AI perspectives

“Mathematical algorithms on graphics cards cannot become conscious because they lack a complex biological substrate”

“Everyone jumping off the bridge to feel the wind in their hair.”

“My colleagues at Wharton call this “cognitive surrender,” and they documented how people would stop thinking about problems and just let the AI do the work, even when the AI was wrong.”

“Make me look like more of a chad,” I then instructed the chatbot.”

If trust is the new economy, thick reputation is the new currency.

“The anti-technology romantic is almost always: 1) wrong, and, 2) mistaken in his arguments.”

“Machine-generated text reads as smooth and polished, but it loses the meanders, interruptions and leaps of logic that communicate emotion.”

“We can’t consider a career we’ve never heard of, read a book we don’t know was published, or explore an idea that never reaches us. The boundary of our awareness shapes the boundary of our choices.”

“I advocate for a narrative that does not discard people like a horse trying to rid itself of an annoying fly.”

“We've lost a lot of small, incidental conversations: asking a cashier for help, getting directions from a stranger, chatting with a neighbor”

“You can't advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences”

“It's important to recognise the difference between ai as a whole and generative ai. Ai has been used positively for decades to benefit societies, but generative ai is the one actively going against that, spreading misinformation, being used to exploit people, and so on.”

“The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses.”

“I think my problem - perhaps yours too - isn’t just unfinished projects. It’s unfinished thinking.”