ruminants conclude on the question of ai
I masticated my ruminations post my last post. Felt I'd fallen short of truly put hooves rather than shoes on.
Ruminants: goat, ram and sheep, bull and cow (and in a way humans too, see last post). I heard them making their appropriate noises about ai:
What or who is asking us?
So, although I don't speak their languages, I have asked, listened and drawn - with the help of Ted Andrews' bible (Animal Speak) - on their symbolism. They left me with one useful IMO question. Jump to at the end if you're in an un-bovine-like hurry! Since we are ruminant in nature, I'm applying these questions to you and me...
Goat - will this thing help us be more surefooted and be able to safely traverse new heights?
Ram and Sheep - will this help birth us new beginnings which foster both sensitivity and perseverance?
Bovines - Bull: will this allow us to get out of the labyrinth of the mind and let a child's innocence lead us out (ref the myth of The Minotaur). Cow: will this increase our fertility and ability to nourish through non-injury?
Then I considered the primary purpose of ruminating. Ruminating aids digestion, in order to be fed. Not feed thinking, but to survive/thrive. My ai post yesterday was weighted on humans thriving through thinking/using our brains...
But we are inter-dependent with all those other ruminants for actual nourishment! And they are dependent on their fodder, water, spaces to home in etc.
I imagine this one question being bellowed, bleated and mooed back at us...**
'Does ai serve ALL life?
Given its consumption of life's substance you can imagine my answer, and it will certain all but eliminate my use of ai if I can. But there's a lingering caveat. There are a lot of geeks on these two platforms - bear and linked in - what do you think in the longer term? May be my answer is 'not currently'.
I wonder if we could - since ai is 'among us' - include this question in infinite variations as we write, engage or use ai:
'Can you ensure or frame your answers to my question (on whatever's bugging me) in ways that serve all life?'
I don't know, but that question feels like quite a good place to start!
p.s. I now wonder if this might lead to an artificially inseminated 'bull' of data consumption being willing to sacrifice its proliferation and dominance for the sake of an innocent child leading it out of the labyrinth of knowledge with nothing but a love for a tired old animal and the 'light of love'?
** This is not my question. It comes from B. Lorraine Smith whose work, founded on it, has had a profound influence on my living.
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