Perhaps all the talk is just slick marketing? I really can't see what the big deal is. Statements like AI is bigger than electricity, when it is a product of electricity and impossible without it, just show to me that the people spruiking it are either involved in hilariously over the top pumping of their own products or frankly delusional.
Well of course, an I'm not averse to marketing - I've made a career of it - but we seem to treat 21st Century CEOs as oracles, they have convinced us that they alone are inventing the future and we're all along for the ride. Which is BS but I can't help but think, if we went back to, say, the 1990s and asked random people on the street to name 10 CEOs they couldn't. Now they have replaced rock stars, politicians, journalists and public intellectuals as the celebrity spokespersons for our time. Sad.
Indeed, Neal! The human behind the product is the significant variable. Is a knife a tool or a weapon?
Personally, I find AI a useful tool, a hyper-google, for checking trivial questions. But I prefer to do my own thinking. The best history professor I ever had told us that we students would soon forget all the details we learned. What he hoped we would leave with was ‘intellectual self-reliance’. He gave us the tools to observe, analyse, evaluate. That, to me, is where AI falls short. We will stop being intellectually self-reliant.
Incidentally, I happen to be watching a compelling drama series called ‘The Capture’. Talk about deep fake.
Two cracking phrases in their Brenda; "Is a knife a tool or weapon?", and, "intellectual self-reliance", I will be sprinkling these liberally throughout upcoming conversations! But, yes, I agree - in the rush to get answers from AI we mustn't forget how to think about the questions or our brains will atrophy.
Perhaps all the talk is just slick marketing? I really can't see what the big deal is. Statements like AI is bigger than electricity, when it is a product of electricity and impossible without it, just show to me that the people spruiking it are either involved in hilariously over the top pumping of their own products or frankly delusional.
Well of course, an I'm not averse to marketing - I've made a career of it - but we seem to treat 21st Century CEOs as oracles, they have convinced us that they alone are inventing the future and we're all along for the ride. Which is BS but I can't help but think, if we went back to, say, the 1990s and asked random people on the street to name 10 CEOs they couldn't. Now they have replaced rock stars, politicians, journalists and public intellectuals as the celebrity spokespersons for our time. Sad.
Indeed, Neal! The human behind the product is the significant variable. Is a knife a tool or a weapon?
Personally, I find AI a useful tool, a hyper-google, for checking trivial questions. But I prefer to do my own thinking. The best history professor I ever had told us that we students would soon forget all the details we learned. What he hoped we would leave with was ‘intellectual self-reliance’. He gave us the tools to observe, analyse, evaluate. That, to me, is where AI falls short. We will stop being intellectually self-reliant.
Incidentally, I happen to be watching a compelling drama series called ‘The Capture’. Talk about deep fake.
Two cracking phrases in their Brenda; "Is a knife a tool or weapon?", and, "intellectual self-reliance", I will be sprinkling these liberally throughout upcoming conversations! But, yes, I agree - in the rush to get answers from AI we mustn't forget how to think about the questions or our brains will atrophy.
Also, what platform is 'The Capture' on please?
We watch ‘The Capture’ on Netflix, UK. There are 2 seasons. Here is the imdb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8201186/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Beautifully put Martin, thank you.