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?
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.
Here’s the issue: the current business model doesn’t make sense because increasing usage conflicts with profits.
Intimacy with technology has been the territory of science fiction. What happens if we are able to live those stories ourselves?
Apple isn’t being left behind in generative AI—it’s playing a different game. While every other tech company is spending billions on inference compute—Apple is being paid for it.
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.
How might we conceptualize the design of AGI? Rather than machines synthesizing outside human systems, we should create machines that enhance our holistic, social right-brained capacities, fostering collective wisdom.
We extend our Mind for our Minds series with an exploration of the relationship between creativity and generative AI. We wonder how AI can enhance human creativity and dig into different types of creativity.
How might a mind for our minds help us with the paradox of knowing what we care about but allowing us to care about something for which it has no knowledge?
How might AI machines affect human culture? How might we design new coherence strategies for the age of machines?
Generative AI changes how we should think about designing machines. How might we design AI to be a mind for our minds?
Making a good decision implies that we have some idea of what’s true. But we do not have infinite data inputs or processing capacity. We are limited by our lifetimes.
Caring machines may be the only way to scale empathy across our species.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
