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.
A research review of A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think by Caleb Everett.
ChatGPT can speak more than 95 languages. Google Translate can speak 133. Facebook’s AI translator works with 200 languages. One could assume that the ability of AI to follow codified rules of language makes human expression less mysterious and more universal. However, machines using methods of formal systemization can paradoxically reveal the organic essence and nuance of human language.
What is this essence? If there are intangibles, what are they? Your intuitions might tell you that what’s missing is something elusive in the language of emotional connection or in the ineffable experience of awe.
That’s what my intuition would have told me. But the reality is both more mundane and more magical.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
