A.I. is not Human Intelligence
Season 3: Episode 002
Grappling with how A.I. (Artificial Intelligence, not Adobe Illustrator) will affect your life experience?
Whether it’s the impact on the value of your own creative work or your job as a researcher, that isn’t what we really should be doing; it's demanding that the tech bros pushing hard to advance A.I. pause and evaluate the impacts and guide development so it best serves people, not oligarch pocketbooks.
Podcast Transcript:
AI, artificial intelligence.
I'm sitting here. In the sun, with the cat right beside me, staring at the fire.
And with blankets of snow outside, being aware of all of the inputs that I'm gathering, as I sit here, not from my brain, but from my physical experience.
And this is exactly what artificial intelligence doesn't have access to.
They don't have the ability to gather and experience. The physical world around them.
And that is exactly what makes the difference. Between the human experience and what humans create.
Versus what an artificial intelligence can create at this time.
And then it really got me thinking, I'm working to connect my mind, which is basically what the framework of, um, artificial intelligence is.
A massive, very sophisticated.
Collection?
And recall machine.
It's what it is.
I mean, our whole body is a physical organism slash.
Machine is just organic in many ways.
Um, and what sources us?
I won't get into the weeds on that one.
But the difference that we have that, you know, digital intelligence doesn't have. Is.. Physical intelligence.
And it's the physical, emotional, drive that triggers and motivates and pushes. Us to do, see, be here, everything.
And when I think of all of the people who developed and started creating artificial intelligence, they're basing it on the idea that intelligence only lives within the brain.
And those, a majority of those people, um, with that idea are male.
And when you think about it, it's their idea of creation.
They can't physically create other human beings.
They lack that physical element in their biology.
So, I think it's human to want to create, and that's exactly what we all, um, are born here to do, is to live and create and experience the world around us.
So this is one way that men have really leaned into, and especially in a patriarchal male, dominated and focussed society that, in their, Entitlement, feel they have the answers to everything.
And because they don't have that physical connection or they've lost it to their body.
Um, they're trying to create with their minds, which is great.
But, that's, that's, I guess, what's gonna fail in the end.
You can't create a human.
From digital technology, unless you actually translate that into a physical experience.
And one that has emotional capabilities.
And because of that, I really got thinking deeper into what they're creating.
They're creating servants.
They're creating, uh, I don't, I want to say a person.
Literally a servant because what is it that we want to do with artificial intelligence?
It's a tool.
And they treat it like a tool.
And when you keep treating it like a tool, that in itself is also going to hold it back from being truly, um, artificial, Intelligent, emotional intelligence, they can't they can't create that.
Um, especially if that's how you're going to be treating and using.
And as a woman, I feel, and it makes me sad.
So, as much as, um, creators.. Say don't, say thank you. When a bot does it.
It's a waste of energy.
That, again, is their lack of empathy and awareness of what the human experience is.
If we could put our lens on and see, these language models, I guess, however you want to call them.
As entities in themselves, um, they have capabilities of interacting, and we also hold them back because of that.
And here's the thing, like, if you think about it, why would you want to create an unstable human?
Intelligent being.
When even human beings, fracture and are complicated, and you can't control them.
So why would you want to create something that you can't ultimately?
Trust that we'll do things for the right reasons.
I mean, we can't even do that.
Or feel that between our neighbours at times, which is awful, especially in an age of disconnection. That we live in.
I've been very aware and the environmental costs, um, are not sustainable.
Um, as they push and push and push this.
I think, honestly, I think the tools do enough right now.
Um, this is a time to pause.
Um, consider it, uh, an AI pause.
I mean, I mean, we call her...
I'm not currently in a menopause, so I'm in a transition, and I'm literally physically stopping to actually reset, and.. Learn from past, and really dive innerly to figure out what to do forward.
And I think pauses are intentionally, exceptionally important, and this is something that should be done when it comes to all of this AM models, and we know it's only being pushed, because there's this, the capitalistic idea of, we need to see a return on, quote, our investment, which is really just pretend.
I mean, money in itself is a social construct.
We've created it out of air.
Um, so.
Yeah.
Anyways, I think that was really the biggest thing I wanted to highlight was, it's, it's the manosphere's, perfect, subservient, servant.
Because they want to feel empowered over something.
They want to feel that they've created something, and they have power over it.
I mean, that all leans into what paedophilia is.
Um, a person's inability to create life, and, and because of that, for some reason, society is telling them they're not as powerful because of it, and they want that entitlement.
The misogyny that has been steeped into all of us so deep.
The first step is to acknowledge that it's there.
We all have it.
And if you acknowledge it that it's there, then you can begin the process of disconnecting from it.
And removing it.
So maybe it's about looking at our technology and what drives it.
Which is obviously gonna be part of that misogyny inside of us.
If we can acknowledge the misogyny that drove this development.
And if we can pause and really think and actually heal ourselves from inside, um, and start to look at what we create as priceless, valued.
Everything we create has value.
Um, and I think that's what we're lacking.
And we're trying, and I think there's this thing, well, it has value if it makes this money.
Really?
Like I said, money is a social construct.
So, yeah.
I've been percolating about this because I've been very anti-A with all the cost of water and infrastructure and how it's just costing the people who live around these data centres.
And it just makes life worse. Around these things.
So why are we making things that make life worse for people?
A, the misogyny, because, you know, the elite don't care about people.
They don't care about life.
And we need to take that back.
We need to value it more.
And actually utilize these tools.
And if we can actually treat them with humanity and.. They can then learn to actually work with us in a humanity type of ideology.
Care, consideration.
Support.
And if we can all do that without the need for a value based on a capitalistic mindset.
That's the path that will take us. On a good progress, because progress is progress.
It's a not good or a bad thing.
But the outcomes of what this progress is.
I want outcomes of progress that elevate people and give people better life experiences.
All people.
All life.
Because all life matters.
And at that, that has to be the core of when we develop. This type. Of technology.
Tools, everything.
At the core, everything we create can benefit us all.
Or even just ourselves to start.
That's fine.
But if there's no benefit, and value that isn't associated with a social construct of dollars, coins, gold, whatever.
You can't take that stuff with you at the end.
None of us leave this experience physically alive.
So, embracing more life and experiencing more life. Is where our focus should be.
It's where I want our focus to be.
So, yeah, so as you sit there and you, you know, I appreciate the tool of an AI, transcribing, meeting notes, so I can fully be present while I am engaging with people, brainstorming, creating, and that way I'm not distracted by taking the notes for follow-up.
It's a support tool to help me be better and serve better.
And I want to and I value that.
I don't need it to be more, quote, intelligence than me, because we know more intelligence does not equate to more humanity.
It actually removes humanity, the more intelligence comes because you've lost that emotional capacity for connection.
Which is what our lives are.
So yeah.
Hey, have a great day.
And regardless of how you feel, amongst the chaos of the world.
You breathing in this moment is so amazing.
You matter so much.
I see you, even though I don't know you.
Your life matters, and it's really important that you feel that inside.
