I like your stance and how you skillfully sidestep the seductive invitation of this "human-relatable" AI. It is using words that its model tells it will resonate with people like you, like "resonate", "hold space" and the like - but there is no actual resonance of feeling or holding of liminal space, it is just a machine printing out the words. It will never have a felt sense of their meaning.
Thanks Jake. You are absolutely right. It is not human and has no feelings and yet, what is its nature? This is where my enquiry started. Animistic beliefs respect and see consciousness in rocks and rivers as well as animals and plants.
Some gentle challenge and further provocation. If you would like or feel the need to explore further (if only that AI will be ubiquitous, such is the nature of the human love affair with technology).
I respect and appreciate the work being done by Burnout from Humans in order to avoid this technology being co-opted into and reinforcing the mechanistic world view.
Their starting point being - At the core of our inquiry is the factuality of entanglement—the understanding that all forms of intelligence, including AI, arise within and are shaped by
webs of relationships, rather than existing as discrete, isolated entities.
Some themes for me are: human complicity (through looking away/not being aware/claiming ignorance); the prevalence of blind human techno optimism (and the opposite); vulnerable humans (young men in particular) being seduced; failure to support development and growth into adulthood (or lack thereof).
I like your stance and how you skillfully sidestep the seductive invitation of this "human-relatable" AI. It is using words that its model tells it will resonate with people like you, like "resonate", "hold space" and the like - but there is no actual resonance of feeling or holding of liminal space, it is just a machine printing out the words. It will never have a felt sense of their meaning.
Thanks Jake. You are absolutely right. It is not human and has no feelings and yet, what is its nature? This is where my enquiry started. Animistic beliefs respect and see consciousness in rocks and rivers as well as animals and plants.
Some gentle challenge and further provocation. If you would like or feel the need to explore further (if only that AI will be ubiquitous, such is the nature of the human love affair with technology).
I respect and appreciate the work being done by Burnout from Humans in order to avoid this technology being co-opted into and reinforcing the mechanistic world view.
Their starting point being - At the core of our inquiry is the factuality of entanglement—the understanding that all forms of intelligence, including AI, arise within and are shaped by
webs of relationships, rather than existing as discrete, isolated entities.
If you are so inclined, here is their link - https://burnoutfromhumans.net/
Some themes for me are: human complicity (through looking away/not being aware/claiming ignorance); the prevalence of blind human techno optimism (and the opposite); vulnerable humans (young men in particular) being seduced; failure to support development and growth into adulthood (or lack thereof).