Good piece of work Alex. Was particularly interested in your finding that humans should differentiate by being more human. The students are absolutely right and showed remarkable insight. There’s already a huge overlap in capability and capacity between AI and humans where the AI solutions will do them better, cheaper and faster. This is increasing by the day. However, It will be extremely hard to replace the ability of humans to empathise and sense emotion/unease in others from context and then very fine nuances in voice, eye contact, body language to communicate feelings. We’ve all seen how important face to face interaction is for deep communication during COVID. Also, how can a machine calm someone down and comfort them. We don’t even realise we’re doing these things we’ve developed over many years of experience as humans. There will still be human doctors, teachers, managers, leaders, sales people etc, but a lot of their work can be automated. I can see some of this being positive and allowing more time for these people to spend more time on the human to human work.
Thanks Chris, I was heartened by this insight from the children. This idea automation at some level is inevitable but the solution is to lean into the things that make us uniquely human - to appeal to the better angels of our nature - this can only be a good thing? I hope they are right
Good piece of work Alex. Was particularly interested in your finding that humans should differentiate by being more human. The students are absolutely right and showed remarkable insight. There’s already a huge overlap in capability and capacity between AI and humans where the AI solutions will do them better, cheaper and faster. This is increasing by the day. However, It will be extremely hard to replace the ability of humans to empathise and sense emotion/unease in others from context and then very fine nuances in voice, eye contact, body language to communicate feelings. We’ve all seen how important face to face interaction is for deep communication during COVID. Also, how can a machine calm someone down and comfort them. We don’t even realise we’re doing these things we’ve developed over many years of experience as humans. There will still be human doctors, teachers, managers, leaders, sales people etc, but a lot of their work can be automated. I can see some of this being positive and allowing more time for these people to spend more time on the human to human work.
Thanks Chris, I was heartened by this insight from the children. This idea automation at some level is inevitable but the solution is to lean into the things that make us uniquely human - to appeal to the better angels of our nature - this can only be a good thing? I hope they are right
Really interesting Alex, thanks for sharing. Looking forward to reading the next stage of your research.
Thanks Colin. The big VIVA piece will be a while off but I plan to add some context to the main themes shortly. Keep you posted