Ania Sommerauer

Researchers concluded the experiment with three findings: the access to AI tools equalizes story evaluations, thus removing any advantages or disadvantages to one's innate creativity, no evidence concludes AI's ability to push beyond the creativity levels of humans, and lastly, many participants support the use of AI in creative spaces with the imp... See more

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

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.

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

Aristotle, who focused on the fact that virtues must be cultivated through conscious effort and habit—that we learn to be honest, for example, by building up a pattern of telling the truth. And the more we tell the truth, the better we get at telling the truth, the better we know when to do it and how to do it right—because there are certain ways o... See more

these AI tools that are built to generate reflections of human intelligence don’t reflect all of us . They don’t reflect all of society, because the training data that are used to produce these mirror images are like the light falling on a mirror. And a mirror can only reflect the light that reaches it. It can’t reflect the light that falls outside... See more

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

Un pied en Amérique latine où il est né, l’autre au Japon où il s’est formé, et les mains plongées dans son atelier en Espagne où il est basé, Jorge Suárez-Kilzi imagine des pièces qui ont une sensibilité artististique et artisanale séculaire.

Né au Venezuela et sensibilisé à l’architecture à Tokyo chez Sejima+Nishizawa Associated Architects (SANAA)... See more