You know how a blind person gets a ‘mind picture’ feeling with the nerves in their fingertips? Well: always keep your fingers working on a project, studying new subjects, reading actual books, writing with a ‘pen’, painting with a ‘brush’, walking and exercising to keep yourself from losing your abilities and fogging up your mind. Your body is to be used. Keep going forward always. Never quit.
Thank you, interesting post. The "make sense" and "narrative problem" points resonate most with me. To the first point, three MIT researchers recently published a paper called Building Pro-Worker AI. If you haven't read it yet, the paper is an interesting attempt to shift the debate away from the assumption that AI is an inevitable job killer, that AI automation is the future of work. On point two, as I recently wrote, AI has history's worst sales pitch: "Guys, we have this great new technology. It takes your livelihoods now in exchange for ..." What exactly? Curing cancer? If so, when can we expect that breakthrough, and what policies will be put in place in the meantime to mitigate the economic and societal harms of AI? Governments and the top AI labs need to take this larger question seriously, yet I don't see much evidence of that in the mainstream debate. Instead, we're sleepwalking into the AI revolution.
Curing cancer and other major challenges are going to be addressed by the Genesis Mission, established by President Trump last year. As for societal harms of AI, government may not be doing much because they have no idea, but us little guys (college instructor) are quietly preparing our students to not only survive the AI era, but thrive in it.
I’m actually fatigued after a long session with AI. I am the thought leader, the one who guides and decides. My cognitive load is much higher when using AI for my projects.
“A film director doesn’t personally operate every camera, build every set, sew every costume, and compose every note of music. Yet the film can unmistakably be the director’s work because the director supplies the vision, standards, selections, corrections, and final judgment.” That was from my AI agreeing with my observation that I actually work harder with AI than without.
You know how a blind person gets a ‘mind picture’ feeling with the nerves in their fingertips? Well: always keep your fingers working on a project, studying new subjects, reading actual books, writing with a ‘pen’, painting with a ‘brush’, walking and exercising to keep yourself from losing your abilities and fogging up your mind. Your body is to be used. Keep going forward always. Never quit.
Yes to all this
Thank you, interesting post. The "make sense" and "narrative problem" points resonate most with me. To the first point, three MIT researchers recently published a paper called Building Pro-Worker AI. If you haven't read it yet, the paper is an interesting attempt to shift the debate away from the assumption that AI is an inevitable job killer, that AI automation is the future of work. On point two, as I recently wrote, AI has history's worst sales pitch: "Guys, we have this great new technology. It takes your livelihoods now in exchange for ..." What exactly? Curing cancer? If so, when can we expect that breakthrough, and what policies will be put in place in the meantime to mitigate the economic and societal harms of AI? Governments and the top AI labs need to take this larger question seriously, yet I don't see much evidence of that in the mainstream debate. Instead, we're sleepwalking into the AI revolution.
Curing cancer and other major challenges are going to be addressed by the Genesis Mission, established by President Trump last year. As for societal harms of AI, government may not be doing much because they have no idea, but us little guys (college instructor) are quietly preparing our students to not only survive the AI era, but thrive in it.
I’m actually fatigued after a long session with AI. I am the thought leader, the one who guides and decides. My cognitive load is much higher when using AI for my projects.
“A film director doesn’t personally operate every camera, build every set, sew every costume, and compose every note of music. Yet the film can unmistakably be the director’s work because the director supplies the vision, standards, selections, corrections, and final judgment.” That was from my AI agreeing with my observation that I actually work harder with AI than without.