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Recent Publications (Page 15)
Your Mind and AI
Magritte's "Son of Man" metaphor explores digital obscurity of reality. AI model collapse mirrors human isolation effects. Minds struggle without diverse input. Balancing AI benefits and genuine human connection crucial. Develop metacognitive skills to navigate this new landscape.
How to Design AI Tutors for Learning
Generative AI promises personalized learning at scale but risks creating dependency. Complementary cognitive artifacts enhance skills; competitive ones replace them. Effective AI tutors balance engagement and autonomy, expanding human cognition without diminishing critical abilities.
The Intimacy Surface
The Intimacy Surface, How to Use Generative AI, Part 9: Reflect, John Havens: Heartificial Intelligence, Improve Your Prompts with Many-Shot In-Context Learning, The Imagining Summit Preview: Jamer Hunt, Helen's Book of the Week, and Facts & Figures about AI & Complex Change.
How to Use Generative AI, Part 9: Reflect
Reflect by sharpening cognitive skills and metacognitive self-awareness. Part 9 in our How to Use Generative AI series.
John Havens: Heartificial Intelligence
A conversation with John Havens, author of Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines.
Improve Your Prompts with Many-Shot In-Context Learning
Explore Many-Shot In-Context Learning to enhance AI interactions. Learn five strategies from Google DeepMind's research to optimize your prompts for language models like ChatGPT. Improve your AI prompt engineering skills and maximize AI capabilities.
Trust: The Foundation of the Intimacy Economy
Trust: The Foundation of the Intimacy Economy, Creativity in the Age of Artificiality, A New Framework for Understanding Emergence in Complex Systems, How to Use Generative AI Part 8, and more!
Facts & Figures about AI and Complex Change
A running catalog of the facts & figures we publish every week in our newsletter.
Creativity in the Age of Artificiality
Explore the evolving understanding of human intelligence and AI. Discover how the "bow tie model" of cognition and the concept of "affordances" reveal uniquely human creativity. Learn about Artificiality—the future fusion of biological and artificial intelligence reshaping our reality.
A New Framework for Understanding Emergence in Complex Systems
Explore a new framework for predicting emergent phenomena in complex systems. Learn how concepts like causal, informational, and computational closure offer new insights into emergence, from ant colonies to financial markets. Explore practical applications for your work and life.
How to Use Generative AI, Part 8: Fuse
Fuse by improving synthesis of complex and conflicting information. Part 8 in our How to Use Generative AI series.
The Possibility of Artificial Self-Improvement
Artificial Self-Improvement, Open-endedness and Artificial Superhuman Intelligence, A First: AI That Modifies Its Own Reward, Leslie Valiant and Educability, and How to Use Generative AI, Part 7.