Follow up- check out podcast by Adam Conover- with this interview of Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru on Factually!!! Worth a listen- adult language for sure, but fantastic insights on the LLM and AI as it is being distributed and used today. Cheers.
In December when I submerged myself into ChatGPT to see the consequences and outcomes for educators, I thought of my previous job. Pastoral roles are becoming less because of the deconstruction of faith. Fewer people in church come to receive care and community. The church in many ways to many has become obsolete in the current age. We saw the incredible purge during covid lockdown of churches and pastors. Life is always changing and I’ve had to wrestle with the need to re educate myself and pivot at the age of 55.
AI has actually given me a job. Now I’m training teachers how to use it to educate students on how to write, and how to launch ideas for lesson plans using standards in their state. I’m one who is advancing because of AI.
I was one of those who thought the world was ending when I watched my parents business receive their first email. The end times were coming because of barcodes 🤦🏻♀️
Then I had a surgery where a Dr used a robot to remove my uterus. I wondered if he worried that he might lose his job, yet he was there directing the robot.
I think the key idea is how do we continue to make life equitable. Many students in the US do not have internet access, yet they are expected to use a LMS to turn in homework. Our education systems are so outdated and the inequality is painful to see as I see it every day from school to school.
How can we use our words to enhance AI or bring equality to people? The ChatGPT writing is horrible and it hallucinates, just makes crazy stuff up. The more I use it the more I see it.
I think about this every day right now as it’s part of my job. Life sure is always changing and evolving. May we all continue to work towards building equitable spaces for all people, no matter the technology.
Really good article - well balanced and honest. I appreciated the research and thought you put in. I often think about how history has shown over and over that automation only adds complexity and hurry to our days. Humanity keeps pushing...not just technology but cramming more crap into our days, it takes intentionality to stop and sabbath. I hope you do more nonfiction articles <wink> and I found the references (like Chiang) valuable. Roush on!
OK just listen to your rant while riding a modern bike without a battery listening through headphones to a smart device that is tracking my travels through satellites here in coordinated maps, while using voice recognition to reply while I’m still riding. So my first question is AIA really that different than all the other benefits I’m getting from the expanded technology of last couple decades? The questions you bring up were also asked when we changed from a hunter gatherer to an agricultural society, and then again to industrial society, and now most recently to an information society. So my concern is that this new technology will continue to expand the disparities of power in income as every other major change has a additionally, by definition this is a privileged tool, because you have to have technology and Internet access to use it. So, as much as I enjoyed the many unrelated comments and ideas, equity and equality will still be the greatest challenges that we face through this in other future iterations of advancement, and it will be thinkers like you would ask the tough questions that hopefully society will wrestle with better than we ever have in the past.
So hopefully the embedded AI through voice recognition on my smart device was able to track not only where I am where I’m going where I’ve been, but also what I’ve said accurately. Cheers.
I love this substack. AI and robotic integration into our lives as we age is going to be similar to cell phones or self driving cars for the current boomers. I agree with you, there is no stopping it. Partly cause there is financial gain and economic advancement and governments and people are incapable of just watching this from the sidelines. There will be pressure from other countries and the competitive nature will increase adoption. I love your ideas of how we start to coexist with these technologies as we will be forced to. Cause I think it scares everyone a little and it something we need be thinking about now.
Follow up- check out podcast by Adam Conover- with this interview of Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru on Factually!!! Worth a listen- adult language for sure, but fantastic insights on the LLM and AI as it is being distributed and used today. Cheers.
Great article. I’ve been wrestling as well.
In December when I submerged myself into ChatGPT to see the consequences and outcomes for educators, I thought of my previous job. Pastoral roles are becoming less because of the deconstruction of faith. Fewer people in church come to receive care and community. The church in many ways to many has become obsolete in the current age. We saw the incredible purge during covid lockdown of churches and pastors. Life is always changing and I’ve had to wrestle with the need to re educate myself and pivot at the age of 55.
AI has actually given me a job. Now I’m training teachers how to use it to educate students on how to write, and how to launch ideas for lesson plans using standards in their state. I’m one who is advancing because of AI.
I was one of those who thought the world was ending when I watched my parents business receive their first email. The end times were coming because of barcodes 🤦🏻♀️
Then I had a surgery where a Dr used a robot to remove my uterus. I wondered if he worried that he might lose his job, yet he was there directing the robot.
I think the key idea is how do we continue to make life equitable. Many students in the US do not have internet access, yet they are expected to use a LMS to turn in homework. Our education systems are so outdated and the inequality is painful to see as I see it every day from school to school.
How can we use our words to enhance AI or bring equality to people? The ChatGPT writing is horrible and it hallucinates, just makes crazy stuff up. The more I use it the more I see it.
I think about this every day right now as it’s part of my job. Life sure is always changing and evolving. May we all continue to work towards building equitable spaces for all people, no matter the technology.
Really good article - well balanced and honest. I appreciated the research and thought you put in. I often think about how history has shown over and over that automation only adds complexity and hurry to our days. Humanity keeps pushing...not just technology but cramming more crap into our days, it takes intentionality to stop and sabbath. I hope you do more nonfiction articles <wink> and I found the references (like Chiang) valuable. Roush on!
OK just listen to your rant while riding a modern bike without a battery listening through headphones to a smart device that is tracking my travels through satellites here in coordinated maps, while using voice recognition to reply while I’m still riding. So my first question is AIA really that different than all the other benefits I’m getting from the expanded technology of last couple decades? The questions you bring up were also asked when we changed from a hunter gatherer to an agricultural society, and then again to industrial society, and now most recently to an information society. So my concern is that this new technology will continue to expand the disparities of power in income as every other major change has a additionally, by definition this is a privileged tool, because you have to have technology and Internet access to use it. So, as much as I enjoyed the many unrelated comments and ideas, equity and equality will still be the greatest challenges that we face through this in other future iterations of advancement, and it will be thinkers like you would ask the tough questions that hopefully society will wrestle with better than we ever have in the past.
So hopefully the embedded AI through voice recognition on my smart device was able to track not only where I am where I’m going where I’ve been, but also what I’ve said accurately. Cheers.
I love this substack. AI and robotic integration into our lives as we age is going to be similar to cell phones or self driving cars for the current boomers. I agree with you, there is no stopping it. Partly cause there is financial gain and economic advancement and governments and people are incapable of just watching this from the sidelines. There will be pressure from other countries and the competitive nature will increase adoption. I love your ideas of how we start to coexist with these technologies as we will be forced to. Cause I think it scares everyone a little and it something we need be thinking about now.