Philip Ball - How Life Works
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
**Maps, agency and understanding **
Generative AI can lead to a procrastination of understanding as it provides an illusion of immediate or deferred understanding, missing important information. Relying excessively on external tools like chat GPT can reduce agency and creativity by diminishing the ability to affect changes in the environment and comprehend meaning and semantics. The speaker highlights the importance of agency in not only influencing the surroundings but also in creating meaning by mapping to internal models. The use of maps as a metaphor emphasizes the necessity of having an overview to maintain agency and prevent the loss of meaning and understanding.
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