artificial exhaustion.

I guess the exhaustion is not artificial but it is caused by an artificial intelligence. Which, by the way, can I digress for a moment? Isn’t it weird that we call it artificial intelligence? Artificial? Yes, the word means created by a human but it also means imitation or synthetic… a copy of a product used as a substitute.

Ok, so intelligence that is a substitute for actual intelligence.

Which brings me to my very real exhaustion.

I’m so sick of being told I will be left behind if I don’t get on board with AI or that it’s going to save us all, or kill us all. It’s truly exhausting, especially because it’s not very intelligent - it tells me I’m great way too much and it tells me wrong information way too much and it creates stupid videos that no one cares about way too much.

Came across this quote and thought I’d share - it helped my exhaustion. It’s from Andrej Karpathy and is directed toward coding - which is pretty amazing I’ll admit - but applies to everything.

Keep a very tight leash on this new over-eager junior intern savant with encyclopedic knowledge but who also bullshits you all the time, has an over-abundance of courage and shows little to no taste for what’s good. Keep an emphasis on being slow, defensive, careful, paranoid, and on always taking the inline learning opportunity, not delegating.

I love that last line. Always take the learning opportunity. Amen.