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
Our newsletter includes our ideas, our research, and our reviews of the science as well as our picks from others. We send our newsletter once a week because we strive to slow the frantic pace of debates around AI, down-regulating the noise so you can see stories in context.
Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman is the one time I would like to be on jury duty.
This week: Generative AI's Undesirable Unpredictability, Sensemaking & AI, Meta-Prompting, Doug Belshaw: Serendipity Surface & AI, Pro: Conversing with AI, Part 1-3, and Pro: February Update.
This week: New research and product previews from Apple, Google, and OpenAI; an interview with Richard Kerris of NVIDIA, crafting better promtps, an interview with Tyler Marghetis, and an exploration of generative AI and flow.
Today, we’re making a change and, in a sailor's terms, yelling out: Jibe Ho! Our jibe is to change the pace of our publishing. Starting now, we will be releasing Artificiality on a weekly basis.
Considering Big Tech's longer-term potential, peril, and possibility with AI.
Our vision for AI follows in the legacy of the Macintosh—technology that is equally science and art, humanities and engineering, and, above all, designed 'for the rest of us.'
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.
This Week from Artificiality: Running with Scissors, 10 Research Obsessions for 2024, Barbara Tversky & Spatial Cognition, Interpreting Intelligence Part 3
For the past year, we’ve lived in a world overwhelmed by news of large AI, especially large language models like GPT, the model behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The general genius of large language models, however, comes at a cost—and that cost may not be worth it in plenty of use cases.
After four years, we are relaunching Artificiality with a new site, new focus, and new business model. Woohoo!
We don’t yet know what OpenAI will look like after the dust settles. But here are our main takeaways at the moment. AI Regulatory Capture, LLMs Thinking about Space and Time, and Generative AI Agents.
OpenAI Fires CEO Sam Altman, AI Vision Controlling Your Phone, and Are we as close to AGI as Sam Altman says? 🤔
Writing and Conversations About AI (Not Written by AI)
