This week we are leaning into multiple metaphors: AI as a mirror, UX design as a window or room, and life as information. Plus: read about Michael Levin's upcoming presentation at the Imagining Summit, Helen's Book of the Week, and our upcoming events.
It’s easy to fall prey to the design illusion that because LLMs look sleek, they must be well-designed. But aesthetics alone do not equal design. As Steve Jobs once said, “Design is not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works.”
It’s curious that these two papers, tackling such similar ideas, came out at the same time. Is this coincidence, or does it tell us something about where the study of life and intelligence is heading?
Does consciousness attribution hold the key to funding AI futures? The shift towards AI intimacy might reclaim our attention but at the potential cost of human-to-human connections.
An interview with SambaNova Systems CEO, Rodrigo Liang.
Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Bennett.
This Week from Artificiality: Running with Scissors, 10 Research Obsessions for 2024, Barbara Tversky & Spatial Cognition, Interpreting Intelligence Part 3
In our Artificiality Pro update for January, we covered our 10 research obsessions for 2024.
We're revisiting one of our most thought-provoking episodes, originally recorded in April 2022, featuring Barbara Tversky, the author of Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought.
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, gave a presentaiton on AI & Higher Education for the Board of Regents of the Montana University System.
The emergence of complexity from simple algorithms is a phenomenon we see in both natural and artificial systems. It's a classic example of complexity: even straightforward algorithms can lead to immense complexity over time.
In our Artificiality Pro update for December, we covered several key industry updates in AI and introduced mechanistic interpretability and memory vs. margins.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
