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Kevin Kelly’s quantified self and Gary Wolf’s data-driven life. With its mobile sensors and apps
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
Google’s CEO says AI is jagged, not general.
Here’s what that means:
• 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗚𝗜 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘁, 𝘄𝗲’𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Token use is exploding. Real use cases are forming. Society’s shockwaves are already here.
• 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝘆—𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗺�... See more
Ivan Landabasosubstack.comKai-Fu Lee, talked of balancing Google’s freewheeling style with government rules—and censorship.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Thoughts on "Who Gains and Loses from the new AI?"
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The perils of designing for scale
“We are in the midst of a major social transformation — moving many of our day-to-day activities from physical places to information-based places that we experience on our phones and computers. The central question here is: How can we design these information environments so they serve our social needs in the long ... See more
“We are in the midst of a major social transformation — moving many of our day-to-day activities from physical places to information-based places that we experience on our phones and computers. The central question here is: How can we design these information environments so they serve our social needs in the long ... See more
Caio Braga • The aesthetics of our new fictions
What sets Storm apart from other thinkers who have explored similar intellectual territory—like Claude Lévi-Strauss with his notion of “bricolage” and Jean Piaget with his observations of children and their toys—is his refusal to treat the eolithic mindset as archaic or merely a phase for primitive societies or toddlers.