In Game of Thrones, Olenna Tyrell (the matriarch of the Tyrell House)<\/a> notes that games and festivals are organized by the powerful to keep people focused on the wrong things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These little things – the entertainment peanuts, they keep us glued and grinning, like trained monkeys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While…<\/p>\n\n\n\n We choose to create our caricatures, mass-produce our SM posts, do our assignments, write our resumes – all using the free but old versions of the AI models, which don’t give us a real picture of the model’s real-time capabilities. The competencies that we ooh-and-ah about belong to older versions – and with the exponential growth of intelligence that these models are experiencing, we are not talking about capability addition, we are talking about capability multiplication, even exponentiation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But we, you and I, are being asked by our companies to adapt to AI, or leave.<\/a> Voluntarily. Nobody is forcing us out, you see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first thing we, and I mean each of us, must do is… ask direct, no-fluff questions, and not settle for silence or even for veiled, weak answers.<\/strong> We need to get the conversations started <\/strong>– with our bosses, our staff, our big-bosses, our larger-than-life super-bosses. The truth is, they need us – the numbers, the middle-class, the AI-annotators now<\/em>. As time goes on, they’ll need us less and less<\/em>. For those playing the betting game…well, it’s a game.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Simultaneously, we need to train our critical thinking, curiosity, and creativity to make them stronger than ever before<\/strong>. So that we may pivot when needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk’s being realistic in scaling down his dreams from Mars to the Moon<\/a>…and with the marriage of his AI company with his Space company, it’s possible that he’d be setting up the first human colony on Moon – but he isn’t sending out invitations to us for a lunar citizenship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We need to build our own ark. Let us start by asking a few questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because, hey, if we don’t care enough to answer these questions, then maybe we deserve all that’s coming to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You and I – the ones who aren’t at the helm, we are in the middle of the storm – and we don’t matter to the ones conjuring the storm. Recall that for Zeus<\/a> and all other gods, humans were just pawns – a sort of entertainment, to be moved at their will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Think about it, question it, talk about it, tell your family about it, prepare your children to face it – protect your mind and theirs with the ferocity of a mother tiger guarding her cubs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Stay aware, stay curious, stay intelligent, and talk about it. <\/em> Now, some important screenshots made by our favorite AI: <\/strong>Google Gemini (The Search Assistant AI) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ask yourself once again. Who do you trust (among the names listed below)? Them or the LinkedIn influencers who use AI to write their posts that talk about AI being the most democratizing invention since the Big Bang (which Eric Lerner believes might not have happened!<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
What are we missing out on and why?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
So the question is: what do we do?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
AI is not the ark. It is the storm.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For the next few years, let us talk less about cuisines and dresses and music and dance – let’s talk about the fact that people who built AI and are still building it are exploding their lungs and saying, human existence might be in peril.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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