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We don’t know what artificial intelligence is in large part because we don’t know what our own intelligence is. And this ignorance will later be seen as an impediment to the rate of progress in AI.

Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu and colleagues argue in a new paper that AI could shrink the knowledge commons by eliminating the public trail of human problem-solving. For instance, a software engineer may use AI to diagnose a bug and ship the fix. Instead of working through it in public on platforms like Stack Overflow, they solve the issue in... See more

Working with AI is more like gardening than sculpting. We’ll need to create the right conditions, provide the right prompts and direction, and shape the output—but the actual generation of content will be handled by the AI. This shift requires different skills but opens up new creative possibilities.

Of course, one difference between gardening and... See more