Call me slow, but I have taken a long while to join the AI party. I guess I am a bit \u2018old school\u2019 when it comes to making doing stuff – I like to think it\u2019s all coming ‘out of my head\u2019, that what I say, write, or make is \u2018all me\u2019.<\/p>\n
But the more I read and listen about AI, and the ever growing power mush of automation, it is really isn\u2019t that simple. So much of what I know, think, believe, etc., has in some sense been \u2018given\u2019 to me, \u2018instilled\u2019 by my upbringing and experience and not least by living through quite a few years of education. Given my social and historical background (in the 19th century and beyond into my anonymous ancestral past) my life is rich, broad and healthy in a way the vast majority of my ancestors could never have known.<\/p>\n
Of course I know that their way of life – mostly rural, mostly hard, mostly short-lived – included elements that for those of us living in more bourgeios world might induce a nostalgic longing, But I also \u2018know\u2019 that their lives were, well, mostly shitty.<\/p>\n
In short, my life is, already, the result of a great deal of automation, of things and ideas \u2018made\u2019 elsewhere and then \u2018given\u2019. And although I am \u2018late to the the AI party\u2019 most of of my daily life relies on an increasing \u2018throughput\u2019 of automated content – water, electricity, entertainment, travel, food \u2026 you name it, but it\u2019s is all provided by automation on an industrial scale (even the screw caps on the milk we buy is added by a machine doing more or less its own thing!).<\/p>\n
So I am ariving at the AI moment<\/strong> when unavoidably I find I have to engage in some way. But it\u2019s risky because (i) pretty much everything I thought made me human is increasingly automated, and (ii) I am in danger of being cast aside as so much wastage, perhaps to return to a feudal past or, worse a subscription-only future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It cannot be avoided. ‘AI’ is here and like the Body Snatchers we are being remaded in its image. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai_etc","category-technology_general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}