The AI revolution has legs but the vision still needs a human mind
A mind that holds all the context and the memories
AI revolution or a planned exodus of values that identifies as human.
I am wary of the either direction.
As humans we are unpredictable by nature. AI cannot thrive with unpredictability. Humans, though, can bring order from a chaos. We have forgotten our core value.
Life sometimes ceases to hold any meaning. The universe, in its infinity, cannot be completely quantified into models and theorems, yet when it comes to this new kid on the block called AI, we are hell bent on replacing the humanity with a sub standard versions of the themselves.
What are we trying to outsource here?
My mind is a chaotic mess
On its best day, my mind is a chaotic mess. I am sitting in my living room sipping my morning coffee while it is thousands of miles away in the remote cabin at Yellowstone trying to figure out the path less taken on a hike three years back. I have no answer, yet it makes for an intriguing scenario in my head.
I tried to question one of the AI models available to me and it gave me all the paths not taken by the millions of tourists visiting the Yellowstone National Park each year.
Was it the answer I was looking for? Definitely, not.
Was it intriguing and worth pondering over? Absolutely, yes.
The AI model and I had an inquisitive back and forth while my coffee got cold and morning drifted into a confusing afternoon pleading for a structure and discipline.
what a mess! I spent rest of my day still wondering about the path less taken and cursed myself for wasting my morning by trying to dig into my memories with the help of an AI.
I learnt something new today, even though I failed to recollect my own memories.
Stop renting out the memories
It might seem like a very obvious statement.
The system only dreams in the darkness sings Matt Berninger of the Nationals. I did not believe him, yet here I am arguing with an AI system to recollect some distant memory that I thought was pointless in the time gone by.
I hate myself for it.
It is like giving access to my mind palace to someone else and waiting for them to figure out the intricacies and find their way to the exact place which I, myself failed to reach at one point.
This is how it starts, I guess. First, you try to let the systems do your thinking for you, then the feeling and eventually the living.
Alarming, Indeed! The sirens, though, are not loud enough.
No more the consultant of chaos, but the orchestrator
As a consultant and technician of the very backbone that built the modern AI systems, I like to go back to the old ages and live by the old adages.
‘If, something that needs to be done right, needs to be done by your true self.’
Live your own life. Nobody escaped the consequences of living anyways so why even try to pass the blame onto someone else, let alone a system.
As a kid, I hated when everything was decided for me and I had to just follow through with someone else’s ideas and decisions. Here I am as an adult with full capacity at my disposal, waiting for an LLM to complete a menial task for me which I trained for my entire life.
Blaze of Glory. Life is meant to be lived in the fullest and not by waiting by a series of prompts awaiting the system to finish your job and you.
I am not saying that AI is inadequate. In fact, completely the opposite holds true here. AI has taken over our world with storm that very rarely happened in my time on this forsaken piece of land. The quiet part here is that we have allowed it to thrive under the pretext that everything we do has some sort of statistical probability.
I, for one, refuse to outsource my uncertainties to a system that cannot hold it.