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?
A conversation with Professor James Evans from the University of Chicago about scientific progress.
Seven books to read to understand theories of consciousness and its implication for how it might be built in AI.
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, were guest lecturers on Generative AI for the Oregon State University—Cascades Edge program.
Current AI resembles left-brained reasoning - optimized, logical but decontextualized. Humans play the right-brained role anchored in real world connections.
Defined as “the degree to which a system can adaptably achieve complex goals in complex environments with limited direct supervision", agentic AI promises to transform how we make decisions.
A recent study from MIT has been grabbing attention with its unconventional take: don't worry about AI snatching your job, it's not cost-effective.
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, were speakers at the New Rules for Work Conference on the topic of Avoiding the Pitfalls of Collective Stupidity with Generative AI.
Chain of thought, tree of thoughts, and now graph of thoughts—a progression that may lead to agentic AI.
This Week from Artificiality: A Brief History of Intelligence, Rodrigo Liang & SambaNova, Bonds with Bots, Is the GPT Store AGI in Development, and How to Talk with Your Teens about AI.
Today, we hosted a webinar on how to talk with your teens about AI.
We speculate on how the GPT store might act a market mechanism for discovering the most valuable use cases for AGI
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
