I like this. For example, a human holding a white mouse in one hand and looking at it.
The problem, though, is that once you have a human in the shot it’s real hard to get someone looking at the book for the first time to identify with the white mouse. One strategy is to de-humanize the human—like maybe only have a human eye filling up the background, with the shot centered on a butterfly. example, sort of. Eh, seems pretty difficult now that I think about it more.
A mouse, a human, and a server rack, each bigger than the next, side by side against a black background. Scaled so that the difference in size between the mouse and the human is the same as the difference between the human and the server.
I like the idea of suggesting the recursion of human intelligence to machine superintelligence.
How about a hunter-gatherer working on making a spear or other primitive weapon, or maybe fire, in the foreground, and an ambiguously human-robot-cyborg figure in the background with a machine gun / nuclear generator?
The smaller thing could be a human, too. Giant, good looking but creepy child holding small vulnerable human in one hand, looking at it emotionlessly. But MIRI will not like this version, because they really want to avoid anthropomorphizing the AI.
A Darwinian image of a speck, a mouse, a monkey, a human, and a computer. Optionally, several computers, each exponentially larger with the last going completely off the edge of the page (i.e. building sized). Optionally, with the brains highlighted in some sort of x-ray kind of view.
Edit: Nevermind, I see this is a listed cliche. Well, it’s cliche for a reason.
A human and something much less intelligent than a human.
I like this. For example, a human holding a white mouse in one hand and looking at it.
The problem, though, is that once you have a human in the shot it’s real hard to get someone looking at the book for the first time to identify with the white mouse. One strategy is to de-humanize the human—like maybe only have a human eye filling up the background, with the shot centered on a butterfly. example, sort of. Eh, seems pretty difficult now that I think about it more.
A mouse, a human, and a server rack, each bigger than the next, side by side against a black background. Scaled so that the difference in size between the mouse and the human is the same as the difference between the human and the server.
I like the idea of suggesting the recursion of human intelligence to machine superintelligence.
How about a hunter-gatherer working on making a spear or other primitive weapon, or maybe fire, in the foreground, and an ambiguously human-robot-cyborg figure in the background with a machine gun / nuclear generator?
And if you look carefully at the floor the human is standing on… it’s a robotic hand! (The rest of the robot it outside of our view.)
The smaller thing could be a human, too. Giant, good looking but creepy child holding small vulnerable human in one hand, looking at it emotionlessly. But MIRI will not like this version, because they really want to avoid anthropomorphizing the AI.
A Darwinian image of a speck, a mouse, a monkey, a human, and a computer. Optionally, several computers, each exponentially larger with the last going completely off the edge of the page (i.e. building sized). Optionally, with the brains highlighted in some sort of x-ray kind of view.
Edit: Nevermind, I see this is a listed cliche. Well, it’s cliche for a reason.