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What is AI? How will it affect your life, your work, and your world?
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Monday Aug 05, 2024
Monday Aug 05, 2024
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Is work heading for utopia? My guest today is John Danaher, senior lecturer in law at the University of Galway and author of the 2019 book, Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work, which is an amazingly broad discourse on the future of work ranging from today’s immediate issues to the different kinds of utopia – or dystopia, depending on your viewpoint – ultimately possible when automation becomes capable of replicating everything that humans do. John has published over 40 papers on topics including the risks of advanced AI, the meaning of life in the future of work, the ethics of human enhancement, the intersection of law and neuroscience, the utility of brain-based lie detection, and the philosophy of religion. He is co-editor of Robot Sex: Social And Ethical Implications from MIT Press, and his work has appeared in The Guardian, Aeon, and The Philosopher’s Magazine. In the conclusion of the interview we talk about generative AI extending our minds, the Luddite Fallacy and why this time things will be different, the effects of automation on class structure, and… Taylor Swift. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
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Great topic Peter. The suggestions for teachers were spot on. Yes, Gptchat is the best teacher assistant and tutor. My 10 year old uses it and the tutor function on Gptchat to learn math and answer any science, economic or political question he has. He is also using an app called Yousician to learn bass guitar and I think that app is by far better than hiring a music tutor (and a lot cheaper). Question, how much computer science and coding should kids learn these days given that AI can code faster and better and adapt to changes in those topics immediately whereas humans need years to learn these topics? If kids are to use AI in whatever work they get into later, how much coding and computer science do they need to learn? For example, should my son learn scratch and python? It seems to me and him to be a waste of time, especially if he’s not keen on those programs and can just tell the AI to use those languages to make whatever program he needs to make.
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