I miss scarcity

I love your cartoon! One's brain rusts from non-use. AI, IMHO is the best way to commit intellectual suicide. AI's great for finding facts quite quickly (I do this all the time) but for subjective stuff, not so much. All you get is the mother of all consensuses. I note that some folks admit to even using AI for composition. Educated folks, so they say. Kids in school must just love it. No wonder our school system is going to hell in a hand basket!  

I still enjoy wallowing in music that I have grown to love as well as in my search for music that I missed the first time. For me 'discovery' is a BIG deal. 

The problem is not A.I.

We can use it as a tool for curing cancer or searching about Raimon Lull logic etc...

The problem is what we dont use anymore rust indeed ... The problem is our yet immature social fabric...

One’s brain rusts from non-use

Who will read a book and takes the time if A.I. can write one book  resuming 100 others books in seconds ? 

A child will be inspired to work on learning reading and writing  speaking with A.I. ? 

I doubt it will be the case  for most child...

Thinking is linked to writing and reading but  writing and reading in a specific joyful but also "painful"  learned way which cannot be taught no more now when even universities are obsolete...

"let there be content" : 

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/ai-cut-loose-what-could-go-wrong/

 

 On a personal note i am happy since i own a computer. Why?

Because it was impossible for my budget to buy books and music before computer.

At 28 i had enough books  whose value was the price of a house.but when you study books are not small price...The same goes for music...

I married  and with children suffered in my thirst for knowledge . But with the computer i could obtain everything. The happiest day of my life after my childs birth.

Then i am no Luddite... I love technology... This must be clear...

But we are not ready at all, our social fabric either, to integrate A.I.

It is auto-destructive...

Sure i dont miss scarcity at all...

I can study any matter at will ...And i know how to pick the essential ( it is what we learn learning how to write and read) 

I miss common sense...

 Too much novelty at a too greater speed  kill common sense especially if we cannot integrate novelty...

A.I. is not a mere novelty, it is not even a tool. It is an engine of social destruction.

Some inventions are born with a very  bad timing...

But with a computer i learned maths and many other things like acoustics etc . i casted astrological charts also and i then learned there is no "bad timing" for world event...

Then....

 

 

For me, AI has been an incredible tool for learning. It has been incredibly effectively used in some schools. But it is a new paradigm. You can’t look at it the same way. I have implemented cutting edge software all my life. The hardest thing is to get folks to stop doing things the same way and use the tools. So, for instance I implemented global systems to run the whole company (SAP). Everyone wants to input the same data in a screen that look the same instead of standing back and let the system do it and just deal with exceptions. 

With AI, it is being used incredibly effectively in education. But letting it assess the levels of kids and then customize a learning program in terms they are interested in to teach them. 

A student at MIT, input all her class notes and sample test and had AI teach her all the underlying principles and keep quizzing her until she understood them. 

AI enables one to learn much faster... to explore the world of knowledge... kind of like streaming opens up the world of music if you choose to use it. 

It requires new approaches... not just doing the same old thing. 

 

I agree that AI touches language, which means it touches the bios–logos relation itself.

Also that this is different from steam engines and telegraphs and that if captured by oligarchic interests, AI becomes a meaning-extraction machine, and society fragments.

 

But it does not follow that: “AI inevitably severs human agency.”

 

The decisive variable is: Whether humans continue to own the interpretive act. Meaning is not produced by symbols. Meaning is produced by embodied beings who care. A prompt does not make one an artist. But neither does a paintbrush.

 

The question is whether the human intention remains primary. If we lose that, yes—Titanic analogy holds. If we keep it, AI becomes more like a prosthesis of imagination.

 

A Closing Line Back to Your Groucho Marx Quote

 

…“A metaphor is a phone call between two objects.”

 

Yes… and the real question is not whether the phone exists.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/podcasts/hardfork-education-alpha-school.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0E8.mmZE.fqJvdLHPsGy3&smid=url-share

Thanks for the link...ghdprentice

I think we are not too far from one another...

I want as you hope and ressources...

Technology can provide them for sure...

 

My only point and it is an important one:  Education of child need human contact...

Teaching is not at all about informing the child...

it is about learning how to behave and act...Then it is about body activities in sport and creative art... About Thinking when learning how to read and write, only human can teach that to young children...

The problem is the human intention is not at all a conscious process, it is a social process...

A.I. cannot be here a catalyst replacing human contact (teachers) it can only be disruptive...

 We cannot all be A.I.  prompter for the works we all dream to work with as in the cartoon above...

Jobs and capitalism are obsolete as communism was...

Only the hive seems to emerge from this... 

i remember the first manageable  computer in 1970 big as two refrigerator with cards. my friend of the times whom i lost few years later because he disapear  in IBM, one day arrive happy:

"you see you wrote poems but now you are obsolete,my computer can write poems too" he was mi-serious, mi joking...

Nowadays who read poetry?

It is impossible to master our native language if we dont master poetry...

It is impossible to master mathematics  if we dont master  highly abstract concepts which are metaphors...

If A.I. decide what are the metaphors for us because he will become our master soon,  mankind will become a hive.

 

What is"common sense"...

It is the glue that link us unconsciously as consciously...it is what emerge of the relation between bios and logos...Common sense was there before fire invention, it was the link between the apes.But common sense, our common nature and social  belonging cannot survive cyborgs...

 

 

Here i take Google A.I. to shorten a thought of McLuhan about "common sense" :

 

 evolved with media, referring to a "new" kind of unified sensory and cognitive awareness formed by the media environment. It is a person’s ability to translate sensory experiences into a unified, coherent understanding of the world, a process that becomes increasingly multisensory in the electronic age due to technologies like television and the internet. He argued that the "common sense" of a particular era is shaped by its dominant media technologies, leading to a new sensory ratio that can be both unifying and disruptive. »

The fifth factor of media i added to the McLuhan tetrad is : self destruction...

All technologies are disruptive till the day one new tech. is born driving us to auto-destruction... A.I. is this decisive moment in our history...

 

This  will be the lost of common human sense deem as obsolete ....

Check out the link. The grade school using AI, uses it for three hours a day… getting all the formal training out of the way. Then the majority of the time is used in groups… socializing, life skills, and working together. Used correctly it is about maximizing socialization as well as learning. 
 

I think what the shows is that you must completely rethink how approach learning.