Very good. I must stop myself asking questions when I really do not need to know, or even want to know, what the answer is. This is difficult, since I have always liked to ask questions. I wonder how many people with Philosophy PhDs are actually employed in AI. Very few, I guess. Unfortunately, supposedly interesting information like this is churned out. It may be true, but it is often not representative of what is actually happening. What is ‘a story’? A saying in journalism is: dog bites man – no story; man bites dog – story.
Another episode of Ant Musing, done well. Indeed, we are swarmed with many multitudes of apparent answers, some of which we did not explicitly ask for, as you pointed out. I think we put far too much trust in the Internet. Perhaps, it would be wisest to seek information, the concept of which feels more… fluid… rather than answers, which feel solid, unmoving. Because things often have more than one answer… and, it’s important to differentiate between an answer and opinion. We must also realise that answers can change over time; what was once accepted as right at one time, is not at another.
As you have found yourself, Ant, AI can give different answers for the same question. So, I think it is prudent to look beyond AI. Of course, it may well be the quickest option if one is seeking a summary; but, it should be given a healthy pinch of salt. One should, whenever possible, research further.
I find it quite concerning how we seem to be blindly walking into a self defeatist trap. We are losing the art of handwriting (instead we type, or tap); we are losing the ability to communicate and connect with each other on a person to person real time basis; and we are slowly handing over the capacity to even think for ourselves, instead asking a computer what the meaning of life is (for example). We seem to be content to swallow what the world’s tech billionaires feed us, and I find it all very disturbing.
But, that is just my opinion, and it is worth exactly what was paid for it 🤷🏼♀️
Very good. I must stop myself asking questions when I really do not need to know, or even want to know, what the answer is. This is difficult, since I have always liked to ask questions. I wonder how many people with Philosophy PhDs are actually employed in AI. Very few, I guess. Unfortunately, supposedly interesting information like this is churned out. It may be true, but it is often not representative of what is actually happening. What is ‘a story’? A saying in journalism is: dog bites man – no story; man bites dog – story.
Another episode of Ant Musing, done well. Indeed, we are swarmed with many multitudes of apparent answers, some of which we did not explicitly ask for, as you pointed out. I think we put far too much trust in the Internet. Perhaps, it would be wisest to seek information, the concept of which feels more… fluid… rather than answers, which feel solid, unmoving. Because things often have more than one answer… and, it’s important to differentiate between an answer and opinion. We must also realise that answers can change over time; what was once accepted as right at one time, is not at another.
As you have found yourself, Ant, AI can give different answers for the same question. So, I think it is prudent to look beyond AI. Of course, it may well be the quickest option if one is seeking a summary; but, it should be given a healthy pinch of salt. One should, whenever possible, research further.
I find it quite concerning how we seem to be blindly walking into a self defeatist trap. We are losing the art of handwriting (instead we type, or tap); we are losing the ability to communicate and connect with each other on a person to person real time basis; and we are slowly handing over the capacity to even think for ourselves, instead asking a computer what the meaning of life is (for example). We seem to be content to swallow what the world’s tech billionaires feed us, and I find it all very disturbing.
But, that is just my opinion, and it is worth exactly what was paid for it 🤷🏼♀️