A draft chapter hosted on my yet-to-be-published book aims to share with the -ever?, yet-to-be-interested reader my take on the balance between people and technology. If by any chance you were interested, you can get a taste on what motivates me here.
But today… don’t know, I felt compelled to share with you a brief reminder and I’d say necessary counterbalance.
It seems that the endless “Email is dead”, “Email has risen”, “email is more alive than ever” “let’s do multichannel”, ” everything is omnichannel” worn propaganda is not getting as much engagement as click-bait and empty of purpose content need to pay the bills and, again, we get to be bombarded with another new-new-top-topic, which is, you guessed it right, Artificial Intelligence.
For those of us investing a few hours a day around technology for a living, we know how dynamic technology is. Innovation, change, uncertainty seem to be taking a nature quite unique to our time in history. It seems that the tandem formed by speed as a value quite sandwiched with economic-cost it’s rolling in a yet to be settled dynamo.
Ford Model T in 1908 was in production for almost 3 decades. Trend today is to sell cars for 4-6 years, best case scenario, with a facelift in the middle.
We’ve been sending emails since the 70s, with a boom in the 2000s, with omnichannel and more complex solutions talking about omnichannel.
Dartmouth has its place in history and I guess you haven’t heard much about ELIZA in the 60’s have you? But of course you know about AI. Or do you?
It’s ok. It wasn’t until I tried to make my point that I didn’t prep proper examples to dig deeper and give AI a thought that I found and tried to put it in black and white in the middle of the buzzy noise.
As for now, it seems AI will stay with us. There’s no doubt it is a magnet for investment and… profitability?
Counterbalance reminder for you today is to keep some energy and think on your own and don’t just be an empty resonator.
Artificial Intelligence is by no doubts a quite optimistic definition to what it actually was and still is.
Artificial Intelligence is not intelligent. It can be a powerful innovation.
Artificial Idiocy is what you help nurturing by forgetting or just giving up your full potential.
Assisted Intelligence is what you do when using technology to find better ways to do whatever.
Would we ever be in a real Artificial Intelligence era? Maybe.
Would it ever be conscious, self-aware, think independently, love or hate?
We sometimes lose focus on living by technology with living thanks to / despite our own creations.
Now is where I paste that pre-order now url… but that’s still a maybe.
Have fun.
J
Bonus for your coffee, there are AI-powered tools to find AI-generated texts. Just in case you couldn’t tell the difference.
Credit: Post Image from Wikipedia, image credited to Berlin Museum