What does slow AI look like?
Incorporating slowness into your process is a paradox. What I mean by slow is that you work at a pace that allows you to pay attention to what you are doing.
Thomas Sterner • The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus Into Your Life
What would it look like if, in a McLuhan-esque, medium is the message sort of way, our tools said to us:
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the ... See more
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the ... See more
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slow technology - designing for reflection
Slow technology is a design philosophy focused on creating technology that encourages reflection and mental rest, rather than prioritizing efficiency, by incorporating slow, reflective elements into the design.
LinkIn Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?, advertising executive Rory Sutherland challenges our knee-jerk assumption that faster is always better. He asks us to consider what might happen if we approached problem-solving and decision-making with a more open-ended, human-centered perspective.
He offers a thought experiment: what if the brief to des... See more
He offers a thought experiment: what if the brief to des... See more
311 / The fallacy of faster
Speed and efficiency are the promise of modernity. But speed and efficiency are all destination and no journey. And it is journey that gives life meaning.
How do we reclaim the joy of doing something slow and difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest? If more effort is wasted doing things that don’t matter (doomscrolling for hours) th... See more
How do we reclaim the joy of doing something slow and difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest? If more effort is wasted doing things that don’t matter (doomscrolling for hours) th... See more
What does slow AI look like? We’ve automatically assumed that the way we interact with it is instantaneous. Are we sure that’s right? Would it be interesting to be able to say to an AI, Look, over the next three or four months, can you give me some ideas about holidays in Greece? Do we want to make that decision immediately? I don’t think we do. I ... See more
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Speed is essential. Beyond tech speed, I can recognise other types of speed, though I'm unsure how many there are.
Here are a few ideas:
Tech speed – Efficiency in digital processing, communication, process reproduction, raw calculation. No need to think.
Cheetah speed – Raw, biological speed; physical speed at its peak. Evolutionary speed.
Human speed