the human premium
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The Value Of Human Error
Laura Hartenberger • What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
something critical is missing from its voice: a certain sense of connection. At its core, writing is about creating intimacy between writer and reader. It’s a relational act, not a one-sided performance, and its power is in the exchange of ideas. It’s the closest we can get to inhabiting the mind of another human, the closest to escaping our own eg
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Transactional conversation—speaking, and being spoken to, like a bot—can be efficient, maybe even nice, depending on the context and on your disposition. But it can also feel condescending, flattening, manipulative, and generic—like being treated as an N.P.C.
Anna Wiener • The Age of Chat
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 slig
... 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 resi
... See moreJenny Odell • Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You
As more and more of us sit with the question of what sits beyond intelligence as our true human premium, it seems that we’re doubling down on that ineffable quality that, as of yet, lies beyond the grasp of the machine: intuition.
It’s an entrance into a new era — a noetic era — coined and elaborated upon by Concept Bureau’s Zach Lamb, a brand stra... See more
It’s an entrance into a new era — a noetic era — coined and elaborated upon by Concept Bureau’s Zach Lamb, a brand stra... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
On another, we might peer into the machine itself. After all, as it stands today, one of AI’s greatest strengths is in highlighting its own weaknesses (and thereby, illuminating those qualities that we’re uniquely suited to as living, breathing thinkers and makers). We might consider our imagination a strength, or our capacity for recursive thought... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
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 measur
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