Ania Sommerauer

Fickler was one of the more than 100 guinea pigs for Krenn’s survey of AI-generated research ideas. When the survey results arrived, most of the ideas were given a 1 on a scale of 1 to 5. But about a quarter were rated a 4 or 5 — that is, “interesting” or “very interesting.” To Krenn, 25% is a pretty good starting point. “I’m not sure I can produce... See more

High-achieving scientists — those who had already patented the most materials — came up with new ideas even faster, with the top decile improving their output by 81%, likely because they had the intuition to toss aside the AI’s worst ideas and test only the good ones.

“AI is not just a tool; it's a partner for human creativity.”

— Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

physicist Ursula Franklin. She writes about how maps join together the known and the unknown in these methods of collective insight. So

these are systems that produce profound and lasting geomorphic changes to our planet, as well as increase the forms of labor inequality that we already have in the world.

“Hans was already performing remarkable feats of interspecies communication, public performance, and considerable patience, yet these were not recognized as intelligence.”

I am in love with human excellence. What I mean by this is that I love whatever human beings are to achieve through some mixture of talent, circumstance, discipline, and luck. I love that we as a species have Picasso, Turing, Dickinson, Morrison, and Ramanujan. Even though these are not my achievements, I take a kind of pride in knowing that we did... See more

So I think what happens over time, then, is we lose the habit of making ourselves who we are, of consciously choosing to become certain sorts of people, and instead we become whomever the algorithm automates us to be.