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Boddice has tried to steer this area of study in a radical direction. “Emotions and senses” refers to history focused less on the facts of the past than on its more ineffable qualities, such as the smells of a 19th-century city filled with thousands of horses, and the quality of grief expressed in the letters of widows during World War I. Boddice... See more

What can AI do for that? As with so much of the world: probably something, but definitely not everything. Stay critical of whatever it tells you, and learn to tell the difference between the words we use for knowing and preserving the loose uncertainty of actually knowing anything at all.

In the end AI is just a sampling of stories and pictures,... See more

We talk about AI as a novel world builder or terrifying destroyer, but the reality is that the "world" is all just words and imagination. How do we imagine the world? How do others imagine the world? This is the question at the heart of human literacy.

My point is that translating your language through AI is a lost opportunity to cultivate the sweetness within you. With your own words, connecting to the words of others, we can use stories for what they are for, which is to link ourselves with the stories of the people around us.

Human literacy is quite helpful, though, because living a life consciously — with real connection to interpreting and creating the poetic for whatever it is that life sets in front of us — is a far more important skill for life satisfaction than slotting words correctly for a chatbot.