| The value of human interaction cannot be overstated -- and the writer did a beautiful job outlining how AI isolates us. But there are also hidden difficulties in human interaction that AI helps ameliorate. - My doctor friend does not wanting me pinging them asking for free medical advice every time I get health anxiety - My chef friend does not want me calling them every time I'm struggling with a recipe - My author friend does not want to read the 20th draft of my book, in which I've changed perhaps 10% of the content from the last draft In these, the cost is a tax on the relationship -- relying on someone else too much to the point where it could potentially be impacting _their_ life. Similarly, there are enough communities out there that are not accommodating -- even if I wanted to get a human answer and/or connect with someone, the interactions themselves can be painful. Do we remember what it was like posting on Stack Overflow? Do we believe Stack Overflow was a one-off outlier? I also believe human imagination and knowledge shouldn't be bound to the relationships you have around you. What if my social group is small, or diversity of knowledge that my social group has is small? Should I not be able to think and explore an idea because my best alternative would be to contact a professor at a university that 99% of the time will not answer me? I do believe that many people use AI now instead of learning and connecting -- I know my own programmatic knowledge has weakened now that AI has acted as a superhuman autocorrect. But on the other hand, with the help of AI I've also learned about a ton of things that would have otherwise been unavailable to me -- and I believe has improved me on the whole. |