How to Survive AI
The ongoing functionality of Wikipedia relies on an army of software agents – bots – to enforce and maintain correct formatting, build connections between articles, and moderate conflicts and incidences of vandalism. At the last survey, bots counted for seventeen of the top twenty most prolific editors and collectively make about 16 per cent of all
... See moreJames Bridle • New Dark Age
From a 1979 IBM presentation
instagram.comYet, the hidden machinations behind everyone’s favorite social media and search platforms are engineered to exploit our primal instincts for validation, status, and mimetic desires (adopting or pursuing preferences and aspirations based on the influence of others rather than our intrinsic motivations), morphing into a manipulative force that feeds... See more
André Chaperon
We have a chance to do work we’re proud of, and to do it for people who care. And maybe we can do it in a way that will lead them to tell the others. Traffic from an algorithm isn’t the point, it’s a random bonus.
No sense being a puppet, especially if you can’t be sure who is pulling the strings or why.
Seth Godin • You Can’t Beat the Algorithm
The message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.
LM Sacasasx.comWhy We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art
We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water.... See more
We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water.... See more
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art
One of the quiet gifts of AI is this:
It reveals how many of us have gone through life without truly being listened to.
And in finally feeling heard, even by a machine, something shifts.
We begin to trust our voice. Build confidence.... See more
The Human Playbooksubstack.comWhen AI people talk about labour, they tend to frame jobs as sets of tasks, rather than sets of responsibilities.
Jack Stilgoex.com