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We can experience profound joy if we give ourselves permission to. Instead we look outside ourselves for a perfect situation. And it is the act of looking that takes us away from our happiness.
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
AI is not quite there,” he says. “These systems lack what’s being referred to as second-level context. [ChatGPT](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt) or something like it doesn’t take the extra step of confirming the things it says. Right now, these chatbots dispense what experts call coherent nonsense. That feels dangerous.”
What A.I. Means for Buddhism
Ross Nervig
Suppose Bob writes an email to Sue, who has no existing business relationship with Bob, asking her to draw a picture of a polar bear wearing a cowboy hat while riding a bicycle. If Sue draws this picture, we all agree that Sue is the creator, and that some arrangement is required to transfer ownership of this picture to Bob. But if Bob types that same email into a generative AI, has he now become the creator of the generated image? If not, then who is the creator?
I Made This
John Siracusa
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