I’ve started my Saturday morning with a great cup of coffee and planning to start writing my paper contribution for a collective book project about adult education, learning strategies and metacognition.
I end up seeing the great Elon Musk interview in Joe Rogan’s show talking about AI and how do we billions of people are contributing to a radicle cognitive enhance that fed the future.
So, ICYM listen to it:
At some point, Elon mentions that is a matter of time until we lose control, and this can be great or awful. This fatalistic attitude based on the extremes (good or bad) made me think about it.
#ThinkingOfFuture
So, there is no news that we as human beings are biologically feeding the artificial intelligence through all these technological development, big data, social networks, automation to which we are continuously linked.
It seems that we are the model, the pattern based on which we create the artificial intelligence. Hence, we create our future based on our limbic system that supports our emotion, behaviour, motivation and long-term memory. Are we?
To a certain extent, we can imagine a scenario where the apprenticeship becomes better than the master. In this case, the trainee could be any technological development from software, an application or a cyborg, while the trainer is human; a trainee with a software system and a trainer with a limbic system.
#ChangeIsEverywhere
I cannot miss the fact that the world changes as I am typing. I am experiencing this on a daily basis when working as a communication specialist with a focus on social networks or researching metacognition strategies to enhance powerful learning results. Even in my free time by being just an inquisitive person in regards to history, human development and groups behaviour.
While writing this text, I recall a conversation that I recently had about the future and the how it is represented in popular cultures. Most of the people are associating the technological progress with the robots’ development. Out there, people are afraid by a robot revolution and that the human race will be led by machines. Most people don’t see the joining between humans and machines. For most people cyborgs are robots (wrong!). Anyway, during the conversation a simple question was asked:
Are robots taking us or are we becoming robots?
In my point of view, the question is incorrect because it puts everything between white and black. And, unfortunately, that’s a big issue. That the interconnectivity (the network) concept and implications aren’t explained adequately to all of us.
Aren’t we responsible for our future? Is our future based on our limbic system that supports our emotion, behaviour, motivation and long-term memory?
I have mixed feelings when it comes to describing what the future might be. But, if I focus on simplicity, I would say that the future will only reflect our hearts.
And that’s what freaks me out more.
