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Social media was the “first contact” between A.I. and humanity, and humanity lost. “First contact” has given us the bitter taste of things to come. In social media, primitive A.I. was used not to *create* content, but to *curate* user-generated content. The A.I. behind our news feeds is still choosing which words, sounds and images reach our retinas and eardrums, based on selecting those that will get the most virality, the most reaction, and the most engagement.
If We Don’t Master A.I., It Will Master Us
New York Times
Human estimation can no longer touch her. She’s free now to experiment. To discover anything.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Norman Retasket, a survivor of the Kamloops school, observed, “If I told the same story three years ago,”35 about what happened at the school, it would have been seen as “fiction.” Now his stories are believed. “The story hasn’t changed,” he said. “The listener has changed.”
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