> But now we have to figure out how to structure that raw intelligence into actual useful thinking patterns.
My go-to framing is:
1. W've developed an amazing tool that extends a document. Any "intelligence" is in there.
2. Many uses begin with a document that resembles a movie-script conversation between a computer and a human, alternatively adding new lines (from a real human) and performing the extended lines that parse out as "Computer says."
3. This illusion is effective against homo sapiens, who are biologically and subconsciously primed to make and experience stories. We confuse the actor with the character with the scriptwriter.
Unfortunately, the illusion is so good that a lot of developers are having problems pulling themselves back to the real world too. It's as if we're trying to teach fashion-sense and embarrassment and empathy to a cloud which looks like a person, rather than changing how the cloudmaker machine works. (The latter also being more difficult and more expensive.)
My go-to framing is:
1. W've developed an amazing tool that extends a document. Any "intelligence" is in there.
2. Many uses begin with a document that resembles a movie-script conversation between a computer and a human, alternatively adding new lines (from a real human) and performing the extended lines that parse out as "Computer says."
3. This illusion is effective against homo sapiens, who are biologically and subconsciously primed to make and experience stories. We confuse the actor with the character with the scriptwriter.
Unfortunately, the illusion is so good that a lot of developers are having problems pulling themselves back to the real world too. It's as if we're trying to teach fashion-sense and embarrassment and empathy to a cloud which looks like a person, rather than changing how the cloudmaker machine works. (The latter also being more difficult and more expensive.)