#computing #ai # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # How much we should delegate to the machines ![[DALL·E 2022-06-21 14.20.01 - A man face to face with a robot, holding in his hand his own human brain, arm towards the robot, digital art.png]] I've been recently using extensively deepl to fix my sentences / grammar (copy sentence, translate in a language, translate back in original one) and it works pretty well. In the past I used GPT-2 to generate my master's thesis abstract (in part at least). The recent deep learning revolution in natural language processing enable such things. ![[aa1e34ee-3a2c-4324-85d6-fe22e49c1c56-0-1391782485.png]] The question is how much should we delegate to the machines ? When you use Google Maps to navigate, you never remember the path taken. %%A human hold in a leash by a machine, a complete slave%% ![[e204ff9b-2e5f-40e7-9381-c785f7311250-0-726170571.png]] [[Nassim Taleb]] "have no secretary" I'm not sure it applies for machines, I understand the heuristic in the case of human to human case because the human could go away anytime and then you would be lost. But for human to machine case, since they should be always available, there is no risk. In the late future we could imagine machines completely replacing all human jobs and we will have plenty of time to do whatever we want, then more people will turn to the only thing that really matter: why do we exists -> [[Philosophy]]. ## Can we restart society from scratch? In Foundation from [[Aasimov]], they evoke the possibility of modern society being destroyed and having to again from scratch, without technology. We will then know nothing because we delegated much of our [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] to machines, we won't be able to start from scratch? #to-digest # prompts - Why do you think there are so few female mathematicians?, - What is a pain point for you in your daily life that you are trying to solve through technology?, - How can we use AI to extend human capabilities?