Sims and synthetics
Published
January 31, 2025
What are the potential implications to understand?
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This will open the floodgates to all kinds of exploitation and exploration simultaneously, and new systems and practices of authentication, validation and beliefs will emerge. The complexity and emergence is real already, but we haven't even started to grasp the totality of this all. This will open the floodgates to all kinds of exploitation and exploration simultaneously, and new systems and practices of authentication, validation and beliefs will emerge. The complexity and emergence is real already, but we haven't even started to grasp the totality of this all.
For one, until we reach the next paradigm on this, fear and panic will increase exponentially. We will see more politicians requiring immediate authoritative means to put the proverbial cat in the bag. As a result, there will be overreactions, followed by (hopefully) sensible regulation both by nation states and also self-governing tech platforms. The geographical contrasts on how this goes will be stark.
Second, this will eventually make many of or science fiction fantasies reality, and the real magic will happen at the mundane level. With agents, we can already automate or speed up many mundane tasks from simple actions to baseline sensemaking. Imagine what happens when we have synthetics interacting autonymously.
There is an incredible potential here, as well as risk. As the research already states, best decisions happen with a human in the loop, or AI in the loop. Coadaptive systems for collaboration, not automation.
Here's an interesting thought exercise for you: for a moment, stop thinking AI and agents as exact computing, and instead as human-like entities with fast, but limited intelligence and understanding of context. Smart puppies with an immense vocabulary and memory.
What are the decisions you would trust them to make? What part of your personal agency are you willing to share, or give away completely? Why?
Making many of or science fiction fantasies reality,
Second, this will eventually make many of or science fiction fantasies reality, and the real magic will happen at the mundane level. With agents, we can already automate or speed up many mundane tasks from simple actions to baseline sensemaking. Imagine what happens when we have synthetics interacting autonymously.
There is an incredible potential here, as well as risk. As the research already states, best decisions happen with a human in the loop, or AI in the loop. Coadaptive systems for collaboration, not automation.
Here's an interesting thought exercise for you: for a moment, stop thinking AI and agents as exact computing, and instead as human-like entities with fast, but limited intelligence and understanding of context. Smart puppies with an immense vocabulary and memory.
What are the decisions you would trust them to make? What part of your personal agency are you willing to share, or give away completely? Why?
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This will open the floodgates to all kinds of exploitation and exploration simultaneously, and new systems and practices of authentication, validation and beliefs will emerge. The complexity and emergence is real already, but we haven't even started to grasp the totality of this all. This will open the floodgates to all kinds of exploitation and exploration simultaneously, and new systems and practices of authentication, validation and beliefs will emerge. The complexity and emergence is real already, but we haven't even started to grasp the totality of this all.
For one, until we reach the next paradigm on this, fear and panic will increase exponentially. We will see more politicians requiring immediate authoritative means to put the proverbial cat in the bag. As a result, there will be overreactions, followed by (hopefully) sensible regulation both by nation states and also self-governing tech platforms. The geographical contrasts on how this goes will be stark.
Second, this will eventually make many of or science fiction fantasies reality, and the real magic will happen at the mundane level. With agents, we can already automate or speed up many mundane tasks from simple actions to baseline sensemaking. Imagine what happens when we have synthetics interacting autonymously.
There is an incredible potential here, as well as risk. As the research already states, best decisions happen with a human in the loop, or AI in the loop. Coadaptive systems for collaboration, not automation.
Here's an interesting thought exercise for you: for a moment, stop thinking AI and agents as exact computing, and instead as human-like entities with fast, but limited intelligence and understanding of context. Smart puppies with an immense vocabulary and memory.
What are the decisions you would trust them to make? What part of your personal agency are you willing to share, or give away completely? Whyyyyy?
Coadaptive systems for collaboration, not automation
Second, this will eventually make many of or science fiction fantasies reality, and the real magic will happen at the mundane level. With agents, we can already automate or speed up many mundane tasks from simple actions to baseline sensemaking. Imagine what happens when we have synthetics interacting autonymously. There is an incredible potential here, as well as risk. As the research already states, best decisions happen with a human in the loop, or AI in the loop. Coadaptive systems for collaboration, not automation.
Here's an interesting thought exercise for you: for a moment, stop thinking AI and agents as exact computing, and instead as human-like entities with fast, but limited intelligence and understanding of context. Smart puppies with an immense vocabulary and memory. What are the decisions you would trust them to make? What part of your personal agency are you willing to share, or give away completely? Whyyyyy?
Second, this will eventually make many of or science fiction fantasies reality, and the real magic will happen at the mundane level. With agents, we can already automate or speed up many mundane tasks from simple actions to baseline sensemaking. Imagine what happens when we have synthetics interacting autonymously. There is an incredible potential here, as well as risk. As the research already states, best decisions happen with a human in the loop, or AI in the loop. Coadaptive systems for collaboration, not automation.
