Enhancing Expertise, Neosemantic Design, Teaching Kids About AI Bias, and Bacteria to AI
This week we explore the evolving boundaries between human and artificial intelligence across multiple dimensions. We examine how AI multiplies
Humans are meaning-makers whose particular evolutionary history has given us a unique relationship to consciousness, mortality, and values
A review of Annaka Harris' Lights On: How Understanding Consciousness Helps Us Understand the Universe
A review of The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource, by Chris Hayes
A conversation with David Wolpert, Professor a the Santa Fe Institute about his recent paper on the thermodynamics of meaning.
A review of Nicholas Carr's Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
A review of What Is Life?: Evolution by Computation, and What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI about Evolution, Computing, and Minds, by Blaise Agüera y Arcas
A conversation with Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Google) and Michael Levin (Tufts University) about two recente papers on the computational foundations of life and intelligence.
A conversation with Maggie Jackson, author of Uncertain
A conversation with Greg Epstein about his recent book, Tech Agnostic.
Writing and Conversations About AI (Not Written by AI)