Artification
The productivity myth ā§ The āuser errorā myth ā§ The Artification of Culture
šĀ On time for your weekend: a round-up ofĀ this summerās remarkable storiesĀ at the intersection of technology, business, design, and culture. Three reads and three listens; no fluff, just stuff ā”
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happeningāMarshall McLuhan
š Reading
Challenging The Myths of Generative AI:
The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation ā that any time we spend can and should be freed up for the sake of having even more time for other activities or pursuits ā which can also be automated. The importance and value ofĀ thinking about our work and why we do it is waved away as a distraction. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents.
Eryk SalvaggioāTech Policy Press | 17 minutes
Building agency into the relationships between humans and AI
The dominant interaction patterns that govern how product teams design for user behaviour remain stuck in a world where every last element of how a computer system should behave could be predetermined by the engineers building it [ā¦] The idea of designing to avoid āuser errorā remains at the heart of how many software teams think about building products [ā¦] despite the fact that ML algorithms provide far greater opportunities for users to influence machine output.
Stripe PartnersāFrames | 5 minutes
The Artification of Culture:
When technology reduces the cost of production and distribution, production shifts away from singular, visionary efforts to collective, decentralized efforts [ā¦] Production relies increasingly less on an isolated process (eg, a novelist making many choices to their own story) and turns it into a continuous and constant conversation with the network. It is collective cultural production: many choices on the edge producing culture together.
Simon de la RouviereāScenes with Simon | 7 minutes
š§ Listening
How To Become a Pattern-Breaking Founder:
It's actually not true that founders create the future. It's more accurate to say that founders co-create the future with their early believers. And what starts out as a theoretical idea starts to become the conventional wisdom as more and more people embrace the different future of that founder's design. But it's co-created by this gathering groundswell of people moving to that different future and then people watching and noticing a better way to live.
Mike Maples Jr.āInfinite Loops | 83 minutes
The path to Utopia:
A lot of people today take a kind of pride in being a breadwinner or in in making a positive contribution To society at large perhaps or at least on a smaller scale, they think they benefit their family in some way by being around {..] And then you start to think [ā¦] what if really there's nothing you can do better than the AI? What does that mean for for all the things you care about it trying to do in your life?
Nick BostromāClearer Thinking | 64 minutes
AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models:
My worry is that if we treat [misinformation] as a technology problem and try to intervene on the technology, we're going to miss what the real issues are and the hard things that we need to be doing to tackle those issues [ā¦] because the hard part of misinformation is not generating it. It's distributing it to people and persuading them [ā¦] And my worry is that treating this as an AI problem is distracting from all of those more important interventions.
Arvind Narayananā20VC | 50 minutes
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