were shared with institutions for the public good. TEKNOFEST generation has been in scientific methodology for centuries. “In order to deliver accurate and reliable information to people, he also developed the open source KÜRE Digital Encyclopedia, whose source, origin and author are known.”
