Created: 2023-04-05 19:21
Hard exiting out of this cycle requires coming up with unquestionably original thoughts and theories. It means seeing and synthesising patterns across a broad range of sources: books, blogs, cultural narratives served up by media outlets, conversations, podcasts, lived experiences, and market trends. We can observe and analyse a much fuller range of inputs than bots and generative models can. It will raise the stakes for everyone. As both consumers of content and creators of it, we’ll have to foster a greater sense of critical thinking and scepticism. This all sounds a bit rough, but there’s a lot of hope in this vision. In a world of automated intelligence, our goalposts for intelligence will shift. We’ll raise our quality bar for what we expect from humans. When a machine can pump out a great literature review or summary of existing work, there’s no value in a person doing it The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Our uniqueness, the ability to feel, to meet in person will increase in value.
Instead of clinging to the tasks the machines are much better than us we should celebrate the things the machine will never be able to do.