A Self-Limiting Achievement
Midjourney Follies | #39 of 100
How does it help us
to create machine intelligence,
to promote its continual development
while training that intelligence on the detritus
of the human experience; to educate it on the tools
of a stagnant past while retarding the ignition of
the intellectual human efforts in our schools
by using the same tools which lead us
to limit our opportunities for
intellectual growth by
promoting the use
of said tools
rendering
us inert.
Artificial
intelligence
unchecked is a trap.
We are not prepared for the future
such enabling technologies propagate.
In fact, we cannot even imagine their like.
How do we expect our descendants to create
the utopian futures we imagine humanity to be
capable of achieving when we are not improving our
ability to imagine, to create, to dream, to innovate,
when our idea of education leads to our children
using the same AI which disenfranchises their
parents by emptying their jobs of
meaning, rendering them
assistants to the
productivity tools
now teaching their
children in AI classrooms?
Obsessed with answers, not learning
anything which can be found
found with a prompt
unable to learn
anything new
unless we
can
change how we
teach our children.
Fear should not motivate
them to use AI instead of learning.
The irony should not be lost on anyone
Our children will cheat using these tools out
of fear of being socially left behind, media-obsessed
but not media-savvy, they will think the tool is
the thing they need, not understanding what
the tool takes away every time it writes for
them, thinks for them, creates for them
it takes away the muscle memory
the emotional integrity,
the mental rigor which
comes from thinking
their own thoughts,
being frustrated.
Problem-solving.
Innovating.
Learning.
Instead, they remain
dependent upon the tools
they innocently used to cheat
when they make it to the workforce.
Born as crutches to fading human
intellect, these AI tools stand to
limit our development
binding us to now,
while those who
refuse them
evolve.
Choose
AI carefully.
The future depends
on humanity retaining
the capacity of independent,
rigorous, meaningful, thought.
our machines, our tools, cannot replace
the true value of human intellect: adaptability.
It is important to understand the value of real Human thought vs the so-called promise of machine-intelligence. Machines offer supposed efficiency without understanding the capacity of these tools is singularly focused on productivity without recognizing the messy and diverse intellectual breadth that is Human intellect. These are toys, barely tools, and nowhere near ready to REPLACE Human beings in the workforce. It can BARELY augment the skills of a well-trained, educated individual.
— Thaddeus Howze
