Co-Host: Ayush Prakash - Author, AI for Gen Z
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The ‘generation gap’ is nothing new. Boomers complained about how ‘square’ their parents were, and then Gen X complained about how lame their parents’ music was.
But with Gen Z it’s a bit different. This generation is the first to grow up ‘neuro-plastically connected to technology’. Those are the words of my first time guest Ayush Prakash, author of the new book called AI for Gen Z.
So how exactly has the Internet Age shaped young adults? What’s more, how will AI do that from now on?
Ayush is actually a Gen Z’er, so he knows what he’s talking about. He starts by talking about the ‘3 Rs’ that will affect all of us going forward, but especially the youngest generation coming up. How do technology companies and their prioritization of profit really affect all of us in unexpected ways, particularly as men? What specifically has happened in just the last five short years to rob the human race of its humanity, let alone your masculinity?
How is AI tricking us into accepting the computer as an authoritarian power (yes, really), and dragging us down to a less-human level of existence with it? Are you cheating on your partner if you get an AI girlfriend programmed to give you what you’re missing from your IRL relationship?
Is there really any correlation between intelligent learning models as we know them and the possibility of a ‘Skynet’-like AGI? What does it even mean to be human–and masculine–a quarter of the way through the 21st century? And if we’ve lost something there already, how to we get it back?
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