To Accelerate or Decelerate AI: That is the Question
Explaining the “accel/decel” split at the heart of the OpenAI power struggle.
Sean Welsh, Michael Timothy Bennett
· 13 min read
AI
A collection of 49 posts
Robots, Rats and Hoverchairs: Three Dystopian AI Fantasies
Human beings need meaning, and a life in which all one’s needs were met by external agents would fail to provide it.
Stewart Slater
· 9 min read
Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda
There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art.
Julia Friedman
· 8 min read
The Unexpected Benefits of Artificial Intimacy: Quillette Cetera Episode 21
An interview with evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks about the positive aspects of AI lovers.
Zoe Sankey
· 2 min read
Old Model, New Tricks
On the 85th anniversary of his death, a look back at the legacy of Nikolai Kondratiev and its implications for the coming age of GenAI.
Elliot Leavy
· 6 min read
AIs Will Be Our Mind Children
We must free our artificial descendants to adapt to their new worlds and choose what they will become.
Robin Hanson
· 7 min read
AI: Let’s Worry About the Right Things
There are valid concerns and there are unfounded fears. Let us separate the two.
Brendan Craig
· 13 min read
ChatGPT, Lobster Gizzards, and Intelligence
Chat knows more, gizzards are more complex, and you’re more intelligent.
Frederick R. Prete
· 10 min read
The Horseless Comanche
The new world of AI promises great peril but also great potential.
Aidan Harte
· 8 min read
What Are Reasonable AI Fears?
Although there are some valid concerns, an AI moratorium would be misguided.
Robin Hanson
· 13 min read
AI and the Transformation of the Human Spirit
The first stage of grief is denial, but despair is also misplaced.
Steven D. Hales
· 13 min read
ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions
Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.
Sean Welsh
· 12 min read
The Case Against the Case Against AI
AI only knows what is in the data. The unfortunate use of the term “learning” is a simple, but potent, source of confusion and apprehension.
Peter L. Levin
· 9 min read
The Peculiar Economics of 3D Printing
Most new technologies, when they are launched, arrive with a lot of hype. While 3D printing fits the business model for customized products, it is not yet cost effective in a commercial manufacturing sector which requires mass production.
Randall Mayes
· 10 min read
Autonomous Vehicles: Hype or Reality?
AVs are essentially robots with the same requirements as human-driven vehicles—driving and parking skills, the ability to communicate with other cars and the infrastructure, navigation skills, and access to a source of energy.
Randall Mayes
· 14 min read