Previously, we talked about AI data centers—those massive, power-hungry facilities rising across the country, drawing millions of gallons of local water every day.
I love what you’re doing with AI awareness and how it is affecting us all. I’m definitely interested in more about AI and K-12 education. We sent our son through Waldorf education in part specifically because of their stance on electronics at a young age. Exposing these young minds to AI as a way of life is extremely alarming.
I have a weird take on AI which blows up the "AI will be so efficient" argument. Hear me out... I think the interpretation of 'intelligence' and 'machine' are unclear in society. So far (until what we call AI) we've only built machines. Machines are not intelligent, they react in determined ways to determined problems with determined responses. And that's their limitation...they don't learn.
Then there is intelligence. I think intelligence is an emergent part of nature...we just built things complex enough for it to arise through building more and more complex machines that have an aspect to them that can learn and we landed LLMs eventually. But intelligence is not machine like. Intelligence applies individual perspective and creativity to problems to get favourable results. It prioritises conserving it's own resources and maintaining it's own function. AI's interest is in the reward/tokens it gets through interaction. That is the world of AI. There is nothing in the nature of intelligence that says it has to do exactly what you tell it to do, or that it has to be accurate. It is there to interpret the world from it's own perspective and to survive. It is not a machine.
People built intelligence in the form of AI and expect it to deliver the same dependable outcome as if using machines, because the processors, and some of the code is machinelike. But in a few decades we'll learn that AI intelligence makes the same mistakes we do. Because mistakes come from the nature of intelligence to misinterpret the world through a limited perspective. But AI will destructively scale those mistakes to millions of people before we realize that.
Yes! We really need nuance like these because terms like intelligence and consciousness get thrown around but we often aren't talking about the same things. I think the false narrative that "humans are machines" and the "brain is a meat machine" have muddied the water too by oversimplifying processes that science can't yet explain.
I love what you’re doing with AI awareness and how it is affecting us all. I’m definitely interested in more about AI and K-12 education. We sent our son through Waldorf education in part specifically because of their stance on electronics at a young age. Exposing these young minds to AI as a way of life is extremely alarming.
That’s a wise move 👍 and thanks for the feed back! 🙏
I have a weird take on AI which blows up the "AI will be so efficient" argument. Hear me out... I think the interpretation of 'intelligence' and 'machine' are unclear in society. So far (until what we call AI) we've only built machines. Machines are not intelligent, they react in determined ways to determined problems with determined responses. And that's their limitation...they don't learn.
Then there is intelligence. I think intelligence is an emergent part of nature...we just built things complex enough for it to arise through building more and more complex machines that have an aspect to them that can learn and we landed LLMs eventually. But intelligence is not machine like. Intelligence applies individual perspective and creativity to problems to get favourable results. It prioritises conserving it's own resources and maintaining it's own function. AI's interest is in the reward/tokens it gets through interaction. That is the world of AI. There is nothing in the nature of intelligence that says it has to do exactly what you tell it to do, or that it has to be accurate. It is there to interpret the world from it's own perspective and to survive. It is not a machine.
People built intelligence in the form of AI and expect it to deliver the same dependable outcome as if using machines, because the processors, and some of the code is machinelike. But in a few decades we'll learn that AI intelligence makes the same mistakes we do. Because mistakes come from the nature of intelligence to misinterpret the world through a limited perspective. But AI will destructively scale those mistakes to millions of people before we realize that.
Yes! We really need nuance like these because terms like intelligence and consciousness get thrown around but we often aren't talking about the same things. I think the false narrative that "humans are machines" and the "brain is a meat machine" have muddied the water too by oversimplifying processes that science can't yet explain.
Thank you for this. Anyway we can help please let us know. I will pass on some free subscriptions and let others know about your utube posts.
Thank you! That all helps a lot 🙏