When you look back on the time spent in school, is there a subject you wish, in hindsight, you had studied more?
Share why if you wish.
Category: Education
Are You Happy With What You Studied In School?
Fairly often, the subject you study in school is not what you use in your career. Are you happy with the subject matter you studied?
Share why if you wish.
Do You Go To Reunions?
Whether it is for school, family, or work, people like to get together to see how friends and loved ones are doing. As well as to relive past glories and experiences. Have you been to a reunion of some sort? Do you intend to go to one in the future?
Share why if you wish.
Do You Seek Out Learning Opportunities?
Once you leave school — be it high school, college, or graduate school — how do you continue to learn? Is learning formal, informal, or nothing at all?
Share why if you wish.
What Do You Think About Artificial Intelligence?
As the quality of artificial intelligence continues to increase, it is easy to imagine that it will have a significant impact in many areas of our everyday life. How might it impact your life, and how do you feel about it?
Artificial intelligence, or AI, has long been a staple of science fiction. From Asimov’s robot stories to the computer HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: a Space Odyssey, the possibilities of AI has often been the source of futurist stories.
Now, however, science fiction is beginning to merge with science fact. The recent advances in AI-generated text and images have captured the public imagination. People are using AI interfaces to generate marketing text, or to make pictures of any prompt they can think of.
Related: Listen to an episode of the Intellectual Roundtable Podcast, where Lee and Michael discuss this question: ‘Is technology neutral?’ We also discuss another question as well, ‘Freedom or security?’
But while individuals play with the various interfaces, some have started sound alarm bells. While the output of many of the AI platforms can be spotted fairly easily now, the advances are happening quickly. It is not clear where the technology will go next, and some see a dire future.
Students could generate school essays with minimal research. Any conspiracy theorist can create legitimate-sounding content to dupe unsuspecting members pf the public. And in the ultimate nightmare scenario, AI could become so advanced that it has an agenda of its own, and ignores the wishes and desires of the humans who created it.
But is this all just fear of the unknown? Are the people spreading panic just not seeing — or not choosing to see — the benefits of the new technology? Will artificial intelligence be a tool of mankind, used to multiply our productivity, or is it instead an existential threat? Or somewhere in between?
What do you think about artificial intelligence?
Related questions: Will technology save us? What new technology do you want? What is the greatest problem facing humanity? How can we measure intelligence?