Five Weeks Until the Imagining Summit
Our invite-only gathering in Bend Oregon is quickly approaching and there are only a few spots still available.
Expertise, Skills, and the Effect of AI
In this issue, we dig into the question of how AI affects expertise and skills: how AI affects mastering a complex field like coding, preserving human expertise in the age of AI, and a conversation with Matt Beane about his book, The Skill Code.
Matt Beane: The Skill Code
A conversation with UC Santa Barbara Assistant Professor Matt Beane about his book "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines."
The Last Gasp of the Attention Economy
The fever pitch of AI expectations has far exceeded the realities of today's generative AI products.
Emily M. Bender: AI, Linguistics, Parrots, and More!
A conversation with Emily M. Bender, professor of computational linguistics at the University of Washington.
The $1 Trillion Question
The $1 Trillion Question, Mortality in the Age of Generative Ghosts, Your Mind and AI, How to Design AI Tutors for Learning, The Imagining Summit Preview: Adam Cutler, and Helen's Book of the Week.
The Intimacy Surface
The Intimacy Surface, How to Use Generative AI, Part 9: Reflect, John Havens: Heartificial Intelligence, Improve Your Prompts with Many-Shot In-Context Learning, The Imagining Summit Preview: Jamer Hunt, Helen's Book of the Week, and Facts & Figures about AI & Complex Change.
John Havens: Heartificial Intelligence
A conversation with John Havens, author of Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines.
Trust: The Foundation of the Intimacy Economy
Trust: The Foundation of the Intimacy Economy, Creativity in the Age of Artificiality, A New Framework for Understanding Emergence in Complex Systems, How to Use Generative AI Part 8, and more!
Facts & Figures about AI and Complex Change
A running catalog of the facts & figures we publish every week in our newsletter.
The Possibility of Artificial Self-Improvement
Artificial Self-Improvement, Open-endedness and Artificial Superhuman Intelligence, A First: AI That Modifies Its Own Reward, Leslie Valiant and Educability, and How to Use Generative AI, Part 7.
Leslie Valiant: Educability
A conversation with Leslie Valiant about his new book, The Importants of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness.