Sure, but it’s hard to find the luxury of perusing a meaningful life work when you have lost your job, the source of your income, and AI makes work increasingly scarce for your skill set.
Gen AI is a giant averaging machine. Let us all strive to be well above average in the things that bring us joy, connection, and meaning. As you so often remind us, Brad, it's the striving that is the point. Mastery is the end result of the effort and AI will never replace that rich reward.
Interestingly, this can also be applied to “meaningless effort” - the upper classes in the 19th century didn’t necessarily need to expend any effort in the traditional sense but engaged in all these elaborate and often highly ritualised activities (hunting, fencing, etiquette) as a display of excellence.
Insightful read. Thank you for sharing this. While I agreed with some of the sentiment in Shumer’s essay, I do think there is still a long way to go before we see total disruption. One of the ways humans still hold an advantage over generative AI, at least for the time being, is that it cannot continously engage with and interpret the physical world, which is ever-changing and constantly evolving. Instead, it relies on digital information and large datasets to produce output.
Sure, but it’s hard to find the luxury of perusing a meaningful life work when you have lost your job, the source of your income, and AI makes work increasingly scarce for your skill set.
Gen AI is a giant averaging machine. Let us all strive to be well above average in the things that bring us joy, connection, and meaning. As you so often remind us, Brad, it's the striving that is the point. Mastery is the end result of the effort and AI will never replace that rich reward.
Interestingly, this can also be applied to “meaningless effort” - the upper classes in the 19th century didn’t necessarily need to expend any effort in the traditional sense but engaged in all these elaborate and often highly ritualised activities (hunting, fencing, etiquette) as a display of excellence.
Love your perspectives!
Insightful read. Thank you for sharing this. While I agreed with some of the sentiment in Shumer’s essay, I do think there is still a long way to go before we see total disruption. One of the ways humans still hold an advantage over generative AI, at least for the time being, is that it cannot continously engage with and interpret the physical world, which is ever-changing and constantly evolving. Instead, it relies on digital information and large datasets to produce output.