AI Essentials
Dynamic Systems
If we don’t know when to look for something new, find the answer through a systems approach because we live in and are made up of systems. From nature to human made (such as law and commerce), we see the impact of systems all around us. Since business is part of quite a few systems, it’s worth understanding how it effects us through beliefs, impacting our bodies. Stress from outside forces impacts our bodies — like how AI is a force of change.
There are many dynamic systems and theories described by math and science that make up our world. A few covered here are:
Chaos Theory
Law of Large Numbers
Catastrophe and Bifurcation Theories
Dissipative Systems
Neural Networks (which the internet and AI are part of)
Distributed Cognitive Theory
It may sound like a lot, but don’t feel overloaded — this is no catastrophe. I promise to keep it light and bright while providing a new logical perspective of these systems that have been described by science and math. These description models make up our incomes (dissipative), our ability to change (bifurcation) and our ability to see change not as something to fear (chaos), but as a dynamic way of understanding that things can’t and don’t stay the same all the time. If these terms feel overwhelming, put on your thinking cap and let your mind wander. You are on your right path, even if you feel like you’re staring into the dark. There’s nothing to be afraid of because we’re all in this together (distributed cognition).
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Chaos
I know the term ‘dynamic system’ seems redundant because the word system implies an interactive quality, but both math and science describe it the same way:
non-linear
many variables
change over time
The variables can be both known or unknown, but when change occurs (often due to scale), the system can turn into something else completely. So the 3 main forces that impact a dynamic system are scale, time and any number of variables that brings up who knows what, which makes it feel like chaos.
Healing unseen behaviors that leave us feeling depleted from AI.Experiencing job loss or a career change
Class Discussion:
Flash Mobs
Keeping a Poker Face
Scaling Up… and Down
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“Yoshimi, they don’t believe me, but you won’t let those robots defeat me.”
– The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
Bifurcation
Stop/start before it ends/begins (what!?)Knowledge through your own skill sets — no further training required
Class Discussion:
Pitchforks and Swallow Tails, the bifurcated experience of joy, no angry mobs included
The sign of ‘Mu’ - math can be sardonic if you look at it the right way
“Am I crazy or is the math wrong?”
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“Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto, For doing the jobs that nobody wants to”
– Styx, Mr Roboto
Distributed Cognition
We can't be everywhere all at once and neither can our ideasHow our environment holds information, including mentors and other tacit knowledge.
Class Discussion:
Libraries are magical
People are grounded sources of inspiration, not perspiration
Neural networks are all around and within us, too (note: no AI chips will be implanted)
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“And we can act like we come from out of this world”
– Men Without Hats, The Safety Dance
Dissipative Systems
Paychecks and Bank AccountsHow we feel abstracted from in our hearts, but feel full or filled up when we’re in creativity mode.
Class Discussion:
Allowing the release to happen when it happens
Hoarding instinct in business
Basin of attraction, or the toilet bowl effect (don’t worry, it won’t be gross)
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