Author Archives: dgermann

All story tells us about humanicity. Everything is story. :- Doug.

This is story immersion. To learn story. Only it’s a story a minute. :- Doug.

Improv is story. :- Doug.

What’s the question nobody asks in the world but you wish they would? :- Doug.

Count how many times you respond to tech as if it were a real person—for one day this week. :- Doug.

How do we become ethically self aware so we can figure out stories for the 300-year grandchild elders? :- Doug.

With artificial general intelligence we need to include the other human characteristics, or we risk brainiac: intelligence without thinking, without context. Emphasis only on intelligence can easily create lopsided beings running amok. A ball with a bulge. :- Doug.

The aliens can come from earth as well as the stars, indeed they are already silently aborning among us: artificial general intelligence will be to us inscrutable. :- Doug.

What if individuals could easily get intimate data on the companies with whom they do business, like Big Data does to them? :- Doug.

Furby was a toy that seemed to learn English; research now interactive toys. The AIs may first invade us as toys, we will grow up with their interactivity, we will not notice. Will we also affect them? Think not AI, … Continue reading →

How might thinking machines help humans become more human, be our own through the looking glass? :- Doug.

Tell a story about how computers, cell phones, and the Web are already changing us sociologically, morally, spiritual—collectively and individually—and how are we doing it to ourselves. :- Doug.

Far-sight requires and provides a reflective lens. :- Doug.

Story about daily reflection. :- Doug.

What is the informed consent to our human futures, such as AGI, Big Data, LAW? :- Doug.

More than designing our AIs, we need to design our human stance toward Artificial General Intelligence: that is, to design HGI. :- Doug.