This quote from Tony Hsieh contains so much truth: “Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).”
yet beyond symbolic vs ML as two different approaches, there's another dichotomy:
AI as a method of understanding how we as humans work
vs
AI as getting some tangible human-like outcome
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation