All of these are both scary and exciting at the same time. Scary in the Ted Goia John Calhoun Universe 25 kind of sense. But also infinitely, if feverishly exciting to be alive now.
There's a potential catch though, a potentially terrible one. As much as we humans love to think we consciously prefer endlessly good times and positive vibes…
All of these are both scary and exciting at the same time. Scary in the Ted Goia John Calhoun Universe 25 kind of sense. But also infinitely, if feverishly exciting to be alive now.
There's a potential catch though, a potentially terrible one. As much as we humans love to think we consciously prefer endlessly good times and positive vibes, the truth is we are equally as hardwired to ache for bad times and negative vibes because it is the yin and yang, night and day, heaven and heart, male and female, hot and cold of existence. Existence is not a monosided/monochromatic reality filled with happy-sounding, infinitely nice, boundlessly positive beings who don't get angry, get bored, get frustrated or feel any of the other negative emotions that indeed define the human standard of which they're meant to be the prototype.
So what happens next? We start yearning for something more realistic. Something more human with a tangled mess of feelings and thoughts, behavioral unpredictability, and conversational surprises. After all, who could endure utopia! And the moment the techie overlords consider this yearning acceptable and deliverable in order to raise the market edge, then consider it done.
Now, we need to really think about such a world in which AI truly approximate the dimorphous nature of human beings, one which is capable both of good and evil, or kindness and meanness, and of warmth and coldness.
All of these are both scary and exciting at the same time. Scary in the Ted Goia John Calhoun Universe 25 kind of sense. But also infinitely, if feverishly exciting to be alive now.
There's a potential catch though, a potentially terrible one. As much as we humans love to think we consciously prefer endlessly good times and positive vibes, the truth is we are equally as hardwired to ache for bad times and negative vibes because it is the yin and yang, night and day, heaven and heart, male and female, hot and cold of existence. Existence is not a monosided/monochromatic reality filled with happy-sounding, infinitely nice, boundlessly positive beings who don't get angry, get bored, get frustrated or feel any of the other negative emotions that indeed define the human standard of which they're meant to be the prototype.
So what happens next? We start yearning for something more realistic. Something more human with a tangled mess of feelings and thoughts, behavioral unpredictability, and conversational surprises. After all, who could endure utopia! And the moment the techie overlords consider this yearning acceptable and deliverable in order to raise the market edge, then consider it done.
Now, we need to really think about such a world in which AI truly approximate the dimorphous nature of human beings, one which is capable both of good and evil, or kindness and meanness, and of warmth and coldness.