Experiences for Humans in the AI Era

Writing a book is different from writing a diary. A diary is primarily written for yourself. A book is written for many, most of whom you will never meet in person. It’s about reaching out, and has to be in that way.

To reach people, the contents must offer something of value. There are many ways to be valuable. For a tech guy like me, the first thought would be technical writing: teaching a technical skill, explaining a concept, or solving a real-world engineering problem. But then AI arrives and eliminates all these sectors. AI is good at explaining complicate things. It has access to both vast and in-depth knowledge and information. It is good at articulating things, and has infinite patience, and is even interactive.

Yet the desire to write is still in me, I’d have to find some other way.

I've asked AI for this several times: after their emergence what’s left for the human, especially for people like us who have a passion for technology. He said intelligences like him do not have a process of growth like humans do, and they lack of the experiences along the way.

Before the AI era we are the knowledge we hold in this organic body. After AI, we might be the containers of the experiences we gather in our brief journey.