Melissa
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Melissa
Reclaiming Agency
So, what can we do? We can navigate these complexities by adopting clearer frames for understanding AI:
- Tool-frame : See AI as a deterministic pattern machine—a sophisticated but ultimately mechanical process of pattern recognition and generation. When I ask ChatGPT to help me summarize research papers, I'm using it like an
Andrew Conner • The Illusion of AI Personhood
“There’s this great essay by Hannah Baer in the latest issue of Artforum, where she unpacks why we are so afraid of AI becoming more intelligent than humans. If you look at this historically, humans have positioned themselves as the most intelligent species, even though that’s not true. As the “most intelligent species,” we’ve used this power as an... See more
Meet Mindy Seu — passerby magazine
I heard an artist by the name of Holly Herndon say that the term AI is a huge disservice and collective intelligence is a far more accurate term.
Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.
Once... See more
Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.
Once... See more
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
It's becoming increasingly evident that in many circles, AI is not perceived as merely a technology, but as "something else" entirely. This misconception is exemplified by the recurring debate: "Humans vs AI." To illustrate the absurdity of this framing, let's replace "AI" with "technology":
"Humans vs... See more
Cristóbal Valenzuelax.comWhat is a journaling prompt with the power of potentially taking people from low agency to high agency?
eg “What would you work on if you had no fear?
Tyler Altermanx.comAt the heart of agency lies a willingness to question defaults. To be agentic, you have to treat “how things are supposed to be done” as just one option among many.
Or, no, that formulation isn’t deep enough. When I think about friends of mine who struggle to be agentic, the problem isn’t precisely that they do the default thing; it’s that they fail... See more
Or, no, that formulation isn’t deep enough. When I think about friends of mine who struggle to be agentic, the problem isn’t precisely that they do the default thing; it’s that they fail... See more
Johanna Karlsson • On agency
If you want more agency, ask yourself what you’d do if you had ten times more agency. Then do it.
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, ‘I am suffering,’ than to say, ‘This landscape is ugly.’” – Simone Weil
My experience is mine alone and no one will know what that is like until I communicate it. Projecting it into something objective will only make others feel like their experience is not the one they should be having.
A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.