what AI can't do
The real question is, where does scarcity still exist? It exists where it has always existed—in the distribution layer, with the limits on human attention. Artificial intelligence can generate abundance in creation, it can even create new currencies, but it cannot convert attention into currency. Only human beings can do that.
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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
Your job isn't to arrange everything into neat categories—it's to create meaningful contexts.
That means not organizing by what something is (topics like 'productivity' or ‘technology’) but by the context you’ll be in when you need it—'references for my next essay,' 'inspiration for client work’, or half-baked ideas you’re still marinating on
That means not organizing by what something is (topics like 'productivity' or ‘technology’) but by the context you’ll be in when you need it—'references for my next essay,' 'inspiration for client work’, or half-baked ideas you’re still marinating on
Sari Azout • What matters in the age of AI is taste
