Newsletter
Our newsletter includes our ideas, our research, and our reviews of the science as well as our picks from others. We send our newsletter once a week because we strive to slow the frantic pace of debates around AI, down-regulating the noise so you can see stories in context.
A Lawsuit for a Human Future
Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman is the one time I would like to be on jury duty.
Generative AI’s Undesirable Unpredictability
This week: Generative AI's Undesirable Unpredictability, Sensemaking & AI, Meta-Prompting, Doug Belshaw: Serendipity Surface & AI, Pro: Conversing with AI, Part 1-3, and Pro: February Update.
Buckle Up: Big Product Changes Ahead
This week: New research and product previews from Apple, Google, and OpenAI; an interview with Richard Kerris of NVIDIA, crafting better promtps, an interview with Tyler Marghetis, and an exploration of generative AI and flow.
Jibe Ho! Artificiality is changing.
Today, we’re making a change and, in a sailor's terms, yelling out: Jibe Ho! Our jibe is to change the pace of our publishing. Starting now, we will be releasing Artificiality on a weekly basis.
Weekend Briefing: Investors Eye AI
Considering Big Tech's longer-term potential, peril, and possibility with AI.
Happy 40th Birthday, Macintosh. Here’s to the next 40.
Our vision for AI follows in the legacy of the Macintosh—technology that is equally science and art, humanities and engineering, and, above all, designed 'for the rest of us.'
Weekend Briefing: 20 January 2024
This Week from Artificiality: A Brief History of Intelligence, Rodrigo Liang & SambaNova, Bonds with Bots, Is the GPT Store AGI in Development, and How to Talk with Your Teens about AI.
Weekend Briefing: 14 January 2024
This Week from Artificiality: Running with Scissors, 10 Research Obsessions for 2024, Barbara Tversky & Spatial Cognition, Interpreting Intelligence Part 3
Size Matters
For the past year, we’ve lived in a world overwhelmed by news of large AI, especially large language models like GPT, the model behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The general genius of large language models, however, comes at a cost—and that cost may not be worth it in plenty of use cases.
The New Artificiality (including important new log in info!)
After four years, we are relaunching Artificiality with a new site, new focus, and new business model. Woohoo!
As The (OpenAI) World Turns
We don’t yet know what OpenAI will look like after the dust settles. But here are our main takeaways at the moment. AI Regulatory Capture, LLMs Thinking about Space and Time, and Generative AI Agents.
OpenAI, Vision, ChatGPT, and AGI
OpenAI Fires CEO Sam Altman, AI Vision Controlling Your Phone, and Are we as close to AGI as Sam Altman says? 🤔