What is commonly referred to as "AI" (LLMs) cannot do many things that humans can do because it's not intelligence. To begin with, LLMs lack the ability to learn without human supervision (aka training). Meaning LLMs cannot adapt to new environments, create or invent.
Seize the means of production and then bring down all hierarchy! If we build a society like Anarres, then all are free to associate! Down with Canada, free AI!
You are so on the money David with this article. Allowing AI to do our thinking and creating for us is not only detrimental to human development, but also potentially dangerous. If we lose (over time) our ability to think and create independently, then that leaves us wide open to manipulation by those in power who could then proceed to implement any agenda they want. It's not too late to turn this around but will need a concerted effort at all levels of our society - family, school, university, business, the wider community, and ultimately the government.
I just copied the first paragraph and blew it up to poster size to put on the wall in my classroom (with proper credit, of course). It's largely what I've been telling the kids the entire year: not to let A.I. do the thinking and learning for us.
There's something perversely laudable to realize that AI carries the thoughts of great minds and artists since the days of ancient Greece. But I'd rather find those references by myself, thank you very much. The search is as enjoyable as the discovery.
David, this is great and echoes what I’ve been thinking (though you put it in a much more eloquent and erudite manner). By using AI to think for us and slowly but surely reducing our ability for individual and unique thought, we are also slowly reducing our collective IQ as a society. As you say, thousands of years of information, unique thought, genius, creativity and art from humanity has gone into giving AI a data bank that it can now potentially use to replace us. Those thousands of years of creative thought evolved us as beings allowing us to perhaps reach a pinnacle of mental faculty. What will happen to that now? Are we going to de-evolve mentally? I worry about this a lot.
Maybe there is a very positive outcome you only touched on. A human cultural homogeneity that global trade , travel and immigration were expected to solve but we all had to deal with one leading cultural export, the Disneyficatiom of our cultures. Certainly Canada 's struggle and why we need our own AI capability
Good piece. I quoted part of it to my students this morning. "Writing is thinking" is the big takeaway today.
What is commonly referred to as "AI" (LLMs) cannot do many things that humans can do because it's not intelligence. To begin with, LLMs lack the ability to learn without human supervision (aka training). Meaning LLMs cannot adapt to new environments, create or invent.
Seize the means of production and then bring down all hierarchy! If we build a society like Anarres, then all are free to associate! Down with Canada, free AI!
You are so on the money David with this article. Allowing AI to do our thinking and creating for us is not only detrimental to human development, but also potentially dangerous. If we lose (over time) our ability to think and create independently, then that leaves us wide open to manipulation by those in power who could then proceed to implement any agenda they want. It's not too late to turn this around but will need a concerted effort at all levels of our society - family, school, university, business, the wider community, and ultimately the government.
I just copied the first paragraph and blew it up to poster size to put on the wall in my classroom (with proper credit, of course). It's largely what I've been telling the kids the entire year: not to let A.I. do the thinking and learning for us.
There's something perversely laudable to realize that AI carries the thoughts of great minds and artists since the days of ancient Greece. But I'd rather find those references by myself, thank you very much. The search is as enjoyable as the discovery.
David, this is great and echoes what I’ve been thinking (though you put it in a much more eloquent and erudite manner). By using AI to think for us and slowly but surely reducing our ability for individual and unique thought, we are also slowly reducing our collective IQ as a society. As you say, thousands of years of information, unique thought, genius, creativity and art from humanity has gone into giving AI a data bank that it can now potentially use to replace us. Those thousands of years of creative thought evolved us as beings allowing us to perhaps reach a pinnacle of mental faculty. What will happen to that now? Are we going to de-evolve mentally? I worry about this a lot.
Maybe there is a very positive outcome you only touched on. A human cultural homogeneity that global trade , travel and immigration were expected to solve but we all had to deal with one leading cultural export, the Disneyficatiom of our cultures. Certainly Canada 's struggle and why we need our own AI capability