AI capabilities are forcing us to think about what makes us human. Humans love and hate and laugh – and we are inventors and toolmakers.
To be human has been to be the most capable species in the known universe, and we have always invented new tools that surpass our human capabilities. The wheel allowed us to travel faster than our legs. The lever let us lift more than arms alone. The telescope let us see further. The first digital computer, ENIAC, was created to calculate complex ballistic trajectories faster than soldiers. Every new tool has launched a revolution of advancements that its inventors couldn’t have imagined
Now AI lets us develop software, play chess, and draft art and documents better than we are capable of alone. ENIAC was created in 1945 and its inventors would be incredulous at what we’ve engineered computers to do in less than a lifetime.
It’s impossible to imagine what tools we’ll have in 2525, especially after we engineer the interfaces between the digital and biological. DNA is code. Future teenage hackers will order up a hyper–intelligent human with the wings of an eagle, the night vision of an owl, the strength of an elephant, and the mind of Einstein – and a bio–printer will fulfill their request. The variations are as infinite as the variables in code.
When life is a conglomeration of bespoke DNA that aggregates the best of all species, and then improves on them, the question of what characteristics make us human will become even more difficult to answer.
What is clear now, at least this afternoon, is that today is that we can use these AI tools to make our work better.
Our AI projects at Pyrabyte include customer service tools, natural language queries against organization data stores, artwork prototyping, correlating large data sets, and computer coding. The power of AI is in its infancy, and every day is a step forward in a new revolution.
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