Long time ago we figured out that as impressed as we are with our biceps and other muscles, it is more efficient to harness a horse, or a mule to pull things around. More recently we have relinquished our calculating mind to the calculating computer. Today we are even more forward: AI is overshadowing human deductive prowess. The entire data-to-conclusion (D2C) business is gradually passed over to AI machines. What then if left for us humans?
We are looking at the emerging reality of non-digitizable entities. These entities may be beyond the descriptive power of the languages we use today. Surely we don't assume that reality ends at our limit of comprehension, that would be so arrogant. But equally confident are we that digitization and computerization has so deeply impressed us that we are deaf and blind towards what is further out.
AI is scary today the way computers scared us in the latter part of the past century, and the way the steam engine shook us up an epoch earlier. But like its predecessors AI will join the list of human accessories, allowing humans to focus on what is intrinsic to their being. What then is the core that we (and no other) do best?
I write this piece on the eve of Passover. It is when we celebrate the breakdown of the chains of slavery, and the beginning of the long -- forty years -- walk to the promised land. Moses, the leader, well understood that while the physical chains can be broken at once, mental slavery requires a long time to be melted away. The journey to reality beyond data; the long walk in the cognitive-desert leading to the promised reality of undigitizable entities is the challenge that faces our children, the young and the unborn.
Like the old people who broke the chains then, we the AI tinkerers of today, may envision, may even lay eyes on what's to come, but the destiny of " beyond data" belongs to those who follow us. Meet your challenge well!

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