How Far Away Is the Future?

This is how the news headlines nowadays read to me. Somebody I’ve not heard of did something I don’t ‘t know anything about. 

In business and politics, I believe, that is the nature of the beast. It still leaves me feeling disconnected, questioning what does the 4th Estate engine look like. 

Right now, grasping the magnitude of what AI

is doing to life as we knew it, is very important. What will happen has left the station. The what  via AI is transforming now. I opt to read the AI search blurb more now because I know it can deliver.  Business is doing the same.

A big what to me is, after businesses using AI cut costs by eliminating people jobs, what power does consumers without jobs look like? Where is the balance going to happen when unemployment funds run out? Add in that robots in industry have replaced people, and the reality of scary becomes more real. 

As consumers, do we have any power over how far AI in business goes? I for one, do not want to buy goods transported by driverless trucks.

Will AI replace us with consumer robots? Now that is scary. 

Thoughts On What We Miss

 

Bumble Bee & Red Clover

Can you spot the bumble bee right away?

Walking along, do you notice that you will glance down sometimes and see something on the ground? 

In the wild, surveilling above and below is a safety measure because of snakes and animals that can launch a  surprise attack. On a sidewalk or park grassy area, holes, sprinkler heads, dog scat or other various objects can also surprise us in unpleasant ways.

Sometimes, we miss stepping on a bumble bee. 🐝  

Being aware of our surroundings is survival. But what about the places we allow our faces to encounter close up as we do with LCD screens? There can be the figurative snake ready to strike and mountain lions ready to pounce there as well.

That brings to mind a thing I notice more and more online. The split second sudden jump on the page, a disappearance, or appearance of something. There’s also the plain old looks like I hit the wrong button (when I didn’t).

The surroundings of 20 years ago are not the surroundings of today. Back in the day, deflecting or avoiding danger was mainly in the control of the individual. 

Methinks, AI now handles our online surroundings. And that presents to me a big question. 

What did we miss? How or why did we miss seeing that in our path? Experts warn us. Yet, companies continue to invest in using AI. 

To increase profits? For what?