Robots for the Rest of Us
Robots & their AI. How we're changing them. How they're changing us.
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Choosing Not to Delve (opens the original)
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There’ll Never Be a Perfect AI Clone (opens the original)
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Reckoning with the Mindless Speech of AI (opens the original)
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Day-to-day, if you engage with AI, or talk about it, you’re encouraged to treat it as some sort of person. Its design impels you to text or talk to it as you would to a human. When it shows it’s “thinking,” it says “I need to define the scope of the topic, and when it answers, it says “I found X” and “I apologize for the error.” All of this is easy to accept. After all, for our entire lives, putting together an elegant answer to our questions was a sure sign that the putter-together was (a) inte
How AI Helps Humanity Get Over Itself (opens the original)
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Jonas Coersmeier is an architect, designer, and educator with a radical take on artificial intelligence. In his book, Material and Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, he argues that AI is neither a tool that only does our will, nor a rival come to steal our place. Instead, he sees AI as a collaborator -- an entity that’s no more or less important than human beings in the work they all share. That has been hard for me to grasp. After all, intuition tells me I get my i
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