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?
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.
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? 🤔
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
