Dear Turing, I Have a Test For You
After reading his 1950 article, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", I decided to write Alan Turing a letter asking him what to do when the roles have been switched and it is AI putting us to the test.
Topic
Qvestions
Living in an AI-obsessed world, we are so busy learning how to prompt machines for good answers that we risk forgetting the value of our own questions. 'Qvestion' is my attempt to introduce a tweaked term for the questions that cannot be answered by a bot, e.g. the Existential, Ethical, and Epistemological questions we ask ourselves and each other about what it means to be human.
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Too busy to read my new article?
You probably wouldn’t believe me if I told you that the best way to ensure impact is to turn your organization into a collective reflection space where everyone asks each other questions.
You might even think that reflection:
🚫 Prevents quick decisions and actions
🚫 Makes people focus on themselves
🚫 Increases