AIs are tireless, but what we haven't learned how to do is to harness them well. Harness is the word to keep in mind, because as we know, hard work on simple tasks can often be much more productive than having an unleashed mad genius bouncing off the walls (and sometimes through them). Realize that there are people behind these machines whipping them on. That's one thing with wild mustangs, that's something completely different with harness racing.
Because all of our information comes from the web, it will be child’s play for an AI to curate what we are fed, even alter our most trusted sources. So what you write is not what I read. It’s the ultimate gaslighting.
For decades we were assured that the U.S. educational system can’t suck too much because we produce so many Nobel Prize winners. Well, we are now reaping what was sown, a populace where the many (most?) people don’t have the capacity to discern what information is real and what isn’t.
I know, and where does that leave us? Just this morning, I was reading an essay urging more people to write essays as a way to preserve human thought. AI sytems cannot generate creative human experience. We as humans retain the advantage of the human condition. If we completely outsource our thoughts to AI, we will lose our independence of thought and human dignity.
I suspect you agree. Notice how I label this effort my "lonely Substack." There is no applause in writing out a coherent life vision over days, weeks and months. Alas, and like the monks in european monasteries long ago, the lonely human essayist may be the last and best hope for preservation of the human experience. https://twyman.substack.com/p/just-another-day-in-san-diego
AIs are tireless, but what we haven't learned how to do is to harness them well. Harness is the word to keep in mind, because as we know, hard work on simple tasks can often be much more productive than having an unleashed mad genius bouncing off the walls (and sometimes through them). Realize that there are people behind these machines whipping them on. That's one thing with wild mustangs, that's something completely different with harness racing.
And through it all, I remain a peasant (smile).
Because all of our information comes from the web, it will be child’s play for an AI to curate what we are fed, even alter our most trusted sources. So what you write is not what I read. It’s the ultimate gaslighting.
For decades we were assured that the U.S. educational system can’t suck too much because we produce so many Nobel Prize winners. Well, we are now reaping what was sown, a populace where the many (most?) people don’t have the capacity to discern what information is real and what isn’t.
I know, and where does that leave us? Just this morning, I was reading an essay urging more people to write essays as a way to preserve human thought. AI sytems cannot generate creative human experience. We as humans retain the advantage of the human condition. If we completely outsource our thoughts to AI, we will lose our independence of thought and human dignity.
I suspect you agree. Notice how I label this effort my "lonely Substack." There is no applause in writing out a coherent life vision over days, weeks and months. Alas, and like the monks in european monasteries long ago, the lonely human essayist may be the last and best hope for preservation of the human experience. https://twyman.substack.com/p/just-another-day-in-san-diego
Best and thank you for this comment,