2016–2024: What AI Taught Me About Myself

A few days ago, I sent a voice note to ChatGPT.

I had been listening to Jensen Huang talk about synthetic data and intelligence. I decided to pause for a few minutes on that word — intelligence.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been captivated by the concept of intelligence.

How we make sense of the world, what separates us from other living things, how biases shape our decisions, and how subconscious streams guide our lives and work — these are questions humanity has grappled with for centuries.

(If you don’t believe me — there’s me, in February 2021, at a conference in the Middle East harping on about the leap from Narrow to General AI. Here’s an article I wrote about the topic in 2018).

But now, for the first time in history, intelligence is emerging outside of biology.

For millennia, intelligence has been the thing that defines us, drives our work, and structures our societies. But today, it’s abundant, scalable, and accessible in ways we couldn’t have imagined even a decade ago..

So I asked ChatGPT: What does this mean for how we learn? For what it means to be human?

I wasn’t expecting an answer — I was just thinking out loud