Encouraged to see your comments on the nursing profession. My highly intelligent daughter graduated with a nursing degree in December and has been working as an ER nurse since February. Based on the stories she tells, I have often thought that there is no way that her work could be automated!
Agree! I'm more and more glad I made the decision 20 years ago to go to a liberal arts school. I discovered the humanities and the social sciences when my high school self didn't even know they existed. I hope many young people and their parents find this post.
I fully agree with you, though I'm in no position to be contrary about AI eventually dominating, as the new fear goes, our lives. I'm just not literate enough on the digital world. I'm too old for that, even if I do still have all my mental marbles. But I am hearted by your comments about the future of the humanities, which means of course the future of remaining human. Heartened because frankly I get despondent about the future, considering the growing disproportionate influence of Silicon Valley on our lives. I used to call it Silly Con, but I guess they're the ones laughing now. My concern is how dependent SV makes us on them to offer us safe and functional lives, and how inconvenient and frustrating it is, and how helpless we are, when things go wrong.
I laughed when you noted that a chatbot can be sycophantic 😁it would be more useful to have a chatbot that just insults you like a digital Don Rickles 😆
Totally agree. A correlative of this is the science fiction of Philip Dick where people find themselves becoming more lifeless and robotic and the robots continue to be overwhelmed by the loss of never being able to become truly human. So within their metal electronic permanent mental paralysis they reach out for any sort of miracle intangible redemption in their desperate multiple attempts to acquire even one or two human characteristics that might render them desirable buddies to anyone for better reasons.
Encouraged to see your comments on the nursing profession. My highly intelligent daughter graduated with a nursing degree in December and has been working as an ER nurse since February. Based on the stories she tells, I have often thought that there is no way that her work could be automated!
Agree! I'm more and more glad I made the decision 20 years ago to go to a liberal arts school. I discovered the humanities and the social sciences when my high school self didn't even know they existed. I hope many young people and their parents find this post.
I fully agree with you, though I'm in no position to be contrary about AI eventually dominating, as the new fear goes, our lives. I'm just not literate enough on the digital world. I'm too old for that, even if I do still have all my mental marbles. But I am hearted by your comments about the future of the humanities, which means of course the future of remaining human. Heartened because frankly I get despondent about the future, considering the growing disproportionate influence of Silicon Valley on our lives. I used to call it Silly Con, but I guess they're the ones laughing now. My concern is how dependent SV makes us on them to offer us safe and functional lives, and how inconvenient and frustrating it is, and how helpless we are, when things go wrong.
I laughed when you noted that a chatbot can be sycophantic 😁it would be more useful to have a chatbot that just insults you like a digital Don Rickles 😆
Totally agree. A correlative of this is the science fiction of Philip Dick where people find themselves becoming more lifeless and robotic and the robots continue to be overwhelmed by the loss of never being able to become truly human. So within their metal electronic permanent mental paralysis they reach out for any sort of miracle intangible redemption in their desperate multiple attempts to acquire even one or two human characteristics that might render them desirable buddies to anyone for better reasons.