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The computer scientist François Chollet has proposed the following distinction: skill is how well you perform at a task, while intelligence is how efficiently you gain new skills.
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
Ted Chiang
There's a faint stirring of recognition latent and inherent in the fantasy, a sort of loose and loosely politicized sense of being betrayed or simply abandoned by the systems or institutions that might have prevented the bad thing from happening, and so kept you from having to enter Vigilante Mode.
How Will the Golden Age of “Making It Worse” End?
defector.com
The anthropomorphic element of genAI, the on-going conflation of these stochastic parrots with autonomous beings, is a wedge driven between people and their actual coworkers. I think it's another way of enforcing 'self-reliance' and the creed of individual success, with an indentured genAI servant at your elbow to help you lift yourself by your own bootstraps, and ultimately, I think it's workers who will be blamed by many company heads if the adoption of genAI fails to deliver the much-hyped returns.
Epic Boss Tim Sweeney Is Right to Call genAI a Political Topic - It's a Mechanism of Class War
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