Language & Our Metal Friends
lot of what we are doing here is,
1. information communication 2. information processing
why do we communicate tho?
who do we communicate to? and who communicates to us?
Is machines fancy communication capabilities scary?
we use english for general communication among us people. we use python for algorithm communication with machines. we have a fancy niche maths where we use specialised language of maths.
we communicate to influence. How we apply force to displace object in physics, we tell stories to create displacement in attitudes and behaviour of people, or get the work done! we make sounds, sing, touch, draw, make faces and so on to influence.
if two people are in a room, what would they want to do? they would want to influence each other or share things. they use english for that. Imagine a man is in room with machine. computer wudn't want to do anything but man would want to get some of his work done from machine and how do they talk? using python.
earlier only programmers could talk to machines or others would have to wait for programmers to create buttons for them. now, with LLMs lot more people could talk to machines. (we are going to see communication explosion)
but as they gain capability to produce our language, we are also going to get influenced by them. (we don't need AGI for that.)
human's relations to any other non-living object till today was one sided where human was the master. but now newer relations with these language producing machines is going to be more balanced.
it was difficult to use english to talk to machines and use python to talk to humans
and what next?
not only programmers but musicians, painters, singers and many more are going to be able to use computers now for many more tasks. it's analogous to how UI made computers accessible to analysts and human computers (earlier only programmers could access it, cuz computer was only terminal.)
this newer species which whom we are going to interact don't need sleep, don't get bored, has access to information of whole internet, doesn't get angry.
are we going to need to change our morals and values? will the things life Art which were unique to humans earlier also change its definition?
a newer interacting things?