AI Building Exoskeletons

John Oestmann Music's blog post 'AI Building Exoskeletons' contrasts two technological pathways from the mid-2000s: exoskeletons, which augment human actions and keep humans at the center of decision-making, and AI, which symbolizes automation and the offloading of cognitive work. The post suggests that these represent different approaches to technology's evolution.

It has been suggested that technology’s evolution had two possible pathways from the mid-2000s: either Exoskeletons, or AI. This is a huge oversimplification, but the point it tries to illustrate is this: Exoskeletons augment the actions that people already do. They allow people to walk over tough terrain, lift heavier things, be generally agile at a super-human level. Exoskeletons essentially represent tech, less as automation, and more as augmentation. It keeps the human at the center of decision-making. On the other hand, AI here symbolically represents automation in general. It especially represents the offloading of cognitive work and decision-making.… The post AI Building Exoskeletons https://johnoestmannmusic.com/ai-building-exoskeletons/ appeared first on John Oestmann Music https://johnoestmannmusic.com .