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If we end up in a position where humans don’t have to make money, playing folk music seems like a noble vocation.” And it’s the kind of archaic, handmade product or service that, along with high-touch skills like child care and plumbing, may still have value in a hardscrabble world where a human proletariat must scratch out a living. Wise says she has become less stressed about her three kids’ academic success.
A Techno Optimist’s Guide to Raising Kids for the Age of AI
Benjamin Wallace
With few claims on her time and none on her soul, she turns back outside, into the woods, the green negation of all careers. She no longer theorizes or speculates. Just watches, notes, and sketches into a stack of notebooks, her only persistent possessions aside from clothes.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
When Max asked ChatGPT to help him out with the sprinkler at the park, the model wasn’t just spewing text. The photograph of the plumbing was compressed, along with Max’s prompt, into a vector that captured its most important features. That vector served as an address for calling up nearby words and concepts. Those ideas, in turn, called up others as the model built up a sense of the situation. It composed its response with those ideas “in mind.”
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking | the New Yorker
James Somers
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