Our newsletter includes our ideas, our research, and our reviews of the science as well as our picks from others. We send our newsletter once a week because we strive to slow the frantic pace of debates around AI, down-regulating the noise so you can see stories in context.
In this issue, we dig into the question of how AI affects expertise and skills: how AI affects mastering a complex field like coding, preserving human expertise in the age of AI, and a conversation with Matt Beane about his book, The Skill Code.
The $1 Trillion Question, Mortality in the Age of Generative Ghosts, Your Mind and AI, How to Design AI Tutors for Learning, The Imagining Summit Preview: Adam Cutler, and Helen's Book of the Week.
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.
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!
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.
AIX: The Apple Intelligence Experience, The Future of (Generative AI) Search, The Synergy of Human Creativity and AI, The ARC Prize and What it Means for AGI, and more!
Imagining a Hopeful Future with AI, Decoding the Complexity of Innovation with AI, Is AI Really as Creative as Humans, Jonathan Feinstein and The Context of Creativity, and more!
ChatGPT Will Never Work Like the Demo, AGI is a Red Herring, The Brittleness of Agentic Reasoning and Planning Using LLMs, Can LLMs Reason and Plan, How to Use Generative AI to Create, and more!
The Agentic AI Reoport, Graph RAG, Inside Anthropic's Claude, The Agentic Web, Karaitiana Taiuru and Indigenous AI, Weaving with Generative AI, and more!
OpenAI and Google Usher in The Intimacy Economy, Reasons You'll Need an AI Assistant—Even if You Don't Want One, Is AI The Cure for Male Loneliness, and more!
