It’s terrifying when our creations exceed us. Exhilarating and inspiring too. But mythology is rife with creators devouring or casting out their children when they perceived those children as a threat. AI raises these questions for us, especially with the recent release of
Dec 23, 2022·edited Dec 23, 2022Liked by Stephanie Losi
It was great to discover your writing this year Stephanie and I look forward to more in the new year. You sure identified two very interesting and amazing developments of the last year. I hope to learn more in the new year about Systems thinking thanks to you. Best in the New Year. In my final post of the year I am also going to ponder one of the surprising breakthroughs of AI. See you next year.
Good piece! “It was instantly clear that this was addictive, something not-quite-fully-formed but world-changing.” That’s a great way to put it. I really worry that we’re not just dealing with the obsolescence of a lot of our human activities but the obsolescence of ourselves in some important identitarian sense. Agreed, though, that the genie is out of the bottle and we have to adapt to it - which may mean being less-proud of our intelligence (since the computers are so much ‘smarter’ than us) and finding other ways to value ourselves.
It was great to discover your writing this year Stephanie and I look forward to more in the new year. You sure identified two very interesting and amazing developments of the last year. I hope to learn more in the new year about Systems thinking thanks to you. Best in the New Year. In my final post of the year I am also going to ponder one of the surprising breakthroughs of AI. See you next year.
Good piece! “It was instantly clear that this was addictive, something not-quite-fully-formed but world-changing.” That’s a great way to put it. I really worry that we’re not just dealing with the obsolescence of a lot of our human activities but the obsolescence of ourselves in some important identitarian sense. Agreed, though, that the genie is out of the bottle and we have to adapt to it - which may mean being less-proud of our intelligence (since the computers are so much ‘smarter’ than us) and finding other ways to value ourselves.