Large Language Models: Portals To The Noosphere
Presented by Gregory Stock with Sadie Stock as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at University of California, Berkeley
Recent advances in AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), may soon erode the perceived primacy of individual thought and consciousness. Our planetary superorganism continues to evolve, and a dramatic leap has now occurred in our ability to draw creative output rapidly from the vast stores of accumulated human knowledge and experience. The membrane between individual mind and the global mind is thinning rapidly, so we will examine the nature of the expansive LLM-centered conduits through which collective intelligence and creativity are now flowing, and how they might be nudged in directions that serve the human future. As our AI systems increasingly demonstrate how easily individual expression can be enhanced by flows of shared knowledge, current notions of individual human consciousness, creativity, and agency may face profound challenges. And as the collective foundation of human activity becomes more readily apparent, our understanding of identity, cognition, and the self may have to be reframed along with basic distinctions between individual and collective thought, and even our sense of what it means to be human.
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