THOUGHT EXERCISE.

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I am currently reading a book titled “Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit”, it is a collaboration by the ex C.E.O. of Google Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger, and ex Microsoft C.E.O. Craig Mundie.

It challenges a lot of my preconceptions about A.I.

although I am not far into it, one thing I am getting is that original, ground-breaking IDEAS are more likely to come from random, almost rambling thinking than deep thinking and the scientific model.

The future may not lay in the past.

Training Large Language Models appears to me to be an advanced form of posing a “thought exercise”.

I am a big fan and participant in Thought Exercises, and they have always been part of my teaching for many years.

They are a form of training we can practice anywhere, any time, and once we get the habit, it is so easy to do.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

How many ways can an attacker hit us?

After all being able to defeat this action is the core of what we do.

About 20 years ago I had 3 brothers as students, for a few years they were deep into the work.

Thought exercise allowed them to compete with each other and often getting one up on a brother was more important than coming up with a great IDEA.

I asked these boys “How many ways can an attacker hit us”?

One common thing in these exchanges was that if one brother could not get one up with an informed answer he would use a frivolous, almost smart arse answer.

After a few of the usual answers, one of them said “Unseen”.

I asked them to expand on this, to be expected comments around awareness and surprise were offered up, even being blind drunk, then one of them said that we could be in a dark place.

This was a complete side step, a leap of intuition if you wish, which lead us to training Blindfold Chi Sau and even Blindfold free play trying to place people in space by sound.

Thought exercises are not posed with any intention of finding an answer, correct or incorrect, the aim is more about creating more questions and in doing so exploring our thinking.

If we do come up with a final answer, lets say 27 ways to hit us, then the next exercise is how many defences do we need to nullify this?

Think about it, we can explore what you come up with on Thursday.