When American astronauts first set foot on the Moon, in July 1969, tribute was quite rightly paid to the advances that NASA scientists had made in aerospace engineering and astrodynamics, which had enabled them to make the “giant leap for mankind”, as Commander Neil Armstrong described it. Landing on the Moon, and returning the crew safely to Earth was a complicated technical challenge of the highest order. It was enabled by multiple systems and procedures that were designed to facilitate the safe and effective organization and control of all aspects of the design, development and delivery of “the mission”. As such, success was seen as having arisen from the availability of appropriate scientific and technological expertise; coupled with the development and skilled application of structured approaches to direct and control the practice and performance of those involved. In short, this appeared to 'tick all of the boxes' of a well-designed, and expertly executed, response to a highly complicated management challenge.
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Collaborating with AI
Is anyone else concerned about the increasingly pervasive notion of humans “collaborating” with AI?
Relationship of mutuality
Collaboration - whatever its diverse motivations and means of expression - is a relationship of mutuality between living and breathing human beings. Properly perceived and applied, so-called “artificial intelligence” undoubtedly has a lot to offer us in support of the living of our lives. But it needs to be seen as a technological aid to our human being, doing and becoming; not as in any way equivalent to it.
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Posted on 08 January 2023 in Complexity, Current Affairs, News Commentary, OD, Science, Social software | Permalink | Comments (0)
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