Cyborgism (especially in a recent alignment agenda) is sometimes used more narrowly to mean “ using AI (primarily pretrained GPT models) to augment human cognition”. However in this workshop we intentionally do not restrict the term to language model cooperation and also include uses associated with the term “cyborg”.
Less talked about, but there have been some discussions about what we call “Hard Cyborgism” in the Cyborgism agenda and I remember we were hypothesizing different approaches to use tech like VR, TTS/STT, BCI, etc. sometime last fall.
I looked into hard cyborgism very briefly several months ago and concluded that I wouldn’t be able to make much progress on it given my expected timelines.
It’s a wonderful book not just because it’s about the fundamental limits of HCI explored/bounded using information theory. It will help you develop an understanding of the Hard Cyborgism approach in a more rigorous way. He also asks directly if AI can help. In 1989. The dude’s career was in compression codecs, so it’s a rare Hutterpilled GOFAI book. He states the Hutter thesis before Hutter even.
Less talked about, but there have been some discussions about what we call “Hard Cyborgism” in the Cyborgism agenda and I remember we were hypothesizing different approaches to use tech like VR, TTS/STT, BCI, etc. sometime last fall.
I looked into hard cyborgism very briefly several months ago and concluded that I wouldn’t be able to make much progress on it given my expected timelines.
A friend of mine recommended this book to me: Silicon Dreams: Information, Man, and Machine by Robert Lucky. I haven’t read it yet (though I have a PDF if you want it), but here’s what he said about it:
(Note: I have not read this entire post yet.)