Reason for human beings in future world

In the face of existential crisis humans might face with incredible developments in AI we should try to look within ourselves and find purpose unique to human beings

Adilet Daniiarov

1/8/20241 min read

greyscale photo of crowd crossing road
greyscale photo of crowd crossing road

For decades and decades we have been trying to talk to computers in their mother language of bits.

We have got quite good at it. We taught computers to reason.

It has gotten so good that computers are now trying to in reverse talk to us in our language.

Our language is far more complicated chaos of emotions, longing for being understood and search for meaning.

Yet, computers are capable of teaching us a lot more than what we have taught them.

They will at some point know about our world unimaginably more than what we can grasp with our brain.

I don’t see an upper bound for the ability of AI to exist and thrive in our world. We can enjoy witnessing our infant who learned to crawl few days ago to sprint to the eternity.

Us humans? We will find our own romance.

Garry Kasparov lost to artificial intelligence in chess 20 years ago. "Chess is over," many critics said then. But why since then have we not loved to watch two AIs play chess against each other, and now chess is almost at the peak of its popularity?

People love drama. People are disgusted by perfection. People like to watch how today's invincible Magnus Carlsen makes a childish mistake tomorrow and is beaten by a 17-year-old kid. People like people. Just as imperfect as they are.

This is the talent of people. Imperfection. Our mood drops. We make mistakes, make suboptimal life decisions, live in our bubble, and are too lazy to get out of bed.

AI exists to solve tasks without error. That is their meaning of life - to solve, solve, and solve.

People exist to enjoy. Enjoy a Saturday night, cool weather, themselves, others, and their equally beautiful imperfection.