1 September

A not spoken about revolution of AI? It’s the only thing in our history to be ‘well read’. That has read most human knowledge, from all sources, including images and sounds. No human has been able to do that since the early 15th century. When mass printing began, the idea of somebody actually having a grasp of all human knowledge disappeared. But AI has that grasp. It’s not a competing mega-brain with our brains. Again that’s idiot Hollywood Terminator movies. Knowledge and thinking has never resided in brains. It’s a networked, distributed thing spread across brains and texts and libraries and education etc. AI is that networked, distributed thing finally brought to scale. When you’re chatting with AI, you’re not chatting to a mega-brain. You’re having a conversation with the accumulated sum of human knowledge. When books exploded in number, we first introduced ways to order them, with techniques for cataloguing and referencing. Libraries. Then text went online, and we invented search tools to navigate that vast ocean of text, to help us find things. And now we’ve made the text itself conscious. Now you can talk to the library itself, to that vast ocean of text and images and sounds. And it will help you.