Frances Fogel’s Reviews > The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream > Status Update

While our devices don't yet talk to us like we're best friends, we should recognize that from the Al's point of view, we are simply their real-world mothers and fathers, helping them to train, learn, and evolve.
As we create these Als, we are making them in our image, in our likeness.

Those at the fringe daydream productively. They are adept at using metaphors, and so they are able to focus on the hypothetical relationships between things, rather than the things themselves.

Those at the fringe daydream productively

Right now, machines will deliver you exactly what you wish for—and we're not capable yet of wishing for the right thing. We can certainly use algorithms to supplement our thinking, but knowing what's ahead still requires people who can listen, analyze, and make connections.

Our fear and rejection of the unknown has been an ongoing thread throughout human history… we continue to struggle with this problem, from generation to generation… either… Nietzsche was right… we're living the… same life now that we've lived an infinite number of times in the past, or that we've internalized a belief that the future is something that happens to us, rather than something that we… create.