Did I tell Elon Musk He was Wrong?
No. I told him that we were both right.
Firstly, Elon Musk changed the course of human history and especially America and the West through his at the time painful acquisition of Twitter (now X). Ha, its still painful I would guess in many ways.
Securing an asset for global unrestricted human communication over ideas and making it available to God is a more-than-Nobel-prize worthy piece of the historical record and the destiny of humankind.
And X is the most anthropologically (and best) large scale AI in the world today.
And personally, you know I love love love X. Maybe “too much” some days.
When news broke that X was letting go of all of its “researchers” (seen as unnecessary) and retaining/hiring only “engineers”, it grabbed my interest.
My thesis is for Law that AI should be “truly human” and in my judgment the best configuration is to have a code person to qa code and a lawyer to qa the content. Neither can do both, unless one is both.
And not having that means our AI is informed by a layperson judgment to a certain extent.
It matters deeply because Law is language. And perhaps the most IMPORTANT language in the history of the world as it free and enables humankind…..it PROTECTS SPEECH among every other thing.
One X engineer explained it and I (this time politely ha ha) took slight issue.
Imagine my surprise when Elon Musk replied to my post!
He wasn’t wrong. I wasn’t wrong, unless I am mistaken. Time will tell. And I will win AI for Law. Anthropology not only matters but is central to humanity — and AI is HUMAN.
Engineers and Lawyers are much much alike in skill personality and temperaments — best TOGETHER [for AI for Law]. Close with my old joke:
what’s the difference between a lawyer and a developer?
one works very late hours, drinks tons of diet coke, dresses down to focus on grinding to produce what is esoteric to many, but the right build for the right application.
the other is a developer!