E-bikes and what they can teach us about AI
On Learning to Ride Your Brain
Your brain is already a bicycle, AI is a motorcycle, a regular computer is power tools
Cognitive Helmets for the AI Bicycle: Part 1
I hear people name these three fears: will developers lose their problem-solving skills, learning opportunities, and critical thinking? One science-backed area can help: better metacognitive strategies.
The Fork in the Road: AI Horseless Carriages or Collective Intelligence for Science - Cosmik Labs
How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide
People often ask me how to use AI. Here's an overview with lots of links.
My Thoughts on AI, Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey
My own personal thoughts and opinions on AI effects and usage, and how those have evolved over time
Nature is Laughing at the AI Build Out -
I was catching up on Acquired episodes this week and listened to the spectacular “Google: The AI Company” episode that Ben and David put together. What the two of them have created with their podcast fascinates me in the inevitability of its success. I think Acquired proves that if you are smart and work your […]
AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans | Melanie Mitchell | Substack
I write about interesting new developments in AI. Click to read AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans, by Melanie Mitchell, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Ideas from philosophy I use to think about AI
Physicalism, functionalism, and lots of Quine
AI as a Tool for the Mental Load | Brittany Ellich | Offprint
AI didn't make me faster at tasks. It took over the tracking, the invisible remembering that runs a household, and gave me back creative energy I forgot I had
What Parents Need to Know About AI in the Classroom | Stanford HAI
From immersive learning and personalized tutors to lesson plans and grading, AI is everywhere in K-12 education.
mindsdb/minds
General-purpose AI designed for knowledge workers — creators, strategists, and operators — and individuals seeking AI systems they can truly control to help them get work done, with full flexibility to extend and deploy anywhere (VPC, on-prem, or cloud).
Why I believe current AI models can really think and understand - Part 2 of 3
Why computers can in principle produce thinking and understanding
The Octotypic Mind
Carcinization, Cognitive Prosthetics, and the Shape of Intelligence After AI
Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
AI for coding works so well because code has a bunch of built in self checks that allow an agent trained with reinforcement learning to find what works and what doesn’t. This will not so easily translate to eg machine design until we have way better simulations or much more “embodied AI” (robots).
