Nah. I just think creativity and inspiration ebb and flow.
CULTURE
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Human handoff failure kills AI magic in retail
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AI magic dies the second a human fumbles the handoff. For Amazon Go, it’s the human helping you sign up or understand palm scan. If they’re rude or uninformed, it falls apart. At Sephora, it’s the associate scanning your face and then providing value with the insight and
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Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence
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A beautiful article by D. Graham Burnett https://
newyorker.com/culture/the-we
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… ´The A.I. is huge. A tsunami. But it’s not me. It can’t touch my me-ness. It doesn’t know what it is to be human, to be me.’ ‘Historians have long extolled the “power of the archive.” Little did we know that the -
Social Media Algorithms Amplify Extremism Over Moderate Voices
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100% agree. But, also, social media makes this really, really hard, because it promotes extremists at the expense of moderates.
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Google AI Hallucinations: Fact-Checking Generated Biographies
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Hallucinations turned up to 11! Having fun fact-checking this Google-written bio of @theharryshearer — sent to me by @theharryshearer
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Why Generative AI Hasn’t Created Memorable Cultural Works
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Generative AI hasn’t created memorable songs, books, and movies, despite insanely large amount of input. Why not? I see three reasons: 1. Everything Generative AI does is derivative and tends to be a kind of average. 2. Generative AI it lacks a deep conceptual
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AI-Generated Novels: When Will Humans Want to Read Them?
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Good questions. They can write novels, sure, but how long before you and I will want to read such novels is a good question. Maybe never, maybe a couple of years – the uncertainty here is huge. It reminds me of https://
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Teaching AI Best Practices Instead of Banning Chatbots
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Weekend take 3: Teachers shouldn’t tell students not to use AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot. Teachers should instead teach best practices on how to use these AIs. Agree/disagree?
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AI Mediation: Are We Losing Our Cognitive Loop?
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there's the question of rapid-fire news stories churned out to feed a click driven ad model – but let's not go down that rabbit hole for now. SO HERE’S THE REAL QUESTION: In an AI-mediated world, are we slowly removing ourselves from the Cognition Loop? It's important that we
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AI Founder Faces Fraud Allegations Before Venture Launch
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With trembling fingers, I Googled the story. My face was now showing up beside terms like “fraud” and “laundering.” And all this – just days before the launch of my AI venture. I immediately tweeted to the publication. My Twitter followers rallied behind me, flooding the