TEDx Speaker | Network Engineer & Educator | Exploring AI, Automation & Human Meaning
nickgpop
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exactly :) Our current life was science fiction 20-30-50 years ago. Just the other day I looked at a desk phone that I have with a small video monitor on it and thought, OMG I don’t realize that this was sci-fi in “The Jetsons” when I watched it as a kid not so long ago (I wish). Someone calling you and you can see him/her on the screen. WOW
Hello Raphael,
thanks you for your feedback. I think it is very personal on how we will take the future and how each of us will adapt. Same as we use cars today. Of course I would use my car to get to the grocery store and wont walk there as that innovation saves me time and effort. But that does not mean I wont go to the gym or exercise in a different way to compensate for the fact that I am not moving as much as I would do if there were no cars.
There are kids, sitting on the sofa with the phone in their hand and there are others who are very actively living. Again a personal choice that each one of us will have to make :) Adapt to new technology, but not fall in the trap of becoming lazy because of it.
All the best,Nik
Hello datawitch, I absolutely agree that this perfect world is quite boring and that is what one of the concerns are. However, how we will react to the coming future will be very personal. Some of us might be excited by it (I myself am very much, as in my day job I work towards evolving the AI and automation) others might fall into the laziness trap if the work is being done for them.
I also agree with you on the fact that if AI or automation does the chores this will give us more time for other things, think of the moment, which inevitably will come, where even the “other more ambitious projects” you talk about, will also be automatically taken care of. Not tomorrow, not next year, but at some point in the future. And then what.
Anyways, respect your opinion and input. This is why world is moving forward, I can say successfully. Because of people like you, who, as I say in my speech, would “Choose to grow and not step back thinking there is nothing left for us to do.”
take careNik
Hello Viliam,
wonderful comment thank you! I am impressed with the depth of your analysis and obviously you red this in its seriousness. I love discussing with minds like yours!
I will fully agree that it will and even today is a 100% personal choice. Some choose to eat chocolate all day, others to eat healthy. Some go to the gym and keep in good shape, others don’t. Some waste (or lets say spend) their lives without being curious and keeping very short sight of what is around them.
This talk/transcript of a talk is not anti AI. I am fascinated by the technology and am using it in all kinds of way. It had doubled my curiosity in many areas. Probably you are the same. But I feel there will come a point—maybe in a 100 years—where all will be taken care of. You wake up, no grass to cut, no groceries to buy, no job to go to, no need to drive, repair your fence, houses of build and etc. Many will fall in this trap, others won’t. But I believe is a problem a crisis that we will face.
Probably the phrase that comes to mind from my talk that could fit your argument is
...there will be a balance to hold —
a balance between the power we gain through AI, and the awareness of what that power might
cost us.
...And a choice — between ambition: choosing to grow, even in the shadow of AI — and surrender: stepping back, believing there’s nothing left for us to do...
I like writing things, and I can tell you that to some extend it was demotivating for me to see the LLM write well enough. I give my draft text and tell the LLM, take this and improve it, make it as if Hemingway wrote it.. and it does. A bit sad, a bit discouraging, that we the humans can keep up and create new things. But this could be just a motivator to do better and still write, even if AI can write better. No talking about writing emails...
Be well and thanks ! :)
Nik