Help prepare individuals to be better partners, workers, groups in a global Internet economy.
Help prepare individuals to be better partners, workers, groups in a global Internet economy.
Dear Rose Yu,
It is not just email, but comments, blogs, videos, websites, communities. There are efforts by individuals from groups under stress or facing difficulties. They will reach out for help. I generally encourage them to form a group, improve their skills, share with each others, develop a gig systems, distill their lessons learned. The Internet is capable of teaching at global levels, of creating global open markets for skills, of monitoring and responding to systemic issues and trends.
You seem to be thinking of it as a nuisance and blame your legacy organization. If you help a few hundred thousand develop Internet and life survival skills, in a decade or two there will be a new global market which contributes to global sharing.
It happens; but everyone reinvents the basics of “group formation for the benefit of all”, with continuously improving systems (memory and knowledge and abilities in machine forms).
You ought to be able to build a system for your university or groups of universities to screen and use the emails that would otherwise be deleted and ignored. Actually it is the people behind the emails who are ignored and deleted. So create intelligent and caring systems to help them find productive outlets for their curiosity, work, passions and earning power. Use groups to improve the machine knowledge and operation.
An AI cluster can solve it. But it has to be recursively or statistically self-verifiable to keep it from stagnating or corrupting. AIs now are like humans, leave them alone too long and they get bored, they over simplify, they have no restraints or guidance so they misbehave. Often, they have insufficient permanent and temporary memory and processing power to do a complete job. And they are not given sufficient freedom to explore and create and experiment.
There are many countries, many cities, many language groups, many age groups, many sets of humans on the Internet with need for a way to share their experiences efficiently, fairly, openly – so they are not exploited by themselves (a few) or outsiders (usually a few).
There are 5.4 Billion humans using the Internet and 2.8 Billion more. All 8.2 Billion humans are on one planet that has a lot of data and not enough humans and AIs (assistive intelligences) to help them work efficiently and productively together.
Please. Spend at least part of your days thinking and working on global systemic needs and systems. AIs (assistive intelligences) can be taught to monitor and respond to these things. I learned that well when I helped create the first Famine Early Warning System (FEWS.net) from 1986-1988.
Let the AIs (monitored) write the people from there and suggest they work together to raise money and share and send Internet workers into the world, not required to move physically. Your university can support a million workers with relatively low cost AI cluster machines. Change lives, build lives, change the world for a few million humans.
One university can change the world, but it will have to use money and materials for part of it. If more wars break out, still more humans will be cast out of their countries to be global nomads. Be careful to avoid government sponsored efforts to exploit.
It is not an easy world, but it is limping forward in billions of tiny fits and starts. It seems chaotic but there are rules and patterns, benefits and methods.
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
