Some people are born to do certain things. You can say they are mere instruments for pro- creation. They might do it laying down ( Michelangelo) or in a car (Jewel).
I respect them, adore them, emulate them.
Be authentic, be true to your calling and vocation.
It’s better to be a mask-maker (or costumes for Halloween) then be a mask-wearer.
The airline stewardess who chat with me shared her concern e.g. that AI might some day replace many jobs, electrician? herself? . I said as long as we still own empathy ( earlier, I did ask her about her daughter of college age, since I have three of my own.)
We need AIQ (machine and man learning to work together).
Michelangelo will need to learn how to work a MacPro beside his brushes and chisels.
Jewel will need to compose digitally or record her songs along side with a synthesizer.
The band will comprise of both machine and man working together, rehearsing and reaping the rewards ( I will leave that to the virtual lawyers to split the royalty. They are still debating who has copyrights to “Stairways to Heaven” opening”).
With AI we are freed up to coordinate and crowd-source many frustrated talents, combining and composing symphonies of lasting artistry.
Our collected life will be much enriched thanks to the matrimony of the machine, both intelligent and enlightened, and man, both empathic and artistic.
If they could “influence” voters from Russia, we can reverse-engineer or reverse-osmosis with “good” influence. Next century will see a race and lust of life here on Earth e.g. frictionless living, frictionless travel, tele-transportation, telemedicine and tele-education.
China has laid pipelines and beltways around Africa, Russia around Artantica.
Everyone is out to dig the next Trillion-dollar well. Will it be mix-energy or Big Data? or as simply as the organic return-to-the-land?
I leave that to the high-tech, high-finance folks with their analytics and algorithms.
For now, I am made to do a few things, and do them well, whether standing-up or laying-down, in the studio or in the car ( I do respect Jewel who was once homeless in S Diego), make a living or dying doing it.
You see, we are served by millions who are worrying about their jobs. We are the millions who are worrying and should be worried about our jobs.
It will come so quick like a New-York minute. A colleague was mentioning 1-800-xxx=xxxx (vanity number). Well, to us, that was light years ago. No one talks of Telephony nowadays. They start tossing around 6-G for 2030 introduction.
If anything, the frontiers to be conquered is in the mind (Alzheimer) – good luck Dr Lloyd Tran – or out there in the environment and in space.
We are tired of the Industrial Revolution, just as we had been of the Agricultural one. Please, give me something enlightening, entertaining and empathic.
Well, a decade ago, you put down English-majors. Now you want storytellers. You mask-wearers and hypocrites. Go ahead and download your little AI games, and see how soon you’ll get bored of them; machine-generated combination.
I am born and made to first be human e.g. suffering and joy. Then I learn how others have told their tales. Then I will tell ya’ll about it. Hang in there. Just a minute. English and Empathy take time. Not your run-of-the-mill Fortune Cookies random feel-good twittering characters. English majors don’t do Fortunate cookies creative-writing for Chinese foods.
Born to entertain, to preserve what it is that made human human in an age of machinery.
Thang Nguyen 555 