Along with relinquishing much of our freedom to technology, we have exchanged true happiness with counterfeit versions which only make sense in a machine world: we quantify happiness based on the number of consumer goods we buy and on GDP rather than on meaningful existence, exactly because we emulate machines: focusing only on the numbers … Continue reading Happiness In the Machine Age: An Exclusively Human Problem
We are being told by CEOs, self-proclaimed futurists, visionaries, technology gurus and Silicon Valley geeks with millions of followers and thousands of books sold, that AI will bring about a never-before-seen abundance, after a “short rough patch” of adjustment. I’ve watched a number of talks, interviews and discussions online with these experts over the years, … Continue reading AI Won’t Destroy the World. Humans Using AI Will.
The Thing is getting much more than us out of this human / machine partnership deal. It is getting the most precious commodity: data. It is beginning to own us, and our only planet. We have relinquished control over who buys our data, how much they pay for it, and what they do with it. … Continue reading Dawn of the Algorithmocracy
George Tsakraklides 