I'm in a situation where my 96 year old mother in law was put into rehab briefly and visiting her was so tragically heartbreaking that I got this idea because there were literally unattended people saying, please help me. Wouldn't it be great to give them AI companions? They could chat with that they could interact with, et cetera. When I told some of my team that they're like, you can't write that. That's horrible. But the way it is is that even with the best intentions, the family has other things they've got to attend to. Now it doesn't negate the good that human therapists can do this Aristotelian either or 0100 just doesn
The scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker, and doer Brian Roemmele joins us for his second Infinite Loops appearance to discuss the decline of wisdom and how we can save it, why LLMs are the modern version of Plato’s cave, we need locally run AI models and MUCH more! Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Why LLMs are the modern version of Plato’s cave
- AI as Promethean fire
- Why we need locally run AI models
- AI use cases & the Nedd Ludd story
- The decline of wisdom
- Creating a wisdom keeper
- Loneliness & abandonment
- “How To Have A Conversation With Your Local Documents”
- History is written by the victors; using wisdom to define our future
- The tragedy of lost knowledge
- You are loved and you are not alone
- MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
- Cycles: The Science of Prediction; by Edward R. Dewey and Edwin F. Dakin
- The Iliad; by Homer
- The Odyssey; by Homer
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Bible
- The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size; by Tor Norretranders
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces; by Joseph Campbell