AI & the Story of Exploration
Hi there, ✋
I’m Miguel, living in Barcelona, nice to meet you! Do you remember the last time you saw and/or used some new, innovative tech and reacted: “wooow… that feels like magic!” ?
Exctly! Most likely, it feels like a long time ago since the last wow-moment, and that’s mainly due to us getting used to the CRAZY tech breakthroughs, that we interact daily, mundane lives.
However, as you probably have heard, new AI, consumer oriented tools are being released every day, taking the world by storm… and (you guessed it) it does feel like magic! 🐰🔮
Btw: Maybe you like to read weird stuff too. I have other small, quick to read, and curious posts on my profile that may interest you ➡️ Miguel Parente
Quick disclosure: I’m no expert on this groundbreaking new field, and I do not have any background, that allows me to do anything more, than play around with these tools out of personal curiosity. Everyone is writing about this stuff, and I can guarantee you, that ALL of them have more expertise than me… and no doubt more credits to explore, as well eheh.
As once, David Bowie said “what I have is a malevolent curiosity”, and to be honest, I don’t really know what “malevolent” means, but I do have and always had a lot of curiosity about new, innovative, discoveries that can disrupt the status-quo. (you saw that? The full start-up founder’s speech in one sentence eheh) 😺💀
“What I have is a malevolent curiosity.”
— David Bowie
So… Let’s play
Are you up to it? Super! Let’s deep-dive into this new world, by assembling a kind of testing exercise, which leverages two different AI generative tools, both from OpenAI:
- DALL·E (here) ➡ a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. DALL·E 2 has learned the relationship between images and the text used to describe them. It uses a process called “diffusion,” which starts with a pattern of random dots and gradually alters that pattern towards an image when it recognizes specific aspects of that image. 🎨
- GPT-3 (here) ➡ which performs a variety of natural language tasks, Codex, which translates natural language to code. It is is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. 📝
How are we going to play, you may ask?
Well… the pictures that provide all the joy and colofour vibe to this blog will be generated by me, or other brave users of DALL·E (here). Surprise, surprise… it’s not me drawing all these amazing images. The only requirement was to use some of my creative brain cells to write a hopefully good prompt, that allows the AI to deliver an enjoyable, aesthetic, good-looking pictures.
(prepare to be amazed!!) 🦄
Then, we immerse ourselves in the storytelling! We will continue to be the ones leading the ideas and creative thoughts. However, the AI algorithm from GPT-3 (here), it’s going to be the one completing the gaps and cleaning the edges on whatever topic we throw at it.
If this goes well, we might make it a constant segment with periodical tryouts… and if not! No harm no foul, it was all for the love of the game anyway. 😻
Ahhh… before, starting! I will always try to point out when it was me or the AI — this is a very sensitive, and complicated subject right now (here).
📏 Guidelines & Rules:
Paragraph style ➡ it’s written per moir
Normal text ➡ it’s written by the AI
Space Exploration & Boats
A summary of the similarities between today’s space exploration and the discovery age, when Europeans first reached the new world. Highlighting the transcendent technological advancements for the all humanity, when we seek new adventures and open our minds to new realities.
There are many similarities between space exploration today and the discovery age when Europeans first reached the new world. Both involve venturing into the unknown, pushing the boundaries of technology, and making new discoveries that can benefit all of humanity. Both also come with risks, but the rewards can be great.
Today, space exploration is limited mostly to robotic probes and satellites, but there are plans to send humans back to the moon and eventually to Mars. This is similar to the early days of European exploration, when sailors first ventured out into the unknown in search of new lands. Like those early explorers, today’s spacefarers are driven by a sense of curiosity and a desire to learn more about our place in the universe.
The technology used for space exploration has come a long way since the early days of rocketry. Today, we have powerful rockets and spacecraft that can take us to distant planets and even beyond our solar system. We also have advanced telescopes and other instruments that allow us to study the universe in greater detail than ever before.
Like the early explorers, today’s spacefarers are taking risks to push the boundaries of human knowledge. But the rewards of their efforts could be great, not just for them, but for all of humanity.
At the time these navigation explorations of the new world were what enabled humans to continue their science and technology breakthroughs like
- the astrolabe
- the sextant
- the chronometer
These discoveries not only allowed for humans to understand their place in the universe but also to establish new trade routes and better communication between cultures.
And if we come back to today’s, still young, space explorations, we can also forecast similar important lifts for Humankind like
- A greater understanding of our place in the universe
- New trade routes and communication channels
- Breakthroughs in science and technology
If we want to go into more detail, we can imagine completely new economies and social infrastructures that
we cannot even fathom today, just like the internet or space travel seemed impossible a few centuries ago. So overall, space exploration today is very similar to the discovery age in many ways, and we can expect great things to come from it.
We should not take for granted that brave men & women, pioneers, will lead us into the right path towards
a better future for everyone. They took risks, so we could have a better life. They opened our minds to new realities and helped us understand our place in the universe.
As once we navigated the oceans in search of new worlds, today we navigate space in search of new dreams.
…THE END 📖
Happily ever after?
So!!! What do you think?? For sure, the magic it’s much more shocking and fascinating, when you are the one actually interacting with it — and I truly recomend you to give it a try! (plus, it’s free, so nothing to lose eheh)
Although we live in very stressful and anxious times, where every day we are surprised with an impossible to believe new story, that actually seems to be the result of a prompt joke from a super, all-powerful AI. (I’m writing this during the week news of the saga regarding FTX, SBF, CZ, BTC, ALAMEDA, CRYPTO implosion!)
It’s also true, that we are on the edge of new far-fetched technologies that will eat the world like the internet or the phone before them, as per “Why Software Is Eating the World” by Marc Andreessen (here).
As always, there will be a lot of setbacks, fears and concerns, but we will adapt and make the most of it to keep exploring!
Please, let me know what you think and if you have more interesting inputs to share.
Thanks! ❤
Carve-out (acquired.fm style): if you like futurist content like this, you will love the new re-launched podcasts from a16z with Steph Smith as the new host!
I have already watched a couple of episodes on their YouTube channel (here), and can say that the conversation with Karen X. Cheng, about “AI and the Creator Economy” was one of the main sources of inspiration for this blog! (enjoy 😍)
Also (extra), you must follow Ben’s Bites NL, written by Ben Tossell (here)!
