Why the world feels more complex—and why that feels hard. Why more problems are complex problems. Why organizations struggle with complexity.
A Skeptic's Guide to How Cognitive Biases and Reasoning Errors Fuel AI Hype, Social Learning, The Hidden Cost of ChatGPT is the Erosion of the Digital Commons, and more.
What is complexity? How do complex problems and opportunities differ from simple & complicated? Where do we find complexity?
Intimacy with technology has been the territory of science fiction. What happens if we are able to live those stories ourselves?
Throughout history, technology has provided platforms for humans to create new media as conduits for human content. As Marshall McLuhan first described nearly 60 years ago, the printing press, telegraph, television, and (post-McLuhan) the internet allowed for novel media which shaped the messages we send to each other—and the resulting societal discourse. While those technologies shaped the messages, never before has a technology created messages itself.
As we begin to have conversations with generative AI, it is the technology we are conversing with. The medium isn’t just the message—it is creating the message.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
