Co-Intelligence

Soon, it becomes more intelligent than a human, an ASI—artificial superintelligence. The moment an ASI is invented, humans become obsolete. We cannot hope to understand what it is thinking, how it operates, or what its goals are. It is likely able to continue to self-improve exponentially, getting ever more intelligent. What happens then is literal

They then start with a randomized background image that looks like old-fashioned television static, and use a process called diffusion to turn random noise into a clear image by gradually refining it over multiple steps. Each step removes a bit more noise based on the text description, until a realistic image emerges.

By some process, this particular AI is the first machine to become as smart, capable, creative, and flexible as a human, making it what is called an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Where previous technological revolutions often targeted more mechanical and repetitive work, AI works, in many ways, as a co-intelligence. It augments, or potentially replaces, human thinking to dramatic results.

You will be my negotiation teacher. You will simulate a detailed scenario in which I have to engage in a negotiation. You will fill the role of one party, I will fill the role of the other. You will ask for my response in each step of the scenario and wait until you receive it. After getting my response, you will give me details of what the other p

AI does not need to be catastrophic. In fact, we can plan for the opposite. J. R. R. Tolkien wrote about exactly this, a situation he termed a eucatastrophe, so common in fairy tales: “the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous ‘turn’ … is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur.

One solution to incorporating more active learning is by “flipping” classrooms. Students would learn new concepts at home, typically through videos or other digital resources, and then apply what they’ve learned in the classroom through collaborative activities, discussions, or problem-solving exercises. The main idea behind flipped classrooms is t

When the calculator was first introduced in schools, the reaction was surprisingly close to the initial concerns I hear about students using AI for tasks like writing today. As education researcher Sarah J. Banks writes, in the early days of their popularity in the mid-1970s, many teachers were eager to incorporate calculators7 into their classroom

Here’s a secret: we have long known how to supercharge education; we just can’t quite pull it off. Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist, published a paper in 1984 called “The 2 Sigma Problem.”1 In this paper, Bloom reported that the average student tutored one-to-one performed two standard deviations better than students educated in a conven