Great work, Justin. I gained a number of new perspectives on marketing and rhetoric. I often wish I lived sometime during or before the mid-20th century when mass media had not yet taken over, at least visually. You can choose whether to pick up a magazine or turn on the radio, yet you cannot help but look at the animated billboard to your left while driving, or find your visual field affected by the colorful NIKE ad on your neighbor’s T-shirt. Both take you out of the reality of your present, especially significant if genuine human contact is your primary goal (for example, talking with your friend while you drive). To extrapolate from Walker Percy’s words, the “intersubjective bond” between two persons is interrupted by a third party intent on distracting. I know there is a thesis or two somewhere in this response but mostly, thanks for the stimulating thought. HM
Henry, thanks for reading, good sir! Intersubjectivity vis-à-vis AI provides some very interesting food for thought. I wonder what Percy would make of the transcendence at play when someone interacts with AI. Community/communion yields transcendence... Does one get the same effect from interacting with AI? This is an old question, by now, of course... Nevertheless, there are so many cultural phenomena that I would love to hear Percy critique/satirize (including AI).
Interesting analysis and insight. Due to Google’s recent revealing and disturbing AI creation, Gemini, I deleted my gmail account earlier today, which was a mere back-up email anyhow when the university finally deleted my school email account.
Your post and commentary on AI brings the short story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury to mind. There was a short movie made of it as well. Check it out if you aren’t familiar. AI will help you to find it.
Thanks for reading, Rachel. Where can I learn more about Gemini? Obviously, Google already parses through emails, so I'm wondering how Gemini amps things up or somehow affects that process.
Also, thanks for the recommendation. You'd shared The Veldt with me previously, but it might make for something cool to reread given the more recent developments in AI.
Great work, Justin. I gained a number of new perspectives on marketing and rhetoric. I often wish I lived sometime during or before the mid-20th century when mass media had not yet taken over, at least visually. You can choose whether to pick up a magazine or turn on the radio, yet you cannot help but look at the animated billboard to your left while driving, or find your visual field affected by the colorful NIKE ad on your neighbor’s T-shirt. Both take you out of the reality of your present, especially significant if genuine human contact is your primary goal (for example, talking with your friend while you drive). To extrapolate from Walker Percy’s words, the “intersubjective bond” between two persons is interrupted by a third party intent on distracting. I know there is a thesis or two somewhere in this response but mostly, thanks for the stimulating thought. HM
Henry, thanks for reading, good sir! Intersubjectivity vis-à-vis AI provides some very interesting food for thought. I wonder what Percy would make of the transcendence at play when someone interacts with AI. Community/communion yields transcendence... Does one get the same effect from interacting with AI? This is an old question, by now, of course... Nevertheless, there are so many cultural phenomena that I would love to hear Percy critique/satirize (including AI).
Interesting analysis and insight. Due to Google’s recent revealing and disturbing AI creation, Gemini, I deleted my gmail account earlier today, which was a mere back-up email anyhow when the university finally deleted my school email account.
Your post and commentary on AI brings the short story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury to mind. There was a short movie made of it as well. Check it out if you aren’t familiar. AI will help you to find it.
Thanks for reading, Rachel. Where can I learn more about Gemini? Obviously, Google already parses through emails, so I'm wondering how Gemini amps things up or somehow affects that process.
Also, thanks for the recommendation. You'd shared The Veldt with me previously, but it might make for something cool to reread given the more recent developments in AI.
Check out the comments too. Readers suggested a couple of other texts. Also, mainstream media has covered it! It was such a fiasco!
Comments are behind a paywall, but I appreciate the link!
One read: https://open.substack.com/pub/public/p/google-ceo-pledged-to-use-ai-to-counter?r=1jwqzw&utm_medium=ios