Thank you for showing how much richness there is in the metaphor of tides - like the abundance of life to be found in the rock pools you describe.
I have a different take on AI. Saying "we must learn..." followed by anything at all sounds to me like a form of bowing to someone else's vision of inevitability. Yes, it's ubiquitous. So are microplastics, TikTok, pornography and vaping. We still have choices. On the one occasion recently where I found I had a genuine need that might be met by AI - a coding problem where I was out of my depth - it turned out to be no use, because it seemed what I was trying to do hadn't been done before so it had nothing to draw on and kept making up rubbish with 100% confidence. Since then I haven't touched it, and haven't felt that I'm missing out. I am happy being something that AI can't be and doing things it can't do, for as long as I can find people who value my being and doing those things.
I think this is at the heart of it. AI is an expression of to mass mediocrity- all be it perhaps at a higher level than current mediocrity.
What you describe is the places it can’t go, as nobody has been there. There is a part of all of us that is like that. The challenge is for us to find it, polish it and bring it to the world.
Part of the challenge is also finding the space and the company in which to do it, when we find ourselves in workplaces sodden with an idea of AI that will not manifest.
Thank you for showing how much richness there is in the metaphor of tides - like the abundance of life to be found in the rock pools you describe.
I have a different take on AI. Saying "we must learn..." followed by anything at all sounds to me like a form of bowing to someone else's vision of inevitability. Yes, it's ubiquitous. So are microplastics, TikTok, pornography and vaping. We still have choices. On the one occasion recently where I found I had a genuine need that might be met by AI - a coding problem where I was out of my depth - it turned out to be no use, because it seemed what I was trying to do hadn't been done before so it had nothing to draw on and kept making up rubbish with 100% confidence. Since then I haven't touched it, and haven't felt that I'm missing out. I am happy being something that AI can't be and doing things it can't do, for as long as I can find people who value my being and doing those things.
I think this is at the heart of it. AI is an expression of to mass mediocrity- all be it perhaps at a higher level than current mediocrity.
What you describe is the places it can’t go, as nobody has been there. There is a part of all of us that is like that. The challenge is for us to find it, polish it and bring it to the world.
Part of the challenge is also finding the space and the company in which to do it, when we find ourselves in workplaces sodden with an idea of AI that will not manifest.
:-)