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Marketing tactics that boast about AI’s ability to render meaningful activities — like, say, painting, or writing a letter with your daughter — worth little more than a single button-click come across as deeply tone-deaf to a population who is already anxious about the future of the technology. According to a 2023 Pew survey, 52 percent of American... See more
Those Olympic AI ads feel bad for a reason
AI Anxiety / Existential fear around AI
Rare AI project that helps make creative works (high literature) accessible / reimagine the way books can be enjoyed (from a solitary, passive experience of becoming list in the fictional world of a book → having a reading buddy to collaborate with in digesting and making the books personally relevant)
Rare AI project that helps develop human creativity, on the prerequisite that the reader actively engages with the LLM through “marginilia” the way book lovers scribble books with notes.
instead end up showing how AI will be used for the things that most of us don’t want it to interfere with: our job prospects, our privacy, and experiences and skills that feel uniquely human.
Those Olympic AI ads feel bad for a reason
The Beatles’ final song, restored using AI, is up for a Grammy
Emma Roth • The Beatles’ final song, restored using AI, is up for a Grammy
Technology is an adjustment; AI will take some getting used to. There’s a reason self-driving cars still have steering wheels: removing the steering wheel would probably make us freak out. Too much change, too fast. The best companies will be savvy in how they embed human decision-making into workflows, rather than removing the need for human input... See more
Rex Woodbury • The "Egg Theory" of AI Agents
AI tools have shown their value in speeding up software development and discovering pharmaceuticals
Russell Brandom • OpenAI cuts its last and most important link to China
Humanity is waking up to the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence, but we don’t yet understand our role. People talk about unexplainable AI when they should be more concerned about the unexplainable humans running the companies that develop the AI. (Hiya, Sam!) People worried about AI taking their jobs and taking control are comp... See more
Esther Dyson • Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids
For example, we are already seeing cases of liar’s dividend, where high profile individuals are able to explain away unfavorable evidence as AI-generated, shifting the burden of proof in costly and inefficient ways
Emanuel Maiberg • Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug
Impact of AI on Culture/Social
AI being dishonestly used as the scapegoat/excuse by malicious actors
The incident once again highlights a common problem with all generative AI tools: whether it’s AI-generated images, music, or writing, these works are inherently derivative because anything they produce is made up of remixed pieces of work in the training data.
Emanuel Maiberg • Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App
Giving rise to stumbles like Figma’s Make Design producing an app that looks like Apple’s Weather app
What are we doing to creative expression and originality when we rely on GenAI and its copycat derivatives?