Kevin Kelly
Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
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Robots will not be able to beat the best human basketball players in a full game by 2040.
Their wordsI bet against this timeline and say they will not. The winner has to buy a round of gelato.
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Their wordsThe greater lesson I think we will learn is that a general humanoid robot is not going to be that useful.
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Their wordsBasketball robots are likely to invent new basketball moves that humans didn't think of doing, or couldn't do easily.
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Their wordsThe latent spaces of an LLM are closer to something like a syntax which is not copyrightable.
↗Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Usekk.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAs LLMs continue to scale up, the value of any particular source continues to diminish.
↗Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Usekk.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe constitutional rationale for US copyright is incentivizing creation for public benefit, not necessarily securing revenue streams.
↗Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Usekk.org 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsRight now it is infinite slop, but it can be used to make a video game / world that is generated on demand instead of pre-built.
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Their wordsA lack of money is a convenient thing to blame because it feels concrete, but it's rarely the actual blocker for achievements.
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Their wordsIt is often the financial constraints that make dreams come true.
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Investing in relationships yields better returns than investing in speculative assets like crypto.
Their wordsInvesting into relationships is a better deal than investing into crypto.
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Their wordsThe supercomputer inside our own skull runs on about 25 watts, which hints that the minimum energy needed for intelligence might be small - and that the giant, controversial AI compute centers we're building now may turn out to be a temporary blip rather than a permanent feature.
↗Without a theory of intelligencekk.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThere's a good chance a theory of intelligence will turn out to be necessary for real alignment.
↗Without a theory of intelligencekk.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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The most fertile way to study neuroscience today is to work on AI models rather than on brains.
Their wordsI'd bet we learn more about our own brains from building a thousand AIs under a real theory of intelligence than we've learned from a century of neuroscience.
↗Without a theory of intelligencekk.org 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsMany startups are racing to create foundational world models, but I think the first ones to succeed will likely be the platforms in control of this data bank.
↗Worldbuilding with Spatial Intelligencekk.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIt will probably be economically shrewd to lose money on early robot models in anticipation that the data they gather will be worth more later in improving newer versions.
↗Worldbuilding with Spatial Intelligencekk.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAIs will remain black boxes, hard to understand and hard to predict.
↗Worldbuilding with Spatial Intelligencekk.org 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsEndless Newbie is the new default for everyone, no matter your age or experience.
↗The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (Viking, 2016)archive.org All 7 from this book
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Their wordsWe are moving away from the world of fixed nouns and toward a world of fluid verbs.
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Their wordsThere has never been a better day in the whole history of the world to invent something.
↗The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (Viking, 2016)archive.org All 7 from this book
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Their wordsIt is the best time ever in human history to begin. You are not late.
↗The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (Viking, 2016)archive.org All 7 from this book
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Their wordsThe link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years.
↗The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (Viking, 2016)archive.org All 7 from this book
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Their wordsMassive copying is here to stay.
↗The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (Viking, 2016)archive.org All 7 from this book
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Their wordsMassive tracking and total surveillance is here to stay.
↗The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (Viking, 2016)archive.org All 7 from this book
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Their wordsThe technium is a tendency, not an entity.
↗What Technology Wants (Viking, 2010)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsWe might think of the technium as "evolution accelerated."
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Their wordsBut I believe the Amish and minimites have traded contentment for revelation.
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Their wordsWhen we spy our technological fate in the distance, we should not reel back in horror of its inevitability; rather, we should lurch forward in preparation.
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Their wordsWe are good at trying first, not good at relinquishing.
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Their wordsthe technium tends to amplify the good slightly more than the evil.
↗What Technology Wants (Viking, 2010)archive.org All 6 from this book