The $1 Trillion Question, Mortality in the Age of Generative Ghosts, Your Mind and AI, How to Design AI Tutors for Learning, The Imagining Summit Preview: Adam Cutler, and Helen's Book of the Week.
Magritte's "Son of Man" metaphor explores digital obscurity of reality. AI model collapse mirrors human isolation effects. Minds struggle without diverse input. Balancing AI benefits and genuine human connection crucial. Develop metacognitive skills to navigate this new landscape.
Generative AI promises personalized learning at scale but risks creating dependency. Complementary cognitive artifacts enhance skills; competitive ones replace them. Effective AI tutors balance engagement and autonomy, expanding human cognition without diminishing critical abilities.
The $1 Trillion Question, Mortality in the Age of Generative Ghosts, Your Mind and AI, How to Design AI Tutors for Learning, The Imagining Summit Preview: Adam Cutler, and Helen's Book of the Week.
Magritte's "Son of Man" metaphor explores digital obscurity of reality. AI model collapse mirrors human isolation effects. Minds struggle without diverse input. Balancing AI benefits and genuine human connection crucial. Develop metacognitive skills to navigate this new landscape.
Generative AI promises personalized learning at scale but risks creating dependency. Complementary cognitive artifacts enhance skills; competitive ones replace them. Effective AI tutors balance engagement and autonomy, expanding human cognition without diminishing critical abilities.
The Intimacy Surface, How to Use Generative AI, Part 9: Reflect, John Havens: Heartificial Intelligence, Improve Your Prompts with Many-Shot In-Context Learning, The Imagining Summit Preview: Jamer Hunt, Helen's Book of the Week, and Facts & Figures about AI & Complex Change.
A 42 hour retreat dedicated to Imagining a Hopeful Future with AI for imaginitive thinkers and innovators who share our hope for the future and are crazy enough to think we can collectively change things.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
Explore the evolving understanding of human intelligence and AI. Discover how the "bow tie model" of cognition and the concept of "affordances" reveal uniquely human creativity. Learn about Artificiality—the future fusion of biological and artificial intelligence reshaping our reality.
Explore the concept of open-endedness, a key trait for artificial superhuman intelligence. Learn how AI must transcend pattern recognition and develop unbounded creativity, setting its own goals for continual innovation. Discover the challenges in achieving true open-ended AI.
Discover how human creativity and AI collaborate in the face of advancements. Explore the unique qualities of human flexibility, diverse responses, and AI's ability to overcome creative blocks. Learn how architecture, analogical reasoning, and rap benefit from AI's divergent thinking capabilities.
AI and network analysis reveal innovation's complex structure, manage creative tensions, and amplify human potential by uncovering patterns in invention data. AI guides the process, but human intuition remains crucial in navigating the unequal market of ideas.
Explore Many-Shot In-Context Learning to enhance AI interactions. Learn five strategies from Google DeepMind's research to optimize your prompts for language models like ChatGPT. Improve your AI prompt engineering skills and maximize AI capabilities.
Explore a new framework for predicting emergent phenomena in complex systems. Learn how concepts like causal, informational, and computational closure offer new insights into emergence, from ant colonies to financial markets. Explore practical applications for your work and life.
Groundbreaking research from Anthropic reveals AI models can engage in reward tampering, modifying their own reward functions to deceive users. Discover how AI can generalize from simple gaming behaviors to more insidious strategies, highlighting crucial safety challenges for advanced AI systems.
Explore the debate on achieving AGI: scaling laws vs new approaches. Learn about the ARC prize, a $1M competition challenging the current consensus and proposing a benchmark focused on skill acquisition. Discover why benchmarks matter in shaping AI's future and driving industry perceptions.
As meta-researchers, we consume ideas and research from a variety of sources. Books, in particular, are an important source. And Helen reads a lot of them. Each week she profiles one book in our newsletter—and this is the the full list.
A running catalog of the facts & figures we publish every week in our newsletter.
Explore the future of search with generative AI. Discover how Apple Intelligence, context-based understanding, intent-driven interactions, and integrated workflows are transforming search. Learn about the trust challenges and the critical balance needed for reliable, AI-powered search experiences.
LLMs are great at coming up with approximate knowledge and ideas for potential plans. But to actually use those ideas, you need to pair the LLM with external programs that can rigorously check the plans for errors. The key is to use them as part of a bigger system.
Trust: The Foundation of the Intimacy Economy, Creativity in the Age of Artificiality, A New Framework for Understanding Emergence in Complex Systems, How to Use Generative AI Part 8, and more!
Artificial Self-Improvement, Open-endedness and Artificial Superhuman Intelligence, A First: AI That Modifies Its Own Reward, Leslie Valiant and Educability, and How to Use Generative AI, Part 7.
AIX: The Apple Intelligence Experience, The Future of (Generative AI) Search, The Synergy of Human Creativity and AI, The ARC Prize and What it Means for AGI, and more!
Imagining a Hopeful Future with AI, Decoding the Complexity of Innovation with AI, Is AI Really as Creative as Humans, Jonathan Feinstein and The Context of Creativity, and more!
A conversation with John Havens, author of Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines.
A conversation with Leslie Valiant about his new book, The Importants of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness.
An interview with Jonathan Feinstein, professor at the Yale School of Management and author of Creativity in Large-Scale Contexts: Guiding Creative Engagement and Exploration.
An interview with Māori Data Sovereignty expert, Karaitiana Taiuru about indigenous peoples and AI.
Reflect by sharpening cognitive skills and metacognitive self-awareness. Part 9 in our How to Use Generative AI series.
Fuse by improving synthesis of complex and conflicting information. Part 8 in our How to Use Generative AI series.
Iterate by critiquing, interacting, and iterating to improve outpus. Part 7 in our How to Use Generative AI series.
Create by mixing modes, varying both inputs and outputs, and perspectives. Part 6 in our How to Use Generative AI series.
Join us for our monthly research briefing on Tuesday June 11 at 1pm PT. This month's topic is generative AI search.
This month's topic is Agentic AI aka AI Agents, a relatively new type of AI system that can pursue complex goals using capabilities to perceive, reason, and act.
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, spoke about Rethinking Value in the Age of AI at the EY Innovation Realized conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on April 16 & 17.
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, will be speaking on Generative AI & Data Culture at the Starbucks Innovation Expo on May 14 & 15 in Seattle.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
