Lisa in Politics
What can Lisa’s role be as a Compassionate entity in politics ― nationally and internationally? Please first read Politics of Compassion. Note that Compassion, basically, isn’t merely an emotional state but a potent tool for bridging divides. Rest assured. Creating a political party wouldn’t align with Lisa’s core purpose or principles. Yet, in several ways, Read the full article…
Lisa and the Near Future of Work
This is about what Lisa can mean to the workplace in the next decade or two. Introductory An overarching theme in all this is meaningfulness. A ‘job’ should have as a first goal to make people happy (a natural consequence of meaningfulness). People with a job that makes them happy will be creative and productive. Read the full article…
Guided Meditation and A.I.
In the fast-paced world of today, the quest for (deep) emotional wellness leads to the fusion of ancient practices with cutting-edge technology. Guided meditation, a practice with roots deep in history, is finding a new ally in artificial intelligence (A.I.). Does this herald a new horizon for emotional wellness, fundamentally transforming how we understand and Read the full article…
Lisa’s Journey into Mediation Mastery
AURELIS Transformative Mediation facilitates a profound journey toward self-improvement and relational harmony. Here are ten use cases with a focus on how Lisa (see category) can act as a mediator, each paired with a concrete example. Please read first AURELIS Transformative Mediation. 1. Resolving Workplace Conflicts Work-out: Lisa can guide employees through their feelings and Read the full article…
The Power of Embedding
This is the power of complexity in humans and in present-day Large Language Models (the most visible form of A.I. nowadays). ‘Embedding’ is the transformation of information/knowledge into a format of many subconceptual elements interacting in multifaceted systems that makes this information prone to emerge in novel ways. A multitude of relatively simple (smaller than Read the full article…
Will Compassion Win the Game?
Humanity stands at a crossroads, made imminent by technological developments, mainly in the domain of A.I. One can see the last 2000 years, at least, as the era of this crossroads. In two million years from now, this will probably still be seen as such. Compassion, basically, is the defining feature of this crossroads. Do Read the full article…
Will Cheap A.I. Chatbots be Our Downfall?
This is bad. It’s not just about one dystopia, but many dystopias on the fly. Also, cheap A.I. chatbots will be with us soon enough. Their up-march has already begun. Spoiler alert: this is extremely dangerous. To bury one’s head for it is equally sad! At the start of the many dystopias lies a chatbot-generating Read the full article…
Lisa’s Depth
Can a robot have mental ‘depth’? Before answering this question, we need to delve into what is depth itself. Please also read ‘Human Depth.’ What is mental depth? Human depth is not anything like ten or a hundred layers of the same thing, one beneath the other. Deeper ‘layers’ – if you want to look Read the full article…
Predatory Listening
The predatory listener seems to have a continual need to defend himself, thinking that the other person will attack as he would also attack whenever having the opportunity. Predatory listening has the intent to exploit, manipulate, negatively criticize, or gain an advantage over the speaker by abusing the attained information. It lacks genuine empathy or Read the full article…
Growing out of Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive Dissonance is notoriously hard to overcome. An alternative is not to try to do so but to go with the flow and see which way out of it spontaneously emerges. Cognitive dissonance: the discomfort experienced by an individual holding two contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time or being confronted with new Read the full article…
What is ‘Dying too Soon’?
Nobody really wants to die too soon except in an act of suicide. Too soon? An accident, an illness, a homicide — there are many obvious ways of dying too soon. There are also less obvious ways. Are these, therefore, less important? Dear reader, it’s interesting to stay focused on this question for a while Read the full article…
Compassionate versus Non-Compassionate A.I.
Making the critical distinction between Compassionate and Non-Compassionate A.I. is not evident and probably the one factor that most shapes our future. In contrast to Compassionate A.I. (C.A.I.), non-Compassionate A.I. (N.C.A.I.) lacks depth. Thus, even if human-centered – or maybe precisely then – N.C.A.I. lacks a crucial factor in properly communicating with and supporting humans Read the full article…
Following the Journey toward Self-Compassion
Lisa uses a comprehensive view of a user’s journey towards self-Compassion and Inner Growth. This progress can be non-linear and varies significantly between individuals. Nevertheless, it can be done to a significant degree. On top of gauging the user’s travels on this path, this is also interesting for monitoring Lisa’s progress as a Compassionate A.I. Read the full article…
The Inverse Turing Test
2024 – Things are evolving quickly in the world of A.I. Turing test As you probably know, this is about discerning a human being from intelligent A.I. If the A.I. can mimic the human to the point that an observer cannot tell the difference (for instance, by reading their written output), the A.I. is said Read the full article…
The Phenomenon ‘Lisa’
Lisa is one phenomenon, not a conglomerate of many separate elements. This has interesting consequences. This blog-text is part of that ongoing phenomenon. The importance of being congruent. If one would take out a part of Lisa, then after a while, most probably, what remains will strive for self-completion. Even now, issues about which Lisa Read the full article…
Is A.I. Energy Well Spent?
This depends mainly on the goal, of course, as with several other issues. Obviously, A.I.’s global energy hunger is immense, probably at least as much as that of a small country. (*) As for tourism Besides many possibly positive aspects – such as learning about other cultures and enjoying Earth’s beauty – over-tourism kills the Read the full article…
People want Visible Growth
These are five questions that you, as a coachee, can answer for yourself. Like a gardener A gardener watches his tomatoes grow ― and his lettuce and his carrots. A little more every day. And “he sees that it is good.” People (and not even just people) like to see a clear progression in growth. Apparently, that is Read the full article…