sam on ai

sam chaltain on ai via sam tweet [https://x.com/samchaltain/status/1803090702131241047]:

The Future of #AI is . . . IA?, by @samchaltain https://open.substack.com/pub/samchaltain/p/the-future-of-ai-is-ia:

In typical company fashion, A.I. will no longer stand for Artificial Intelligence, but Apple Intelligence, which the company will build into all your devices “to help you write, express yourself, and get things done effortlessly.” 

needs to be augmenting interconnectedness

For him (and me), our growing infatuation with AI’s ability to do the hard stuff of being human — from choosing the right song to the right phrase to, well, Mr. or Mrs. Right — is, ominously, “a window into a future in which people require layer upon layer of algorithmic mediation between them in order to carry out the most basic of human interactions: those involving romance, sex, friendship, comfort, food.” 

finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us

we just need a mech to help (augment) our listening

.. Like an episode out of Black Mirror, the machines have arrived to teach us how to be human even as they strip us of our humanity.”

For Harper, the answer lies in adopting “a more sophisticated approach to artificial intelligence, one that allows us to distinguish between uses of AI that legitimately empower human beings and those—like hypothetical AI dating concierges—that wrest core human activities from human control..t We need to be able to make granular, rational decisions about which uses of artificial intelligence expand our basic human capabilities, and which cultivate incompetence and incapacity under the guise of empowerment.”

need ai as nonjudgmental expo labeling for global detox leap.. to undo our hierarchical listening

His point reminded me of a recent conversation with my friend Jennifer Stauffer, a veteran educator of the highest order who’s currently taking a grad course on A.I. 

One of her professors, Bodong Chen, shared a valuable way of thinking about technology. It augments intelligence, he argues, creating complex interactive systems that are both beyond the human and beyond the technology. 

Consequently, to effectively harness AI and mitigate the risks, we shouldn’t focus on AI per se — but on IA (intelligence augmentation). 

This is not a new idea. Back in the 1960s, Stanford professor Douglas Engelhardt proposed an augmentation of human intelligence..t that centers around the H-LAM/T-model (human-language-artifact-methodology-training). 

doug engelbart

augmenting collective intelligence.. augmenting human intellect.. still not deep enough.. need: augmenting interconnectedness if truly interested in restoring/maintaining our humanity

intellectness as cancerous distraction we can’t seem to let go of.. there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it

How does AI impact IA and vice versa? How should it impact IA? What new design space is available to us? And how do we effectively and ethically take advantage of that new design space?  .t

imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness as nonjudgmental expo labeling)

ie: need means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening as global detox so we can org around legit needs

how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us.. ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition

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