Humans In The Loop
What it means to be human in an AI-built world
Britt Gage and
Humans In The Loop
“Technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”
Evan Armstrong • Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough.
Steve Jobs
You see it don’t you.
They put it right in the title and so we believed them and now we’re acting as if these dumb autocomplete fuckdongs are the next stevie hawkings.
Real crab still exists. People still eat it.
And if that’s true, then real intelligence exists too. People still have it. Let us use it
- “artificial” intelligence
- “imitation” crab
They put it right in the title and so we believed them and now we’re acting as if these dumb autocomplete fuckdongs are the next stevie hawkings.
Real crab still exists. People still eat it.
And if that’s true, then real intelligence exists too. People still have it. Let us use it
Alex Dobrenko` • can everyone kindly shut the fuck up about AI
If you shortcut to the destination you won’t undergo real transformation. Imagine you won the lottery tomorrow: you’d achieve your financial goals, but without the life experience to cope with your change in circumstances.
That’s why you see so many musicians and actors struggle after hitting instant fame at a young age. They have all the success,... See more
That’s why you see so many musicians and actors struggle after hitting instant fame at a young age. They have all the success,... See more
Tolu Michaels • What we get wrong about the Mexican Fisherman Parable
“With technology advancing so much, and humans needing to learn how to collaborate with technology to get their work done, the skillset we need more and more to collaborate are the power skills,”
Soft skills training might give execs an advantage in an AI-driven future
we tend to procrastinate on tasks that bring up difficult emotions, like fear, pressure, or self-doubt.
Casey Rosengren • Hack Your Focus With Body Doubling
The Imperfectionist: Doing things is what counts
ckarchive.com“Here’s what I mean: everyone seems to yearn for the productivity technique or life philosophy or set of personal rules that will cause them to do more writing, launch a business, be a better listener, or finally start meditating. But nothing beats actually doing a bit of the thing to reinforce to yourself that you’re capable of making progress on it. The best way to convince a five-year-old that enjoyable leisure doesn’t require addictive technology is to spend a few hours demonstrating that it doesn’t; and the best way to prove to yourself that you can add words to the manuscript of your novel is to add a few.”
We live in a knowledge economy. What you know—and your ability to bring it to bear in any given circumstance—is what creates economic value for you. This was primarily driven by the advent of personal computers and the internet, starting in the 1970s and accelerating through today.
But what happens when that very skill—knowing and utilizing the... See more
But what happens when that very skill—knowing and utilizing the... See more
Dan Shipper • The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy
Dan Shipper on the transition from the Knowledge Economy to the Allocation Economy
But us humans, we’re scared too. Which makes us defensive and write think-pieces like "Will AI replace the artist? Wait dang it I wrote that one nvm.
The more we talk about how we are not AI, the more robotic we become.
"Trust us, we're human and here's why," we keep saying — that nobody can deny!
The truth hides in the subtext and makes me wonder,... See more
The more we talk about how we are not AI, the more robotic we become.
"Trust us, we're human and here's why," we keep saying — that nobody can deny!
The truth hides in the subtext and makes me wonder,... See more
Sari Azout • Are We Human? Then Let's Be Dancers
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books (Dostoevsky and Dickens) that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves... See more