As Donald Knuth put it: “Ai has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires ‘thinking’ but has failed to do most of what people and animals do without thinking …”

What do we have left that is ours and ours alone? Sensorimotor skills that are all but automatic, yes. Consciousness, yes. Emotions. Instinct. Appetites, impulses and... See more

What we all unequivocally value, readers and writers, all of us as enjoyers of creativity, is the mind-expanding energy that’s only found in art, in any of its forms, as a means to share the things that make our minds alike and the things that make them different. AI systems can do many things but they can’t — and never will be able to — expand our... See more

I mean, we can’t out-AI an AI.

But we can out-human it.

Now is a time to lean into our humanity.

Yes, we can both do pattern recognition, and AI does it faster and more astutely.

But it can’t feel.

It can’t create the unknown.

It can only regurgitate.

These are the cracks in the pavement where living things sprout.

Where what is innately beautiful — life... See more