James Gleick
Author and journalist, born in New York City in 1954, who writes about science and technology; author of Chaos, Genius, The Information and Time Travel, and for ten years an editor and reporter at The New York Times.
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Their wordsSo far, the rush to AI seems to be embracing the same pathologies: deprecation of workers and creators; secretive closed standards; overheated marketing; and consolidation of power.
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Their wordsThe European Union, whose governments are not in thrall to the mostly American tech giants, has provided a plausible blueprint with its Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act.
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsChatbots regurgitate and rearrange fragments mined from all the text previously written. As plagiarists, they obscure and randomize their sources but do not transcend them.
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Their wordsFor now, however, the greatest danger is not a new brand of bigotry against a new class of creatures. We need to reckon first with the opposite problem: impersonation.
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Their wordsWithout humans checking the output, replacing sentient employees with AI is reckless, and it is only beginning.
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Their wordsThe Turing test is done. We’ve proven that we can be fooled.
- 18 months earlier
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Their wordsBut where is the line that separates events in my brain from the conscious witness? Let’s say instead: We make choices. We make decisions.
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Their wordsAgency is what distinguishes us from machines. For biological creatures, reason and purpose come from acting in the world and experiencing the consequences.
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