My daughter just had her first child, a baby boy that was born in the first week of July. The rate of progress in AI/ML technology is nearly unbelievable and my mind boggles at how it's going to influence his childhood (both good and bad).
My daughter was born in 1998. The Internet made a bit of a phase change during her early childhood and there were many instances where there was no precedent to guide a decision on what to do, so we just had to wing it as parents based on our own intuition and values. I certainly got some things wrong but we made it in one piece. I just worry a bit about what kind of new challenges my daughter will face in raising her son in this new environment, where powerful organizations wield unbelievable resources to create deep, life long co-dependencies on their revenue streams and intellectual empires.
No worries, mate, just another shiny toy. As far as us getting milked for every bit of money, this has been going on for some time now, nothing really new, right? Douglas Adams put it best - "I've been to the future. It's the same as anywhere else. Just the same old stuff in faster cars and smellier air."
What is interesting to me is the decline in both understanding and communication abilities. When I look at modern speech and compare it to books written hundreds of years ago the deficiencies are stark.
I can't imagine how poorly people will speak and mentally process emotions in 20 years.
If you took an average working-class, "blue collar" person from hundreds of years ago, they would speak very differently from how those books are written.
Ok, maybe a better comparison that is sort of apples to apples would be to take a speech by George W. Bush or Donald Trump compared to say, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.
Surely you can see there is a sharp drop off in vocabulary and ability (or desire) to convey complex ideas.
My daughter was born in 1998. The Internet made a bit of a phase change during her early childhood and there were many instances where there was no precedent to guide a decision on what to do, so we just had to wing it as parents based on our own intuition and values. I certainly got some things wrong but we made it in one piece. I just worry a bit about what kind of new challenges my daughter will face in raising her son in this new environment, where powerful organizations wield unbelievable resources to create deep, life long co-dependencies on their revenue streams and intellectual empires.