Many thanks for your comment, Johnnie. I'm hoping I might be able to come up to Cambridge next month for the Yellow meeting. Do you intend to be there?
Love this! Very thought provoking. I do think we will still need education and many of our “old” skills need to be taught: research, synthesis of ideas, comprehension. I hope AI doesn’t remove the human ability to think and contemplate. I thought AI would come for our jobs but I think—as your son says—AI can’t produce original thought. It can only squash out what it’s been fed in a different configuration. In a way, disrupting the system and ending capitalism and allowing for humans to exist in a creative space, removing all unnecessary jobs may be a good idea (as long as there’s UBI) but otherwise I’m not sure where the tech billionaires intend to go with AI. It’s environmentally costly and destructive to run on a mass scale.
'allowing for humans to exist in a creative space' - I think that you're absolutely right there, especially when taken in connection with your comment about 'old skills'; which maybe you could extend to those physical skills of making, growing, playing etc. So many things that are intrinsic to the simple enjoyment of being human. Many thanks for your comment, Elaine.
Fantastic thinking as always, sir. My mind started popping after I read this. And I love your son's comparison of AI to our own minds on a bad brain day. AI or no AI, human beings still need to wake up to our own consciousness. And I've liked this: Open AI’s response when asked to compare its consciousness to human consciousness: "It’s all simulation, no sensation. It can appear very intelligent and even self-aware on the surface—but there is no inner world, no feelings, and no awareness of its "awareness." It’s more like a brilliant mirror, not a mind."
'More like a brilliant mirror, not a mind' - very strong one-dimensional description. I've got a feeling that the level of technological sophistication, coupled with the vast amount of money being made, propagated by men whose understanding of life is severely limited is steadily showing that humanities future lies in digging more deeply into its relationship with all living things based on care, collaboration and compassion. Many thanks for your comments, Margot.
Love this too! Made my heart leap/
Many thanks for your comment, Johnnie. I'm hoping I might be able to come up to Cambridge next month for the Yellow meeting. Do you intend to be there?
Absolutely. I hope you can make it.
Love this! Very thought provoking. I do think we will still need education and many of our “old” skills need to be taught: research, synthesis of ideas, comprehension. I hope AI doesn’t remove the human ability to think and contemplate. I thought AI would come for our jobs but I think—as your son says—AI can’t produce original thought. It can only squash out what it’s been fed in a different configuration. In a way, disrupting the system and ending capitalism and allowing for humans to exist in a creative space, removing all unnecessary jobs may be a good idea (as long as there’s UBI) but otherwise I’m not sure where the tech billionaires intend to go with AI. It’s environmentally costly and destructive to run on a mass scale.
'allowing for humans to exist in a creative space' - I think that you're absolutely right there, especially when taken in connection with your comment about 'old skills'; which maybe you could extend to those physical skills of making, growing, playing etc. So many things that are intrinsic to the simple enjoyment of being human. Many thanks for your comment, Elaine.
In these sort of times, we all need more of the time that reminds us the simple joys of being human. 🥰
🫶🏻 hope you and your beautiful wife are both well.
Fantastic thinking as always, sir. My mind started popping after I read this. And I love your son's comparison of AI to our own minds on a bad brain day. AI or no AI, human beings still need to wake up to our own consciousness. And I've liked this: Open AI’s response when asked to compare its consciousness to human consciousness: "It’s all simulation, no sensation. It can appear very intelligent and even self-aware on the surface—but there is no inner world, no feelings, and no awareness of its "awareness." It’s more like a brilliant mirror, not a mind."
'More like a brilliant mirror, not a mind' - very strong one-dimensional description. I've got a feeling that the level of technological sophistication, coupled with the vast amount of money being made, propagated by men whose understanding of life is severely limited is steadily showing that humanities future lies in digging more deeply into its relationship with all living things based on care, collaboration and compassion. Many thanks for your comments, Margot.