Perhaps our contemporary attention age with its two-edged ‘sword’ of AI is yet another ‘messy middle’ that poses a riddle:…
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Barefoot sage on steps of the UN addresses wishful agency – holds up lantern, not smartphone
Summary press release A modern-day Diogenes on the UN steps used a lantern to challenge AI CEOs, asserting that commodified data yields no authentic man. Like Midas or a Djinn, machines mimic humanity but strip spirit, exposing alignment failures and lost authenticity. NotClosedAI’s CEO advocated a coordinated slowdown; Diogenes called it liability protection masking runaway…
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“Our future will be characterized by a tension between copilot (AI as collaborator) and autopilot (humans as sidekick to AI). The latter is more efficient and cheaper in a narrow labor economics sense but troublesome in all sorts of ways.” – Wired > email Newsletter > Steven Levy > Plaintext > The Plain View (December 8, 2023) Ready or not, in November, 2022, a new chatbot “tumbled into civilization’s ongoing…
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My holiday digital card for 2023.
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Much in the news cycle. Much buzz. I’ll expect books and a movie script for something even more epic that The Social Connection. OpenAI’s “bizarre org chart.” Mission creep or mission miscommunication? Was a wizard workers mass exit a real scenario? The twists and turns … Is “the problem posed by superintelligence” really “humanity’s final challenge?” (Like in The Foundation or Dune novels?) • Wired > email Newsletter > Steven…
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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found more “good enough” things to be just that – versus always seeking the so-called “best.” But trusting “good enough” data – approximate or inaccurate data – that works most of the time can take us down rabbit holes. Saying “the tech made me do it” is no excuse for knee-jerk actions. Recheck those disclosures! This article contains a telling point about our expectations of…
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You want your kids to be good citizens, conscientious & responsible; but also resilient to new challenges and hardships (as “sh** happens”). So, how do you come up with guidelines for their growth that are as dynamic as the novel circumstances they’ll face? Ditto for economic and social health and growth? As noted elsewhere as a comment to my post “Lords of AI,” the news cycle this past week contained…