Humans aren’t computers. We are persons, centers of consciousness, who have physical bodies and come from particular contexts.
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In a bizarre twist, Opus threatened to expose a fictional affair if it were to lose its spot to another AI system.
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Moments in silence with a newspaper might not save the world, but it could start saving our attention, arguably our most valuable and endangered resource.
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Perhaps the human conversation alone is argument enough on why AI can never replace us.
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Humans write the only books worth reading, and, as we’ve now seen, they’re still the only ones who can come up with an actual list of readable books.
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The coverup of Biden’s cognitive decline couldn’t have come at a worse time. New media platforms are eating up more and more of people’s time and attention.
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The tragedy about AI is that those who depend on it to “think” for them won’t have the work ethic, skill, or wisdom to offer value to the world.
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A nihilist who believes there is no ultimate purpose or meaning to life can only ever write one book, according to Koontz.
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Social media was also supposed to assuage our isolation. Twenty years on, though, can we say that the country is any less lonely?
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While venues like Substack allow independent writers a voice, literary quality still matters.
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Some might say we are introducing a new oral culture, where people have switched from reading words, arguments etc. to listening and watching the screen.
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Losing a streak, for the hyperconnected fifteen-year-old, may feel tantamount to losing a friendship.
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The challenge today is finding the quiet apart from the online world needed to create valuable work while leveraging the new digital ecosystem for its benefits.
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These soulless data-churning machines are spitting out nonsense so pervasively that they’re beginning to shape the way we actually see the world.
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The impact of AI and tech addiction is obvious everywhere. But is every college student falling prey to the trends?
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A new study shows that people are struggling more than ever to read, concentrate, and solve problems. The research comes just a few months after Oxford’s indicative decision to make “Brain Rot” its 2024 “Word of the Year.” Common experience itself lends itself to the conclusion that we are struggling to focus, that our attention is fragmented, and that simply thinking about one issue for more than a few seconds is difficult. The Financial Times reported that intelligence and reasoning capacities have declined since the early 2010s. While the COVID-19 pandemic is commonly blamed for the plummet and is indeed responsible for much of the cognitive decline, the downward trend preceded the crisis according to the study. John Burn-Murdoch reports: Read More ›
Perhaps the AI apocalypse will paradoxically encourage educators to adopt more traditional approaches to teaching and giving assignments.
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Hopefully the McDonald’s corporation will realize that the PlayPlace is a big part of what makes its restaurants so appealing.
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He notes, if our brains evolved merely to help us stay alive, then it’s strange that those same mental states could invent the telescope to explore the cosmos.
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People debate whether Huxley’s Brave New World or Orwell’s 1984 gives a clearer diagnosis of the Western malaise. Fahrenheit 451 should be in the conversation.
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