Facing the challenges of the AI ​​era

Source: Daoshuo Blockchain

During the annual holiday, many very interesting things happened at home and abroad.

One of them is Sora, the latest video tool released by OpenAI.

The shocking thing about this tool is that it only requires simple text input to generate a video. However, most people who watch the video cannot tell whether it is virtual or real. .

The birth of this tool marks that mankind has entered the era of "it is difficult to distinguish between true and false".

Many comments on the Internet have expressed concerns about the rapid and alarming development trend of AI: some are worried that a large number of video and creative-related positions will be replaced by AI; some are worried that in the next era How can people compete with machines? Others are worried about what kind of situation and consequences the world will face if the forces that control AI do evil...

Many of these concerns can be boiled down to one point: What will humans do in the face of competition from AI?

I think there are some details in this competition that are worth pondering. If we delve into these details and study them, we will find that there are two unique elements in this competition that deserve attention and attention:

One is the most precious wealth of mankind, and the other is Humanity's greatest weakness.

Many people say that the most precious wealth of mankind is the infinite creativity of the brain.

I agree with this, but I am more willing to push this conclusion one step further in this direction. Before creativity appears, we actually need a more fundamental ability: critical thinking. ability.

Dare to doubt everything, dare to question everything.

The doubts and questions mentioned here do not mean to argue, but to think about things independently and then judge whether they are reasonable or unreasonable.

Humankind’s great creativity always starts with doubts and doubts. Without doubts and doubts, we will always stop at existing theories and existing ideas.

The most common phenomenon is that when we face top-down information transmission from "authority" and "credibility", the vast majority of people do not dare to go beyond the boundaries and doubt it. So we naturally become playthings and leeks in the hands of the controller.

There are too many such cases in the encryption world.

The general public’s superstition of big Vs, blind obedience to KOLs, and worship of capital are typical examples.

If the World Coin project has nothing to do with Ultraman but is a project initiated by ordinary project people, I believe that its method of capturing iris information will be extremely ruthlessly criticized. But because it's related to Ultraman, don't many of us trust it more?

Big V, KOL, and capital are still human beings after all. In the future, AI or the forces that control AI will be more able to create illusions and confuse the public than these people.

If we don’t have our own independent thinking, critical thinking ability, and dare not doubt, then we may have no choice but to sit back and wait for death in the face of the more realistic “illusion” created by AI, and we will only become AI or AI forces. The "people mine".

In fact, each of us has this ability of critical thinking, but in trivial life, it is suppressed and buried.

Now we urgently need to awaken it, develop it, and utilize it.

The biggest weakness of human beings, in my opinion, is that it is not easy to control one's emotions.

This weakness is extremely obvious in investment. The most typical ones are the "herding effect" and "chasing the high and killing the low"...

This weakness is in It is simply vulnerable to AI.

Take the crypto world as an example:

With the development of a series of new features (such as Ethereum’s account abstraction) and a series of new applications (such as various trading robots based on TG) One after another, we have no idea whether the people trading and competing on the same platform as us are AI or humans.

It is also impossible for us to distinguish whether the project party behind the project we are participating in is a team of people or an automated scenario operated by AI.

If it is AI, it will not be disturbed by emotions, but it knows that humans will be disturbed by emotions, so it can carefully create realistic scenes, preset various traps, and take advantage of humans. The various emotions of the participants bring us to the desired situation.

In this case, if we cannot subdue our emotions and let them obey our rational thinking, then we will completely become slaves of AI.

Awakening the ability to think critically and controlling the interference of emotions on us are two things I like to write about repeatedly in articles. I think they are not only tools for us to move forward steadily in the encryption world, but also the most powerful weapons that humans can have and fight back when facing AI challenges.