Making soup of AI

I have (nearly) finished my book about books about AI. You can pre-order the book here https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/. Here is my intro:

Making soup

“Ik kan er geen soep van koken”. Feel free to use AI to translate that. In short, if you are expecting the finite answers to AI, this book about books will be very disappointing. If you are looking for lots of different perspectives and some fuel for thinking (#mindcandy), this book is for you.

Some insights

As you can see, I have read many books about AI and I am none the wiser.? There are a few things I do know:

• AI is pure technology abstraction, and AI is accelerating technology abstraction in lots of other technologies. That is why I started with "All Hands on Tech: The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution". We are all programmers now. English is the hottest programming language.
• The impact on organisational design is going to be profound. AI is profoundly impacting digital transformation, and the concepts you need to take into account are DAOs, digital twins, AI CEOs and everything smart and agentic.
• Personally, I think that will mean that authenticity and culture will become the competitive battlegrounds of the future. Technology will level everything else.
• Acceleration is the keyword. We are going hyper-exponential. The rate of change is, you guessed it, accelerating at neck-breaking speed. That means you have to consider not only AI's impact but also synthetic biology, AR, VR, genetics, nano, blockchain, material science, quantum computing (immediately followed by quantum AI) and maybe even Kurweil's singularity.
• It is all about data. More than that, it is all about data interpretation. Most AIs have food poisoning. Ans most data used is one-dimensional and is without (human) context.

Profound impact

There is no question that the impact of AI will be profound. It is all determined by which side of the fence you are on. Are you a (techno) optimist or pessimist? Are you a doomer, gloomer or zoomer (that is from "Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future")? It gets you into the realms of the future of work, transhumanism, technosocialism and humanity in general.

Intelligence and consciousness

For me, the most important questions are about intelligence and consciousness. The "I" in AI raises all kinds of questions, starting with the definition of intelligence. The topic of "Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence". The human definition of intelligence is very one-dimensional. The book blows you away with intelligence at the level of plants, birds, octopuses, monkeys, ants, dolphins, bees, trees and several others. It all depends on your perspective; the human perspective is arrogant, narrow and delusional.

Reframing

We are simply not the sole possessor of intelligence, and we need some serious reframing, and that includes AI, but also the types of consciousness. It might open up a whole new realm of possibilities. Hence, my last chapter. Artificial intelligence versus natural intelligence. Maybe there is the answer. The inward journey to self-awareness as the antidote to AI dominance. That is why I included "Inner Engineering" as the final book. Maybe it is the only book.