Tag: artificial intelligence
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Mundane is magic
Gracy Olmstead is back with another excellent issue of her Granola newsletter, this time on mundanity, the mind, and AI: While doing the mundane, we lose ourselves in process and place. The mundane roots us in the present, stubbornly refusing the demands of clock or calendar. It will take as much time as it requires.…
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What AI is and isn’t
Mandy Brown with a barnburning breakdown of what “AI” is and isn’t: “Artificial intelligence” is not a technology. A chef’s knife is a technology, as are the practices around its use in the kitchen. A tank is a technology, as are the ways a tank is deployed in war. Both can kill, but one cannot…