This is the inaugural edition of the revised Bright Spots newsletter
I got into AI research to understand what others thought, to understand how humans think, and to try to know what others know, so I could break into their world.
I did not find technology. It found me, at mid-age.
When I was young, a high school teacher told me I would be a force for good and positively effect the lives of many through "tooling" of some kind or‘know-how.’
Without being sure of what exactly to make of her words and warm vibes that day, they linger and will always live inside me. Ephemeral and elusive, too – like a catchy melody you can't quite place.
Now, forty years later, I find myself deploying my native talents and know-how in a way that affects the world in a net positive way. Because of her words, and other random aberrations of technological phenomenon, I find myself pondering the abstractions of human-relevance (my relevance), in the age of superintelligence.
While I can't be certain of the lives I've touched so far, I can say, with confidence, that I've been a force for good more than not. I don’t need a wonderful teacher’s prophecy to tell me that.
But what of the next 5, 10, 20, 50 years? What of the future?
There isn't a lot of time. But there's still lots of time!
This is where things get interesting. And by "interesting," I mean The Future.
To put it plainly (and kindly extend me a little latitude here), we will always be human, but machines are coming.
They (AIs) will not turn us into them, but they will turn into us, and I think that’s cool to think about.
Through Leveler Towers' research and communications protocols, I explore this fascinating and ominous human-machine perplexity. A space ripe for innovation as we augment our cognition with AI.
Through my investigations and discoveries, I aim to elucidate the sensible and practical implementation of "human-automatronic" jobs and chromatic talent integers – transforming people into computer potential, and, in doing so, positively affecting lives for years to come.
I'm up to the task.
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Even though few are interested and will listen, you stepped up to the plate through your subscription and helped out this techno-neophyte so he could pursue his dream, impress his kids, and not make a fool of his high-school teacher.
The 'future of work' is all about the automatronic jobs we'll do as humans, rendering the work (complex parts) away, making it easier for us to allow computers and machines to turn into us so we can finish the jobs we still have (yet) to do.
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Thank you for subscribing to Bright Spots. My newsletter is about the intersection of automation, intelligence, human agency, and the birth of universal, in silico, automattronic jobs.
