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Chapter 1: What is the purpose of the Send Me To Sleep podcast?
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Chapter 2: How does Andrew introduce the topic of AI?
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My hope is that by the time you finish listening to this, you'll feel a little bit better in general about the idea of AI. I know that it is something that causes a lot of worry for people.
I have certain friends who have admitted to me that they spend more time thinking about it than they feel they would like to, and it's occupying their thoughts not out of interest but primarily out of worry, which is quite sad to hear. I've always been interested in AI. Well, I say always. About as long as things like ChatGPT have been available to the public.
So, you know, over the last three or four years, I've been quite interested in the technologies. and i do appreciate that the worries are somewhat legitimate and i myself have also felt them you know these are
paradigm shifting technologies that feel like they are beginning to change culture, change society very quickly in a way that doesn't seem all too obvious and the future looks a little bit uncertain There are a few question marks around what artificial intelligence might mean for us all as humans and what it might mean for our future as a society.
How does it work with these technologies embedded within it and especially with how they may change and how quickly they are already changing. But after thinking about these technologies a lot myself, sort of pondering over the philosophies of them, shall we say, I've come to a few conclusions that make me feel better about them in general. And I'm hoping I can impart some of this to you now.
And I'd like to start with talking about AI as a creative tool because I believe that when you begin to unpack why it is that AI is, at least I believe, not necessarily ever going to be such a threat to the creative arts or creativity in general.
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Chapter 3: What concerns do people have about AI?
Art that makes you feel something. Art that you can appreciate and want to get behind. It will always have to be saved for people. For humanity. And you can already see a huge pushback to AI art. There is this now popular term, slop, that goes around the internet. And I believe AI slop as a term was officiated by the Oxford Dictionary this year. And you can see why. Because...
it says something poignant about the time we live in and that is that we have become fatigued we've become tired with things that are inauthentic things that lack a deeper substance I think since the beginning of the internet age we've relished most about this amazing connected web of ours that we are able to share the most authentic elements of people
I remember in the early days of the internet when one could share a home video that was poorly filmed and with awful scratchy audio that depicted a sweet moment with a mum and a child, or perhaps something hilarious that someone's dog did, that by today's standards of internet virality would seem utterly mundane, but would be shared around by millions of purely for its wholesome authenticity.
I think that is something that we still enjoy about the internet, and something that we still crave, although that may, at least in part, be beginning to change. But I think genuine human connection is something that is built into humans and that we're not likely to want to reject anytime soon. And so this is why art will be safe.
and I think this is why overall humanity will be safe of course the other discussions going on at the moment are that AI will begin to slowly replace us, replace our jobs replace our positions may even replace our relationships in the future and again for the very same reason i cannot see this as being true because if you
have true human connection and you take that on one hand and then on the other you have something that very much looks and sounds like human connection and may in fact Be more doting than the people around you. Maybe more aggrandizing. We'll say nicer things to you, as AI often does. But you know it isn't real. It's very, very hard to engage with. It's like trying to take a dream seriously.
Now, I'm not denying that there are people in this world who do take these things seriously and have began to slip away from true human connection, even today. At present, these ideas of running away with a virtual boyfriend or girlfriend and forgetting about your human relationships is not a speculative future premonition, but something that in fact happens now. Though I do think
This will be reserved for the few, and the many will always prefer human connection, because that is why these tools were created in the first place, to some degree or other. Although, there is something to be said about these tools having been created for commercial reasons, for monetary reasons, for much more sinister reasons.
I think this is another reason why people are rejecting these technologies. I haven't even touched upon the potential moral debate to be had. I say to potential, I think within my mind there is no argument to be made to say that these technologies are not foundationally immoral in that they take works
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