An interview with J. Craig Wheeler, Professor of astronomy of the University of Texas at Austin about his book, The Path to Singularity.
Explore how synthetic systems merge with organic experience in The Artificiality. Follow the journey from information to consciousness, where AI evolves from passive tools to active participants, reshaping reality, redefining intelligence, and challenging the boundaries of human experience.
Congratulations to the authors of of the Artificiality Book Awards 2024!
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.
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.
Now that more machine learning-based AI has been deployed in more places, human skills are being replaced in finer slices with new automation technologies. What has been observed in traditional blue collar work is that not all AI is good enough to increase the value of the output.
How AI could help our reasoning when it's most flawed: aka when we're subject to cognitive biases.
Resolving a fundamental incompatibility with AI in human decision-making
Most decisions and most deciders are hybrids. Some machine, some human. The trick is to imagine all the ways that humans figure out ways around, over, and through the machine when what they really want is to make the decision themselves even if it means sacrificing accuracy.
Everyone likes to follow their intuition because it’s the ultimate act of trusting oneself.
WFH surveillance is growing but employers need to move on.
The math of COVID-19 may mean some level of opt-in tracking is vital to stop repeated outbreaks
Humans think in terms of 1,2,3,4 lots and lots, while machines think in billions.
If Clearview is normalized, we're not who we think (or hope) we are.
Writing and Conversations About AI (Not Written by AI)
