Bob Hutchins
@BobHutchins · 1:55
Generational differences in their view of artificial intelligence. Some interesting nuances.
In other words, what humans will do with it is secondary to the concerns about computers rising up and actually minimizing our humanity. Again, this is anecdotal, but I find it interesting that Gen Z and Millennials distrust and are concerned about the humans more than they are the technology or the computers, whereas Gen X and Boomers often are more concerned about the technology and the computers rising against us and actually minimizing humanity. Just some thoughts. Would love to hear what you think
Bob Hutchins
@BobHutchins · 3:16
I do believe your daughter over the next five years, if you do give her, say, a smartphone by 13, it's going to be a totally different world, and she would have grown up and not known a world without AI or Chat GPT or Bard or Bing chat or whatever it's called. Over the next five years, I believe by that time it will be second nature, much like we use Google Maps or Waves, like we use the Internet, like we use Google
Trystan Whiting
@ntrystan · 3:38
But I also believe that the AI initiative since 2016 definitely has something to do with it because they had an initiative for all the United States to integrate AI into everyday life and try to make it by I think 2030 that we have robots that are like servants in every house. But yeah, to answer your question, it is the fact that the older people grew into it which brought up fear, uncertainty and doubt. You fear the unknown. But the newer generation, they kind of grew up with it
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
It makes sense to me because when you think about from my perspective, we humans love to chase the new novel Shiny Cool Thing, right? But we don't always necessarily anticipate not only how this can go well, but how this can go badly. And I think that younger generations are looking at technology from that perspective because technology has been a part of their lives from the get go, right? And so they know that there's not as much of the novel Shiny Cool Thing or Novel Scary thing
Bob Hutchins
@BobHutchins · 4:23
And I thought this was interesting because you alluded to storylines of robots and media and culture and specifically older generations having those initial early impressions of robot stories in science fiction that were mostly negative toward humanity, at least in Western culture. But this world study that came out about less than a year ago, one of the questions was about the future of AI. And did they believe that AI. Would benefit humanity or would not benefit humanity
Anyway, I think a great example in addition to this AI study is to look at how different cultures around the world handled the pandemic and what the dynamics were like culturally beforehand and then how that filtered through with respect to the relationship between government and citizens or between citizens and citizens, the different decisions people made. Of course there's outliers but the bell curve of these different groups of people
Bob Hutchins
@BobHutchins · 1:52
It. Thanks for the response, and I agree with you 110%. When I was working on my Masters, this is one of the things that I dove pretty deep in the whole communal mentality, group mentality versus individualistic mentality. And you're right, we saw it play out in very obvious ways over the last several years. And as you said, there are pros and cons on both sides
But any sort of summaries that are made, any sort of conclusions that are made don't have these nuances of the different cultures and the things that they value, the different ways that men and women not only exist biologically as humans, but also socially and culturally. And like all these other nuances up there, and yet the summary, I think talked about how creating a narrower gap rather than a wider one with respect to any initiatives going forward
Steve Cominski
@bakedandawake · 2:21
And I want to say the battle cry of those elders at the time often went something to the tune of we don't truck with talking furniture around these parts. I imagine we're faced with a similar paradigm shift we're experiencing together right now as we speak the fulfillment of the promise of the Internet that was pitched to us so long ago back in the AOL Prodigy CompuServe facilitated days of the Internet. Thanks so much once again. Great topic
