On AI

‘anti-electricity cartoon in 1900’

I believe I can offer a concrete example on the entire philosophy of AI and our civilization, including our brains.

Go.

I am a totally new post-AI Go amateur (one and a half year experience) who knew nothing about Go before 2019.

Then entered AI at 2017.

Now, the universe of Go was being 180 degree flipped around. Everybody from a three year old newcomer to a 80 year old ten time champs veteran is learning Go with AI everyday. But we never considered Go done. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. AI has opened a new parallell universe for go after 2017. Which means everything I know about Go I learned from AI.

So as airplane. We won’t say “damn it I will never play a paraglider again” because of the invention of Boeing 737. So as car. We won’t say “I will never run again” because of the invention of car. So as piano. We won’t say “I hate the invention of computer DAW that I will never play piano again.”

When we look back the evolutionary history of human being’s invention, many of them are just naive low-tech inventions. They might be the star of their time, but once it became a household ordinary stuff, the halo disappeared.

We won’t say “Wow, it’s electricity!” when we see a socket on the wall now. Few decades later, we won’t say “ Wow, it’s AI” anymore. While at that time, we will have yet another brand new “Wow, it’s…” moment.

Evolution progresses forward. Human keep evolving. Technology is just a record of the Epoch.

The golden balance on technology, I believe, is to welcome any advancement positively, yet cognitively understanding that we Homo sapiens are still a 350,000 years young animals with a 7,000 years young civilization, no matter how “advanced” the technology is.

So, keep running, keep painting, keep loving, keep inventing, keep playing the piano, keep playing go while embrace technology simultaneously. They all last forever.