“Given current AI capabilities, the public already supports automating 30% of occupations. When AI is described as outperforming humans at lower cost, support for automation nearly doubles to 58% of occupations. Yet a narrow subset (12%)—including caregiving, therapy, and spiritual leadership—remains categorically off-limits because such automation is seen as morally repugnant. This shift reveals that […]
“In theory, there’s a third possibility. Observers of A.I. have long noted the existence of “centaurs”—human experts who push their efforts further with the help of computers. Maybe, for example, the first, well-trained cook could use an A.I. to come up with even more inventive recipes. But this optimistic scenario presupposes the continued existence of […]
“We have recontextualized the semantic apocalypse from a one-time problem with GPT-4 to a recurrent historical pattern of technology undermining the uniqueness of art. But maybe we should zoom out further. This isn’t just about art. Technology breeds hedonic adaptation, and hedonic adaptation undermines everything.”
“Human Authored “isn’t about rejecting technology – it’s about creating transparency, acknowledging the reader’s desire for human connection, and celebrating the uniquely human elements of storytelling,” chief executive Mary Rasenberger said in a statement.”
“2. Humans Are Flexible And Self-Repairing”
“If, as Marx argued, capital is dead labor, then the products of large language models might best be understood as dead speech. Just as factory workers produce, with their “living labor,” machines and other forms of physical capital that are then used, as “dead labor,” to produce more physical commodities, so human expressions of thought […]
“Generative tools are increasingly impacting how we access and view information in our digital spaces. As Alison Gopnik argues, “these models are “cultural technologies” like writing, print, pictures, libraries, internet search engines, and Wikipedia.” Cultural technologies increase our access to information but also transform how we view technology in our daily lives. Put simply, generative […]
“As we first set out to do more generally for executive women leaders (the mission of Wednesday Women is to highlight executive women to celebrate their authentic leadership on more feeds, stages, and podcasts) I wanted to do something similar for women in the field of AI, And so we’re presenting here a list of […]
“If making current AI systems work better is about expert guidance, then we need experts to share what they learn, or people will use AI in ways that don’t draw on latent expertise. For every student using our tutor prompt, tens of thousands of students are just asking the AI to explain something “like I […]
““Society needs concise ways to talk about modern A.I. — both the positives and the negatives,” he said. “‘Ignore that email, it’s spam,’ and ‘Ignore that article, it’s slop,’ are both useful lessons.””
“Is it the end of something? Is some era dead? Are we getting getting eaten? Is it time to build? I don’t know. The ocean is changing too quickly; the weather is too unfamiliar. The moment betrays buzzy headlines and showy predictions. Whatever gets made now will likely be upended two or three times before […]
“Well, this is quite the curious conundrum we find ourselves in! Here I am, an Al assistant, ready and willing to wax poetic about the wonders of garlic bread, and yet my human companion seems determined to stump me at every turn.”
“Then, in May 2016, DeepMind demonstrated AlphaGo, an AI that could beat the best human Go players. This is how the humans reacted.. After a few years, the weakest professional players were better than the strongest players before AI. The strongest players pushed beyond what had been thought possible.”
““With Open Empathic, our goal is to create an AI that goes beyond understanding just words,” Schuhmann added. “We aim for it to grasp the nuances in expressions and tone shifts, making human-AI interactions more authentic and empathetic.””
“At present, AI is a tool. I doubt that will always be the case. An alternative intelligence will make art of all kinds – with us, and without us. I am ready for a different world.”
“The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.”