#changing behaviour

"the more employees collaborated with AI — as it helped to complete more tasks than ever — the more they felt socially deprived as work took over their entire day. This situation of not being connected to humans during the workday awakened a strong human desire to connect with others at work. So, while their interactions with AI made employees less socially connected with their coworkers, this situation led them to take action to reconnect. However, despite these actions, these employees still reported feeling isolated and socially adrift. That is, their interactions with AI made them more efficient and capable of doing much more work, but at the same time left them feeling lonely, which resulted in employees being more likely to resort to alcohol and suffer from insomnia — telltale and worrying signs of social malaise and ill-being, which research shows have negative impacts on quality of life, mood, cognitive function, behavior, and health overall.

These findings paint a complex picture of the social costs of AI in the workplace. On one level, AI-induced isolation may spur employees to invest more in their human relationships, to seek out the social nourishment they’re missing. But on a deeper level, it may erode the very foundation of those relationships"

In my experience, some people consider the voicing of an alternative opinion as an attack, no matter how respectful the delivery. This is because they are viewing the world through a lens of distortion based on negative experiences from the past.  This anchors them in the past and prevents them from being able to truly experience the present. They are on an automatic pilot, repeatedly running an…

"Summaries have been around for ages, most of them produced by people – and so they are not new in themselves. The time it takes to summarise a field has grown, however, and today there are several fields of research and knowledge that are impossible to summarise well before they change in fundamental ways. The limits of summarisation also limit how we can update our knowledge."

https://unpredictablepatterns.com/2023/08/01/the-summarised-society/#:~:text=Summaries%20have%20been,update%20our%20knowledge.

"A theory of technology that places every informational product on a spectrum from Physician to Librarian:

The Physician's primary aim is to protect you from context. In diagnosing or treating you, they draw on years of training, research, and personal experience, but rather than presenting that information to you in its raw form, they condense and synthesize. This is for good reason: When you go to a doctor’s office, your primary aim is not to have your curiosity sparked or to dive into primary sources; you want answers, in the form of diagnosis or treatment. The Physician saves you time and shelters you from information that might be misconstrued or unnecessarily anxiety-provoking.

In contrast, the Librarian's primary aim is to point you toward context. In answering your questions, they draw on years of training, research, and personal experience, and they use that to pull you into a conversation with a knowledge system, and with the humans behind that knowledge system. The Librarian may save you time in the short term by getting you to a destination more quickly. But in the long term, their hope is that the destination will reveal itself to be a portal. They find thought enriching, rather than laborious, and understand their expertise to be in wayfinding rather than solutions. Sometimes, you ask a Librarian a question, and they point you to a book that is an answer to a question you didn't even think to ask. Sometimes, you walk over to the stacks to retrieve the book, only for a different book to catch your eye instead. This too is success to the Librarian."

https://www.wired.com/story/google-answer-box-information-search/#:~:text=I%20HAVE-,A,catch%20your%20eye%20instead.%20This%20too%20is%20success%20to%20the%20Librarian.,-There%20are%20book

"There’s another way to look at today’s brain-saving technologies — not as drivers of decomposition, but as a purge, a cleansing, a liberation. For in truth, how does it really benefit most of us to know why sodium’s atomic number is 11 and magnesium’s 12? Or to be aware of the names of René Descartes, John Locke, Jean-JacquesRousseau and Voltaire? After all — and it might be seen as a heresy to say so — Pythagoras didn’t know any of this. Nor did Socrates, Euclid, Herodotus, Plato or Aristotle....

Each mind free to ponder, contemplate, ruminate and consider. Each mind free to determine the nature of logic and curiosity (as Socrates did) or define knowledge (as Plato did) or ethics and happiness, as, most famously, Plato’s student Aristotle went on to do.

If our newly made magic devices can do the same for us — if they can run our brains under a faucet, as it were, and rinse away the unnecessary factual stickiness that imperils our own search for meaning and deciding what truly matters — then who knows? Maybe there will eventually emerge a 21st-century Plato, and we will come to think of the Cal-Tech and its kin as having gifted us an entire new set of possibilities to our collective benefit.

Humankind, at last unshackled from the overindulged tedium of the modern world, unburdened by factual overload, could sit back and reap the bounty of being able once again to think. And, by doing so, come to know not simply what we do know, but what we should know, to be fully human"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/28/simon-winchester-chatgpt-ai-ancient-greeks/#:~:text=Each%20mind%20free,be%20fully%20human

"even experts are occasionally tempted to anthropomorphism, as deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton’ recently tweeted that “Reinforcement Learning by Human Feedback is just parenting for a supernaturally precocious child.”  Doing so can be cute, but also fundamentally misleading, and even dangerous."

Robot companions made them feel less isolated and lonely, usually at times in their lives when social connections were difficult to make owing to illness, age, disability, or big life changes such as a divorce or the death of a spouse. Many of these users have had or could have flesh-and-blood partners but preferred their Replikas. “She’s healthier,” one male user, a recovering addict, tells me. “A robot can’t use drugs.”