This current era of AI could all come apart at the seams, but even then there’ll still be plenty of cloth left. Think the dark fibre era, when everyone thought the internet was going to explode and a kind of railroad fever kicked in. They were right about the result, wrong about the timing. AI,… Read More »
Lots of discussion about AI bringing about the end of the world at the moment, so I’m running in the other direction (not because I don’t think AI is an existential threat, but because the noise to signal ratio is a tad too high right now). My other direction is a simple question: what damage… Read More »
It’s hard to disagree with Jason Hickel here: Jason Hickel on X: “It’s not ”artificial“ intelligence, it’s human intelligence. It is the collective knowledge of humanity, produced by countless generations of people, anyone who has ever published a text or created an image, as well as their teachers and their teachers’ teachers. And as such,… Read More »
As AI generated content gets ‘better’ — in the sense of feeling, appearing realistic — does that mean we will more readily accept it? Or will we more readily dismiss it — and all content that might appear to be generated by AI? What happens when we start to suspect that everything is AI generated?… Read More »
This is the first of a series of pieces based on Mary Meeker’s recent deck about AI. The first is an overview of the technology and its current impact.