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?
New research probes the inner workings of these models, revealing the emergence of structured knowledge about fundamental concepts like space and time.
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, were keynote speakers at the Western Insterstate Commission on Higher Education's meeting on the topic of AI & Higher Education.
As problems become more complex and interconnected, collective intelligence must evolve to keep pace, likely requiring AI systems as indispensable partners. 7 min read.
Our obsession with complexity as a route to making sense of AI.
In this episode, we speak with Julia Rhodes Davis, a Senior Advisor at Data & Society, about her recent report "Advancing Racial Equity Through Technology Policy" published by the AI Now Institute.
Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrero challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints, she claims, bring about effects as well, and they enable the emergence of coherence.
A research review of A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think by Caleb Everett.
Jai Vipra is a research fellow at the AI Now Institute where she focuses on competition issues in frontier AI models. She recently published the report Computational Power and AI which focuses on compute as a core dependency in building large-scale AI.
A research review of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma. by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar.
An interview with University of British Columbia professor, Wendy Wong, about her book We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age.
Suddenly artificial intelligence shows signs of being smart like humans. AI has been advancing so swiftly that leading AI researchers and entrepreneurs predict that AI will soon surpass humans on all cognitive tasks—a milestone commonly referred to as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
