- “We are now, like, in the singularity,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the “Relentless” podcast this July. “I’ve been waiting for this my whole life.”
While we all have been challenged to adjust our world views, our reality views, and our human condition views after the dawn of the Chatbot LLMs a few years ago, it’s quite another thing to “make ourselves at home” in a world where AI tools head off into realms of capability which are currently greatly mystifying.
OTOH, humans are evolved to adapt, and are quite good at it…given enough time to make the needed adjustments. But without the needed time, Alvin Toffler said we would get “Future Shock” ,which seems perhaps to be our current state.
“To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots – religion, nation, community, family, or profession – are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.”
― Alvin Toffler, Future Shock
One might seek perspective by looking back on all the technological changes in the last 150-200 years brought about by:
- the Industrial Revolution,
- the age of the automobile,
- the age of the movie theaters,
- the age of Radio,
- the age of TV,
- the age of air travel,
- the age of the pill and antibiotics,
- the age of personal computers,
- the age of the internet,
- the age of mobile devices,
- the age of ubiquitous social media,
- and now the age of AI.
That’s quite a bit of adjustment! And this last one could be the biggest adjustment of all…
….or so this article below from Axios portends.
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