A review of What Is Life?: Evolution by Computation, and What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI about Evolution, Computing, and Minds, by Blaise Agüera y Arcas
A conversation with Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Google) and Michael Levin (Tufts University) about two recente papers on the computational foundations of life and intelligence.
A conversation with Maggie Jackson, author of Uncertain
We are dedicated to unraveling the profound impact of AI on our society, communities, workplaces, and personal lives. To truly grasp this transformation, our approach is rooted in engaging with core concepts such as critical thinking, logical analysis, and the scrutiny of underlying assumptions, principles that are essential in the realm of philosophical inquiry.
I agree with the government that antitrust is important. That said, I would hate to see data privacy and security diminished just as we are trying to take advantage of AI’s power to be a personalized digital partner.
ChatGPT and similar tools can significantly alter workflows by changing how we match tasks with skills. Think of a two-by-two matrix: on one axis, you have the skill needed for a task; on the other, the worker's proficiency level.
Sensemaking is going to change. AI will allow us to find story-less, a-narrative yet meaningful correlations. Our minds will have to be open to a new kind of awe: that which a machine can make sense of that we cannot.
It appears that there is one effect many researchers are finding across multiple fields: generative AI has a significant impact on lower skilled and less experienced people. However, if we automate difficult tasks we cut ourselves off from the essential components for achieving mastery like flow.
Working with AI requires seeing beyond automation to amplification. If society chooses to complement strengths between humans and machines, more dynamic partnerships become possible.
Current AI resembles left-brained reasoning - optimized, logical but decontextualized. Humans play the right-brained role anchored in real world connections.
We speculate on how the GPT store might act a market mechanism for discovering the most valuable use cases for AGI
Developing expertise now requires fluency in both core disciplines and leveraging AI for insights, posing an uneasy paradox.
Our obsession with intelligence: AI that promotes collective intelligence, not collective stupidity.
Of all the interesting parts of Google’s Gemini announcement, one is keeping me up at night wondering about the possibilities for the future: dynamic coding.
Our obsession with the parallels between human and machine intelligence.
The Biden Administration's Executive Order has stirred up discussion about the regulatory capture in AI. For good reason.
Writing and Conversations About AI (Not Written by AI)
