Over the past few decades, the history of information technology has become littered with many examples of what I would like to refer to as “technology capture“. I think of this as essentially analogous to “audience capture”. Yet I feel as though in the technology industry there are a few caveats we should be particularly careful about … and I feel the time has come for us to focus on — and address the issues.
The main issue (in my humble opinion) is the hoax known as “artificial intelligence”. It’s “cheap” — “just press a button”. We don’t need no humans … who are prone to failure. [1] Literacy is now often what creators allow robots to do on the proprietary development (i.e. technology) platform.
Slop leads to sloppy sloppiness.
How about if we simply let “pride” refer to all humans and humanity (once again)? Let’s be proud (enough) to admit our failures (or shortcomings), to course-correct and adapt. Adaptation is indeed inherent to our own biology.
If I could choose between a sloppy guess and an educated guess, I think I would choose an educated guess every time.
For example: In the case of so-called “translation”, I trust a cohesive community of educated, trained and most of all engaged human translators far more than I would ever trust any “machine” (aka “AI”) translation anytime.
This reminds me of a quip one of my economics professors used in reference to “social economics”: people who believe too much in statistics seem somewhat predisposed to believing that if a hunter misses shooting a rabbit once on the left and also once on the right, that on average the rabbit has been “successfully” shot.
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