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Friday Reflections 0112

Dec 01, 2023

Happy Friday everyone. Here’s something to reflect on over the weekend perhaps…

Today’s read is about 5-7 minutes. Post read pondering not included. I ran a course this week about thinking. How we think, how we make sense of things we know (like Chat-GPT does) but also how we make sense of things we don’t know. That’s where humans have the leg-up at the moment. Being able to generalise something enough until it falls into a realm of something we do understand. It’s a nifty ability that makes us adaptable. If the soothsayers do end up being correct, and we fall into a dystopian nightmare, having practiced this ability to think novelly might aid our survival…

https://futurism.com/google-deepmind-researchers-transformers-agi

Last week’s riddle question and answer; The shorter I am, the bigger I am. What am I? A person’s temper!

This week’s riddle is;  What is bought by the yard but is worn by the foot?

Time for a moment to reflect, I think.