Jamie Metzl

We need to keep training ourselves to be the best humans that we can be.

And the good news is we have thousands of years of history left.

Of wonderful humans who've been asking those same questions.

If we separate ourselves from our humanity and from our history and from each other and enter into these atomized, digitized worlds, we are really going to get lost and not for the better.

So we'll have different algorithms and different models of AI that will do some things better and worse.

Right now, the LLMs, the large language models, are the dominant AI systems that are doing this prediction without cognition.

People like Gary Marcus are justifiably raising questions about the limits.

And then I mentioned the world models that people like Fei-Fei Li and Yan LeCun

And I think that will be just a different way of thinking about how we process.

And don't get me wrong.

These systems will be incredible.

They will do incredible superhuman things in many areas.

But in my view, as a humanist, there will be massive areas where humans can do things that we deeply value and we can do them better than or different than our machines.

And I think that saying that AGI is coming where the machines can do everything better than humans, I just think that it's preposterous and self-defeating.

What we should say is AIs are going to be able to do some pretty incredible things, and humans are going to be able to do some pretty critical things in our education, in our lives.

We need to keep asking ourselves, what does it mean for us to be the best humans we can possibly be, living the most meaningful lives?

Doing amazing human stuff.

And I don't think that that set of what humans can meaningfully do is some kind of limited set.

And it's all going to be taken over.

Right now, if you and I were to get in some time travel machine, go back 13,000 years ago and explain what we do.