The Art of Understanding What's Going On

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“The kind of computing these LLMs are doing, this kind of intelligence, is just different. Is that an existential risk? Well, I come back to the fact that we have no idea how the human brain works.” It’s easier to imagine catastrophic things than see the opportunities, he points out.

For all our limitations, human perception is the antithesis of this. We see the world holistically, not just identifying but understanding its contents—their relationships, their meanings, their pasts, and their futures. The gist. We aren’t merely witnesses, but storytellers. It felt like it was time for algorithms to learn how to do the same.

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Why do these businesses care so much? I suspect they aren’t really worried about AI—they're clinging to an old belief that if work isn't visibly difficult to produce, it must be less valuable. When we dig beneath the surface of "no-AI" policies and detection tools, we find an age-old assumption that worth must be measured in struggle. This mindset

20 reflections on AI

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