"How does AI make us feel" by Andreas Wandelt

"How does AI make us feel" by Dr Andreas Wandelt.

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The "new world" of ChatGPT & its colleagues seems to be everywhere. How real is it? How much of it is just hype? We don't know. And we will not know for a while. But definitely, the outputs are real. "All Large Language Models just predict the next word - but some of these predictions are remarkably useful". A lot is being written on these outputs, on how to shape them ("prompting"), how much better the systems will be next year, how much they "hallucinate", and so on.

But what is the emotional impact of that on us personally? How does it feel if people around us are using such systems to communicate with us? How does it feel if they process and digest our content on medium, substack etc.? If they analyze, scrutinize and critique what we wrote? And what if people around us use these systems to create new content? Can such content even be really "new"? Do such people augment themselves, becoming able to do and to express things they would otherwise not be able to? Or do they just create some bland mush which is not "good enough" for anything?

As humans, our feelings and our intuition on this, and not only our rationality, will guide our responses to these questions. And these feelings will be different whether we discuss at large what happens, vs. discussing very specific examples covering content we know, and people we know. So we will become very specific in this session.

Society will evolve in whatever way, but personally, we do have agency. We can decide whether or not to use these systems, when to use them, and how to use them. And we can decide how to interact with those who do use them. Let us look at this together, let us explore how today's real live outputs make us feel. Let us enrich our insight, and refine and strengthen our intuition, so we can make wise decisions with respect to these new "things".

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Andreas lives in Northwest Germany, and pursues an enhanced understanding of the world, mainly through a complex adaptive systems lens. His tagline could be "bacteria, brains and societies". When his degrees of freedom were more limited, he worked on process and organizational change and stability topics for large organizations, across a wide variety of geographical/cultural contexts. He also has a basic scientific education by way of a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. Andreas severely resents the notion that he has "retired". He instead insists that his learning just became profit-independent..

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