In order to come to terms with #AI, we have to come to terms with the way we raise children, and the way we deal with the new innovations of the next generation.
Do I think the AI race is a bit hasty? Sure I do. Do I know enough about the inner workings to really say anything for sure? No, I do not.
My main goal here, as it has always been, is to counteract the constant fear and MEME style shock statements we hear and see about Artificial Intelligence.
“AI will replace all of us”
“AI will destroy art”
“AI will make everyone dumb”
“AI will turn off our wifi”
Or whatever it is you hear out there.
I was asking an artist friend if they ever played around with AI. She bluntly and surely replied, “No. I pretend like it doesn’t even exist. It’s not real. I don’t want it.”
And my first thought back was, “Don’t neglect the baby”.
What?
It appears to me, in my incredibly minimal use of any of these LLMs, that they are learning. They are growing and depending on us for a wealth of information. It is quite literally an “infant” brain. Our brains are neurons sending electric impulses and light, and theirs are silicon circuits of electrons creating some sort of cohesive working “thing”
And just like in the movies, where dystopia reigns, and zombies, nuclear weapons, technological or bio warfare are the assumed natural evolution of the future, we continue to write the stories of the most gloriously dramatic hellscapes in which everything goes wrong.
I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!
Can we start pontificating something POSITIVE about the future, please?
