You are so cool, Baratunde! Love all the laughs in your all-too-human convo about what's sounding like a modern-day Blair Witch Project;-) I wish I could afford all the great Substacks I read, to put my money where my mouths are;-) But ... you are doing great stuff, and I'm glad to be along for the ride, even as a "free-loader";-)
LOL you're very welcome! (As a first-class Word Nerd, you COULD call this episode the 'Which Blair Project?' (Love your aside looks and laughs at the audience/camera when Peter or Blair said things that were worthy of that "Baratunde Look";-)
This is SO fascinating Baratunde, thanks to you and Peter for sharing this. I appreciate the peek at the future and the grappling with all that entails. As someone involved in the childhood/adolescent space with tech since 2012 (in middle schools specifically), I've had a front row seat to the devastating and damaging impacts of tech, so much so that it's been challenging to remember the positive capabilities and promises for which it is supposedly designed. So I love this time travel experiment and appreciate how forward-thinking it is to be sharing with all of us who are maybe a decade behind in using AI this way, giving us a preview of how that may go in the future as AI becomes more integrated. I'm even more fascinated by the number of challenges that exist, even for you both who are approaching this from a fairly techno-optimistic place. It's a bit of a relief to hear you and Peter expressing concerns about the same things the kids are dealing with (relationships, outsourcing thinking, etc), and also finding it hard to navigate those. It helps back-up/reinforce that it's not out-of-line for parents to be concerned about AI's impact and capacities when professionals like yourselves are being pulled into some of the same dynamics. I appreciate your work in general and your candid explorations of these multi-faceted issues facing us all - thanks for sharing it and letting us come along for the ride. Hope you enjoy the sunny summer temps today (also in SoCal here).
Appreciate YOU. That optimism around tech is definitely balanced by the reality of unaccountable systems that can't merely be checked by individual willpower, and BLAIR has offered us some tangible, if absurd, experience to bolster the skepticism. Given your experience you may be into https://www.thehomescreen.org/ by Emily Tavoulareas.
Thank you, agreed wholeheartedly. And thank you for the referral to TheHomeScreen. I had not found her page before and it's great - adding it to our online resource library. This is the flip side of the coin, the best of tech, connecting people with information and resources. :) 🙃
Love your content typically but you need to know that Ai is evil AF. You clearly do not live near their loud brightly lit, noisy, electricity-sucking water-destroying data centers.
"Stop treating AI like a tool and start treating it like a teammate."
This is the shift I keep trying to explain to my clients. Tool implies you pick it up, use it, put it down. Teammate means you figure out how to work together over time and way more useful.
Appreciate seeing you guys thinking in plain sight and being open to all possibilities. And a salve to hear you express conflicting emotions. “Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don’t think we remember the past, we imagine it.” — John Banville
Omg… Blair is so much worse :( Blair is way more feminine and I do have a lived human bias that unless intentionally designed otherwise, AI is masculine input dominant. So Blair is now more sockpuppet like than ever. Please neutralize the gender which will likely tame that perkiness that is so grating that I can’t hear anything it says. Bless you Baratunde for submitting yourself to this public experience. Thank you for sharing yourself with us.
You are so cool, Baratunde! Love all the laughs in your all-too-human convo about what's sounding like a modern-day Blair Witch Project;-) I wish I could afford all the great Substacks I read, to put my money where my mouths are;-) But ... you are doing great stuff, and I'm glad to be along for the ride, even as a "free-loader";-)
Not sure why I didn't think of BLAIR WITCH PROJECT!! Excellent. Thanks for joining us!
LOL you're very welcome! (As a first-class Word Nerd, you COULD call this episode the 'Which Blair Project?' (Love your aside looks and laughs at the audience/camera when Peter or Blair said things that were worthy of that "Baratunde Look";-)
This is SO fascinating Baratunde, thanks to you and Peter for sharing this. I appreciate the peek at the future and the grappling with all that entails. As someone involved in the childhood/adolescent space with tech since 2012 (in middle schools specifically), I've had a front row seat to the devastating and damaging impacts of tech, so much so that it's been challenging to remember the positive capabilities and promises for which it is supposedly designed. So I love this time travel experiment and appreciate how forward-thinking it is to be sharing with all of us who are maybe a decade behind in using AI this way, giving us a preview of how that may go in the future as AI becomes more integrated. I'm even more fascinated by the number of challenges that exist, even for you both who are approaching this from a fairly techno-optimistic place. It's a bit of a relief to hear you and Peter expressing concerns about the same things the kids are dealing with (relationships, outsourcing thinking, etc), and also finding it hard to navigate those. It helps back-up/reinforce that it's not out-of-line for parents to be concerned about AI's impact and capacities when professionals like yourselves are being pulled into some of the same dynamics. I appreciate your work in general and your candid explorations of these multi-faceted issues facing us all - thanks for sharing it and letting us come along for the ride. Hope you enjoy the sunny summer temps today (also in SoCal here).
Appreciate YOU. That optimism around tech is definitely balanced by the reality of unaccountable systems that can't merely be checked by individual willpower, and BLAIR has offered us some tangible, if absurd, experience to bolster the skepticism. Given your experience you may be into https://www.thehomescreen.org/ by Emily Tavoulareas.
Thank you, agreed wholeheartedly. And thank you for the referral to TheHomeScreen. I had not found her page before and it's great - adding it to our online resource library. This is the flip side of the coin, the best of tech, connecting people with information and resources. :) 🙃
Love your content typically but you need to know that Ai is evil AF. You clearly do not live near their loud brightly lit, noisy, electricity-sucking water-destroying data centers.
"Stop treating AI like a tool and start treating it like a teammate."
This is the shift I keep trying to explain to my clients. Tool implies you pick it up, use it, put it down. Teammate means you figure out how to work together over time and way more useful.
Appreciate seeing you guys thinking in plain sight and being open to all possibilities. And a salve to hear you express conflicting emotions. “Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don’t think we remember the past, we imagine it.” — John Banville
Omg… Blair is so much worse :( Blair is way more feminine and I do have a lived human bias that unless intentionally designed otherwise, AI is masculine input dominant. So Blair is now more sockpuppet like than ever. Please neutralize the gender which will likely tame that perkiness that is so grating that I can’t hear anything it says. Bless you Baratunde for submitting yourself to this public experience. Thank you for sharing yourself with us.