The Age of Artificial Knowing

When Our Questions Are Auto-Completed and Answered Faster Than We Can Wonder

Brains Are So Last Season

I recently overheard a conversation between teachers discussing how students told them in class that “thinking is old school.” It was a few weeks ago, but it somehow got stuck in my mind.

And it’s very interesting. My regular readers know that I usually write about using our intuition. I call it ‘deeper knowing without thinking.’ I have been primarily concerned with our mechanistic approach to our sacred humanness and our overly busy, overthinking, and overstimulated brains. Because in the rush to know, we forgot how to not know. We miss that sacred pause where real insight begins and wisdom lives.

But today, it’s different.

Real life provoked me by placing in front of me the scenario of not thinking at all.

In this age where algorithms anticipate our questions and serve us answers faster than we can wonder, we are offered the opportunity to not think at all, and yet, become ‘specialists’ in everything.

And yes, it feels like knowing, but it isn’t.

It’s something transient and fake.

It’s Artificial Knowing.

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I see two scenarios here:

• Scenario one: we outsource a lot of the analytical thinking to the machines, and that leaves us more space for our intuition, creativity and the rest of our humanness.

• Scenario two: we lose our capacity to think before we even develop an understanding of what intuition and being human really are.

Obviously, real life is much more complex and unpredictable, so there are many more scenarios, but these are the ones that really made me stop today to think about it.

These questions are arising in me at a moment when AI is everywhere.

I don’t see any other ads but AI-related. My updated today Opera browser started making some sounds that remind humanness and imitate companionship. Or at least that’s how I interpret the innovation. It’s insane and it’s accelerating by the minute.

According to a study by Amazon Web Services, AI-generated content already comprises approximately 57% of all material on the internet. I also read that, according to several predictions, AI-generated content is soon to become 90%. Some say as early as next year, others in the next five years. Here is some data on what’s happening already:

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Wow.
It’s overwhelming…
It’s suffocating…

But something in me tells me that it is less gloomy than it looks.

It’s so insane that I’m starting to like it.

So, imagine social media where everything is AI-generated.

Imagine your questions being auto-completed before being asked.

Imagine answers coming faster than we can think the question.

What do you think?

I think we will get bored.

And I am not talking here about research and science.

I am talking about human interaction.

Maybe the Poison Is the Cure

I read that in the language of alchemy, solve et coagula means to break apart what is fixed, and then re-form it into something higher.

What if this is the poison that may be the agent of transformation?
This somehow makes sense to me today.
I have no idea why, but it does.

I think we will get bored by the “perfection” and overwhelm of AI-generated text, and we will start using it for what it needs to be used for.

I think we will yearn for the imperfection of human contact, human touch, human creativity and human wisdom.

And just as I was writing that, something showed up for me on one of the social media platforms, and a video started. I usually move away not to get distracted, but this time I stayed. I was mesmerized by the combination of music, artistic expression, creativity, mastery, beauty and sense of humor.

Yes, it’s made clearly to attract attention- it’s showmanship at its best. And yet, it’s so funny, messy and erratic that it speaks to me exactly for that humanness no machine can replicate. And as my readers know, I call that The Human Advantage. It’s the humanness that’s here to stay. See for yourself:

How about you? Do you share my optimism?
I am personally surprised by it.
I don’t know where it’s coming from, but it’s here.
And I love it.