Isn't the suggestion that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” a self-fulfilling prophecy (the 'sufficiently' bit) and therefore effectively meaningless?
A different possibility is that all the AI content will be read by AI bots, who in turn will eventually outnumber the humans, which will turn the content ship towards what the bots want too engage with. A bit like twitter except turbocharged.
Great. So to stop this/ or, in other words, stabilize the race against the AI, the inflation must comes in terms of time spent on the content. The time spent is now valuable, and will proceed to be exponentially more valuable, when the capacity to consume the content remains the same.
The increase in capacity may come in form of linear increase of time to spent on the content, meaning when the amount of time for other activities decreases = hours spent in work, maybe partly compensated by UBI. But to truly inflate the paradigm, the 24 hour cycle needs to be broken to catch up = either by biology or DNA manipulation or psychedelics to increase the capacity to comprehend amount of information in given amount of time. As people and humankind are highly motivated by competition, can this (AI generated content grabbing our attention) be the paradigm that will push us into exponential self-development in terms of genetics/ biotechnology?
Ironic that this showed up this morning. I saw this phenomenon taking over my social media viewing. In particular, TikTok. Yesterday, I deleted it from my phone.
I think that’s the reaction of quite a few people! One of my children is quite concerned by the amount they find themselves watching it and have considered deleting it.
But you and they are the strong-willed ones. Most people don’t. Hence the gigantic engagement numbers for TikTok. And this is only the first. No reason to think it’s sui generis.
That is exactly what I was thinking. I'm disciplined and focused, but I am also very curious. I am interested in things that are beyond my experience, and will always be beyond my experience. I am interested in people and how their lives are put together. And the effect that these technologies are having on them. The question is what is it we are witnessing and is it sustainable? Is it an addictive substance that eventually kills its host?
Reading both you gents, perhaps incorrectly, I thought you see the hot polloi as actors in the movie “Idiocracy”. That could be true, but I find whenever I read these sorts of articles it always reminds me of “Life will find a way” — Jurassic Park. — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oijEsqT2QKQ
Maybe not. There is something about the need to explore, to go where nuns have gone before. It may take a while for the good Männer to come to the realization they have fallen behinds butt life will find its whey if you curd believe that. All seriousness aside,
An interesting article about the problems of how the "hidden logic" of deep learning might be better understood see his recent article (he was co-author)
No, I don’t see it that way. There is far too much absolutism in the opinions of people. Meaning, things will happen as they see it. It leaves no room for incompetence. It is not simply that many of these notions are inherently flawed, but that they believe things will happen as they predict they will do. The best of all possible words happens more by accident than by intention.
Wholeheartedly agree with the absolutism with which people express themselves. I see that more a progression of “passion uber alles” that we have tended to instill in our young ones, exacerbated (cemented? ) by social media.
At the risk of apparent flippancy, given your ultimate sentence, I hope for more accidents than intent.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" aye there's the rub.
Isn't the suggestion that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” a self-fulfilling prophecy (the 'sufficiently' bit) and therefore effectively meaningless?
A different possibility is that all the AI content will be read by AI bots, who in turn will eventually outnumber the humans, which will turn the content ship towards what the bots want too engage with. A bit like twitter except turbocharged.
Charles, I referenced you in my latest post in my Networks of Relationships Series.
Why Relationships Matter
https://edbrenegar.substack.com/p/why-the-relationships-matter?sd=pf
Thank you.
Thanks Ed - fascinating.
Great. So to stop this/ or, in other words, stabilize the race against the AI, the inflation must comes in terms of time spent on the content. The time spent is now valuable, and will proceed to be exponentially more valuable, when the capacity to consume the content remains the same.
The increase in capacity may come in form of linear increase of time to spent on the content, meaning when the amount of time for other activities decreases = hours spent in work, maybe partly compensated by UBI. But to truly inflate the paradigm, the 24 hour cycle needs to be broken to catch up = either by biology or DNA manipulation or psychedelics to increase the capacity to comprehend amount of information in given amount of time. As people and humankind are highly motivated by competition, can this (AI generated content grabbing our attention) be the paradigm that will push us into exponential self-development in terms of genetics/ biotechnology?
Ironic that this showed up this morning. I saw this phenomenon taking over my social media viewing. In particular, TikTok. Yesterday, I deleted it from my phone.
I think that’s the reaction of quite a few people! One of my children is quite concerned by the amount they find themselves watching it and have considered deleting it.
But you and they are the strong-willed ones. Most people don’t. Hence the gigantic engagement numbers for TikTok. And this is only the first. No reason to think it’s sui generis.
That is exactly what I was thinking. I'm disciplined and focused, but I am also very curious. I am interested in things that are beyond my experience, and will always be beyond my experience. I am interested in people and how their lives are put together. And the effect that these technologies are having on them. The question is what is it we are witnessing and is it sustainable? Is it an addictive substance that eventually kills its host?
Reading both you gents, perhaps incorrectly, I thought you see the hot polloi as actors in the movie “Idiocracy”. That could be true, but I find whenever I read these sorts of articles it always reminds me of “Life will find a way” — Jurassic Park. — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oijEsqT2QKQ
Perhaps a bit Panglossian on my part
Maybe not. There is something about the need to explore, to go where nuns have gone before. It may take a while for the good Männer to come to the realization they have fallen behinds butt life will find its whey if you curd believe that. All seriousness aside,
see this https://www.makeuseof.com/can-ai-make-us-laugh/
Can AI treacle my bunny phone? I sure was not impressed with treacle dong economics. Eh What's up Doc? Even Yoshua Bengio a leading researcher says
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/11/17/66372/one-of-the-fathers-of-ai-is-worried-about-its-future/
An interesting article about the problems of how the "hidden logic" of deep learning might be better understood see his recent article (he was co-author)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9363924
Not all the nerds are starry eyed about AI.
No, I don’t see it that way. There is far too much absolutism in the opinions of people. Meaning, things will happen as they see it. It leaves no room for incompetence. It is not simply that many of these notions are inherently flawed, but that they believe things will happen as they predict they will do. The best of all possible words happens more by accident than by intention.
Wholeheartedly agree with the absolutism with which people express themselves. I see that more a progression of “passion uber alles” that we have tended to instill in our young ones, exacerbated (cemented? ) by social media.
At the risk of apparent flippancy, given your ultimate sentence, I hope for more accidents than intent.