Thang Nguyen 555

AI will displace a lot of mundane tasks so far required muscles.

With Federick Taylor, we’ve got the model T’s, “any color you want as long as it’s black”.

Then “the rain in Spain, stays mainly in the plain” generic AI will “Repeat after me”. “Repeat after me”.

Learning should be a process, slow, life-long bringing out what’s already inside each of us.

Yet we keep cramming in. The result? Rote learning. Passing the exam. IBM clones. Repeat after me. As long as it’s black. GIGO (garbage in garbage out.). The age of uniformity, of scale and maximizing efficiency.

Prepared and preset for the age of machine that catches up. Faster, yes. Horsepower? With Western Union delivering daily newspaper. Data rich, yes. No emotions involved. Never sleep, never complain while consume a lot of energy (the pitch is that it learns to optimize energy used) to crunch numbers. Catch-22.

No wonder Elon merged his companies, to explore space and solar energy.

Right now, data center reigns. Coders reigns. AI “advisors” recruited.

Once I was in “outsourcing” sales business to partners and agents.

Now, the table turns. The machine is drawing out – extracting – what’s left of us, our humanity and humor. Our sense of irony.

Instead of “edu-care” (drawing out) we cram into the mind of people, while machine is drawing out of us for its own edification. Long ago, we learned to harness the power of the piston, of torque, more muscles, during the height of the Industrial Revolution. Now at the advent of the Information Age, our memories, preferences and prejudice are all up for grab.

When we are no more. File folders of the mind, loaded onto the machine, not the filing cabinet.

Kudo to Michael Connelly in his latest installment of our Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey).

Up and down the California coast, during the fire, and the court case. AI is here. No if, or, and, but. It just is. And “is here to stay”.

Deal with it. Like a flat tire. Or an Altadena fire. Or a settlement out of court. There will be a lot of “testimony” from the archive, curated and compiled by a court near you.

After all, we have skipped the assembly line to go online. Amuse ourselves to death, now that TV sets are cheap, way cheap. When muscles and mind are no more, we – the physical we – also are no more.

While we sleep (to rest our muscles and mind), machine learning keeps on learning. Moore and Moore, Moore, Moore……till infinity does us part (make sense? by definition, infinity is unreachable, hence, we’re together, forever). Inundated, yet never dated albeit tied in a knot. Machine and me. No Marley. Un, deux, trois…. Now that we are data-rich, are we happier? Today’s news announced Google invest a lot more in developing AI. Then Anthropic, then Open AI etc…

In ” The Proving Ground” after the Press Conference announcing case settlement (between AI alleged mishap and Brenda, the mother whose daughter was killed as plaintiff) Mr. Connelly wrote:

” she – Brenda – left…rich (fifty Mil) beyond her dreams, but inside hollow like a drum”.

What good for a man to own (or know) the whole world yet losing his own soul. All muscles (including brain’s), hollow out like a drum, without a soul.

There is still something we human called Soul. At least that’s what I hope to have with me far out into space, our solar system.