P.S. Since this essay was posted, I asked our tech savvy son to comment on it. "What is your call to action?", he said, and "Why are you not understanding that AI is more powerful than we can imagine?" He is co-founder of a user experience design firm, FuegoUX.com. John Deere, if you are listening and need great assistance, find him.
I assured him that I am not a true Luddite, but just ignorant and skeptical.
Nate also ran the essay by three different AI sites, for suggestions on revisions. Those were Claude, Bard, and ChatGPT. This was of course a humbling experience, but actually quite educational.
We then discussed the power of the tech firms....and the complete lack of understanding about AI in the governmental realm. AI is disrupting every single sector of the economy, and our legislators seem to have no clue.
Those of us who care about conservation of soil, water, wildlife and other resources, diversity of species, pollution, food deserts, the dearth of farmers, etc. need to insist that the ethics boards of the giant tech firms become educated about values that we cherish. We cannot afford to just sit by and lament. Otherwise the LLM's will continue to be as amoral as the data they are fed. (My crude interpretation, of course.)
A complex and daunting task....... and one which I invite all the writers in this Collaborative to ponder.
I really wish Iowa landowners in general would pay more attention to the care and treatment of their farms, or had a conservation conscience of some kind.....sort of a subtitle, I suppose.
P.S. Since this essay was posted, I asked our tech savvy son to comment on it. "What is your call to action?", he said, and "Why are you not understanding that AI is more powerful than we can imagine?" He is co-founder of a user experience design firm, FuegoUX.com. John Deere, if you are listening and need great assistance, find him.
I assured him that I am not a true Luddite, but just ignorant and skeptical.
Nate also ran the essay by three different AI sites, for suggestions on revisions. Those were Claude, Bard, and ChatGPT. This was of course a humbling experience, but actually quite educational.
We then discussed the power of the tech firms....and the complete lack of understanding about AI in the governmental realm. AI is disrupting every single sector of the economy, and our legislators seem to have no clue.
Those of us who care about conservation of soil, water, wildlife and other resources, diversity of species, pollution, food deserts, the dearth of farmers, etc. need to insist that the ethics boards of the giant tech firms become educated about values that we cherish. We cannot afford to just sit by and lament. Otherwise the LLM's will continue to be as amoral as the data they are fed. (My crude interpretation, of course.)
A complex and daunting task....... and one which I invite all the writers in this Collaborative to ponder.
Thanks so much!
Thanks to you and Robert Leonard for helping this reach the posting stage. I don't understand the order in which letters show up.....seems random.
Well put, Josiah! For all Iowa farmers to ponder!
Added a P.S. post to essay.
I really wish Iowa landowners in general would pay more attention to the care and treatment of their farms, or had a conservation conscience of some kind.....sort of a subtitle, I suppose.