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AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
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Unknowingly, the sum of these interactions is greater than we ever imagined: time spent on our screens will total 30 years of our waking life.
Unknowingly, the sum of these interactions is greater than we ever imagined: time spent on our screens will total 30 years of our waking life.
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What good is all this input, if there is no way to organise and process it in order to form meaningful output?
Manifesto — Cosmos
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Every time I type something into ChatGPT, I imagine trees burning down. But I can’t stop.
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