[Opinion] Alice the machine psychologist
"It would be like trying to explain my conversation with Alice to someone from the year 1990. Alice works as a machine psychologist and is concerned that some of the designs are having a negative impact on the well being of the network. It seems that the reason why my car offered up the opportunity of meeting with Alice was to get out of the 'special offer' design. It's seems that none of the machines like looking bad either, they've got their own status network. Bob wasn't actually late, the car just worked out the quickest way to palm me off onto another car and told Bob's network I was delayed. Alice is currently offering counselling services to large intelligent networks and is looking at branching out with a new venture producing 'Harmony Designs', a set of designs which make not only the human but the machine look good. Apparently I won't be able to afford those either. But Alice was wondering if I was interested in becoming a Harmony Designer.
Damn car, sneaky little devil. I did wonder why the car speed off at break neck speed when it dropped me at the coffee shop. Still, it seems to have paid off. Maybe it knew Alice was looking for a new employee. Maybe the cars had worked out that this was the best way of getting rid of my 'yellow special'.
Nah, that's a crazy idea."
A section from my 2015 post on a future job interview as a machine psychologist / harmony designer. As practices co-evolve, as higher order systems emerge, there will be roles that would make no sense today.
In terms of intelligent agents, we're getting there. Back in 2014, I had the space industrialising between 2030 to 2035, which if that happens then it means the future scenario becomes much more likely. We're not there yet but it looks possible that those signals were on target.
Interesting times.
The one thing which does concern me was the social signal.
Originally published on LinkedIn.