Human-Centered AI

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Language models can only write poetry

Allison Parish posts.decontextualize.com

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The cost of feeding the entertainment machine

Jon McCormack lens.monash.edu

Isabelle Levent

Current new-crop of AI assistants is uninspired. "What if we made like a little guy who summarizes your meetings? Or this other guy to schedule your dentist appointment" We need to aim higher. Emotion sculptors and dream architects, reality-weavers, dimensional navigators

Katan'Hya x.com

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The problem with AI tools today is that they don’t take your judgment into account

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“An engine for the imagination”: an interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image generator Midjourney

James Vincent theverge.com

Isabelle Levent

This leaves us with some low-hanging fruit for humanness. We can tell richly detailed stories grounded in our specific contexts and cultures: place names, sensual descriptions, local knowledge, and, well the je ne sais quoi of being alive. Language models can decently mimic this style of writing but most don't without extensive prompt

Maggie Appleton • The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

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Sam Altman on Joe Rogan key take-aways: Regardless of UBI or any kind of money redistribution, people will crave agency, and self-determination, to play a role in architecting the future with the rest of humanity and creating meaning Solving the economic problem is not enough, the real... See more

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Technologists are obsessed with reaching god (lower case g) AS technology

Instead reaching God (upper case G) THROUGH technology

Reggie James • My Hereticon Talk - Spiritual Technology

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