Sometimes it’s more engaging to share experiences we’ve had during our aging process, rather than simply teaching theories that anyone can memorize from a website. What is clear, however, is that verbal and numerical skills, as assessed in more traditional education systems, remain important. We are entering a world where we don’t know how to use a dictionary, and we can’t perform basic calculations from memory.
If humanity completely loses its verbal and numerical skills and leaves the task of using language and solving arithmetic problems to artificial intelligence or technology, then we will indeed run risk of these tools conquering us and invading our thinking. In a hypothetical war between humans and robots, in which humans cannot express themselves and cannot perform calculations, we will lose against robots.
A profession that will likely be key in the future, and which is not yet being studied in depth, is the analysis of the algorithms that allow a video or film to rank higher on social media, above other videos or films. Most modern filmmakers, young and especially teenagers, who will be adults in just a few years, aim to create content with a cell phone that can be uploaded to social media and garner many views.
Often, content with a certain degree of conflict ranks better in the algorithms than educational content. Proposals for solutions rank lower. When we try to offer a conciliatory view of the world, we are penalized by social media algorithms because we resolve the conflict. Without conflict, people don’t feel urgency or need to stay glued to their mobile devices to make content go viral.
Many creators are forced to produce chaos, violence, controversy, hatred, and death. When we try to offer peace, love, harmony, multiculturalism, and mutual understanding, our content can often go viral if it receives offensive or bullying responses. Among new generations, there are geniuses, warmongers, and pacifists. Geniuses of these new generations can develop their creativity by analyzing how to program algorithms for selecting audiovisual material, so they can promote content that is less harmful to humanity’s survival. However, for this to remain a profitable industry, we would have to blend philosophy with financial analysis.
Again, verbal and numerical skills in a human being with a brain cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence: it is humans who must program artificial intelligence, not the other way around. When you are browsing a social network or a movie platform and only click to play the content recommended by an algorithm, you are losing that battle.
You are dedicating your time to watching what those who programmed those algorithms want you to see. Your free will is valuable, and you should cultivate it by using the search function on every social network or audiovisual platform you browse. Think about what content you really want to see and search for it because it probably already exists.
Don’t let little time left in our lives be wasted glorifying content that has already been programmed to dominate: in this world so full of crises, wars, conflicts, and mismanagement. It’s possible that what’s most popular is also most harmful. Unknown hasn’t had the chance to come to light; it must be sought out and promoted.
As Antidote, we must avoid being absorbed by designs of artificial intelligence programmers, who condition our searches for audiovisual content, World history, art history, and film history remain timeless. It is absolutely necessary that in this era of constant plagiarism, when what seems original ends up being fake, we return to historical roots of what has endured through time.
Universal language of art has transcended centuries and even millennia. It is also important to seek it in Africa and Asia. All cultures have contributed something, and even in these times of war, it has been positive that some of us have been able to learn about religious art in Ukraine or archaeological sites in Palestine, Israel, and Iraq. All these countries have an artistic, cultural, and literary background spanning many centuries and millennia.
We need to absorb everything that our ancestors, in those places and times, produced so that we can condense and develop our own original synthesis, one that does not depend on an artificial intelligence that in most cases hasn’t taken time to study those cultures in depth, because their programmers haven’t provided you with that information, which you yourself can obtain through slow and calm, old-fashioned study.
Rubén Rivero
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