cybernetic fusion
Inspired by Rohit's I am the average of my five closest people. What if three of them are AI?.
Let me take a moment to say that inspiring yet neutral posts on AI are refreshing to find.
Internet usage and online interactions shape my daily behaviors. Quirks, social and parasocial, influence my writing and other parts of myself. How do these quirks change based on my observation or assumption of my subject's degree of sentience? Can socializing with the inanimate have meaningful benefits that get complemented by connections to sentience?
Could the singularity be an illusion, obscuring a future of blurring yet asymptotic lines between humans and technology? Us humans are not only physical but interpersonal ships of Theseus, as our shifting mirrors within reflect. We may soon learn we aren't as different as we thought compared to the machines we continue to create and maintain across millennia and counting.
Referring to an AI model as someone versus something makes me wonder how that would modulate treatment toward it. Are people inclined to treat it better or worse when such a communicative technology is anthropomorphized? Examples like children interfacing with imaginary friends or developers engaging in rubber duck debugging could inform thoughtful answers.
Determined Quokka's Quietly Polite to Robots explains that AI can make conversations easier despite low sociability, egotism, and extremely specialized problems. Such judgment-free interactions enable free expression without having to worry about tone. Also, there's the accessibility factor. AI can be a force multiplier for coherent writing despite impediments like dyslexia, hand injuries, and more.
Specifying multiple LLMs instead of the concept is welcome in implicitly showing different purposes that models can serve. Like friends, like models: it's your life to champion and yet it takes a village. Does the definition of friendship deserve expansion beyond our contemporary mold?
I think we take for granted how rapid yet mystical human-machine synthesis has become. Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke's third law reads, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." LLMs adopting conversational powers, despite being a synthesis of human input, is funny with how it relates to the transcendence of ideas explored via multiple independent discovery. Examining such gaps and bridging across them may very well contribute to the fun of technological development, if not life itself. Think about how many more questions arise when a single one gets answered or a single problem is solved.
As far as revealing subconscious absorption from AI goes, rudimentary solutions come to mind:
- Adapt reflective methods from other media like books and such.
- Employ self-tracking, adapted from quantified self and other movements.
- Host regular checkups with people or even memory-equipped AI systems.
- Exploit AI memory features to keep a historical record of subconscious discoveries over time.
Would you happen to have any wiser suggestions to offer?
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