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Imagination is our superpower. Co-director
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NYC / Ischiasciencehouse.comJoined July 2007
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Cleaning out my closet, I came across this gown and remembered the little girls who sent me a letter and asked me to wear something sparkly for a talk I gave at NASA so they could believe that scientists could also be sparkly.
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Just remembered the time my brother built an entire miniature gold mine from scratch because he felt like it
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Even the reality of the human experience is a story we tell ourselves. I’m thrilled for the opportunity to put my version of it down in words. Thank you
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Anna Sproul-Latimer
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Of all the things I admire about @RitaJKing, this is what I admire most: She isn’t afraid to embrace the reality of human experience. Our porousness and mutability; our intuition; our complex and contradictory behavior; our perpetual co-creation in relationship w/ each other…
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She makes “human stuff” and that’s what’s amazing about Taylor Swift. “Tech stuff” should have humanity at its core. The only real benefit of tech stuff is if it makes human stuff better. That’s why we need to think of AI as applied imagination, not artificial intelligence.
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Walt Mossberg
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If Taylor Swift made tech stuff rather than music, we’d all be amazed at her feats. As she sweeps across the country on her Eras tour, she seems to set new records constantly. Biggest stadium crowds. Most songs streamed. And no doubt the most merch ever sold.
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The sooner we start thinking of AI as applied imagination instead of artificial intelligence, the more we will apply imagination to our relationships with our creations, each other and ourselves. And start asking the right questions and working on the right problems.
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Geoffrey Hinton
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In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly.
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I filled this tree with decorative cardinals and learned from the people who pray at the tree that cardinals symbolize spirits
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We can all learn from Erasmus
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The Cultural Tutor
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You've probably heard of this guy called Erasmus before — but who was he? Well, this quote sums him up: "I believe in listening to both sides with openness. I love liberty. I will not and cannot serve any faction." Here is the story of history's greatest educator...
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Maria Popova
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“Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp… the ultimate mystery of Life itself.” Remembering Rachel Carson, who returned to the mystery OTD in 1964
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The Ocean and the Meaning of Life
“Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp… the ultimate mystery of Life itself.&…
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Futurism
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For some, reading the study was like discovering the Matrix was real: confirmation that we could all be living inside a simulation, AI agents doomed to interact with each other as part of somebody else's experiment.
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Researchers Let 25 AI Bots Loose Inside a Virtual Town. The Results Were Fascinating.
A team of researchers let 25 artificial intelligence-powered bots loose inside a virtual town — and they acted a lot more like humans than one might expect.
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Yes we do need better imagination. This is the Imagination Age, the shift between the industrial and intelligence eras. We should think of AI as applied imagination, not artificial intelligence. Imagination applied to our relationship with our creations, ourselves and each other.
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Charlie Warzel
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I wrote about the fact that people are very worried people might fall for the AI Trump images but, interestingly, people aren’t. And how I think we need a better imagination about ai tools are going to make life weird/exhausting theatlantic.com/technology/arc
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After an intense morning of back to back discussions helping people through the chaos of the changing world and our place in it I saw a rainbow so massive it pierced the ocean with light on both sides. Being human is a fleeting, sacred phenomenon between stardust and robots.
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It’s our own intelligence that will become artificial if we don’t start thinking of AI as Applied Imagination.
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Emily Ocasio won $175,000 for her use of GPT-3 to review FBI files and news stories to determine who is humanized in the media and at what rate. This is what AI as Applied Imagination looks like. Amplified natural human intelligence, not outsourcing to “artificial intelligence.”
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Perspective | The Northern Virginia high school student’s winning science project used GPT-3 to examine who gets humanized and who doesn’t when it comes to media coverage of homicide victims wapo.st/404RT7C
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We should think of AI as Applied Imagination, not Artificial Intelligence. How we apply imagination to our collaborative relationship with our own creations will shape the future of humanity in ways we aren’t yet intelligent enough to fully grasp.
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Meredith Whittaker
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Also important to recognize that "AI" isn't a stable category. In 2012ish companies recognized that old ML techniques could do new things w tons of data + compute. They branded these things (and a bunch of others) "AI", which should be understood primarily as a marketing term. 4/
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