📌 Industrial robots today are programmed to perform specific and repetitive tasks, which limits their versatility; to make them perform different actions, they need to be reprogrammed by a person.
I'm saying we don't currently have the ability to act on that moral responsibility because we lack fundamental understanding of how to specify and evaluate these systems.
In practice, to define morally acceptable use cases that don't impose unfeasible system design choices, we require the very specification tools we lack.
@robotistry@startupnews@philosophy@cogsci thanks for this thread. The points you raise are fundamental. My thought is that today we're experiencing the result of a hyper-parcelisation of skills and the long absence of truly generative dialogue between professionals (engineers and humanists) who should contribute together to develop new products. The questions I try to ask myself are certainly not new but today more than ever I feel them urgent, precisely for the reasons you underline.
It gathers a lot of data and interesting observations. Here are the ones that struck me the most:
📌 Generative #artificialintelligence excels in tasks that require natural language processing and content creation, outperforming humans in terms of speed and cost-effectiveness.
📌 Generative AI's efficiency impacts high-value tasks in white-collar roles, potentially offering comparable performance to humans at a fraction of the cost.
📌 A drop in the marginal value of creation, as seen with generative AI, typically spurs increased demand. This phenomenon, known as the Jevons paradox, leads to more jobs, economic growth, and improved goods for consumers, similar to the impacts of the microchip and the Internet.
📌 The present moment is opportune for starting #startups in the generative AI space due to its transformative potential. The text encourages staying connected during this journey.
💭 My thought: in a scenario that describes our immediate #future, like the one outlined in the article, it will be increasingly essential to know how to ask the right questions — questions that help guide, interpret, give meaning, and make room for our humanity, starting precisely from the philosophical dialogue that should be continuously encouraged about and with #digital and #technology.
📌 From enthusiasm to caution: The initial enthusiasm for generative #AI has now given way to a more cautious attitude.
📌 Bans: Approximately 75% of businesses globally are considering banning the use of generative AI apps (such as #ChatGPT) and many of them consider enforcing bans permanently.
As a person with a PhD in #philosophy I find the contents of this article quite obvious: it describes nothing but cognitive flexibility, a skill philosophy helps to develop.
As a consultant working with wannabe entrepreneurs and SME I find the article illuminating: almost nobody exerts cognitive flexibility in this field, although they should.
This shows that philosophy IS a tool for #business (and we should use it accordingly).
In your opinion, which relatively lesser-known author of Indian philosophy (including Buddhism, Jainism etc.) deserves more attention in current research, and why?
@feral_chela@philosophy@indianphilosophy Thanks for your comment. I studied Lilian Silburn years ago but I must confess I never heard of William Bodri, whose books I'll surely search for and start to get acquainted with this evening, after work!
A Harvard University scholar in a chat on another social proposes that greater focus in ongoing research be directed towards the works of Skandasvāmin, the earliest known commentator on the Ṛgveda.
I’m reading portions of the Buddhist Saṃyuttanikāya and I just came across this passage, which talks about giving back to the community:
ārāmaropā vanaropā ye janā setukārakā
papañ ca udapānañ ca ye dadanti upassayaṃ
tesaṃ divā ca ratto ca sadā puññaṃ pavaḍḍhati
[Saṃyuttanikāya 1.5.7]
“Those people who plant orchards and forests, who build a bridge, those who donate a place for supplying water, a well, an abode, their merit always increases by day and by night.”