AI

Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors

scientific investigations of the boundaries between conscious and unconscious systems are urgently needed, and they cite ethical, legal and safety issues that make it crucial to understand AI consciousness. For example, if AI develops consciousness, should people be allowed to simply switch it off after use?

While LLMs are designed to emulate human-like responses, this does not mean that this analogy extends to the underlying cognition giving rise to those responses

Agrawal et al. argue that the framing of AI automation versus augmentation is wrong. Rather than being distinct they are often one and the same. They say that AI, initially intended for automating tasks, inadvertently acts as a force for augmentation of the broader workforce. For example, automating diagnostic skills in healthcare could diminish... See more

I find no meaning in toiling over hand-washing dishes, and am eternally grateful to the inventor of the dishwasher. But as it pertains to Big Tech’s never-ending quest to simplify writing with AI, I wholly agree that the struggle is what makes the process worth anything.

Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter