Humanity should not be surprised by the appearance of these tools. These ideas are being worked on since the 50s of the last century. Everyone remembers the conference organized by John McCarthy in 1956, where the term "artificial intelligence" was coined for the first time, so it was a matter of time before it materialized. But the important thing is to understand the panic they have caused, forgetting humanity's ability to solve similar or more complex problems. Alberto in this article reminds us of this and conveys the hope that although the challenges are great, we will know how to solve them.
As the great Jorge Luis Borges said
The future is not what will happen, but what we are going to do
Alberto, you write very well about a LOT of the same things in my wheelhouse.
TL;DR version of what I want to say: today's revolution in AI is very similar in many ways to previous industrial-revolution type events, but it's also different, because our very nature is going to change in order to adapt, including augmentation we've never considered. It will rhyme with the printing press and the invention of writing, but we won't have generations or centuries to get used to the changes, but years or months or days or minutes.
Loved your phrasing here:
"Today, when the threshold of the future is the morning of the next day"
Very nicely written post, I enjoyed it a lot. Lots to think about!
Humanity should not be surprised by the appearance of these tools. These ideas are being worked on since the 50s of the last century. Everyone remembers the conference organized by John McCarthy in 1956, where the term "artificial intelligence" was coined for the first time, so it was a matter of time before it materialized. But the important thing is to understand the panic they have caused, forgetting humanity's ability to solve similar or more complex problems. Alberto in this article reminds us of this and conveys the hope that although the challenges are great, we will know how to solve them.
As the great Jorge Luis Borges said
The future is not what will happen, but what we are going to do
Alberto, you write very well about a LOT of the same things in my wheelhouse.
TL;DR version of what I want to say: today's revolution in AI is very similar in many ways to previous industrial-revolution type events, but it's also different, because our very nature is going to change in order to adapt, including augmentation we've never considered. It will rhyme with the printing press and the invention of writing, but we won't have generations or centuries to get used to the changes, but years or months or days or minutes.