About time that someone wrote a decent, robust, thought provoking piece on AI. You might want to hear this but we need more of this in media….but then i guess I’m preaching to the converted!
It's very easy for people to get bamboozled by tech and I've listened to a lot of folk who are feeling powerless and fearful in the face of this AI 'wave'. I agree with you wholeheartedly - at the end of the day - we choose whether we give our power away - no one can take it from us. I also celebrate your challenge for all of us to use our platforms to ask better questions. We all have them - in our communities, our work, our whanau and friends. I'd add that elbowing your way into the room (any room - it doesn't matter) to ensure tech is firmly placed where it should be - as an enabler - is essential. The change and communications communities have been banging on about this for years, and it is time to stop being so nice about it. We've been led by the nose with tech for far too long - and it is time to stop letting the techies bamboozle us with jargon (this is coming from a tech geek). Your question bank is a fabulous tool to help people keep the conversation out of the weeds. Added note - like anyone who claims to be a specialist - a techie who cannot translate their specialty into plain language so that everyone can understand and engage with the conversation, is no expert. They're just regurgitating the same old narrative and creating a position of perceived power by throwing tech speak at you.
And no - this wasn't written by AI. The rant is all mine.
Thanks Alicia, as part of the older workforce its great to have such a clear head write this, (did you use co pilot to smarten it up? ) thank you. The media do everything to put the fear of god into us about it but I know there will be so much good come from it. Initially i was fck, yet something else to learn about but now i just see it as it should be, helpful in the right context. Dont stress the small stuff eh!!
About time that someone wrote a decent, robust, thought provoking piece on AI. You might want to hear this but we need more of this in media….but then i guess I’m preaching to the converted!
Thanks for going down the rabbit hole ...
It's very easy for people to get bamboozled by tech and I've listened to a lot of folk who are feeling powerless and fearful in the face of this AI 'wave'. I agree with you wholeheartedly - at the end of the day - we choose whether we give our power away - no one can take it from us. I also celebrate your challenge for all of us to use our platforms to ask better questions. We all have them - in our communities, our work, our whanau and friends. I'd add that elbowing your way into the room (any room - it doesn't matter) to ensure tech is firmly placed where it should be - as an enabler - is essential. The change and communications communities have been banging on about this for years, and it is time to stop being so nice about it. We've been led by the nose with tech for far too long - and it is time to stop letting the techies bamboozle us with jargon (this is coming from a tech geek). Your question bank is a fabulous tool to help people keep the conversation out of the weeds. Added note - like anyone who claims to be a specialist - a techie who cannot translate their specialty into plain language so that everyone can understand and engage with the conversation, is no expert. They're just regurgitating the same old narrative and creating a position of perceived power by throwing tech speak at you.
And no - this wasn't written by AI. The rant is all mine.
Thanks Alicia, as part of the older workforce its great to have such a clear head write this, (did you use co pilot to smarten it up? ) thank you. The media do everything to put the fear of god into us about it but I know there will be so much good come from it. Initially i was fck, yet something else to learn about but now i just see it as it should be, helpful in the right context. Dont stress the small stuff eh!!
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This is so important critique for us to understand the hype. Wondering what you would think about this too: https://open.substack.com/pub/thehumanplaybook/p/the-great-ai-myth?r=1fr1e&utm_medium=ios