As if Siri is a person
Count how many times you respond to tech as if it were a real person—for one day this week.
:- Doug.
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Ethically self aware
How do we become ethically self aware so we can figure out stories for the 300-year grandchild elders?
:- Doug.
A ball with a bulge
With artificial general intelligence we need to include the other human characteristics, or we risk brainiac: intelligence without thinking, without context. Emphasis only on intelligence can easily create lopsided beings running amok. A ball with a bulge.
:- Doug.
Aliens coming from earth
The aliens can come from earth as well as the stars, indeed they are already silently aborning among us: artificial general intelligence will be to us inscrutable.
:- Doug.
Intimate Big Data
What if individuals could easily get intimate data on the companies with whom they do business, like Big Data does to them?
:- Doug.
Think Furby cute
Furby was a toy that seemed to learn English; research now interactive toys. The AIs may first invade us as toys, we will grow up with their interactivity, we will not notice. Will we also affect them? Think not AI, think interactivity. Think cute.
:- Doug.
Through our looking glass?
How might thinking machines help humans become more human, be our own through the looking glass?
:- Doug.
How do you reflect?
How do you like to think and reflect—reading, writing, videos, song, conversation, other means?
:- Doug.
Already changing us
Tell a story about how computers, cell phones, and the Web are already changing us sociologically, morally, spiritual—collectively and individually—and how are we doing it to ourselves.
:- Doug.
Informed consent to futures
What is the informed consent to our human futures, such as AGI, Big Data, LAW?
:- Doug.
Human General Intelligence
More than designing our AIs, we need to design our human stance toward Artificial General Intelligence: that is, to design HGI.
:- Doug.
Human hive
The individual ant and bee go about their business not aware they are growing and sustaining a hive. The human hive is the city.
:- Doug.
To shoot the waterfall
Ahead is a waterfall we’re about to shoot. It may be calm waters at the bottom, but where do we go? (If we make it?)
:- Doug.
Freedom of view
Take a “What then” approach to futures, avoid getting stuck in specifics of how we get there. This freedom of view is what the 300 years gives.
:- Doug.
