Joining Dots
Sharon RichardsonFrom atoms to bits and back again! Exploring technologies impacting the intelligence - decision action cycle that underpins cognitive behaviour, human and artificial.
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Artificial general-purpose intelligence
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TL;DR: Generative AI is the first general-purpose artificial intelligence we have created. That is a different claim, and a more defensible one, than saying we are approaching artificial general intelligence (AG...
Recomposing intellectual work
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TL;DR: We have entered an era with two kinds of intelligence available to perform intellectual work. Generative AI's strength is synthesis: compressing large volumes and expanding the options under...
Crossing the agency line
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TL;DR: Interacting with generative AI is increasingly taking two forms: directing a conversation where you decide the next interaction - AI as assistant; and delegating by setting a goal and lettin...
Scaling our intelligence
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TL;DR: We are entering an era where intellectual work can be performed by two intelligences - human and machine-generated. As well as imagining what becomes possible, it requires a fundamental rethink...
How to create a better AI
Author presenting ‘Can we ~~How to~~ create a better AI? - Things Conference, 2019
The following is a reproduction of a post from my old site www.joiningdots.com published in October 2019. The advice was on how to build a better AI. Origin...
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