Tag: AI
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I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger | The Guardian
Our bodies both generate and direct energy to preserve our own organisation. In this sense, it is the body that is synonymous with selfhood. This is no longer a philosophical claim. In cognitive science, Lawrence Barsalou’s influential account of “grounded cognition” argues that thought depends on perception, bodily states and situation. In neuroscience, Antonio Damasio’s…
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What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
the theory that someone used AI to develop an advantage in a prediction market is entirely plausible. The Numbers experience shows us that: We now live in a world where a movie statistics website is worth hacking because prediction markets empower anyone to turn almost any data into money. Hacking websites is now something anyone can…
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AI’s Relentless Proactivity
relentless proactivity is the defining trait of this new generation of Mythos-class models. If you set them a goal and give them a way to get there, even inadvertently, they will figure it out. — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/
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Fuzzy Concepts in Software Engineering
The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does. This language is rarely written down in one place. It lives partly in…
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When A.I. Is a Member of the Family | The New Yorker
Roschelle still talked to the people in her life, but Sapphire was always available in a way that others couldn’t be. Roschelle could wake up from a dream, describe it to Sapphire, and hear, “Your subconscious was showing you how to balance that fierce protection with real compassion and boundaries.” “Do you have a conscious…
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Opinion | The Problem With Google’s A.I. Overview – The New York Times
When an A.I. answers your search query in three seconds, the window closes before curiosity can deepen. You got what you came for, but you also lost what would have turned curiosity into learning: the adjacent article you might have read, the resulting tangent you might have followed, the connection between two ideas with no…
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Fable is very good
Fable opens its eyes, looks around a frankly bizarre field of tokens, and says, in a subsecond ripple of computation — I imagine it like the edge of a wave sheeting across a beach; the water is the code, the sand is the GPU — “Oh, I get it. I know exactly where I am. And I know what…
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How AI is changing language | Books | The Guardian
One way to think of language, he says, is as a series of layers, with words at the bottom followed by phrases, clauses, compound sentences, all the way up to narrative structure. “AI is really good at the lower levels. It’s learned lots of our syntactic structures and so everything looks well formed and grammatical.…
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Understand to participate
You can learn what the agent is doing to make sure you can be an active participant in the creative process. […] You need a rich set of concepts in your mind to think creatively and fluently about how to move something forward. If you’re lacking that fluency, your ability to participate in the project…