5 ❤️’s if I could. Fantastic articulation and insight regarding my concerns. This problem first occurred to me as a mathematician when students were no longer taught basic computing skills and simply received results from their omnipresent hand held calculators. I would be in meetings and whenever a problem requiring rudimentary math skills was discussed no one could figure out why I calculated the result more quickly mentally than the time it took to retrieve their calculators and enter a few numbers. Results without effort and understanding are why many people will fail to perceive when their AI is hallucinating.
All AI outputs we see, need a superfine awareness based judgement for its usefulness. Not practicing such skills will quickly drown them in problems they or AI output wont know! Much like the clueless fake- traveller through a sand storm... sad
Why do you think Silicon Valley is blind to this? Presumably you're not against locomotives, and you don't think they were overhyped. What's the claim you're making?
There's truth in what you say, but it's a narrow truth. Tools always eliminate the need for some capabilities, while allowing us to develop others. Something is lost and something else is gained. Pianos, calculators, cameras, electric saws, cars -- would we be better off without them?
I use AI 50 times a day to write better by leaning on it, but also to improve my writing abilities faster than I've ever been able to. I learn new physics, biology, history and programming, faster than ever before.
And I've known since the '60s that AI was the most dangerous thing humans would ever invent. As an undergrad in '69 I took a course in "Finite State Machines," the abstract concept of a computer to learn about AI.
If you want to learn a bit about why it's so dangerous, you can start here: DareToKnow.stoft.com . I've just started posting on this.
Perhaps a better comparison is sailing ships and steamships. The advent of steam powered ships reduced the importance of understanding the interaction of wind, sails and rigging except now for the hobbyist. However, the advent of steam powered ships created the need for new areas of expertise involving engineering, manufacturing, operations and maintenance.
5 ❤️’s if I could. Fantastic articulation and insight regarding my concerns. This problem first occurred to me as a mathematician when students were no longer taught basic computing skills and simply received results from their omnipresent hand held calculators. I would be in meetings and whenever a problem requiring rudimentary math skills was discussed no one could figure out why I calculated the result more quickly mentally than the time it took to retrieve their calculators and enter a few numbers. Results without effort and understanding are why many people will fail to perceive when their AI is hallucinating.
All AI outputs we see, need a superfine awareness based judgement for its usefulness. Not practicing such skills will quickly drown them in problems they or AI output wont know! Much like the clueless fake- traveller through a sand storm... sad
Brilliant! Bravo! 👏
Why do you think Silicon Valley is blind to this? Presumably you're not against locomotives, and you don't think they were overhyped. What's the claim you're making?
There's truth in what you say, but it's a narrow truth. Tools always eliminate the need for some capabilities, while allowing us to develop others. Something is lost and something else is gained. Pianos, calculators, cameras, electric saws, cars -- would we be better off without them?
I use AI 50 times a day to write better by leaning on it, but also to improve my writing abilities faster than I've ever been able to. I learn new physics, biology, history and programming, faster than ever before.
And I've known since the '60s that AI was the most dangerous thing humans would ever invent. As an undergrad in '69 I took a course in "Finite State Machines," the abstract concept of a computer to learn about AI.
If you want to learn a bit about why it's so dangerous, you can start here: DareToKnow.stoft.com . I've just started posting on this.
Perhaps a better comparison is sailing ships and steamships. The advent of steam powered ships reduced the importance of understanding the interaction of wind, sails and rigging except now for the hobbyist. However, the advent of steam powered ships created the need for new areas of expertise involving engineering, manufacturing, operations and maintenance.