"Through the early history of computing, information flowed in through digital text and out through digital text. Artificial intelligence was thought by many to be science fiction or imagination. Now, AI has exploded, with AI engagements, such as chat bots, voice assistants, autonomous vehicles, medical diagnostics, robotics and human-AI relationships, increasingly interwoven into our everyday lives. In years ahead, AI will become even more powerful, more pervasive, more personal, and much more ethically significant."
"To understand the full potential of AI, one must understand the social media implications of synesthesia. Synesthesia is a phenomenon through which sensory crossovers occur, causing individuals to experience one sense as affected by another. Our senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell singularly and in combination influence our interactions with others and with our environment. ( Synesthesia comes from the Greek synth meaning together, and esthesia, meaning perception.) Every person experiences his or her individual level of synesthesia. (Cytowic 2024)"
Early computing handled only digital text inputs and outputs while contemporary AI now powers chatbots, voice assistants, autonomous vehicles, medical diagnostics, robotics, and human-AI relationships. AI will become more powerful, pervasive, personal, and ethically significant, requiring attentive choices and explicit value embedding. Synesthesia, a sensory crossover where one sense influences another, shapes perception and social interaction and is essential for fully simulating human behavior. Integrating multiple senses remains a major challenge, especially in robotics. Increasing computational power enables closer human-like capacities, and forthcoming enabling technologies may make synesthesia-informed AI transformative.
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