David Edgerton

We are just looking in a wrong direction.

And to one quote that I really like is from a book called The Shock of the Old of a scholar called David Edgerton that says, we as society, we look at technology as a child and things as adults.

And the case of AI, I think, is very typical because things like products, you have a product liability law, for example, this is a way as an adult to look at the thing a product is shaped in a way produced in a way can produce some effects you can regulate it but technology we always look at as a child like wow this is something magical this is something mystical so the point is to start to look at ai as a thing as adults rather than as child and the funny thing is that if you heard yesterday or two days ago jensen huang that spoke i think king charles reception literally said that we should not look at AI as a thing, but as a technology, which is the opposite of what I said.

So the idea is to continue keeping this fog of mysticism around the technology, which somehow fuel their industry dynamics.

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