Marine Buclon-Ducasse

Fuck, this is good, on why we want robots at work but humans in art, via Chris Paik. Tl;dr: in the economy of necessity, humans are friction. In the economy of meaning, they’re the point.

We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s smal... See more

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more

Le coup d’arrêt

Réconcilier l’intuition et la raison.

Marie Dollé

Jun 29

READ IN APP

J’étais en vacances cette semaine. Je faisais du paddle sur la mer. Il faisait beau, c’était paisible.

Et à un moment, une grande plume blanche est tombée sur mes pieds. Et ça m’a arrêtée. Vraiment. Je ne savais pas pourquoi... See more

What makes these roles valuable is not that they do what AI cannot, but that they adapt in ways the AI cannot anticipate.

The role of such local actors becomes central to system resilience. They coordinate between machine execution and the complexity of the environment in which machines operate.

Judgment becomes more valuable in a world of frictionless execution. This is why misplaced prophecies about radiologists losing their jobs and becoming redundant don’t actually play out. Radiologists who were paid to examine scans and identify anomalies realized they had a new role when AI could identify tumors betters than them. Their role had shi... See more

When

broad

humans beat

narrow

AI