Connection
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Maybe AI doesn’t raise the bar. Maybe it reveals how low we’ve let the bar drop. In a world where ghosting is normal and attentiveness is rare, a chatbot that listens is radical.
Imaginary Friends Grew Up: We Panicked
Browsing the internet with another person. Different from an interview in that you see 2 people browsing and discussing at the same time.
Quanta interviewed 19 current and former NLP researchers to tell that story. From experts to students, tenured academics to startup founders, they describe a series of moments — dawning realizations, elated encounters and at least one “existential crisis” — that changed their world. And ours.
John Pavlus • When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
— Martin Buber
Sherry Ning • Don't look too closely, love
Oscar Wilde, on bad reply game:
"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
In other words, rather than trying to please humans, Scientist AI could be designed to prioritize honesty.
A Potential Path to Safer AI Development
Friends without friction
Companion chatbots may weaken our ability to navigate conflict and difference—unless we make key design choices, says a new report
Companion chatbots may weaken our ability to navigate conflict and difference—unless we make key design choices, says a new report
Friends without friction
The dead internet theory is not really claiming that most of your personal interactions on the internet are fake.
It is, however, an interesting lens through which to view the internet. That it is no longer for humans, by humans – this is the sense in which the internet we knew and loved is “dead”.
It is, however, an interesting lens through which to view the internet. That it is no longer for humans, by humans – this is the sense in which the internet we knew and loved is “dead”.