Tag: AI
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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…
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Learning to Prompt AIs
This is like saying there’s no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do. — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/timothy-b-lee/
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IA : « Réhabilitons le brouillon, la rature, l’essai, l’erreur, non comme signes d’échec, mais comme conditions de la pensée »
La perfection algorithmique exerce ici une séduction dangereuse. Elle promet de supprimer la faute, l’hésitation, la lenteur, la honte de mal formuler. Mais une société qui ne tolère plus l’erreur finit par ne plus tolérer l’humain. L’enfant qui apprend, l’étudiant qui cherche, le chercheur qui doute, le citoyen qui écrit maladroitement une idée juste : tous…
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Are the AIs conscious? Are humans?
I am here to tell you that there is no ghost in the machine. But perhaps more importantly, there is barely a “ghost” in your own human machine. “Are people conscious?” is a better and more scientifically plausible question than whether AIs are conscious. — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/06/are-the-ais-conscious.html
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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
If you want ownership and accountability, you need feedback loops. Feedback loops connecting cause with effect are how we learn and make sense of the world. As we write in the upcoming Observability Engineering (2nd ed):5 “Feedback loops that are timely, precise, and relevant enable self-awareness in humans and self-governance in teams. They generally produce…
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious – The Atlantic
Experiencing an emotion such as desperation is inseparable from having stress hormones such as cortisol and epinephrine flood one’s body. Similarly, having a conscience means feeling sadness or moral repulsion at the idea of taking a certain action, and those emotions entail a physiological response, a remnant of having once felt sick with guilt after…