The Problem With AI That's Too Human
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The Problem With AI That's Too Human
Let's pause for a little detour through automation theory here. Automation can augment a worker. We can call this a "centaur" – the worker offloads a repetitive task, or one that requires a high degree of vigilance, or (worst of all) both. They're a human head on a robot body (hence "centaur"). Think of the sensor/vision system in your car that bee... See more
Pluralistic: “Humans in the loop” must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed (23 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
When I was recently on @Baratunde Thurston’s podcast, he read me a poem he’d written: “When the answer to every question can be generated in a flash, then it’s time for us to question just what we want to ask.” And that includes questions like “What do we really want?” and “Who are we really?” So much of the conversation around AI is about making AI more human – but we also need to focus on how AI can make humans more human. In this interview with @FastCompany, Thurston expands on this. As he says, as we think about how to ask the right questions of the machines, we can also use this moment to ask the right questions of ourselves. (Link in bio)
instagram.comBelieving that AI will save time is like being a person in the late 1800s seeing their first car and thinking “oh how easy it’ll be to get to the meadow now!” People back then didn’t imagine that by the 1960s we’d be stuck in traffic jams for hours in mega-cities. Now apply this to AI. If we fast-forward a decade, it will have recalibrated the enti... See more
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