the human premium
What strikes us, though, is the seemingly reactionary nature of this human-made movement, when it could, instead, represent a pivotal moment of re-evaluation.
In a world of very capable technological tools, what sits at the center of our identity if not our production? What might happen if we untethered our value from our outputs as a matter of... See more
In a world of very capable technological tools, what sits at the center of our identity if not our production? What might happen if we untethered our value from our outputs as a matter of... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Non-human characters act as a vehicle for brands to share their values with people in a more friendly, less-authoritative and perhaps even more values-aligned way. Ironically, while these brand mascots are non-human, they actually anthropomorphise the brand and their values, making them feel more human, by not being human at all
MORNING • 020 — Uh Oh, Meet Ø
Maybe human intelligence is more illusory than we think, a kind of egotistical fantasy. Are human authors really very different from those Balnibarbian pupils spinning the cranks of their writing machine? Human authors learn to write by reading other books in their chosen genre (“training”), and maybe what’s happening in their brains is just a
... See moreOrion Magazine • The Magic in the Machine
In contrast, the improvisational spirit lives inside that gap, and it can be surprisingly full of ingenuity and joy even when the situation is dire. As something we share with our nonhuman brethren, the capacity to form new responses is how you know you’re alive, today, here. So when my mum says, “whatever happens, happens,” what I hear is not
... See moreJenny Odell • Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You
Reading ChatGPT’s writing feels uncanny because there’s no driver at the wheel, no real connection being built*.*
Laura Hartenberger • What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
ChatGPT is a collective voice, not a specific one, and so even as the algorithm improves, we will likely continue to find its writing emotionally inadequate
Laura Hartenberger • What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
Vernacular architecture also tends to be more human-scale as a direct result of how it was built. Such places are therefore often more suited to social integration and to community, to healthier and happier lifestyles, and all the other benefits of human-scale design.
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #38
talking about A.I. and surrounded by amiable chitchat, I wondered whether, someday soon, conversations with human beings would be deemed lacking if they didn’t exhibit chatbot-like speed and responsiveness. Maybe there are some circles, in tech or elsewhere, where the quality of “the median conversation you can have with a person” is already
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