On The Bridge To The Future: With AI

A pedestrian bridge in Tongan district in Xiamen, Fujian province, China
Here’s a question that’s a little bit more in the zone of philosophy when it comes to artificial intelligence – how do we think about these technologies impacting our world? In what way do we understand the discovery of LLMs and their capacities, and what happens to our societies, not just in business, but beyond that, where we live?
A corollary question would be how we apply it to commerce and development, and how we see those crucibles where the technologies are actually developed and worked on – before they get to consumer technologies.
Listening to some words from Alvin Graylin recently, I was thinking about some helpful analogies and frameworks that he pointed out for an AI roadmap that we could all use a look at when considering the future of our coexistence with powerful digital sentience.
Three Types of AI Approaches - and a Fourth One
First Graylin enumerated three distinct approaches that many people are taking toward new technology.
The first one is to slow down, and move as close to a snail’s pace as possible. This is where you hear the most about heavy regulation of AI project and deployment – where some urge universal caution, and suggest that we can’t allow these things to spiral out of control.