Human-Centered AI

Redefining "Inventor"- Should AI Systems be Granted Patents?

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a beautiful explanation as to why Van Gogh’s masterpiece has resonated for over a century.

“You know what I like about The Starry Night?

It’s not what Van Gogh saw that night, it’s what he felt.

[The painting] is not a representation of reality and anything that deviates from is reality that has filtered through... See more

andrea

In the most practical sense, we are now much less limited by ideas than ever before. Even people who don’t consider themselves creative now have access to a machine that will generate innovative concepts that beat those of most humans (though not the most creative ones). Where previously, there were only a few people who had the ability to come up... See more

Ethan Mollick • Automating Creativity

IIndy Neogy

This is a common error, which existed long before AI. In fact, generating (or selecting) good ideas is a key challenge. LLMs so far seem to be about as good as the internet at generating lots of quite generic ideas - those who can select the ones that match their context (and yes, then, execute on them) are the ones who will have a chance to succeed.

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

Alara

Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator - Waxy.org

Andy Baio waxy.org

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

sari

If we want to understand what AIs are going to look like, I think the proto AI that we have are corporations. Corporations are sort of these funny little beasts. They’re not small. I guess they’re not little beasts, but they’re strange. It takes special training to have humans be able to fit within them. They’re made out of humans mostly but... See more

Recode Staff • Full transcript: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on Recode Decode

sari

Do Artifacts Have Politics?

Langdon Winner faculty.cc.gatech.edu

Isabelle Levent

focus less on AI as something separate from humans, and more on tools that enhance human cognition rather than replacing it… If we want a future that is both superintelligent and "human", one where human beings are not just pets, but actually retain meaningful agency over the world, then it feels like something like this is the most natural option.

andrea