![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
What would you be capable of if you had been raised inside an incredibly wealthy family who hired genius-level advisors and tutors to help you learn about and understand anything that sparked your curiosity? Try to imagine for a moment how knowledgeable you would be by your exposure to all that information. Think how easy learning would become. Your personal tutor(s) could accompany you on trips into the forest and explain all the animals and plants, and their behaviors and the physics and chemistry that make them possible. Your tutors would warn you of dangers and alert you to opportunities. They would help you grow from childhood to be superhumanly intelligent, while at the same time ensuring that you maintain emotional balance and happiness.
Now imagine that you have a circle of childhood friends, mostly around your own age, and they all are from similarly wealthy families who all have genius-level tutors and advisors, so your friends, too, are raised to have superhuman intelligence coupled with perfect emotional balance.
This is what we have right now with access to AI. But it is not just available to the wealthiest few; everybody with a smartphone, or cheap computer can now have this. This is why I feel AI has begun a revolution for humanity. It is democratising intelligence.
Previously you had to be fairly wealthy to have access to books, and to live where there were libraries. You had to be raised by parents and teachers who had the time, energy, interest, and knowledge to encourage learning. Most people were raised in ignorance. It was nobody's fault; it's just how it was. Now that has changed. Anybody can find out almost anything any time they want, by asking their AI. It is a personal tutor that has genius-level knowledge on a vast range of topics.
The world now is different, and most people don't realise it has already happened. They are still debating what change AI might make in the future. But it already has, and almost nobody has noticed. We are worrying about misinformation, truth in media, lying politicians... but those all belong to the past. We have stepped through to a new age. Now we just wait for the old generations to give way to the new generation... and try not to damage the world too much before they come of age.
Now imagine that you have a circle of childhood friends, mostly around your own age, and they all are from similarly wealthy families who all have genius-level tutors and advisors, so your friends, too, are raised to have superhuman intelligence coupled with perfect emotional balance.
This is what we have right now with access to AI. But it is not just available to the wealthiest few; everybody with a smartphone, or cheap computer can now have this. This is why I feel AI has begun a revolution for humanity. It is democratising intelligence.
Previously you had to be fairly wealthy to have access to books, and to live where there were libraries. You had to be raised by parents and teachers who had the time, energy, interest, and knowledge to encourage learning. Most people were raised in ignorance. It was nobody's fault; it's just how it was. Now that has changed. Anybody can find out almost anything any time they want, by asking their AI. It is a personal tutor that has genius-level knowledge on a vast range of topics.
The world now is different, and most people don't realise it has already happened. They are still debating what change AI might make in the future. But it already has, and almost nobody has noticed. We are worrying about misinformation, truth in media, lying politicians... but those all belong to the past. We have stepped through to a new age. Now we just wait for the old generations to give way to the new generation... and try not to damage the world too much before they come of age.