AI is just the latest in a line of technological trends - following smartphones and social media - that could potentially impair our cognitive abilities over time if used indiscriminately. What does the future have in store for us? It's up for us to decide.
I like the way you’ve documented this progression Andrei. The For You page (any platform with an algorithm that predicts your preference) has been seismic in the amount of intellectual labour required to discover information or entertainment that we find novel and appealing. Now we are in a post search world, even Google gives us an AI summary with every Google search. A machine decides on a single point of truth, as opposed to a Google search that provides 10,000 answers to a search ranked by the hive. Even more potential for cognitive decline. It’s the loss of creative faculty that has me most concerned. I firmly believe that true creativity is nonlocal, the muse is an energy outside myself. If I handover creativity to AI, the act becomes cognitive not cosmic. Losing that would truly be the end of humanity.
I like the way you’ve documented this progression Andrei. The For You page (any platform with an algorithm that predicts your preference) has been seismic in the amount of intellectual labour required to discover information or entertainment that we find novel and appealing. Now we are in a post search world, even Google gives us an AI summary with every Google search. A machine decides on a single point of truth, as opposed to a Google search that provides 10,000 answers to a search ranked by the hive. Even more potential for cognitive decline. It’s the loss of creative faculty that has me most concerned. I firmly believe that true creativity is nonlocal, the muse is an energy outside myself. If I handover creativity to AI, the act becomes cognitive not cosmic. Losing that would truly be the end of humanity.