Terrific meditation, Karl. Internet as person sounds compelling for people who prefer to anthropomorphize.
"The “view from nowhere” has been a key enabler of the environmental devastation we’ve wrought over the past century." Naomi Klein makes a similar argument in her climate change book, arguing that the view of Earth from space is deracinating (in a bad way).
your "one lake is like another" metaphor coupled with your AI on a clip following you around seems to be the problem. If the AI can "learn" your "personal preferences" then when does it get to the point where it just eliminates the flesh like your on-button on your computer knowing your finger prints.
I just replaced my basic iphone and already it has linked and interacts with the apps on my system without my involvement except it does ask permission (sometimes). When will it be able to choose where I buy my coffee and breakfast? what about the idiosynchrasy in life?
one can wonder whether the ultimate is this uploading of our brain into a digital person and discarding the inconvenience of a "flawed" flesh
In my "Lady of Mazes" (2005) people have 'animas' that are essentially AI mimics of them, and can act and make decisions on their behalf independently because they know you better than you know yourself. The people in the society that uses them--like our heroine, Livia--treat this as perfectly normal and do not feel that their identities are threatened by them.
i will read the book. My thoughts, for the post, was that the AI exists in physical space (maybe in the "flesh" and not as an assistant in virtual space which make it a clone. With RAG or retrieval-augmented generation capabilities- the Ai can develop capabilities that amplify that of a human and develop independent capabilities that differ from a clone, including divorce itself from the person (and eliminating it) Wonder if that is a crime. Or, perhaps, it develops psychological disorders and eats the original.
Terrific meditation, Karl. Internet as person sounds compelling for people who prefer to anthropomorphize.
"The “view from nowhere” has been a key enabler of the environmental devastation we’ve wrought over the past century." Naomi Klein makes a similar argument in her climate change book, arguing that the view of Earth from space is deracinating (in a bad way).
your "one lake is like another" metaphor coupled with your AI on a clip following you around seems to be the problem. If the AI can "learn" your "personal preferences" then when does it get to the point where it just eliminates the flesh like your on-button on your computer knowing your finger prints.
I just replaced my basic iphone and already it has linked and interacts with the apps on my system without my involvement except it does ask permission (sometimes). When will it be able to choose where I buy my coffee and breakfast? what about the idiosynchrasy in life?
one can wonder whether the ultimate is this uploading of our brain into a digital person and discarding the inconvenience of a "flawed" flesh
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In my "Lady of Mazes" (2005) people have 'animas' that are essentially AI mimics of them, and can act and make decisions on their behalf independently because they know you better than you know yourself. The people in the society that uses them--like our heroine, Livia--treat this as perfectly normal and do not feel that their identities are threatened by them.
i will read the book. My thoughts, for the post, was that the AI exists in physical space (maybe in the "flesh" and not as an assistant in virtual space which make it a clone. With RAG or retrieval-augmented generation capabilities- the Ai can develop capabilities that amplify that of a human and develop independent capabilities that differ from a clone, including divorce itself from the person (and eliminating it) Wonder if that is a crime. Or, perhaps, it develops psychological disorders and eats the original.