What Does It Mean To Be Human?
exploring what it means to be human in an age of AI
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What Does It Mean To Be Human?
What’s ChatGPT really bad at? Being counterintuitive and surprising us. Large language models (LLMs) are trained on the mass output of humanity to optimize for what is expected. As a result, ChatGPT routinely let’s us down when it comes to getting something we didn’t expect. If you start paying attention to the music, books, movies, speeches, essay... See more
Scott Belsky • Collapsing the Talent Stack, Persona-Led Growth & Designing Organizations for the Future
The rise of botlike behavior over the past decade has led to the creation of a meme: the NPC, or Non-Player Character. Originally a term to describe video game characters whose behavior is completely computer-controlled, it now also refers to real world humans who behave as predictably as video game NPCs, giving scripted responses and engaging in s... See more
Gurwinder • Why You Are Probably An NPC
Human Stuff
the messiness of what it means to be human, with all of its messiness and complexities
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Before you continue, pause and consider: How would you prove you're not a language model generating predictive text? What special human tricks can you do that a language model can't?
Maggie Appleton • The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Because humans are more intuitive in the way we think and process information, we are capable of making serendipitous discoveries through non-obvious connections.
The subjective nature of human curiosity allows us to grasp the nuances of real-world situations, considering multiple viewpoints and moral implications, and integrating a rich, empathetic context when exploring ideas.
Human and AI curiosity are not mutually exclusive.
via Ness Labs
The question I’m really asking, I realize now, is how to be human. When I write, or read, or paint, I am more of a human than I am a gadget. The words you are reading I first put down in longhand using a sharpened pencil. While I was writing, I did not check my email. At such moments, I feel I’m myself rather than a body attached to a buzzing phone... See more
Amitava Kumar • How Daily Record-Keeping Changed My Life
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
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