Reading has always been a source of enjoyment and frustration for me. AI recently lit a sign “What about” on that (Al -Mutsad: There is a good answer)
To read: A foolish foolish pursuit?
I was always a thirsty reader. My parents had a library from floor to the ceiling (which they read). My primary school and the hometown of the real places we went to. In my twenties, I moved from excitement and science fiction to classics and modernity, and then to a non -imaginary. I used to read at a pace about a monthly book.
In a smart survey of 2017, Emily Timbel analyzed reading trends in the United States and the results were to three categories: the ordinary reader (about 12 books annually), the fierce reader (50 books per year) and the super reader (80 books annually). She was interested in the number of books that a person would read for life – but I will soon argue – I think she was asking the wrong question.
The allocation of my “Emily Temple” group changed when the solitary sporting activities started consuming longer hours in the thirties of my age. I discovered heard and after two dolphin and quickly up to about 2 to 4 books per week (depending on the number of kilometers/swimming).
The rapid account puts me between 1000 to 2000 books so far and in the reputable Bill Gates Club (50/years), Barack Obama (30-50/years) and Mark Zuckerberg (30/years), while Buffett, Mondeger and Roosevelt (hundreds of books per year) are smiling at us from Olympus.
But here comes the question: What is the heck?
My sincere answer often? The little value that can be tracked. If I ask about most of them, I may remember the main concept, if that. Detailed arguments, evidence support, even important points – most of them faded.
This is a worrying perception. If a lot of what we read evaporates from memory, is it worth reading the effort?
Is it different from the entertainment time on Instagram and Netflix, only with a loud -eyed aura? I took a step forward-if reading as soon as a “map of the world” was built to move better in life, does it make the new artificial intelligence known to be old like moving using a map in the GPS era?
Small human activity shift
Regarding the history of humanity, reading is at the last minute. Even about 1800, another out of 10 people around the world can read (better numbers in Europe) to become 9 out of 10 today (with most growth in the twentieth century).
Although recent years have witnessed a decrease in the time it is to read for fun (from 23 minutes to 16 minutes), an increasing number of people who do not read all these numbers. Those who do it, keep it – for more than an hour a day. Today, more books are ever printed. This is one field in which innovation is in slow adoption. Although it is for decades, e -books and audio book take a small part of the market, each of which is about 10 %. The state of its use and benefits is not in arranging the required size for a “revolution”.
As for the content, by introducing the press transferred to Gutinberg and subsequent improvements, new books of books of religious, scientific and original bureaucracy have emerged. Romanticism, excitement, science fiction, imagination, children and of course not imaginary. This last category – which is more important to us in the context of this article – is heading a different part of the market in different cultures. The non -fictional accounts represent approximately 50 % of book sales in the United States, compared to less than 6 % in the UK (10 % worldwide).
From strategic forgetfulness to trained models
Many people, books, knowledge, reading and a lot of forgetfulness. Do we all make entertainment in education?
Yes and no.
The truth about the theories, tales and facts that we consume are that they often fade from memory. Looking at the Hermann Hermann Hurra, we can see that most of what we face (and we consume) fade. The good news is that it is not a mistake. It is an advantage. Forgetting improves our cognitive efficiency (the liberation of the “central treatment unit”), and maintains our emotional health (with the help of active forgetfulness during sleep), keeps our minds graceful, enables creativity and most importantly to discuss us – enhances priority and generalization.
Psychologists distinguish between Explicit memory (Facts we can remember) and Implicit memory (Knowledge that constitutes our thinking without direct summons). Reading, even when forgetting, changes our cognitive structures. It builds mental models, enhances union thinking and expands our views.
If this seems familiar with a recent article I read about artificial intelligence, it may not be a coincidence. There are similarities between the “trained artificial intelligence model” and “a good person” (leave “intelligence” aside as I think it has nothing to do with any case). The more information you feed both – the better in generalization around the world. But the similarities should not be more than an extension. The trained artificial intelligence model “remembers” more details as a secondary product to train it on a real text while the human brain does not do so. It only maintains the “train”.
Amnesty International Reading Humans? Not so quickly.
Hold.
If AI’s reading improves its abilities to generalize (implicit memory), similar to humans and her consent at one time its capabilities known to all (explicit memory), where do you leave? Dumility of development?
Maybe not.
Since secondary reading products (generalization, logic and facts) are not accompanied by motivation, curiosity, initiative, necessity and invention. Artificial intelligence may have answers, but he does not know what to ask.
Even with completely forgetting the details, or perhaps because of it, the person will read well in an interesting position when you come to work with artificial intelligence. Humans who have fungal drives and a trained view of the world, will make more effectively mock a fully known logic machine. The trained person gets better results using Google Maps because what matters is not the ability to read the map, use a compass, calculate the steps and remember the road numbers. What matters is a will to go, know what you are looking for and the ability to get to know a good location.
Not on the same book
There is something else that we have ignored so far.
AIS does not read the same books that humans do. The reason is most of the books are owned. AIS is not allowed to read it for training (copyright for personal, not commercial use). Suppose for a minute this is the case. We have a new paradox. Humans train their mental models on books and then forget the details, while AIS is trained in general data, building a model that maintains different details. How can a person with a model and motivation consult a tool about the details he does not know?
This is a question that remains the answer to …
