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Such is the end of the tragedy we are now witness to: Literacy, the most empowering achievement of our civilization, is to be replaced by a vague and ill-defined screen savvy. The paper book, the tool that built modernity, is to be phased out in favor of fractured, unfixed information. All in the name of progress.
People of the Screen
thenewatlantis.com
In chess, which for decades now has been dominated by A.I., a player’s only hope is pairing up with a bot. Such half-human, half-A.I. teams, known as centaurs, might still be able to beat the best humans and the best A.I. engines working alone. Programming has not yet gone the way of chess. But the centaurs have arrived. GPT-4 on its own is, for the moment, a worse programmer than I am. Ben is much worse. But Ben plus GPT-4 is a dangerous thing.
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
James Somers
For two hundred years, the modern world has answered the question “Who are you?” with a reductive “What do you do?” The Industrial Revolution tied human dignity, quietly but ruthlessly, to economic output. We’ve lived inside what I call the GDP Era. And we’re now, in real time, watching that era end.
The Reality of AI and the Crisis of Meaning
Longbeard
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