I suppose it's a 'post-human economy' that I'm writing about here, really. If the machines can be productive on our behalf, I hope that can liberate us into a world in which we're able to truly be there for one another. That's the human future I'm hoping for.
That dual use echoes what's happened with AI: we used 1950s neuroscience to inform AI tech, which in turn gave us models to rethink how the biology of neuroscience might work.
That said, simulate complex human collectives of all kinds is still going to be a dead end. There is nothing that will simulate that a society will make a run on toilet paper the moment WHO declares a pandemic. There is no data for it. There is no model for it.
There are going to be areas where it's predictable and helpful. But there will be glaring blindspots we can never resolve. This means we have to get good at recognizing where we might have clarify of vision and where we need to give up on it. That is a much more difficult human question that we cannot easily answer, let alone machines to do it for us.
Okay, why would we want a post-human future?
I suppose it's a 'post-human economy' that I'm writing about here, really. If the machines can be productive on our behalf, I hope that can liberate us into a world in which we're able to truly be there for one another. That's the human future I'm hoping for.
Why indeed? But it's too late to shut the stable door..
Btw, do check out the great futures work by Parsons & Charlesworth in Chicago for their Venice Biennal work on the Catalog for the Post-Human
https://catalogfortheposthuman.com/
Parsons & Charlesworth are continually let down on how much their futures research has become real.
Thanks Swag; I'll check this out
That dual use echoes what's happened with AI: we used 1950s neuroscience to inform AI tech, which in turn gave us models to rethink how the biology of neuroscience might work.
That said, simulate complex human collectives of all kinds is still going to be a dead end. There is nothing that will simulate that a society will make a run on toilet paper the moment WHO declares a pandemic. There is no data for it. There is no model for it.
There are going to be areas where it's predictable and helpful. But there will be glaring blindspots we can never resolve. This means we have to get good at recognizing where we might have clarify of vision and where we need to give up on it. That is a much more difficult human question that we cannot easily answer, let alone machines to do it for us.