artificial intelligence

The Compliment Nobody Paid

Three fluent outputs, none of them the product of a cycle that ran – and underneath them, a system that cannot keep what it is told.

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The Record and the Rendering

Thirty-seven researchers propose replacing the scientific paper with something a machine can execute. They are right about what the paper throws away.

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The Bell and the Beam

A scientist who spent twenty years measuring a single microtubule has written a book about raising children. The two halves of his work have never been in the same room.

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The Actuator We Mistook for a Mind

What has been built is not a knower. It is an actuator of unprecedented reach,
attached to discernment that has not improved at all.

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TEI and AI: A Framework for Worldwide Human Inquiry

Inquiry support once reserved for elite institutions is now available to anyone with a device and a question – and the same property that produces that expansion could hollow it out.

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