One Midwestern city wants to outlaw superintelligence. Here’s why.
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• Mike Elgan
Can superintelligent AI be banned?
Cyberpunk non-fiction: artificial intelligence, AI glasses, spatial computing, augmented reality, virtual reality, synthetic media, extended reality, mixed reality and the future of work.
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• Mike Elgan
One Midwestern city wants to outlaw superintelligence. Here’s why.
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• Mike Elgan
The narrative that Zelensky blew up Russia’s disinformation capability is a great story. Unfortunately, it just isn’t true.
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• Mike Elgan
I fear it’s only a matter of time before Anthropic’s leaders have their heads tonsured, don robes and spend their days chanting in Spiralist ecstasy before a server rack.
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• Mike Elgan
Washington and Silicon Valley are obsessed with beating China in the AI race for AI supremacy. Is that really the right race?
Data centers are good. I like data centers. Theft is bad. I don’t like theft.
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• Mike Elgan
Terrorists and other shady characters are already creating advanced weapons using everyday AI chatbots.
The fact that AI can create convincing fakes is not why it’s such a powerful tool of disinformation. Other attributes matter more.
OpenAI’s new “teen” version is an admission by the company that it knows its chatbot is harmful and knows how to make it less harmful. It also knows harms are profitable.
One person's AI-fueled productivity causes extra work for everyone else. It's time to stop the delusional thinking about AI.
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• Mike Elgan
Both Apple and OpenAI want to demo desktop robots this year and ship early next year. It's a race between Apple engineers who stayed and Apple engineers who left.
It’s part of an art project, and the “canvas” is capitalism.
AI companies expect us to consume AI-generated content, even though they themselves vastly prefer human-generated content for training AI models.
The accuracy of people using AI drops by one-third, but their certainty that they’re right more than doubles.
Amazon’s first great innovation was the ability to subtly lure people into dependence for eCommerce. Now they’re doing it again with attachment.
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• Mike Elgan
Let's try to minimize our "maxxing," mkay?
OpenAI’s first-ever hardware device will be a battery powered, “humanlike” AI smart speaker designed to compete in the new Attachment Economy.
Corporate America and the wider world of work are suffering from a pandemic of AI-pilled slop zombies infected with brain rot and unearned confidence.
When you get behind the wheel in the EU, Big Brother is Always Watching You.
The generation that distrusts everything and everyone found one place to converse without judgement or consequence.
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• Mike Elgan
Our consumer culture has us looking to corporations to supply us with relationships.
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• Mike Elgan
Google was built on a Grand Bargain with content creators: traffic for content. Now it wants content without giving traffic. It’s time for a post-Google internet.
It's normal now to pass off other people’s ideas as your own. Even Google is doing it.
Ditching the keyboard for voice-to-text AI is called “voicepilling.” Will everyone stop typing?
New data suggests that for active users, the psychological and behavioral impact of chatbots isn't a possibility—it is a mathematical certainty.
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• Mike Elgan
Young people in China are creating AI versions of exes and carrying on the relationship with a digital twin of the other person. What do you think: sweet, sad or sick?
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• Mike Elgan
Young people in China are creating AI versions of exes and carrying on the relationship with a digital twin of the other person. What do you think: sweet, sad or sick?
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• Mike Elgan
They want deliberately slow chatbot responses to make people trust the answer more. And it makes me trust the researchers less.
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• Mike Elgan
They want deliberately slow chatbot responses to make people trust the answer more. And it makes me trust the researchers less.
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• Mike Elgan
Why Anthropic’s “emotion” paper accidentally misleads the public.
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• Mike Elgan
Why Anthropic’s “emotion” paper accidentally misleads the public.