"In a future promised to be filled with so much artificiality, the world will belong to those who have the ability to discern between what is fake and what is real, and evermore to those who have the ability to create what is real" (Jake Weidmann, "The Future of Art and Artificial Intelligence").
In a recent blog post, Microsoft founder Bill Gates calls the 2022 release of ChatGPT "the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface [in 1980]" and proclaims that "the Age of AI has begun." This recent technological development confirms the prescience of Oxford professor John Lennox, who in 2020 (!) published a book called 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity.
So what does AI mean for our daily work? Our creative process? Our self-conception as human beings? Most everyone is asking these questions. And if they are not, they should be!
"The Art of Asking Questions in an Age of AI" is envisioned as an online course to help human beings use emerging AI technologies prudently and skillfully. Based on the deep and rich resources of the classical tradition of liberal arts, "The Art of Asking Questions" is envisioned as master-class in a perennial art-form as old as humanity and civilization. It will help you use ChatGPT more fruitfully. It will also help grow in your ability to cultivate relationships with your fellow human beings.
Here's a tentative outline of the course:
The Grammar of Questions: based on Kipling's "I Keep Six Honest Serving Men" and traditional grammars of Latin and Greek
The Logic and Dialectic of Questions: inspired by Aristotle's Organon, supplemented by Bacon's New Organon and Isaac Watts' Logic
The Rhetoric of Questions: drawing from the rich resources of the ancient, medieval, and modern sourcebooks of rhetoric, "the study of effective speaking and writing"
The Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics of Questions: Why ask questions? What is at stake?
However, this outline is subject to change. What topics would you like to see in the course? Submit your ideas by posting a comment in response to this post.
Daniel Vos
2 years ago
"In a future promised to be filled with so much artificiality, the world will belong to those who have the ability to discern between what is fake and what is real, and evermore to those who have the ability to create what is real" (Jake Weidmann, "The Future of Art and Artificial Intelligence").
In a recent blog post, Microsoft founder Bill Gates calls the 2022 release of ChatGPT "the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface [in 1980]" and proclaims that "the Age of AI has begun." This recent technological development confirms the prescience of Oxford professor John Lennox, who in 2020 (!) published a book called 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity.
So what does AI mean for our daily work? Our creative process? Our self-conception as human beings? Most everyone is asking these questions. And if they are not, they should be!
"The Art of Asking Questions in an Age of AI" is envisioned as an online course to help human beings use emerging AI technologies prudently and skillfully. Based on the deep and rich resources of the classical tradition of liberal arts, "The Art of Asking Questions" is envisioned as master-class in a perennial art-form as old as humanity and civilization. It will help you use ChatGPT more fruitfully. It will also help grow in your ability to cultivate relationships with your fellow human beings.
Here's a tentative outline of the course:
The Grammar of Questions: based on Kipling's "I Keep Six Honest Serving Men" and traditional grammars of Latin and Greek
The Logic and Dialectic of Questions: inspired by Aristotle's Organon, supplemented by Bacon's New Organon and Isaac Watts' Logic
The Rhetoric of Questions: drawing from the rich resources of the ancient, medieval, and modern sourcebooks of rhetoric, "the study of effective speaking and writing"
The Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics of Questions: Why ask questions? What is at stake?
However, this outline is subject to change. What topics would you like to see in the course? Submit your ideas by posting a comment in response to this post.