Human Energy Podcast
Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific & cosmic story introducing the noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.
Today we face the unprecedented challenges of rapid social change and new technologies which, together with the scientific picture of an aimless universe, have created a crisis of orientation. Human Energy was founded by scientists, scholars, artists, and storytellers to highlight the causal conditions to our challenges and provide solutions for current and future generations. We articulate these solutions through the "Third Story" worldview (https://humanenergy.io/the-three-stories-of-the-universe/) with focus on the emerging noosphere.
We are beginning to visualize the noosphere’s formation; study its potential future scenarios as humanity takes more and more control of its future course; and explore how human beings connecting across the world may realize themselves socially and individually in its development.
Human Energy Podcast
Large Language Models: Portals To The Noosphere - Gregory Stock - N2 Conference
Large Language Models: Portals To The Noosphere
Presented by Gregory Stock with Sadie Stock as part of Human Energy's N2 Conference 2023 at University of California, Berkeley
Recent advances in AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), may soon erode the perceived primacy of individual thought and consciousness. Our planetary superorganism continues to evolve, and a dramatic leap has now occurred in our ability to draw creative output rapidly from the vast stores of accumulated human knowledge and experience. The membrane between individual mind and the global mind is thinning rapidly, so we will examine the nature of the expansive LLM-centered conduits through which collective intelligence and creativity are now flowing, and how they might be nudged in directions that serve the human future. As our AI systems increasingly demonstrate how easily individual expression can be enhanced by flows of shared knowledge, current notions of individual human consciousness, creativity, and agency may face profound challenges. And as the collective foundation of human activity becomes more readily apparent, our understanding of identity, cognition, and the self may have to be reframed along with basic distinctions between individual and collective thought, and even our sense of what it means to be human.
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